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
Kraft-Walker also ran limerick competitions to advertise Vegemite.
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
"And it's a limerick poem - a five-line poem - which I've written on a pen pot with three crayons in to represent the pastel that Lowry used."
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2022
Maybe she will try writing again, nothing too ambitious, a fun poem in the limerick mode.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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This Poe is a rum sort, pallid and pie-eyed and with a fondness for limericks.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2022
Keillor talks for nearly two hours straight in his warm, familiar baritone, reciting limericks and poetry, reminiscing about growing up in Minnesota in the 1950s, about the joys and pitfalls of his advancing mortality.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 19, 2021
This year we did limericks that feature words and names beginning “he-.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 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
"Well Matilda, I would very much like to hear one of these limericks you say you have written. Could you try to remember one for us?"
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
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