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Quote by Circle_Something
It's pretty disgraceful for a bassist to not be able to even get such a simple rhythm down. Though, weirdly, I could do it on my bass. Hmm, maybe I should try writing limericks with bass tracks.

I think there is a significant difference between finding notes and finding words, but I bet that you are quite capable of doing both, if you give it a try.
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permanent, that's what I once thought about my hair... alas, nothing is permanent, not even this spot
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Star Wars, but what episode?

Yours must be one of the home alone movies. All four of them came by on tv the last four days. If I'm correct, this is from the one with the pigeon lady in the park, Home alone 2.

Do you feel lucky punk?


Well it seems to me a common phrase when addressing the sith lord for in the third movie i believe general grevious said it as well as count Dukco(?) Darth vader says it either in the four or fifth movie. Possibly both? Or i am just crazy.

I won't answer that last question
But you're probably right. I remember it best from episode 5, from the mouth of Vader (with that magnificent deep voice of James Earl Jones)
It is answered with: There is a great disturbance in the Force

It leaves this (easy) one unanswered:

Do you feel lucky punk?
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Star Wars, but what episode?

Yours must be one of the home alone movies. All four of them came by on tv the last four days. If I'm correct, this is from the one with the pigeon lady in the park, Home alone 2.

Do you feel lucky punk?
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I'm afraid I'm not big enough to hide behind, but I'll try to stay in front of you
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Hey king, I saw an angry queen roaming around with a rolling pin. Better hide! I'll guard your spot.
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They started out with just numbers, but soon had to have more than 100 records inside. By using letters and numbers they got 260 combinations in stead of just 100 out of two digits. And that's when they are in a fixed order, always first a letter, then a number.

If you could teleport, where would you go to now?
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Probably The Worst Limerick Ever

Andrew, technically speaking you are right. Though adhering to the AABBA scheme, there is a metrum for limericks as well.
It should be something like
taDUMta taDUMta taDUMta for lines 1, 2 and 5 and
taDUMta taDUM for lines 3 and 4
or
tadaDUM tadaDUM tadaDUM for lines 1, 2 and 5 and
(ta)daDUM tadaDUM for 3 and 4

Your limericks still miss that, but they do bring a smile to my face, because they really are funny.

A lim'rick is easy to write
but make sure that the meter is right
when the rYthm is wrong
it won't fit to the song
so nobody will sing it tonight
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When the girl met a handsome young gipsy
he confessed to her that he was tipsy
he said: take me to bed
I shall be a good lad
but when my mum sees me drunk she will whip me
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A guy from Glasgow, prefers limerick to haiku,
but what is he to do?
His haiku are often crap,
but his limericks are also pap.
Here's hoping people don't sue.


To this Glasgowish gent I'm not lying
cause his limericks don't send me flying
but there's nothing amiss
and I will grant him this
Though not perfect, at least he is trying
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Worried. Tired. Tired of worrying. And too worried to rest.

And what, if I may ask, is it, that is worrying you so much?


A bevy of sadness.
I hope it doesn't last
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Ever have mulitple people have the same dream about you?

Nope, not that I now anyway. I think it would scare me to death, if it would happen though, specially if itwas a nightmare.

Did you ever have a dream that actually came true?
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I came back, behind your back
end of the line's where I feel fine
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Worried. Tired. Tired of worrying. And too worried to rest.

And what, if I may ask, is it, that is worrying you so much?
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I'm back!
I gave him almost two hours, I barely got half an hour. Poor old me.... sad
But hey, you've had just five minutes, poor you!
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What a great limerick,
It's so very slick,
But I wonder, Paulus,
Are you a walrus?
Here's an ice cream, take a lick!

You almost caught me this one time for real
Yet a walrus I'm not, that's the deal
but your icecream I ate
and it tasted real great
and to tell you the truth, I'm a seal
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Thank you for reading, commenting and voting on my limericks, Paul.

It's the nature of limericks to be naughty, often they're terribly ribald. I think it's part of the appeal.

Are they popular in Holland and does the Dutch language lend itself to constructing them?

They are pretty much unknown in French, which could just lead me to composing something limerickal.

It was entirely my pleasure. I think, the Dutch language lends itself excellently for any kind of poetry. But I'm biased, I am Dutch after all. As for limericks, there are hundreds, maybe even thousands of them in Dutch, most of them probably just as bad as the english ones.
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A charming young playboy from Mayfair
Made sweet love to his girl in a deckchair
But when the chair snapped
His youknowwhat got trapped
And the town thought he wrestled a black bear
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There's a guy from near Glasgow-something
Who can ramble about everything
but there goes nothing above
this circle's undying love
for an Aria he wants to sing
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