"Deadwood Between the Ears"

It’s not only the channels like Fox
Which employ so much language that shocks
Thus the fact that our youth
Will learn speech most uncouth
Gives new meaning to “Idiot Box”

For more limericks on current events, check out my blog:
doctorwork.blogspot.com

Doctor Work

This thread should be deleted

why?

Because it's an ad placed by a fly-by-night. And if he's not a fly-by-night, then he should be informed that advertising isn't welcome.

I'm not a fly-by-nighter. I've been receiving AWAD for many years. That just happened to be my first post in this forum. I'm not selling anything--I just thought people would enjoy that limerick and a link to more of them if they are interested.

Dr. Work

While not exactly good form, DW's post is word-related. IMO it probably belongs in information & announcements since it is primarily an announcement for his blog.

IP:

Nope. Not an ad. Nothing commercial visible on the site at all. A tad political, but nothing commercial.

DW:

Welcome to the board. We are perhaps overly sensitive to people crashing in and trying to sell something here. All too frequently we get people who will post simply to try to sell their on-line novel or their MLM scheme or their African money-laundering futures or whatever else they can scheme up. Some years back I myself got nailed for posting a way to get free access to the online OED; I made the mistake of adding that if people joined this particular book club and dropped my name then I'd get a free book or two. MISTAKE!!!! An honest mistake, but . . . .

We go through spates of limerick-writing here from time to time, but as a guideline we tend to avoid politics and religion, both of which have almost always led to periods of discontent, squabbling, flame wars, etc. So we have found over the years that GENTLY discouraging those avenues of discussion in favor of stuff about words and language works better for us.

So start us off with a silly limerick or two and many of us will join in and have a good time. And have you considered double dactyls?

Can I second that welcome, docwok? and don't mind insel, he's just feeling grumpy - he can't help it, he lives in Noo Yawk!

We tend to eschew Rel & Poli
Since violence soon follows such folly;
I’m not one of the crew
Who just hate what you do -
Some find these light verses quite jolly!