+++ The neverending limerick! +++

Chris OConnor · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:32 am Post subject: +++ The neverending limerick! +++

This thread will be a neverending limerick where anyone can add a line. There are no rules other than keep it rated "R" at best, and try to make your contribution fit with the previous line. Don't screw up the flow! Only add one line at a time...please!

What is a limerick?

A LIMERICK, as you probably know already, is a five-line poem written with one couplet and one triplet. If a couplet is a two-line rhymed poem, then a triplet would be a three-line rhymed poem. The pattern of the rhyme is a - a - b - b - a with lines 1, 2 and 5 containing 3 beats and rhyming, and lines 3 and 4 having two beats and rhyming. Although it is generally believed that Edward Lear devised the LIMERICK, it is nevertheless a fact that the five-line poem was around long before he made popular his nonsense verse. Some claim that the LIMERICK was invented by soldiers returning from France to the Irish town of Limerick in the 1700's.

LIMERICKS are meant to be funny. They often contain hyperbole, onomatopoeia, idioms, puns, and other figurative devices. The last line of a good limerick contains the 'punch line' or 'heart' of the joke. Enough of the technical stuff - LIMERICKS are supposed to be 'fun' rhymes. Enjoy the rhythm as well as the words and as you say the words, clap your hands in time with the rhythm.

Example:

The limerick is furtive and mean

You must keep her in close quarantine

Or she sneaks to the slums

And promptly becomes

Disorderly, drunk and obscene.

Another example:

There was a young girl from Rabat,

who had triplets, Nat, Pat and Tat;

It was fun in the breeding,

But hell in the feeding,

When she found she had no tit for Tat.

Example 3:

An exceedingly fat friend of mine,

When asked at what hour he'd dine,

Replied, "At eleven,

At three, five, and seven,

And eight and a quarter past nine.

And one final...

A macho young swimmer named Dwyer,

Really liked playing with fire.

One night in the dark

He swam with a shark,

And his voice is now two octaves higher.

Edited by: Chris OConnor at: 11/18/04 2:49 am

Chris OConnor

There once was a young lady with one leg

Mr. Pessimistic

So they called her Ilene and not Peg.

The one thing of which I am positive is that there is much of which to be negative - Mr. P.

I came to get down, I came to get down. So get out ya seat and jump around - House of Pain

HEY! Is that a ball in your court? - Mr. P

I came to kick ass and chew Bubble Gum...and I am all out of Bubble Gum - They Live, Roddy Piper

Eric Hagelin · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 2:49 pm Post subject: reply

But when she hopped to the shoe store

"...I beg of You to take away my freedom to displease You..."

~ St. Therese of Lisieux ~

Chris OConnor · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 6:22 pm Post subject: Re: reply

She tripped through the front door

AirPrang · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 8:47 am Post subject: Re: reply

Announcing the cobbler had sent her to beg.

Betonprosa oder Permafrost
Schmelzvorgaenge oder nicht
Das deja vu ist jetzt historisch
die Gemengelage wie gehabt
Ich blute
Irgendwas ist immer

Ich gehe jetzt

Mr. Pessimistic · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 9:04 am Post subject: Re: reply

AHHHH!!! IT is complete!

I thought we had limerick'd ourselves into a corner.

Mr. P.

The one thing of which I am positive is that there is much of which to be negative - Mr. P.

The pain in hell has two sides. The kind you can touch with your hand; the kind you can feel in your heart...Scorsese's "Mean Streets"

I came to kick ass and chew Bubble Gum...and I am all out of Bubble Gum - They Live, Roddy Piper

Chris OConnor · Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 8:31 am Post subject: Re: reply

So now start a new one. Ok, fine. I will.

One day at a park in Sandusky...

Chris

Mr. Pessimistic · Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 8:39 am Post subject: Re: reply

I noticed a scent rather musky.

The one thing of which I am positive is that there is much of which to be negative - Mr. P.

The pain in hell has two sides. The kind you can touch with your hand; the kind you can feel in your heart...Scorsese's "Mean Streets"

I came to kick ass and chew Bubble Gum...and I am all out of Bubble Gum - They Live, Roddy Piper

Chris OConnor · Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 8:41 am Post subject: Re: reply

So I strolled by a bench...

Edited by: Chris OConnor at: 7/27/05 9:42 am

Mr. Pessimistic · Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 8:57 am Post subject: Re: reply

And discovered the stench...

The one thing of which I am positive is that there is much of which to be negative - Mr. P.

The pain in hell has two sides. The kind you can touch with your hand; the kind you can feel in your heart...Scorsese's "Mean Streets"

I came to kick ass and chew Bubble Gum...and I am all out of Bubble Gum - They Live, Roddy Piper


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