| 单词 | limerick |
| 例句 | "I insist upon hearing this limerick," Miss Honey said, smiling one of her rare smiles. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z He must’ve been really upset with me to send me limericks instead of haiku. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Maybe she will try writing again, nothing too ambitious, a fun poem in the limerick mode. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z "A witty limerick is very hard to write," she added. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z "Although it is not true, it is really a very good limerick. Oh dear, oh dear, I must try to remember that one." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z "Well Matilda, I would very much like to hear one of these limericks you say you have written. Could you try to remember one for us?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z I was too nervous to bother explaining that one of my father’s vices had been his propensity for dirty limericks. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In the ensuing years, Hurricane Chris continued to storm across the columns of the Invite, leaving a trail of ink of every shade, but mostly in wordplay: neologisms, limericks, song parodies, just plain jokes. Style Invitational Week 1271: Yodel his praises 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Among them was an introductory limerick he wrote, calling the verses "boring and drear". 'Boring' Barker limericks sold 2012-06-21T16:08:53Z In her new memoir, “Tippi,” Hedren quickly dispenses with Hitchcock, but we learn about his incessant staring, his dirty limericks, the pecking and pawing and threats. Attacked by birds and Hitchcock, Tippi Hedren sought out big cats 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z He wrote an introductory limerick calling the verses "boring and drear". Barker rewrote 'boring' Lear book 2012-06-13T10:09:26Z And most recently there’s Tom Hardy’s hugely enjoyable Taboo, which – despite its gruff grunting to the contrary – is about as dark and gritty as a limerick about a man from Nantucket. Got Game of Thrones withdrawal syndrome? Try Vikings 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z The culture is very rich, especially the music — it’s a limerick style called son where the phrases repeat again and again. Going to Mexico? Guillermo del Toro Has Some Recommendations 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Armstrong wrote constantly — mostly letters and short stories about his life, but also in the form of limericks and pages-long jokes. Louis Armstrong’s Life in Letters, Music and Art 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z "We used to read each other poems and limericks and tried to catch me on my vocabulary," she later said of Hitchcock. 'Five Easy Pieces' star Karen Black dead at 74 2013-08-08T22:32:41Z “Hamlet” as a limerick: I’m down now that Father is dead And his brother takes Mother to bed. Style Invitational Week 1073: Mess With (Y)our Heads; plus poems made of little words This week we also look back at the brilliant limericks of Hugh Thirlway, a renowned legal scholar who died last month. Style Invitational Week 1359: Back up in the ‘air’ 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z He is a physical wreck, though he puts on a surprisingly good and vigorous show as, without an audience, he staggers about a stage delivering songs, limericks, innuendoes and reminiscences. Movie Review: ‘Barrymore’ Stars Christopher Plummer; Érik Canuel Directs 2012-11-14T23:24:22Z In Week 1441 we asked you to recast or comment on the lyrics to a well-known song as a limerick. Style Invitational Week 1445: Put it in bee-verse 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z By “significantly,” we mean that a “he” or “her” won’t qualify your limerick unless it were really focused on that word. Style Invitational Week 1448: Hear, hear, it’s Limerixicon XVIII 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z And last: Really tough Invitational week: Half acrostic, half limerick — eek! Style Invitational Week 1336: Two ways about it — a double-entendre contest 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Aren’t even the best limericks just, you know, sort of amusing rather than properly poetic? There Once Was a Man Who Felt Lonely: A Biographer Considers Edward Lear’s Art and Its Sources 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Most remarkably, his passion is for a form of Japanese verse that is the bureaucratic equivalent of the limerick. In praise of? the haiku 2010-04-18T23:05:00Z In a previous column I mentioned the Eagle Harbor Book Co.’s limerick contest, and thanks to the publicity, the fine booksellers there were deluged with more than 170 entries. Lilting limericks celebrate Bainbridge Island 2013-04-12T19:33:54Z With a poem – really, a limerick – of his own, Mr. Gibson writes of Mr. Lewis: That Ox.Prof.Po.Candidate, Candidates for Oxford's Poetry Professor Attack Each Other With (What Else?) Poetry 2010-06-17T13:28:00Z She liked writing jokes and limericks; then, when she was 14, her mother bought a piano “as a piece of furniture,” Armatrading recalled. Joan Armatrading Is Still Searching for the Perfect Song 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z Week 1344, limericks featuring “gr-” words: Lady Liberty Her coppery skin has turned green, Her welcoming lamp is still seen, But her engraved invitation To join this great nation? Style Invitational Week 1367: Pick me up at work, okay? A come-on contest. 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z If your limerick got ink in this contest, or even if it didn’t, or even if you didn’t enter and are inspired to write one now, feel free to submit it to OEDILF. Style Invitational Week 1244: Primed for creative Amazon product reviews 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z For those for whom limericks are too long-form, the Empress brings you the third installment of our Loserly version of haiku: Style Invitational Week 1454: Punku 3 — haiku with a pun, duh 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z To celebrate National Poetry Month, upcoming in April, they are reviving their annual limerick contest. Limerick contest invites wordplay 2013-03-15T22:55:24Z Neither a newsweekly nor a humor magazine, the Spectator combined political analysis, in-depth reporting, personal essays, cultural criticism, cartoons and contests for readers — often involving elaborate word games or limericks. Alexander Chancellor, editor who transformed Spectator magazine, dies at 77 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z “Ray loved puns and limericks and had a wonderful sense of humor,” his wife, Tara, wrote in an e-mail. Ray Lonnen, British actor in spy TV show ‘Sandbaggers,’ dies at 74 This is where artists and writers gathered to perform serious poetry, recite dirty limericks, or deliver anarchist manifestos. The back streets of Bohemian Montmartre 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Thursday at the store at a celebration that includes drinks, food, prizes and live limerick readings. Lilting limericks celebrate Bainbridge Island 2013-04-12T19:33:54Z The title doesn’t have to appear within the limerick itself. Style Invitational Week 1441: ’Rick rolling — songs written as limericks 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z See general contest rules and guidelines at wapo.st/InvRules in addition to the limerick guide at bit.ly/limericks2016. Style Invitational: Ink-conceivable interpretations of these ink blots! 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z If you say, "This is a limerick that I wrote for you," you're using that medium. An interview with the dean of "Community" 2011-09-28T22:30:00Z Week 1448 was our 18th annual Limerixicon, in which we provide some material for OEDILF.com, the slowly forming dictionary in which the entry for each word is one or more limericks. Style Invitational Week 1452: As the word turns 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z See OEDILF.com about submitting limericks there, if you like, after this contest is over. Style Invitational Week 1396: Hail to Limerixicon XVII! 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Thomas is finally delivered to Yale, where he empties a faculty dinner party by reciting dirty limericks. Review: ‘Set Fire to the Stars’ Unleashes Dylan Thomas on America 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Still running — deadline Monday, April 30: our limerick contest. Style Invitational Week 1277: Come into Beeing — a new word contest 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z You could insert dirty limericks into the paper, and he wouldn’t care. Gene Weingarten: An Old Cuss 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z If I were named U.S. poet laureate, my first act would be to reclassify limericks from light verse to welter verse. Week 1072: The Tile Invitational — our second ScrabbleGrams contest This week: Supply a humorous, previously unpublished limerick significantly featuring any English word, name or term beginning with “gr,” as in the example above from Limerixicon 3. Style Invitational Week 1344: Well, that’s just great — it’s Limerixicon XVI 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Along with the limericks and the horse names and the Your Mama jokes, The Style Invitational never strays too long from one neologism contest or another. Style Invitational Week 1086: Play the dozens with 12-letter words But from the beginning, Hitch is odd and inscrutable, reciting dirty limericks without cracking a smile. Television Review: ‘The Girl,’ on HBO, With Sienna Miller and Toby Jones 2012-10-18T21:44:37Z Or a limerick whose rhyme Runs out ere the fifth line, And you flail around and eventually give up. Style Invitational Week 1088: Our winning F-word limericks! (No, not that F-word.) Lear's celebrated limericks demonstrate the antic disposition of a society that loved to play truant from its sober self. Dickens, Browning and Lear: what's in a reputation? 2012-05-17T13:17:32Z Still running — deadline Monday night, Aug. 29: our annual Limerixicon limerick contest, this year featuring “ge-” words. Style Invitational Week 1190: You’re workin’ on a chain, gang 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z This year we did limericks that feature words and names beginning “he-.” Style Invitational Week 1452: As the word turns 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z “Pribaoutki” takes its title from a word denoting Russian verse akin to the English limerick. Music Review: Tactus, Student Ensemble, at the Manhattan School of Music 2012-02-08T22:58:19Z Still running — deadline Monday night, Aug. 21: our contest for limericks featuring “gh-” and “gi-” words. Style Invitational Week 1241: Less taste, more fill-in— our not-crossword 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Week 1189 was our annual Limerixicon, the contest for limericks featuring words from some sliver of the alphabet, this time “ge-” words. Style Invitational Week 1193: Poedtry II, plus winning limericks 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z I’m no poet, but I like to think that pantry cooking is a bit like composing a sonnet or a limerick — the restrictions of form yielding great things in the kitchen. 5 Recipes That Are a Sure Thing in an Uncertain Time 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z If you say, "This is a sonnet I wrote for you," then you better not give them a limerick. An interview with the dean of "Community" 2011-09-28T22:30:00Z By total coincidence, this week we present the results of our contest for limericks featuring words beginning “gl-” through “go-” — which included Jesse’s use of “GOAT” in its new, acronymic sense. Style Invitational Week 1296: A, we’re adorbs — a poetry contest 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z My wonderfully creative second-grade teacher, Mrs. Clack, had us spend all kinds of time doing special projects; it was the year I learned what a limerick was. The Mechanical Muse 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z This was the age of Edward Lear’s limericks and Lewis Carroll’s Alice. It Was a Dark and Stormy Style 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z In Week 1276, we asked you to write a limerick that ended in one of seven lines we supplied. Style Invitational Week 1280: A la‘ugh’ a minute with our ‘air quotes’ contest 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z We used to read each other poems and limericks and he tried to catch me on my vocabulary,'' she later said of Hitchcock. Hollywood actress Karen Black dies 2013-08-09T09:46:24Z Keillor talks for nearly two hours straight in his warm, familiar baritone, reciting limericks and poetry, reminiscing about growing up in Minnesota in the 1950s, about the joys and pitfalls of his advancing mortality. Inside Garrison Keillor’s attempted comeback after his #MeToo downfall 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z But the author of surreal limericks was also a serious travel writer, zoological illustrator and landscape painter. Two hundred years of nonsense 2012-05-22T07:39:49Z Week 1189, limericks featuring words beginning with “ge-”: He and she planned to elope;. Style Invitational Week 1210: Bill Us Now — our ‘joint legislation’ contest 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Your Lit Life correspondent loves a good limerick, and so do the booksellers at the Eagle Harbor Book Co. on Bainbridge Island. Limerick contest invites wordplay 2013-03-15T22:55:24Z From childhood, she harbored a desire to write, which showed itself early on when she created bawdy limericks. Jackie Collins, chronicler of lust and power, dies at 77 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z So I think people might even enjoy the limericks and that kind of stuff because at least they're kind of fun and playful. AP Interview: Trethewey a 'cheerleader' for poetry 2012-11-21T13:16:14Z She lives in a residential home, and she’s in charge of the limerick contests. Sheldon Harnick, 'Fiddler' and 'She Loves Me' lyricist, sails back into the Tony spotlight at 92 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Week 1240, limericks with a gh- or gi- word: Said the daughter, “Let’s not have a tiff: Use a hard ‘g’ like ‘giving’ or ‘glyph.’ Style Invitational Week 1262: Clue us in 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Still running — deadline Monday night, Aug. 20: our contest for limericks featuring words beginning with gl- through go-. Style Invitational Week 1293: Constitutional unconvention 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z I ran this little poetry program in my head again and again, turning out dozens of nonsense limericks, complete with the requisite little-kid scatology. The Mechanical Muse 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z The Style Invitational has been abetting Chris’s mission once a year since the infancy of OEDILF.com in 2004, with a contest for limericks that featured words from some sliver of the dictionary. Style Invitational Week 1396: Hail to Limerixicon XVII! 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Week 1344 was our 16th annual Limerixicon, in which we help out OEDILF.com — a project to create a whole dictionary in limerick form — by seeking limericks featuring a word from one sliver of the dictionary. Style Invitational Week 1348: Same Difference 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z In a later installment, Marilyn Minter, a painter and photographer, will recite a political limerick she wrote about President Trump. The New Museum Is Offering Strange Stories for Trying Times 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Irish music, dancing, food — even a limerick contest: There’s no shortage of ways to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in Seattle and on the Eastside. 12 ways to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day 2014 2014-03-13T08:23:41Z Second place receives, apropos of this contest, a useful spritz bottle of Poo-Pourri bathroom spray, which includes a remarkably fine limerick on the bottle: Style Invitational Week 1396: Hail to Limerixicon XVII! 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z And Last: Though they be without rhyme or reason, I write the best limericks and tweets Cause I ignore the rules Which are only for others. Style Invitational Week 1280: A la‘ugh’ a minute with our ‘air quotes’ contest 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Entrants would write the final line of a limerick to enter into the draw to win a brand new car. A rose in every cheek: 100 years of Vegemite, the wartime spread that became an Aussie icon 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z The nonsense verse known as the limerick was invented by 19th Century poet, famous for his Owl and the Pussycat poem. Barker rewrote 'boring' Lear book 2012-06-13T10:09:26Z A genius has wisdom to spare, Pulls great insights out of the air, Discerns hidden truths When no more than a youth, And fully understands limerick rhyme and meter. Style Invitational Week 1193: Poedtry II, plus winning limericks 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z The ability to craft a good limerick may correspond with all kinds of possibilities, including a future as governor of the state of Washington! Limerick contest invites wordplay 2013-03-15T22:55:24Z We also wanted to show Nick and Philby getting drunk together, reciting silly limericks and singing daft songs. Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce dig into a real-life MI6 double agent story 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z For today’s homework, try to mix and match a format, a style and a topic — like, “Write a limerick in the style of Snoop Dogg about global warming.” How Does ChatGPT Really Work? 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z “Da”- limericks: The dachshund, each hair and each wart of it, Serves for the wags to make sport of it. Style Invitational Week 1518: The Style Expirational 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z She donned a green dress, read a self-written limerick to U2 and invited the quartet onstage for an intimate toast of black velvets — Guinness mixed with champagne. Kennedy Center Honors: Music-centric tributes hit all the right notes 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Angry Dan, from Walthamstow, east London, is known for his vibrant colours and memorable rhymes - writing an original limerick which he paints on each mural. Angry Dan mural project 'brings colour' to Cleator Moor 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z Click here to skip down to the winning limericks. Style Invitational Week 1506: Let’s go magnet fishing with new words 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Still running — deadline Monday night, Aug. 29: Our contest for limericks featuring a word or name beginning with “hi-.” See wapo.st/invite1502. Style Invitational Week 1503: Sing of your supper—parodies about food 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z His memory was so phenomenal, he could correctly quote an enormous number of poems and limericks, the entire Bible, tables of mathematical functions, and almost anything he had learned about astronomy. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z By “significantly,” we mean that “him” or “his” won’t count as the word unless your limerick focused on that word — if it were about gender, or using pronouns, for example. Style Invitational Week 1502: It’s Hi- time for Limerixicon XIX 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z "And it's a limerick poem - a five-line poem - which I've written on a pen pot with three crayons in to represent the pastel that Lowry used." Angry Dan mural project 'brings colour' to Cleator Moor 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z Then there are the contests: best haiku, limerick, joke and the like. How to find (and survive) a Buy Nothing group 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z He asked the student to read a limerick about a monster-like machine that “munches up socks by the pair.” This Alabama school battled pandemic reading woes with teacher support, training 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Essentially, raucous processions involving songs and the rattling of cacophonous instruments, the performance of short plays and bawdy limericks, and the burning of effigies occurred outside the homes of the accused. Perspective | If Nazis in their 90s won’t serve much time, why prosecute? To shame them. 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z There aren’t strict rules for what is poetry unless you’re trying to adhere to a specific form like the sestina, haiku or limerick. New to poetry? These poets will help you get started 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z She made pea soup for Occupy Oakland activists in 2011 and drew thousands of political cartoons, often accompanied by bawdy limericks, that she distributed at protests and rallies. Patricia Maginnis, trailblazing abortion rights activist, dies at 93 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Ms Wilcockson found the pages, which contain a limerick about an old man on a bicycle, a poem and several letters, in a large collection of manuscripts known as the Charnwood Autograph Collection. Significant Edward Lear poems discovered 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z Is there a higher poetic form than the limerick? Perspective | What rhymes with ‘cicada’? Readers explore the insect’s poetic possibilities. 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Bell — in normal times — would accompany his twin 10-year-olds, Samuel and Benjamin, to a special music school near Lincoln Center, connecting with them by playing trivia games and coming up with limericks. What Hardcore New Yorkers Really Miss 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Try to write the great American novel or, at a minimum, a limerick. Perspective | To keep busy while sports are on hiatus, try foosball, Wii bowling and living-room wrestling 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z Humberside Police in northeast England investigated Harry Miller in January 2019 after receiving a complaint about allegedly “transphobic” tweets, including a limerick mocking the idea that transgender women are biologically women. UK judge: Police probe of ‘transphobic’ tweets was unlawful 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Indeed, Anonymous is one of my favorite writers, and I’ve always been struck by his range; he wrote many limericks that I love. Opinion | It’s me, the one person waiting for the anonymous Trump book before changing my mind 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z The limerick is the corny uncle of the poetry world, the one you hope doesn’t drink too much at Thanksgiving and embarrass everybody. Perspective | What rhymes with ‘cicada’? Readers explore the insect’s poetic possibilities. 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z San Francisco isn’t a city, it’s more of a limerick. Chris Erskine: It'd be nice to be in love again by Christmas. But what's the rush? 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Three years ago he won first prize in a British magazine competition which asked readers to compose limericks about Erdogan “as filthy and insulting as possible”. Turks welcome 'Ottoman grandson' Boris Johnson as British leader 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z He and Mr Erdogan met months later, and the limerick was apparently not mentioned. What Boris Johnson has said about other countries 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z I will say I was disappointed by the lack of limericks in this book. Opinion | It’s me, the one person waiting for the anonymous Trump book before changing my mind 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z It’s hard to write a limerick about something serious or sad. Perspective | What rhymes with ‘cicada’? Readers explore the insect’s poetic possibilities. 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z When it didn't win, I posted the limerick on the web, and linked to it with the sentence "You can see why I chose a career as a scientist rather than as a poet." Quantum Computing for English Majors 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z A shop teacher who caught Keillor cracking up a classmate with a limerick while Keillor was operating a jigsaw sent the future humorist to a speech teacher, who encouraged his breakthrough as a public speaker. Keillor back in spotlight after sexual misconduct allegation 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Mr Johnson's 2016 limerick - which included an obscene reference to a goat and a creative new word to rhyme with "Ankara" - won him £1,000. What Boris Johnson has said about other countries 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z After graduation, he hung around Cambridge for a while, starting and abandoning novels, writing limericks and verse dramas, and doing illustrations for books and magazines. Edward Gorey’s Enigmatic World 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Replies included well wishes for her knee, and a limerick. ‘I’m Icing My Knee and I’m Hard Boiling Some Eggs’ 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z My wife and I wrote a limerick about quantum computing for a poetry contest that Science News was running. Quantum Computing for English Majors 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z An editor read through submissions for a St. Patrick’s Day limerick contest. New Newspaper Prompts War of Weeklies in New Jersey Suburb 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z The musings are written in haiku, free verse, limerick and rhyme. Donald Trump has roused the poets to stinging verse 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z The limerick - the key parts of which we cannot reprint here - won the Spectator magazine's "President Erdogan Offensive Poetry Competition" in May. Boris Johnson quotes: Then and now - BBC News 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z “Hey,” he said to his fellow volunteers, “can we do a limerick?” Arizona asks 'the unprecedented': could Democrats sweep the west? 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z They say one of the best ways to check, for now, is to ask the suspected bot to recite a limerick or sing “Happy Birthday.” Daily Report: When Artificial Intelligence Goes to the Dark Side 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z It was telling, in fact, that the Turkish media coverage of the British cabinet reshuffle made no reference to the limerick. Boris Johnson: Britain's Undiplomatic New Diplomat-in-Chief 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z The newspaper Haber Turk mentions Mr Johnson's appointment but does not mention the limerick he penned insulting Turkey's president. Boris Johnson is foreign secretary: The world reacts - BBC News 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z He was also an enthusiastic crafter of limericks, a form in which his irreverence and flair for language flourished. Robert Conquest, Seminal Historian of Soviet Misrule, Dies at 98 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z How Bush, bored at a Paris meeting of world leaders, quietly started writing limericks about them. Did George H.W. Bush deserve a second term? 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Mr Hancock did not write the comment, but it was contained in a limerick which he shared on his Twitter page. Minister sorry for 'queers' re-tweet 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z To attract donations, she promises exclusives like videos of live shows and personalized limericks written for hardcore fans. How Youtube Stars Can Actually Make a Living 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Salon limerick contest Topics: , , , , , After a hiatus, Salon’s limerick contest returns with assessments of college football, Obama’s cabinet and more. Salon limerick contest 2013-01-13T14:59:00Z Remember, limericks are five line poems, typically with an a-a-b-b-a rhyme scheme. Salon limerick contest reboot 2013-01-07T17:50:00Z Dr Goose, a pseudonymous tweeter who writes clever limericks about the economy, was driven to describe this good/bad dichotomy in verse. Twitter takes on the jobs report to ask: how is the economy really doing? 2012-12-07T17:57:16Z Chinese political cant is like haiku or limericks in that it rarely deviates from a set form or number of syllables. As China Preps for Power Handover, Marx and Mao Go Missing 2012-10-17T13:35:22Z In any case here are some of the funniest limericks Salon readers contributed to dignify last week’s confab in Tampa. Salon limerick contest 2012-09-04T14:29:00Z This week Salon asked readers to submit limericks on celebrities. Salon limerick contest 2012-08-27T12:14:00Z Salon limerick contest reboot Topics: Powtry, Writers and Writing, salon limerick contest, , , After taking a break to eat and drink and get a tan, Salon’s news limerick contest is back. Salon limerick contest reboot 2013-01-07T17:50:00Z Salon limerick contest Topics: , Abortion, , , , In this week’s limerick contest, Salon readers vented their spleen at Paul Ryan. Salon limerick contest 2012-08-20T14:25:00Z Limerick contest winners Topics: , Limerick Contest, , Poetry, , Writers and Writing The response to Salon’s first weekly limerick contest was a tsunami of iambic pentameter and predictable rhymes for ‘Mitt.’ Limerick contest winners 2012-08-13T17:53:00Z We’re pleased because the winning poems are so much better than that awful limerick. KidsPost poetry contest winners to read works 2012-05-14T22:39:22Z I tried it myself, searching for the first part of a limerick: "There was a young man from Darjeeling who got on a bus." Are search engine result figures accurate? 2012-02-20T00:16:12Z I've often been driven to appease the pangs of raging hunger with a careless epigram, and by the laborious composition of a limerick I have sought to deceive a most unholy thirst. Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor 2011-11-11T03:00:30.420Z All the merit I can claim is the ability to rhyme a limerick or sing a "come-all-ye" in a manner perhaps not unpleasing to my friends. By Trench and Trail in Song and Story 2011-09-24T02:00:15.120Z Kane responds: In limericks, you must rhyme the last stressed syllable of a line. Limerick contest winners 2012-08-13T17:53:00Z “If it was a jingle or limerick, I’d stand a chance,” sighed Bobby to herself. The Girls of Central High on the Stage The Play That Took The Prize 2011-09-05T02:00:21.083Z Yesterday I wrote limericks and nonsense verses on letter paper and made little boats of them and sent them sailing on the lake in the park. Molly Brown of Kentucky 2011-07-16T02:00:18.603Z I could not sleep until I got the following limerick out of my system: The Human Fly Our Mary, an actress so flighty, Scaled a wall in her very best nighty. A House Party with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:20.543Z She uses folksy rhetoric and relentlessly lampoons the communists, using native limerick and doggerel. Showstopper 2011-04-15T00:15:05Z The limerick is said to have been originally an extempore composition, a lot of people getting together and composing limericks, in turn, as a sort of game designed to while away an evening. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z I began when I was twelve with a limerick. The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews 2011-02-18T03:00:20.773Z She made him laugh long and loud when she told of the ridiculous limericks he had written on the paper boats. Molly Brown of Kentucky 2011-07-16T02:00:18.603Z First, here’s a limerick that captures the behavior of the ants in the first few problems in a deliciously ironic way. | Crawling Ants 2011-01-24T15:42:09Z In his 1998 autobiography, “Shakespeare Got It Wrong: It’s Not ‘to Be,’ It’s ‘to Do,’ ” Dr. Oliver indulged in a fondness for limericks, interspersing them between chapters. Jack Oliver, Who Proved Continental Drift, Dies at 87 2011-01-12T05:27:49Z If the first limerick was composed at Limerick, it must have been a long time ago, and I doubt if any are produced there nowadays. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z Each memento was accompanied by a limerick hitting off the idiosyncrasies of the recipient, who was asked to read it aloud. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z Finally, everyone loves limericks, and here’s one about the Fitzgerald contraction mentioned in problem 2. Wordplay: Numberplay: Figuring It Out in Your Head 2010-12-20T20:49:39Z The limerick about Reverend Duff faltered and was silenced as she watched him. Chris Adrian: “The Warm Fuzzies.” 2010-09-20T04:00:00Z “It was no problem,” said Ms. Campbell, who lives in Lake Oswego, Ore., and uses her iPad daily to write limericks and reread classic novels. To Win Over Users, Gadgets Have to Be Touchable 2010-09-01T08:17:00Z Loved ones often rolled their eyes at his constant recitals of rhymes and limericks, Ms. Dillon said. Denis E. Dillon, Prosecutor on Long Island, Dies at 76 2010-08-16T08:28:00Z Whoever composed the limericks was well paid for sitting up o' nights, for they caused a deal of merriment even if they were not entirely free from sting. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z Readers are invited to contribute their own limericks on the subject of today’s blog, or indeed today’s state of the world. Wordplay: Numberplay: Figuring It Out in Your Head 2010-12-20T20:49:39Z None of the limericks made any coherent point, and they failed with appalling inattention to meter. Poems that byte: Gene Weingarten's thoughts on data entry-level versification 2010-04-11T04:00:00Z "There was a young man named Boskirk Who never his duty would shirk,—" began DeLancy—and forthwith retired into intellectual seclusion to complete the limerick. Making Money Venables was a good companion; his limericks and his riddles and his anecdotes were nearly as silly, nearly as devoid of all point or relevance, as the Crevequers' own. The Furnace We chose mostly the short poems, including a veritable school of limericks, and in each case printed the name of the author in good large type. Hempfield A Novel The sixth and seventh were obscene limericks; and the eighth, ninth and so on to the end of the stack were what looked like the first chapters of a rattling good historical adventure novel. Special Delivery It was on our wedding night, and you’d just got it, and you kept asking it to tell you limericks.” The Knights of Arthur And one of our oldest machines ran off a series of limericks of a decidedly pungent flavor. Joy Ride I think we must bar the limerick from our serious creative efforts in the study. Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation Catherine had taken the idea from the nonsense verses which had been spreading over the country as generally as the limericks of a few years before. The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted She told me a riddle which filled me with nausea, and finally a limerick which I had heard three times in the Mess. A Diary Without Dates A little harder, but still not too hard, is the limerick, examples of which are given in Chapter IX. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers Before they were returned to the pulp mills, some of the publications reached private hands and created something of a stir, especially the limericks. Joy Ride This person, I think, we could easily spare: The man who tells limericks gives me a pain. A line-o'-verse or two The Naval mail room had standing orders to burn all the limericks when they came in, but some of the newer men seemed to think the entire thing was a big joke. Navy Day To distract her attention, instantly Jones improvised a limerick. The Paliser case As a gift, a series of illustrated limericks on people you know would have the merit of novelty at least. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers Betting on the turf, missing-word competitions, limerick competitions, &c., draw every year many millions of pounds from the pockets of millions of British workers. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals Every dinner-giver, however, knows the device of suitable quotations, or original sayings, or clever limericks, on place-cards, and the impetus they give to conversation between dinner-companions as the guests are seated. Conversation What to Say and How to Say it If I wrote a limerick, I'd want someone to think it was clever. Master of the Vineyard “Teddy” envied me “my baccalaureate enthusiasm,” and, encouraged evidently by this quality, he would read Chaucer in a sing-song voice, or, when this recreation failed, would make up limericks to a guitar accompaniment. The Great White Tribe in Filipinia Do not write a ballade until you can write a limerick. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers Mrs. Brown and Molly could not help overhearing this conversation and at the above limerick they laughed outright. Molly Brown's Orchard Home Then there's a line of limericks about the adventures of the 'Lulu Tulu Gummies'—small gum-headed tykes—always in trouble until they find Lulu. The Spinner's Book of Fiction I delight in beef stews, limericks, burlesque shows, New York City and the music of Haydn, that beery and delightful old rascal! Europe After 8:15 We had a long talk about the war, and they asked me to recite my war limericks. The Great War As I Saw It Separate the limericks and the love songs and send them each to their appointed editor. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers He made a limerick on this particular fancy. The Dark House No, I'm sure she didn't make the limerick; she's not a poet, only a novelist. Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract One major hacker gripe with VMS concerns its slowness — thus the following limerick: There once was a system called VMS Of cycles by no means abstemious. The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996 He said he had listened to my limericks that day, and while he was listening had determined to speak to me about his baptism. The Great War As I Saw It With this as a beginning the limerick has spread far and wide. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers Oh, yeah, I learned a limerick here you might like. Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel In these letters, the general stupidity and arrogance of the monks of the late Middle Ages was exposed in a strange German-Latin doggerel which reminds one of our modern limericks. The Story of Mankind People liked his pieces, and tramp farmhands with rough necks and rougher hands left off singing smutty limericks and took to "Atalanta in Calydon" apparently because they preferred it. The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems One major hacker gripe with VMS concerns its slowness —- thus the following limerick: There once was a system called VMS Of cycles by no means abstemious. The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 There are even limerick fiends who pride themselves on their writing of limericks and others whose collections of the form total up in the thousands. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers Oh, yes, make one of those limerick things: 'There was a young fellow named King,—'" "That's the kind I mean. Marjorie's New Friend Like the gay young man of the limerick, who never knew when he was slighted, this unbidden guest came to the party and ate just as heartily as if he had been really invited. The Story of Mankind He laughed heartily on hearing a limerick by Oliver Herford beginning: "There was a young prince Hohenzollern," which was said to have delighted the British ambassador. The Conquest of America A Romance of Disaster and Victory "I want to know how Lance dares trespass upon Bobby's domain of limericks?" The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause It is very seldom that one sees a limerick now with the first and last lines identical. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers One of his favourite limericks was: For beauty I am not a star, There are others more handsome by far. Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him It must have been very much as if the sedate full-length of Mr. Shakspere, over in the corner and not autographed, had opened its mouth and begun to recite limericks. The Wishing-Ring Man It happened that I knew a number of the unprinted Rossetti limericks, precious things, not at all easy to get at. The Grim Smile of the Five Towns But, anyway, Bobby is off the limerick business. The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause One major hacker gripe with VMS concerns its slowness -- thus the following limerick: There once was a system called VMS Of cycles by no means abstemious. The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 He was a sporting vagrant armed with a vast stock of stories, limericks and riddles. Dubliners Babbitt lay awake in the close hot tomb of his Pullman berth, shaking with remembrance of the fat man's limerick about the lady who wished to be wild. Babbitt He appreciated those limericks with a juster taste than I should have expected. The Grim Smile of the Five Towns "Gee Gee says the lowest form of wit is the pun, and the most execrable form of rhyme is the limerick," declared Jess soberly. The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause A limerick will make a man forget even his dinner. The Grim Smile of the Five Towns |
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