limerick
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Email your limerick and name to [email protected] by noon Monday, and if we get enough fun ones, we’ll publish a selection to carry us into spring.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
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
She donned a green dress, read a self-written limerick to U2 and invited the quartet onstage for an intimate toast of black velvets — Guinness mixed with champagne.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 4, 2022
"I insist upon hearing this limerick," Miss Honey said, smiling one of her rare smiles.
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
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
Olly: haikus are awful, they're just less fun limericks Madeline: You've been downgraded from heathen to heretic.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
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