Limericks
I've been trying hard for the last thirty minutes to write a limerick. Its impossible. But I invite everyone else to write some. Here is an an explanation of what a limerick is "Wikipedia article on limericks"). Sounds complicated!
10 August 2007 08:46pm UTC • 530 views • 8 comments
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Steve the Interloper
15 August 2007 05:29pm UTC
"It's impossible," Benjamin wails
"to write limericks! I tries and I fails!"
He pulls on his beard,
writes off po'try as weird,
And returns to his Ruby on Rails.
Metafilter had a great thread recently on re-writing famous poems as limmericks. My wife--"bibliowench" on Metafilter, killed with her version of Coleridge's "Xanadu" and Larkin's "This be the verse"
Dread Pirate Benjamin
18 August 2007 07:29am UTC
I'm impressed, Steve!Boatswain The Fool
24 August 2007 08:47pm UTC
There once was a pirate named Fool.
And, someone took him to a duel.
He printed off tons
about the best guns.
But, all that he brought was the spool.
That took me way too long to write... I'm sorry, Benjamin.
Dread Pirate Benjamin
24 August 2007 09:26pm UTC
I am not entirely sure it made any sense either. At least I am confused. I mean why was his name fool? Who invited him to the duel? Was it a girl? Was she cute? Why did he print off information about guns when he wasn't in the duel? Does he plan on dueling? Is he happy in life? Is he optimistic about the future? Does he have a death wish? Is he unsatisfied with his pirate ways? Is he starting to wonder if pirating music online is an okay thing to do? Does he like risks? Is that why he duels? Why did he bring a spool? What good is that going to do? Is he planning on strangling someone to death with the thread? You left a lot of important information out of your limerick....Boatswain The Fool
24 August 2007 09:42pm UTC
There once was a pirate named Benjamin.And, he attacked a limerick for using "took" instead of "challenged."
Even though "challenged" doesn't fit easily
With a limerick's meter and rhyme.
But, Benjamin learned his lesson when the original author of the limerick responded with a beautifully constructed limerick that wittily attacked Benjamin and revealed the flaw in Benjamin's logic, and then Benjamin was ousted from the pirate profession for being so handily defeated by a limerick writer (since limerick writers don't get nearly as much respect as they deserve in the pirate community, which is another story, but still probably one of the most important issues facing us in this new era of hatred in lack of respect for the arts), and he had to go be a burrito manufacturer, where everyone around him always spoke in limericks to make him remember what had happened (this wasn't a coincidence, but something that the judge of the pirates forced Benjamin to do when he was originally ousted because none of the pirates liked him because of the limerick writer bias thing that is totally unfair but we talked about earlier).
Dread Pirate Benjamin
24 August 2007 09:48pm UTC
Well, I do like to eat burritos. And isn't the limerick rhyming scheme supposed to be AABBA? Yours was like ZQBIJ. But it was beautiful! And very meta! It referred to itself! (is that the right use of the term meta?)flychipmunk
21 November 2007 06:03pm UTC
My roommate James just made up a limerick while washing dishes this morning:
There once was a girl named Lauren
She thought her roommate was boring
He ate normal food
and never got nude
Mostly, she tried to ignore him
(I'm not sure if that was exactly how it went)
Peon Peetie
23 November 2007 09:48pm UTC
my profile is a limerick!