Limerick

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Or:

"Except when it's Suzy;
But one shouldn't be choosey

Da dah-di-di dah-di-di dee"

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Or

"If not for Tom Service
Whoalwaysputsfartoomanywordsintoasinglesentencenot tomentionparenthesesandasideswhichdon'treallyaddan ythingbutmorewordsandit'salldashedoffatfartoofasta speedsoyouforgetwhathesaidatthebeginningofasentenc ebythetimehereachestheendofit

Da dah-di-di dah-di-di dee"

[Serial_Apologist]

A local limerick:

There was a young fellow from Anerley
Whost behaviour was gross and unmannerly;
When asked to explain
His answer was plain:
"Just put it all down to me famerlee"!

[Sir Velo]

There was a young lady called Dinah
Who had sex everywhere with a miner
They made love on the stairs
Canoodled on the table and chairs
Then ended up breaking the bone china.

[Sir Velo]

There was an old woman called Theresa
For whose speech her pals loved to tease her
As she Croaked and She Coughed
They all Loved to Scoff
Now She's an Ex Party Leader

[Pulcinella]

Trying to think of a fifth line for

I so love to tune in to Three
It's the station of choice, don't you see?
(Except when it's Katie
Who's really too "matey"
And makes me change to CD [s] )

And makes me prefer a CD?

[jean]

A local limerick:

There was a young fellow from Anerley
Whost behaviour was gross and unmannerly;
When asked to explain
His answer was plain:
"Just put it all down to me famerlee"!

That one scans all right (unlike Sir Velo's lamentable efforts) but it doesn't rhyme!

[Bryn]

That one scans all right (unlike Sir Velo's lamentable efforts) but it doesn't rhyme!

Nowt wrong with a touch of assonance in a Limerick.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

And makes me prefer a CD?

<dang!> That'll do me!

[Sir Velo]

One for jean:

There was an old woman from Kew
Was so poor she lived in a shoe
To make ends meet
She boiled her own feet
You could say she's in a bit of a stew.

[cloughie]

That one scans all right (unlike Sir Velo's lamentable efforts) but it doesn't rhyme!

I agree jean, I hate nearly rhymes.

[Ferretfancy]

I prefer Clerihews, although I'm not much good at inventing them :-

Das Lied von der Erde
Is absolute murder
I don't give a fig,
But why end in earwig?

[Richard Barrett]

I agree jean, I hate nearly rhymes.

Yes but the nearly rhyme is often the funniest bit, as in

The grip of a vice most unsavoury
held the Bishop of Bath in its slavery.
To ear-splitting howls
he would b****r young owls
which he kept in an underground aviary.

That may not be the most appropriate example but it's the one that came to mind.

[Nick Armstrong]

You could say she's in a bit of a stew.

Nooooo!

[Padraig]

Yes but the nearly rhyme is often the funniest bit, as in

The grip of a vice most unsavoury
held the Bishop of Bath in its slavery.
To ear-splitting howls
he would b****r young owls
which he kept in an underground aviary.

That may not be the most appropriate example but it's the one that came to mind.

First class rhymes, Richard imo.

A composer known as Barrett
Listened alone in his garret
Radio Three was just fine
But not all of the time
'Twas the short wave that gave him his starret.