limerick
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Entrants would write the final line of a limerick to enter into the draw to win a brand new car.
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
By “significantly,” we mean that “him” or “his” won’t count as the word unless your limerick focused on that word — if it were about gender, or using pronouns, for example.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2022
He asked the student to read a limerick about a monster-like machine that “munches up socks by the pair.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
“I thought I was going daft. I thought I might end up wearing a teacup on my head and spouting limerick poems.”
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
This Poe is a rum sort, pallid and pie-eyed and with a fondness for limericks.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2022
This year we did limericks that feature words and names beginning “he-.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2021
Some are more limerickish than limerick — and I’ve included a few at the end that aren’t limericks at all — but all should bring a smile to your carapace, er, face.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 7, 2021
Mr. Bell — in normal times — would accompany his twin 10-year-olds, Samuel and Benjamin, to a special music school near Lincoln Center, connecting with them by playing trivia games and coming up with limericks.
From New York Times ● May 12, 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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