sharon@wdl1.UUCP (01/24/85)
Limericks Wanted by Lady in Palo Alto, Calif. 1/23/85 I am collecting limericks to use as toasts. If you have any to share, please post them as responses to this query. The only three that I know follow. (P.S. You may have already received this request. Our system wasn't sending requests out properly several weeks ago when I posted my original query..Thank you.) THE FOUR HINGES OF FRIENSHIP Friendship hinges around these four attributes: LYING, STEALING, SWEARING, AND DRINKING Use them as follows: When you lie, you lie for a pretty women When you steal, you steal away from bad company When you swear, swear by your country But when you drink, you drink with friends. ANOTHER LIMERICK Here's to you as good as you are Here's to me as bad as I am But as good as you are and as bad as I am I'm as good as you are as bad as I am AN OLDIE, BUT A GOODIE Here's to you and here's to me And may we never disagree But if we do, then to heck with you And here's to me.
jans@mako.UUCP (Jan Steinman) (01/25/85)
In article <218@wdl1.UUCP> sharon@wdl1.UUCP writes: > I am collecting limericks to use as toasts... The only three that I know > follow. But none of the examples were limericks! The term "limerick" describes a meter, or pattern of stress (Is it trochaic? It's been a long time since I studied poetry.) characterized by a single stressed sylable followed by two unstressed sylables. The entire limerick consists of five lines -- the first, second and last lines have three of these patterns, the third and fourth have one or two. It's easier to demonstrate than describe: There once was a lady from Wight, Who's speed was much faster than light, She set out one day, (In a relative way) And returned on the preceding night. Limerick meter is often bastardized to emphasize the typically humorous content, but the lilting, galloping rythm is always there: There once was a poet named Jan, Who's lines nobody could scan, They asked him why, He said, "Because I Like to put as many words in the last line as I possibly can!" -- :::::: Jan Steinman Box 1000, MS 61-161 (w)503/685-2843 :::::: :::::: tektronix!tekecs!jans Wilsonville, OR 97070 (h)503/657-7703 ::::::