Comments on: the limerick http://snowclones.org/2008/03/17/the-limerick/ Snowclones are the new eggcorns. Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:51:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Sandra http://snowclones.org/2008/03/17/the-limerick/#comment-2934 Sandra Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:16:12 +0000 http://snowclones.org/2008/03/17/the-limerick/#comment-2934 Hans Alfredson insists angrily, in his 1976 book on limericks, <i>Svea Hunds Limerickar</i>, that one of the rhymes needs to be at least bisyllabic while the other one monosyllabic. He wouldn’t approve of the “predicate P” one. Hans Alfredson insists angrily, in his 1976 book on limericks, Svea Hunds Limerickar, that one of the rhymes needs to be at least bisyllabic while the other one monosyllabic. He wouldn’t approve of the “predicate P” one.

]]> By: Claire http://snowclones.org/2008/03/17/the-limerick/#comment-2526 Claire Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:51:41 +0000 http://snowclones.org/2008/03/17/the-limerick/#comment-2526 Look! a limerick about a snowclone! There once was a meme that I knew 'twas on Digg, Reddit and Slashdot too. So I know its quite old, and its charms have grown cold, but in Russia: Limericks rhyme you Look! a limerick about a snowclone!

There once was a meme that I knew
’twas on Digg, Reddit and Slashdot too.
So I know its quite old,
and its charms have grown cold,
but in Russia: Limericks rhyme you

]]> By: Claire http://snowclones.org/2008/03/17/the-limerick/#comment-2525 Claire Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:48:01 +0000 http://snowclones.org/2008/03/17/the-limerick/#comment-2525 Oh man, so I found this site the day before I read this, and I had to share it: http://limerickdb.com/?latest It has limericks about everything from science: Black Holes are fantastic creations Whose physics defy explainations Time and space they so bend Such that few comprehend The gravity of these situations! to broadway: Prohibition Chicago's quite glossy Its feminine killers are saucy Every murderess there wears just underwear and the dancing's all done by Bob Fosse Other topics include the charge of the light brigade, Jesus, limericks, and talking ducks. Oh man, so I found this site the day before I read this, and I had to share it:

http://limerickdb.com/?latest

It has limericks about everything from science:

Black Holes are fantastic creations
Whose physics defy explainations
Time and space they so bend
Such that few comprehend
The gravity of these situations!

to broadway:

Prohibition Chicago’s quite glossy
Its feminine killers are saucy
Every murderess there
wears just underwear
and the dancing’s all done by Bob Fosse

Other topics include the charge of the light brigade, Jesus, limericks, and talking ducks.

]]> By: roy sablosky http://snowclones.org/2008/03/17/the-limerick/#comment-2130 roy sablosky Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:34:06 +0000 http://snowclones.org/2008/03/17/the-limerick/#comment-2130 With reference to the bawdiness requirement: Daniel Dennett quotes a delightful example which I will attempt to reproduce from memory. There was a young lady named Tuck Who had the most terrible luck. She went out in a punt, And fell over the front, And was bit in the leg by a duck. With reference to the bawdiness requirement: Daniel Dennett quotes a delightful example which I will attempt to reproduce from memory.

There was a young lady named Tuck
Who had the most terrible luck.
She went out in a punt,
And fell over the front,
And was bit in the leg by a duck.

]]> By: John Cowan http://snowclones.org/2008/03/17/the-limerick/#comment-1989 John Cowan Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:18:05 +0000 http://snowclones.org/2008/03/17/the-limerick/#comment-1989 Lear's limericks are unusual by modern standards in that the first line is at least partly repeated in the last -- there is no turn, or twist, just a wrap-around. Two (or three) favorite frame-breakers: There was an old man from Peru, whose lim'ricks all look'd like haiku -- he said with a laugh, "I cut them in half, the pay is much better for two." --Emmet O'Brien There was a young fellow from Bees, Who was stung in the neck by a wasp. When asked "Does it hurt?" He replied, "No, it doesn't. It would have been terrible if it had been a hornet." --W.S. Gilbert, slightly improved by oral tradition Lear’s limericks are unusual by modern standards in that the first line is at least partly repeated in the last — there is no turn, or twist, just a wrap-around.

Two (or three) favorite frame-breakers:

There was an old man
from Peru, whose lim’ricks all
look’d like haiku — he

said with a laugh, “I
cut them in half, the pay is
much better for two.”
–Emmet O’Brien

There was a young fellow from Bees,
Who was stung in the neck by a wasp.
When asked “Does it hurt?”
He replied, “No, it doesn’t.
It would have been terrible if it had been a hornet.”
–W.S. Gilbert, slightly improved by oral tradition

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