Download or read book Nin S Limericks written by Ian Short and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is something fitting about linking the Savoy operas with limericks. Both are likely to appeal to people with a certain type of sense of humour. Why are the Savoy operas funny? Because they were written by a couple of geniuses who knew how to be funny never fall into the trap of assuming that Gilbert was the funny one. Gilbert himself discovered that his words didnt work half so well when set by other composers. Why are limericks funny? Thats a much more difficult question. Suffice it to say that, if The Lady of Shalot or the Mort d Arthur were written to a metre of 8,8,5,5,8, people would have roared their ribs out. The really surprising thing, given that Gilbert used every trick in the book to make his verses funny, is that in the whole canon I can only find one example of a limerick written by Gilbert (double limerick, shameless man)
Download or read book Tikklings Limericks for Grown Ups written by S. Davey and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-01-06 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What they're saying about S. Davey's Tikklings: Limericks for Grown-Ups? "Outrageously outrageous!" (U.S. Journal of Redundancy) "Goes great with pizza!" (Mozzarella Newsletter) " incredibly abstruse delightfuly arcane exquisitely naughty" (Lord Plushbottom, O.B.E., R.F.D., T.S.K.) "Gets our vote!" (Pawtucket Irrelevant Literature Committee) "Ours, too!" (Entire Kindergarten Class of P.S. 56) "Duh, ours, too " (Mouthbreathers Mutual Aid Society) "Frankly, didn't understand a damn word!" (T.S. Eliot) "Positively the greatest breakthrough on the contemporary scholarship scene bound to smash all traditions we've come to revere. An unmitigated global poetic bombshell!!!" (Inmate #2351, Lompoc House of Correction) "S. Davey should be shot!" (Anonymous)
Download or read book A Book of Limericks written by Edward Lear and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Book of Limericks by Edward Lear, first published in 1888, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Download or read book Something Sure Smells Around Here written by Brian P. Cleary and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Question: what do you get when you combine a poem and a joke? Answer: a limerick! These five-line rhyming poems are funny, silly, and sly. Award-winning author Brian P. Cleary explains how limericks work--and shows how these little poems can trigger big laughs. Something Sure Smells Around Here is packed with hilarious poems to make you chuckle and chortle. And when you've finished reading, you can try your hand at writing your own limericks!
Download or read book Line Lost Limericks written by Fred Woodward and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the INTRODUCTION. Charles Morris, in his English Dictionary, defines a limerick as "a verse consisting of five lines, of which the fifth is left blank, to be supplied by competitors. It must rhyme with the first two lines." The limerick is a form of verse which suits a very happy mood. Unfitted to the solitary, a good limerick must be laughed at and laughed over. The quip is in the final line and should be a brilliant bit of repartee or a witty turn of the original subject into an absurdity. The alert mind will be quick to perceive the possibilities, not only of temporary enjoyment but of real literary pleasure of a high order, as friends attempt and succeed in supplying suitable last lines for the following limericks. In the back of the book are printed the last lines of each limerick, but the guest who autographs the volume should supply an original line without referring to this index. When filled with the names of contributors of "lost" lines, the volume becomes an interesting and amusing autograph album, which may be doubly dear because of treasured memories. An evening of pleasure may be had by giving a "Limerick Party/' The hostess furnishes each guest with a sheet of paper on which has been copied a certain number of "Line Lost Limericks." The guests without assistance or conferring with one another supply a final line for each limerick. The slips are then signed, collected, and read aloud. If so desired, prizes may be given for the best sets of completed limericks. Further amusement may be obtained if the hostess then reads aloud the entire limerick including the last line as given in the index.
Download or read book Ravings of a Looney written by Sheryl Reardon and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of limericks is a collaboration of my thoughts, feelings and life experiences. There's also plenty of light-hearted humour which is relatable to everyday events in my world anyway. Everything is covered from fairy terrorists, bikies, drugs, work, family dysfunctions, prison, cats, roller derby, mental health and all things in between. So, if you want to delve into the mind of a lunatic then this book is the key. You might even find you have a little looney in your head too!
Download or read book Nin s Limericks written by Ian Short and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is something fitting about linking the Savoy operas with limericks. Both are likely to appeal to people with a certain type of sense of humour. Why are the Savoy operas funny? Because they were written by a couple of geniuses who knew how to be funny ... never fall into the trap of assuming that Gilbert was the funny one. Gilbert himself discovered that his words didn't work half so well when set by other composers. Why are limericks funny? That's a much more difficult question. Suffice it to say that, if The Lady of Shalot or the Mort d' Arthur were written to a metre of 8,8,5,5,8, people would have roared their ribs out. The really surprising thing, given that Gilbert used every trick in the book to make his verses funny, is that in the whole canon I can only find one example of a limerick written by Gilbert (double limerick, shameless man)
Download or read book Limericks For All Occasions written by Kenneth J. Lovell and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea for this book of limericks came about pretty much out of nowhere one day while lunching with several good "buddies." Thanks Carl, Ed, Richard, et al.! We all had reminiscences about life in general and our experiences growing up and in our work. I was surprised how often my memories came out in a rhyme. Throughout the course of writing these limericks, I found that many of them popped into my head at bedtime or upon rising in the morning. They cover all aspects of life, both humorous and words to live by. It is my hope that they will provide humor to some and inspiration to others. One note of caution, the first names used in my limericks are not meant to reflect upon any family member or acquaintance. I dedicate this book to my "big sister," Loma; my mother, who passed away in 1999, and several siblings (and cousin Garth) who, in one way or another, prompted me to publish this book.
Download or read book Tikklings written by S. Davey and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What they're saying about S. Davey's Tikklings: Limericks for Grown-Ups? "Outrageously outrageous!" (U.S. Journal of Redundancy) "Goes great with pizza!" (Mozzarella Newsletter) "...incredibly abstruse...delightfuly arcane...exquisitely naughty" (Lord Plushbottom, O.B.E., R.F.D., T.S.K.) "Gets our vote!" (Pawtucket Irrelevant Literature Committee) "Ours, too!" (Entire Kindergarten Class of P.S. 56) "Duh, ours, too..." (Mouthbreathers Mutual Aid Society) "Frankly, didn't understand a damn word!" (T.S. Eliot) "Positively the greatest breakthrough on the contemporary scholarship scene...bound to smash all traditions we've come to revere. An unmitigated global poetic bombshell!!!" (Inmate #2351, Lompoc House of Correction) "S. Davey should be shot!" (Anonymous)
Download or read book dirty little limericks written by M.K. Danaher and published by Running Press. This book was released on 2008-01-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get down and dirty with limericks that hold nothing back. After all, clean-cut fun just can't compare to a good roll in the mud (or the hay, in the case of these poems). This presents all the classic dirty ditties-including the man from Nantucket and the lady from Crewe (if you're new to limericks, just imagine what sort of words you can rhyme with these two Irish cities and you'll have a feel for where these lewd lines are heading)-along with some hilarious new friends from around the world. The rhyming fun includes a spectrum of clever obscenities, tawdry topics, and crazy collusions; it's poetry adults can finally enjoy. Since this wild form of verse began in Limerick, Ireland, there's enough Irish flair thrown in to make this edition a great read for St. Patrick's Day or any day, especially over a pint. “The limerick packs laughs anatomical Into space that is quite economical, But the good ones I've seen So seldom are clean, And the clean ones so seldom are comical.” -Anonymous
Download or read book A History of the World in 100 Limericks written by Mick Twister and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a young fellow named Mick Who's adapted the old limerick To cover, with mirth The whole history of Earth And what made its characters tick. These 100 lively and humorous limericks take us back to before beginning of time itself and the Big Bang to present day. Covering everyone's favourite history lessons (and a few surprising ones too!), Mick Twister has cleverly raided the tomes of the past, picked at the bones of the world's greatest figures, moments and events and condensed the most complex of human activities into short and hilarious poems to make you chuckle. From a geezer called Caesar to What a Load of Bankers (about the financial crisis), this is the funniest way to learn about the past. Henry VIII, Mary Wollstonecraft, Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, Alan Turing all get the limerick treatment along with important events such as the Boston Tea Party, the Abolition of Slavery, the Berlin Wall's Rise and Fall and the Arab Spring. Accompanied by amazing illustrations and witty remarks, you'll discover the history of the world... and laugh out loud as you do so. Who ever said that history was boring had clearly never read this book!
Download or read book The Lure of the Limerick written by William S. Baring-Gould and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 700 Limerick Lyrics written by Stanton Vaughn and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-02 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from 700 Limerick Lyrics: A Collection of Choice Humorous Versifications A writer in a western paper notes that this is the day of the limerick, and says of this popular form of nonsense verse that it possesses a jingling rhythm which haunts the memory long after the measured sonorousness of an epic or the lilting melody of a lyric have departed. The writer is evidently under the delusion that all nonsense verses are limericks. Now, we can't give a dictionary definition of a limerick, for the reason that the word, for some unaccountable reason, isn't given; but at least we know one when we see one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Little Limerick Book written by and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Is a Limerick written by Jonathan Bryant Dean and published by . This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Torch Carrier is a memoir of a young widower. Antonio who after losing his wife and high school sweetheart Cynthia to Breast Cancer, turns to his journal and nightly dreams about his wife to find solace in his newly transparent existence. When the B side to his new life as a widower (Single and Available) forces him to address this status it is Cynthia who helps guide him through his emotional awkwardness of starting over as he turns to pen and pad to secure a relationship with an old friend. It is this woman Nereida who possesses the qualities he prayed for, so Antonio tries to convince Nereida that they were meant to be. The problem? He's not ready for an intimate relationship, and Nereida has just become available. Antonio knows she won't be on the market whenever he does become ready, so he leaps forward hoping his instincts are right even if the rest of his life isn't. Through letters and poems he regains his identity as a person and man while juggling his pining emotions for his wife as he finds the balance in his heart and a new appreciation for love the second time around.
Download or read book There Was a Young Man from Nantucket written by Ronald Stanza and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here now is a steamy collection Of limericks rare. Each selection Will run for five lines, Contain marvelous rhymes— Detailing sex acts of subtle complexion. Some readers may think that it’s crude To offer for sale what is lewd But if you’re offended By what is appended, We’ll say what you are; you’re a prude! Ronald Stanza has put together a collection of outlandishly funny limericks about some of the most serious, offensive, and even dangerous predicaments. These unique scrubblings are better than any insipid piece of graffiti doodled on a bathroom stall. This book describes just about every awkwardly inappropriate situation that nobody ever thought of writing a poem about, from dabblings in spectrophilia to bestiality, and from ill-fated self-servicing to the (mis)adventures of very misguided clergymen. If you’re a lover of all things raunchy, crass, and base, you will laugh for hours at the likes of impotent Scots, naughty old Sapphos, old women of Ghent, Oscar McDingle O’Figgle, lecherous Northumbrian druids, and one old phony named Kinsey. WARNING: Not recommended for reading in churches, libraries, mixed company, or quiet family gatherings. Proceed with caution, weariness, and most of all, a sense of humor!
Download or read book Lure of the Limerick written by William S. Baring-Gould and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
