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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.

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Entrants would write the final line of a limerick to enter into the draw to win a brand new car.

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We also wanted to show Nick and Philby getting drunk together, reciting silly limericks and singing daft songs.

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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.”

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“Da”- limericks: The dachshund, each hair and each wart of it, Serves for the wags to make sport of it.

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