Limerick gimmerick
Current mood: Poetic(ish)
Current music: Ooh, a mystery jazz band is playing outside... How exciting!
I have decided that my special tribute for the winner of the 'Guess the Proverb!' quiz shall take the form of a limerick. I shall now present the prize in an appropriate manner.
...And the winner is... [Drum roll] ...Edsters! [Please applaud here]
I did an Ogden Nash there, by making up words in order to form rhymes. I'm not sure many words do rhyme with 'Edsters'. However, I have attempted a Version 2, which does not rhyme quite as well as Version 1, but at least it doesn't use blatantly invented words.
Pas mal, n'est-ce pas? Not exactly hilarious, but it is at least interestingly silly. Anyway, Edsters, we are all expecting a speech now, so here's your moment in the limelight! [Yours truly sidles offstage]
Current music: Ooh, a mystery jazz band is playing outside... How exciting!
I have decided that my special tribute for the winner of the 'Guess the Proverb!' quiz shall take the form of a limerick. I shall now present the prize in an appropriate manner.
...And the winner is... [Drum roll] ...Edsters! [Please applaud here]
A brilliant young man called Edsters
Could solve puzzles while dozing in bedsters.
From erudite verse
To physics, or worse -
He'd work them all out in his headsters.
Could solve puzzles while dozing in bedsters.
From erudite verse
To physics, or worse -
He'd work them all out in his headsters.
I did an Ogden Nash there, by making up words in order to form rhymes. I'm not sure many words do rhyme with 'Edsters'. However, I have attempted a Version 2, which does not rhyme quite as well as Version 1, but at least it doesn't use blatantly invented words.
A talented wordsmith named Edsters
Knew every last entry in Webster's.
He's read OED*
Up to Volume Twenty,
And memorised 'aardvark' to 'zesters'.
Knew every last entry in Webster's.
He's read OED*
Up to Volume Twenty,
And memorised 'aardvark' to 'zesters'.
*The Oxford English Dictionary, the full version of which contains 20 volumes.
Pas mal, n'est-ce pas? Not exactly hilarious, but it is at least interestingly silly. Anyway, Edsters, we are all expecting a speech now, so here's your moment in the limelight! [Yours truly sidles offstage]
posted by Aureala @ 6:13 pm
PIPSOH!
2 Comments:
At Wednesday, November 23, 2005 7:59:00 pm,
Anonymous said…
Ahem, I'd just like to thank my dictionary for all its hard work and support over the years, and my thesaurus too, for just being there, even though I couldn't allow either of them to help me in the present competition. I'd also like to thank every English teacher I've ever had - you know who you are - also my family for all their encouragement, and finally my cat, for talking to me in all those difficult moments when words were simply too much. I owe this prize to all of them, just as much as to my own brilliance (ahem).
I now feel moved to verse myself, so I thought I'd try a limerick of my own:
There was a lady named Aureala,
Who wrote lim'ricks as she sat in the parlour,
She knew how to rhyme,
Was never lost for a line,
And there were none in the land could surpass 'er!
I hope I may be allowed to take some liberties with rhymes, as Aureala isn't much easier to find rhymes for than Edsters. Also I'm not sure if Aureala has a room she'd really refer to as 'the parlour'. Well, I tried.
At Thursday, November 24, 2005 5:59:00 pm,
Aureala said…
[Wild applause] Bravo! As brilliant and luminary a speech as e'er I came across. And those Hollywood folks hardly ever bother with poetry, so well done!
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