Multicultural Limerick
By Mitch Berg
A would-be satirist named Alfonso,
who though having an impaired sense of meter, tried his hand at limericks.
Though he’d learned English in adulthood
and was slow in grasping the concept of “Rhyme” or “Rhythm” in this foreign language,
he chose an editor who was easily intimidated.
December 14th, 2010 at 8:58 am
Sir, I know limericks, I’ve worked with limericks. That’s no limerick.
(I know, I know, that was the point, I just couldn’t resist the Lloyd Bentson reference.)
December 14th, 2010 at 11:29 am
I have just completed an exhaustive, multisourced factcheck and conclude that Kermit is correct; that is not multicultural.
December 14th, 2010 at 12:24 pm
That was a limerick written to government specifications, or as written by DG or Penigma.
December 14th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
Penigma once tried limerick prose
But endless twaddle is all that he knows
By the time he was done
He was as old as the sun
And his audience had all decomposed
December 14th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
Dog Gone also tried for limerick gold
She went off topic, or so I am told
She went on off-logic attack
And attempted threadjack
It was all very sad to behold
December 14th, 2010 at 1:38 pm
Penigma’s lack of a limerick gift
Stems from not having humor or thrift
He just can’t stop talking
Oh! The endless damned squawking!
His prose moves like continental drift
December 14th, 2010 at 1:39 pm
There once was a man from Nantucket…
wait I don’t think I can put this one on here
December 14th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
There once was a blogger named steve
whose neighbors houses at he was peeved
he videotaped from a car
thinking about where they are
thinking all day why can’t that be me
December 14th, 2010 at 1:53 pm
Haikus are written
In seventeen syllables.
Fuck that shit.
December 14th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Ponder the irony;
Me and my “English” BA
in Japanese form.
December 14th, 2010 at 4:21 pm
I have no BA
Yet I still know English
Isn’t that amazing.
Or something.
December 14th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
Mitch, if you are using the Japanese form, should not be, Ponder the irony;
Me and my “Engrish” BA
in Japanese form
December 15th, 2010 at 8:45 am
Haiku is easy,
but sometimes they don’t make sense.
Refrigerator.
December 15th, 2010 at 8:53 am
Dada and Haiku.
Inscrutable, yet tempting.
Yes, that’s what she said.