limerick
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Email your limerick and name to [email protected] by noon Monday, and if we get enough fun ones, we’ll publish a selection to carry us into spring.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
Kraft-Walker also ran limerick competitions to advertise Vegemite.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2023
If you’re bored of reading this newsletter, you could ask ChatGPT or Bing to summarize the rest of it for you, or to rewrite it as a jaunty limerick.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
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.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2022
Maybe she will try writing again, nothing too ambitious, a fun poem in the limerick mode.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
This Poe is a rum sort, pallid and pie-eyed and with a fondness for limericks.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2022
She liked writing jokes and limericks; then, when she was 14, her mother bought a piano “as a piece of furniture,” Armatrading recalled.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2021
See OEDILF.com about submitting limericks there, if you like, after this contest is over.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2020
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?
From Washington Post ● Jan. 16, 2020
"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?"
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
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