Folklore: Dictionary in Limericks [14]

Subject: BS: Dictionary in Limericks
From: Snuffy
Date: 22 Feb 05 - 09:32 AM

OEDILF (The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form), is attempting to compile a complete English dictionary in which every definition is in the form of a Limerick. They appear to be getting towards the end of 'A' at the moment. Here's a sample

Random Limerick: analytical

If I were to wax analytical
On matters considered political,
My rhymes, always neat,
Would become obsolete,
Though they'd never cease being quite critical.

By Meg Beagle


Any Mudcat poets care to contribute?

WassaiL! V

Subject: RE: BS: Dictionary in Limericks
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 22 Feb 05 - 09:44 AM

Not particularly to contribute, but I don't know why they would call that limerick "a definition".

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Dictionary in Limericks
From: Amos
Date: 22 Feb 05 - 10:07 AM

Meg Beagle's creation, all shining
Shows the limerick's art is refining
Her rhymes are much neater,
As is scansion and meter
But the dang thing don't do much defining!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Dictionary in Limericks
From: Micca
Date: 22 Feb 05 - 12:02 PM

Defining analytical, is it skill or art
or breaking things down into each part
or is it just to say
as you pass on the way
its just cals from analighting a fart?

Subject: RE: BS: Dictionary in Limericks
From: Micca
Date: 22 Feb 05 - 12:06 PM

Dentopedology's neat
that every day we all meet
From the North to the south
its just opening the mouth
and then casually inserting your feet

Subject: RE: BS: Dictionary in Limericks
From: Amos
Date: 22 Feb 05 - 12:18 PM

A punster of fame is our Micca
Whose lady's a student of Wicca
But he brightens the gloom
And can clear a whole room
When he threatens to flick-a his Bic-a!

Subject: RE: BS: Dictionary in Limericks
From: Micca
Date: 22 Feb 05 - 12:40 PM

Our Amos the wind doesn't pass
He would not be so terribly crass
The sounds that you hear
Aren't something to fear
Theyre just Barky, sotto voce on Brass

Subject: RE: BS: Dictionary in Limericks
From: Amos
Date: 22 Feb 05 - 01:55 PM

Yon Patterson, London-bred dear-o,
Has led us astray with good cheer-o!
From "verobophile rhyming"
To "farts with poor timing"!
How ever did we end up here-o?

A

Subject: RE: BS: Dictionary in Limericks
From: GUEST,Mrr
Date: 22 Feb 05 - 03:29 PM

I am reminded of a supposed dictionary of sexual things called The Gentleman's Guide to something or other(perhaps the alphabet?), where the definitions were little poems or limericks. I wish I could remember some of them, I do recall that O was Onanism (which I had been pronouncing one-anism and thought that the crime was that there was only one of you there till I read this book...) - I am also reminded of Edward Gorey's limericks like They had come from the fugue to the stretto / When a bearded young man from the ghetto / Reached forwards and grabbed / Her tresses and stabbed / Her to death with a rusty stiletto.

Subject: RE: BS: Dictionary in Limericks
From: Snuffy
Date: 22 Feb 05 - 07:27 PM

I wonder how they'll define folk in a limerick

Subject: RE: BS: Dictionary in Limericks
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Feb 05 - 07:40 PM

Though tightly to 'trad' I am clinging,
Loud complaints through the halls now are ringing.
Modern changes to verse
Have made it all worse,
And now even horses are singing.

Subject: RE: BS: Dictionary in Limericks
From: Micca
Date: 23 Feb 05 - 06:48 AM

Said the bar stool know-all with a cough
"What is Folk, so I can stand and scoff"
I replied "smarty ass
ask each singer that pass
And they will tell you to folk off"

Definitions are varied and wide
from" Tam Linn" to " the Northern tide"
but Folkies don't care
what you call it, so there
It's that feeling it produces inside

Subject: RE: BS: Dictionary in Limericks
From: GUEST,Amos
Date: 23 Feb 05 - 12:16 PM

Yon Micca speaks sooth, sir, of course;
It's not something you easily force!
But the long standing joke
That defines, "What is folk"
Is "Something not done by a horse".