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limericks

Written by fellpony

28 June 2007

Completely flippant and NOT poetry but simple fun verse.

One of our local agricultural shows runs a show class for a local limerick from a given first line (Limerick 1).

The other one was the result of a challenge from a friend to rhyme the American Amish surname "Yoder."

1
There was a young lass of Long Marton
who kept half her socks in a carton.
She found that the rest
were best stuffed down her vest
for a silhouette like Dolly Parton.

2
A bibulous fellow named Yoder
Was learning to drive in a Skoda.
It ran out of derv
but its very strange swerve
was due to his whisky and soda.

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Written by Phil (6688 comments posted) 28th June 2007

Liked the second particularly. Nothing wrong with fun verse at all.

Phil

Written by stevetroster (1549 comments posted) 29th June 2007

I like the Dolly Parton one, but what a let down when you get a handful of socks!!
A scene from ‘Animal House’ springs to mind. I hope she washes the socks first.

The second one puts me in mind of a silly ditty that I penned myself (not suggesting for one minute that your one is silly).

A lad from Royal Leamington Spa
bought himself a flash new car.
He’d pull the birds, he knew for sure,
in his shiny silver Jaguar.

But one drunken evening
he drove it too fast,
now he sits by the fire in a porcelain jar.

Best wishes
Steve.

Yoder?
Written by Talisker (1326 comments posted) 29th June 2007

And here thinking was me it Yoda was it of whom spoke you

Not a Star Wars fan I, but the thought of the Jedi Master reduced to driving a Skoda smile made me.

Oli

Written by fellpony (1603 comments posted) 29th June 2007

I admit I did start wondering if I could work in the Jedi Master but with it being the same word when spoken it was deemed to be cheating!

Yoder is a common name in Amish communities in Ohio and Pennsylvania. One family in Mount Hope runs an excellent restaurant whose meat loaf and apple sauce, I can tell you, are delicious.

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