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Cleo_Serapis
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A Limerick is a popular form of short, humorous verse, often nonsensical and frequently ribald. It consists of five lines, rhyming aabba, and the dominant meter is anapestic (a metrical foot composed of two short syllables followed by one long one, as in the word seventeen. 2. A line of verse using this meter; for example, “’Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house”), with two feet in the third and fourth lines and three feet in the others. Examples of limerick:

"The limerick packs laughs anatomical
into space that is quite economical,
But the good ones I’ve seen
so seldom are clean
and the clean ones so seldom are comical."

"There once was a young man from Kew
who found a dead mouse in his stew.  
Said the waiter, “Don’t shout  
or wave it about,  
or the rest will be wanting one too!”

"There was an old man from Peru,
who dreamed he was eating his shoe.
He woke in a fright
in the middle of the night
and found it was perfectly true."

The origin of the term is obscure, but a group of poets in Co. Limerick, Ireland, wrote limericks in Irish in the 18th cent. The first collections in English date from c.1820. Among the most famous are those in E. Lear's Book of Nonsense (1846).


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Now surely our Alan has words
to further exchange on these boards!
Will he leave this alone?
...or still better hone
his word-skills for those cheering hoards?


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- Cleo_Serapis   Limerick   Aug 9 03, 17:37
- - Cleo_Serapis   Thanks Daniel! :) Create with ideas you have thou...   Aug 9 03, 18:42
- - Cleo_Serapis   I know not to write when I'm tired, it's been far...   Sep 13 03, 06:08
- - Arnfinn   There was a postman called Wally Who went to work ...   Sep 13 03, 02:53
- - JustDaniel   Remember this one, LorII? Feet-Shuffling Do cros...   Sep 15 03, 23:27
- - Cleo_Serapis   QUOTE (Just Daniel @ Sep. 16 2003, 00:27)Reme...   Sep 16 03, 04:54
- -     Touche! But we have only just met. You pr...   Oct 10 03, 08:05
- - Cleo_Serapis   Sillies!  :jester: Sticking my two cents in...   Oct 11 03, 08:55
- - JustDaniel   An alien ate me fer dinner, but somehow the act ma...   Oct 16 03, 05:56
- - Cleo_Serapis   QUOTE (Just Daniel @ Oct. 16 2003, 06:56)An a...   Oct 16 03, 06:36
- - Athena   QUOTE (Just Daniel @ Oct. 16 2003, 03:56)An a...   Oct 16 03, 18:01
- -   Time to reflect dear Just. Dear Daniel this rhyme...   Oct 16 03, 18:16
- - Cleo_Serapis   Today is a day we are mourning, our RED SOX have l...   Oct 17 03, 08:34
- - JustDaniel   “I Don’t Give a Ducat!” The Limerick Cops her...   Oct 17 03, 10:50
- -   I hope you folks don't mind a newbie sticking ...   Oct 17 03, 11:06
- - Cleo_Serapis   QUOTE (Atlantis @ Oct. 17 2003, 12:06)I hope ...   Oct 17 03, 12:53
- -   QUOTE (Cleo_Serapis @ Oct. 17 2003, 12:53)QUO...   Oct 17 03, 13:26
- -   It's great that you've joined us Dan You s...   Oct 17 03, 14:36
- -   QUOTE (AkhenhatenII @ Oct. 17 2003, 14:36)It...   Oct 17 03, 16:32
- - Cleo_Serapis   Hey Dan!  :pharoah: QUOTE Away from my frie...   Oct 17 03, 17:04
- -   Lori, Of course I noticed the challenge forum. ...   Oct 17 03, 17:59
- - Cybele   Hello Dan, Having just returned from a break I ha...   Oct 18 03, 02:24
- - Athena   Ahhh Dan, Dan, what can I say? Your visit has brou...   Oct 18 03, 03:14
- -   My word, you've been welcomed most brimmingly ...   Oct 18 03, 04:10
- - Cybele   QUOTE Welcome back to Our Gracie. eeh lass, we mis...   Oct 18 03, 04:39
- -   QUOTE (Cybele @ Oct. 18 2003, 02:24)Hello Dan...   Oct 18 03, 05:53
- -   QUOTE (Athena @ Oct. 18 2003, 03:14) Ahhh Da...   Oct 18 03, 06:12
- -   QUOTE (AkhenhatenII @ Oct. 18 2003, 04:10)My ...   Oct 18 03, 06:22
- -   QUOTE I'm afraid I've been up for nearly 2...   Oct 18 03, 07:42
- - Cleo_Serapis   This is quite fun to read!   Ok here goes anoth...   Oct 18 03, 08:46
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- -   Yes I can It was Ogden Nash :costume: A   Oct 18 03, 10:13
- -   QUOTE (AkhenhatenII @ Oct. 18 2003, 10:12)QUO...   Oct 18 03, 11:23
- -   Sometimes when you're awfully tired and your t...   Oct 19 03, 06:14
- -   QUOTE (AkhenhatenII @ Oct. 19 2003, 06:14)Som...   Oct 20 03, 18:33
- -   Dera Cleo Inspired by these words in your recent ...   Oct 20 03, 18:50
- -   A muse that has never been kissed? A Spooner with ...   Oct 20 03, 18:57
- -   LOVE-LORN LIMERICK Heard nubile young lassie from...   Oct 26 03, 09:26
- -   This person of feminine gender Was sweet and surpr...   Oct 26 03, 10:53
- - JustDaniel   So ya think that yer quicker with likker 'n...   Oct 27 03, 05:59
- - heartsong7   A muse at a poetry-fest reluctantly sighed and con...   Jul 14 04, 16:54
- - JustDaniel   QUOTE (heartsong7 @ July 14 2004, 16:54)A mus...   Jul 15 04, 04:23
- - JustDaniel   Sonnimeric Hmm… a sonnet: I am Bic Pen Tam, my h...   Jul 1 05, 10:56
- -   Dear All, This was supposed to be a clerihew, but...   Aug 4 05, 16:36
- - JustDaniel   There's none like the leprechaun Alan when he ...   Aug 5 05, 08:58
|- - jgdittier   QUOTE (JustDaniel @ Aug 6 05, 14:39 ) ...   Mar 21 07, 12:16
- - JustDaniel   I'm not sure what you're sayin' in thi...   Mar 21 07, 13:32
- - JustDaniel   Good grief! There's been no one to say a t...   Sep 13 09, 09:55
- - Thoth   Or shall we all go out and bury a poem considered...   Sep 19 09, 05:06
- - Cleo_Serapis   The lim'rick is one funny feeder oft full of r...   Sep 19 09, 06:37
- - JustDaniel   I know well that Limerick's not dead... I was ...   Sep 21 09, 15:56
- - Thoth   Now Dan implies WE use a head!!! (it...   Sep 22 09, 02:02
- - JustDaniel   Ahead, abehind -- who can tell!? So long as th...   Sep 22 09, 09:05
- - Merlin   Nice to have ya aboard, Larry. I see Daniel is bus...   Jan 9 10, 12:04
- - Thoth   We onna pubcrawl Larry! My round - That last ...   Jan 9 10, 13:38
- - Merlin   Barmaid, another round pls. You’ve only got sixp...   Jan 9 10, 15:49
- - Thoth   So sad my friend, so sad! Singing - "W...   Jan 9 10, 16:15
- - Merlin   Ah yes, A topnotch invention Braille izz From the...   Jan 10 10, 17:22
- - Larry   Wally and Merlin, Here is another round for you b...   Jan 11 10, 00:35
- - Larry   The acerbic salubrious lime May deserve a salute i...   Jan 18 11, 14:39
- - JustDaniel   Salubrious fruit don't sound good -- seems lik...   Jan 19 11, 06:24
- - Larry   Some detest or shun wholesome repast Though the me...   Jan 19 11, 10:04
- - JustDaniel   Yer fast food should only be water an' juice m...   Jan 19 11, 10:52
- - Larry   Juice and water are nice, I concur; But the rule b...   Jan 19 11, 17:50
|- - JustDaniel   In back o' the shed's where a bum learned ...   Jan 20 11, 07:34
- - Larry   I remember that Ann and I spent, On a brief educat...   Jan 20 11, 15:47
- - JustDaniel   Ann atomically speaking blew up the size of her br...   Jan 21 11, 01:02
- - Larry   Yes, the issue of tissue arose But there wasn’t en...   Jan 21 11, 14:36
- - JustDaniel   Talk of Martian volcanoes and such is disturbing i...   Jan 21 11, 15:35
- - Larry   Metaphoric inflations construe That the Martian vo...   Jan 22 11, 00:43
|- - JustDaniel   I once met a phoric inflation that brought me abre...   Jan 23 11, 01:50
- - Cleo_Serapis   !!   Jan 22 11, 16:42
- - Larry   Many Eucharists I have seen blessed But what’s giv...   Jan 23 11, 11:03
|- - JustDaniel   A romantic encounter's brief quiet comes just ...   Jan 27 11, 16:21
- - JustDaniel   A batter with no air to breathe makes pancakes on ...   Jan 28 11, 12:17
- - Larry   Hi Daniel, In answer to your prior post, I have t...   Jan 28 11, 18:46
- - Larry   I had heard of that young man who tried To eat pan...   Jan 31 11, 11:53
- - JustDaniel   Since the walls at the newlyweds' bed (both th...   Feb 1 11, 16:06
- - Larry   Dr. Seuss on the loose just won’t do! Could it...   Feb 1 11, 19:44
- - JustDaniel   Since I'm batchin* for three weeks, I tried ou...   Feb 2 11, 09:05
- - Larry   First of all Daniel, congratulations on your new g...   Feb 2 11, 17:30
- - JustDaniel   It snowed here this morning -- a dusting so weathe...   Feb 10 11, 13:15
- - Larry   A mere dusting is what I have seen From the Arctic...   Feb 11 11, 13:52
- - JustDaniel   During night-before-last, our main froze somewhere...   Feb 14 11, 11:07
- - Larry   We don't have water mains where I stay For we ...   Feb 14 11, 15:40
- - JustDaniel   I pay little mind to the profit of others, and oft...   Feb 15 11, 15:22
- - Larry   Though the mouths of the prophets exude Direst war...   Feb 16 11, 11:08
- - JustDaniel   So pinch bucks and pennies for stock and fill up t...   Feb 18 11, 06:43
- - Larry   There once was an old miser who’d grieve O’er the ...   Feb 19 11, 09:06
- - Alan   NON-RUSSIAN COLLECTIVE The collective for grabber...   Feb 19 11, 17:18
- - Larry   Well, Hello Alan, Welcome aboard the Limerick Lim...   Feb 20 11, 16:30
- - JustDaniel   I'm trying to follow your rhyme and meter... b...   Feb 22 11, 13:51
- - Larry   Most of mine are in anapest form One two three, On...   Feb 22 11, 15:06
- - JustDaniel   The storm was a farce, my good friend; was pretend...   Feb 22 11, 16:03
- - Alan   PSALTERTED COD ? Larry, pay no mind to our Daniel...   Feb 22 11, 16:16
- - JustDaniel   Is our Larry a cannibal, Al? Would you spank me an...   Feb 22 11, 18:50
- - Larry   Can o’ Bull? I’d much rather have Coors With that...   Feb 23 11, 01:13
- - Alan   Can 'e ball ? Can't 'e ball ? Well who...   Feb 23 11, 01:55
- - Larry   Priers pry, prayers pray, preyers prey As the ti...   Feb 24 11, 15:03
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