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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 Bring back the limericks! #155741 02/16/06 08:16 PM Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 95 New Hampshire A AniamL OP journeyman OP AniamL journeyman A Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 95 New Hampshire For a while, limericks were all the hype on these fora. We used to create limericks which included the word of the day, every day! Let us bring back this custom. *Blows some dust off the really-old-archived-post-finding machine* http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=139914&page=0&fpart=1&vc=1 If I knew anything about history or economics, I would make one for "locust years" Last edited by AniamL; 02/16/06 08:25 PM. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Bring back the limericks! #155742 02/16/06 08:25 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass thanks; but no thanks. if you want your fill of limericks, see the OEDILF - they're going through the dictionary. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter oh you asked for it #155743 02/16/06 08:52 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory A Alex Williams Pooh-Bah Alex Williams Pooh-Bah A Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory The privations of our locust years Exceeded the worst of my fears We ran out of ham And ate nothing but Spam And could not afford any beers Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: oh you asked for it #155744 02/16/06 09:14 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass where were you during our locust days?! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: oh you asked for it #155745 02/17/06 12:42 AM Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA D dalehileman Pooh-Bah dalehileman Pooh-Bah D Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 1,773 Apple Valley, CA, USA Alex, good! Did you compose it dalehileman Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: oh you asked for it #155746 02/17/06 02:31 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory A Alex Williams Pooh-Bah Alex Williams Pooh-Bah A Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory No, I found it in Salia's Limerick Companion a compilation of limericks grouped by keyword. That one is actually a translation of a poem in Verbatim's famous Roman epic poem The Ibid. But I did pen this one tonight: There once was a literate nation Whose epics were lost in translation The words once sublime Had lost all their rhyme, And also their alliteration Until diligent scholars persisted (And eke reading public insisted) Til a volume produced Was not quite so obtuse And the poetry not so hamfisted Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: oh you asked for it #155747 02/17/06 08:18 AM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC Quote: Verbatim's famous Roman epic poem The Ibid. Could that be used to prove that op.cits. attract? TEd Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter the banana boat #155748 02/17/06 01:51 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory A Alex Williams Pooh-Bah Alex Williams Pooh-Bah A Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,819 Spam Factory A howler at sea hunting whale Scampered aloft on a sail By the light of the moon He chucked the harpoon That he grasped with his prehensile tail But alas his spear missed its mark As the mate (a baboon) loudly barked In a manner paternal "If we were nocturnal We'd have more success in the dark." The great whale they tracked through the night It's breach a magnificent sight And at last it was killed By a marmoset skilled In hunting by very low light *original poem altered at the request of Faldage and a coalition of New World Monkeys Last edited by Alex Williams; 02/18/06 11:24 AM. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter McLimerick #155749 02/17/06 02:40 PM Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,526 Virginia, USA TheFallibleFiend veteran TheFallibleFiend veteran Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,526 Virginia, USA http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11397722/ Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: McLimerick #155750 02/17/06 05:52 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 B belMarduk Carpal Tunnel belMarduk Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 >>>For a while, limericks were all the hype on these fora. Phewf. I'm glad I was away from that Board at that time. Limericks, blech Carry on. I shall skeedaddle on over to the other threads. =================================================== I think I've been here too long though. When I read the first sentence I thought "I don't remember there being a lot of limericks over the years." 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