Yay! I've Written A Limerick!
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (342088)
Rockingham, Australia
December 22, 2015 7:50am CST
I'm sure there are many of us who look forward to @jaboUK's limericks. And now we can count on @Asylum answering with equally clever lines. And then the duelling limerickers start this wonderful exchange back and forth.
So after great effort and thought, I've come up with a limerick. This is meant to be funny too. Please do not think the last line is serious – it just happens to rhyme nicely. Please do not take it seriously. This is how Australians like their humour. Slinging off at, or being rude about someone can be a sign of affection or kindly intentions and so it is here.
Koalemos and Jabo are at it again
To try to outdo them would all be in vein
Their limericks are clever
But go on for ever
They're really becoming a pain!
I'm off to bed now so I'll see you all in the morning.
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@BelleStarr (61101)
• United States
22 Dec 15
lol Very cleaver Judy, next thing you know the three of you will be dueling!!
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@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
22 Dec 15
@BelleStarr
Oh just look now - out of the blue
Our Isabelle's come into view,
She has chimed in
With her rhymin'
She's as good as the rest of us too!
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
23 Dec 15
Oh my god that is so cute. The two of them are so funny and when I have time I do love to chime in. I haven't done much of this lately and I do miss the fun the two of them give me here on the site. Well done and a big thumbs up on this one.
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
23 Dec 15
@JudyEv Yes they are. I did a limerick post once and we had a lot of fun on it. I posted a few of them I had written. We went back and forth forever on this one. One you get the hang of it they are so simple and fun to write. I use to do a lot more than I do now. I guess no more time to sit and write them. But here it is fun and it is good to do a few on the site to make people laugh. BTW added one below. You might find it buried in all of your comments later on. I laugh when I read them. Had to read all of them here. They are really good.
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@allknowing (137777)
• India
23 Dec 15
Why should I post
When none raise a toast
To my efforts so true
With thoughts I try to brew
i have reasons to boast!!!
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@rebelann (112966)
• El Paso, Texas
23 Dec 15
Very well done, so from now on we can expect not just @allknowing but also you to chime in with those two, right?
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@allknowing (137777)
• India
23 Dec 15
I had stopped when I saw there was no demand for my poetry here!
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@JudyEv (342088)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 Dec 15
@allknowing That is sad. Perhaps you had better start again
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
27 Dec 15
@JudyEv
Arthur declined a challenge to scrawl
Though he had no excuses at all
He said "no limericks from me
nor any other poetry,"
Though this rhyme makes his argument fall
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@JudyEv (342088)
• Rockingham, Australia
27 Dec 15
@arthurchappell Haha. Hooked you! Now, anybody that is anybody has written at least two! ??
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@GreatMartin (23672)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
23 Dec 15
Something I just can't do and @Jabo is the best at them!!
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@JudyEv (342088)
• Rockingham, Australia
27 Dec 15
@jaboUK
Jabo says she is blushing
But I find her limericks crushing
She's one of the best
She's riding the crest
And @GreatMartin isn't just gushing.
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@JudyEv (342088)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 Dec 15
@fishtiger58 You won't know till you try
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
23 Dec 15
@JudyEv I'm pretty sure I couldn't write one.
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@rocky1980 (530)
• Chandigarh, India
23 Dec 15
very nice funny reply. I read all the comments too. You started another War of Words Part 2.
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@rocky1980 (530)
• Chandigarh, India
23 Dec 15
@JudyEv yeah, it'll good if it does.
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@JudyEv (342088)
• Rockingham, Australia
22 Dec 15
Are you going to produce one too? It's probably like a book - everyone has at least on in them
@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
22 Dec 15
I love writing them, but those I write would not get approved here! Yours is a good one!
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@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
22 Dec 15
@JudyEv @AbbyGreenhill
The limerick packs laugh anatomical
Into space that is quite economical
But the good ones I've seen
So seldom are clean
And the clean ones so seldom comical.
No, I didn't write that - it's 'anonymous'
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