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![]() He’d had too much dinner-wine and he’s got his little cards all jumbled up and, right at the end, he could not find the card with the limerick on it, So he decided to rescue the evening by doing the verse from memory. Yes, it had a sixth line, breaking all the rules of limerick writing but it was funny, if a little rude, so he decided to include it in his speech. He wrote all his prompts on little cards and then, at practically the last moment, he discovered a limerick which he thought would finish off his speech brilliantly. So, the father-of the bride had to make a speech at the wedding and he was very nervous about it. I don’t know the copyright issues with my doing that but if anyone has a problem, do let me know. I should also say that I am writing the following story from memory from that book. If you tell it right, it’s a winner but, please note, it works better in the telling than it does in the reading so you may not get a full appreciation for the jollyness-potential from what follows. It’s a story I tell quite a lot and I pass it on to you in the hope that you might tell it somewhere too. I’d like to share with you my favourite limerick, which comes in the form of a story. There are clean ones, of course, but it seems to be the added sauce that decides whether a particular limerick is palatable or not. The opening Limerick in that book summed up the art-form pretty well I thought. So I kept it as my little secret, well, one of them – you don’t need to hear about the others thank-you-very-much. I couldn’t show my prize at home ‘cos they would have looked inside and all hell would doubtless have broken out. But, man, they so mustn’t have looked inside – it was full to the brim of filthy limericks. The teachers knew I liked a bit of a laugh and a joke so somebody thought this would fit me. It was called ‘A Little Treasury of Limericks, Fair and Foul’. For coming second (I always came second, where are you now Martin Kennedy? Eh? Do you have a blog all of your own… he’ll probably answer too) anyway, for coming second, I got a book. My relationship with the Limerick goes back quite a ways but it was definitely cemented when I came second in my school class in first year of secondary school. ![]() ![]() I don’t think I’m particularly good at it but I like trying to came up with a rhyme which says something about the subject-matter as well as meeting the simple rhyme and scan criteria. I like trying to write them, particularly if the name in question is a little unusual. Anyone who’s come across me around the forums may have noticed that I quite like Limericks. ![]()
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