A Limerick is a rhyming poem.  The rhyme follows a pattern of AABBA.  In other words, the first two line rhyme, the third and four rhyme and the fifth rhyme with the first two lines, e.g.,

A mouse in her room woke Miss Doud
She saw it and screamed very loud
Then a happy thought struck her
"I'll scare off that critter"
And she sat up in bed and meowed

i concur

in fact, chris.....prove him right with the limerick from your profile

heheheh

oh well...

He claimed that her bust was the best,
Big things that sprouted from her chest,
Something you could shed,
Or thats what she said,
Of the blow-up deflatable breasts


now, to affirm my first comment.

Hmm, I just had to click on this thread...

sigh.

terrible....just terrible

The downfall of society, in humorous rhyming form. It'd be tragic if it weren't so funny.

Shaman,

Pushing the envelope, I see.  I expected nothing less.

I give you an A minus for "envelope pushing" (I'm sure you could do better).

I give you an A+ for being the first to try and push the envelope.

I give you a double A+ for NOT using "Nantucket" or "Peru" in your limerick.

Sadly, tho.  I give you a D for structure.  'best' and 'chest' - good.  'shed' and 'said' - also good.  However, final line, you blew it.  'breasts' does not rhyme with 'best' or 'chest'.  So, sad.  We were all rooting for you.    ;)

Freak:

So very sorry.  Great comment.  Great insight.  However, no where near the correct aabba Limerick form.  Regrettably you will not graduate from high school.  Please, repeat after me, "Would you like fries with that?" 

Society it is downfalling,
in a humorous form of rhyming,
It is tragic, not sunny,
tho it is quite funny,
this line is tossed in as an ending.

Don

Ok, Don was the teacher who owned that brand new Lexus I wanted to back into in the school parking lot before I thought better of it....and decided just to fling rotten eggs instead.

LOL. ;)

Would you like fries with that? You can supersize for a dollar.

I'll give this type a shot

Hmm look at all these clowns
I sometimes wish they'd just drown
It started back in 1930
I got shot, fell and my face got dirty
Oh Christina baby let's get dirrty

Yep the king of horriblility (If that's not a word it is now)

. Wesley, Lets compare it to rap and it looks great.

nobody here likes my rhyming
so they can't blame me for trying
here is a clean one
i did just for fun
so you all can go admiring


heh

Shaman!  You have redeemed yourself!  A, double plus!

Wesley!  Great start!  Great middle!  You blew it at the end.  Remember the rhyme scheme here is
A
A
B
B
A

So, lines 1 and 2 and 5 need to rhyme.  lines 3 and 4 rhyme.

So, overall a C+- on the limerick.  A+ and a half for inventing a new word "horribility".  I am sure I will find use for it on Monday.  I have to sit through several presentations.  Let me practice, "Ahem.  You have several great insights.  Many of them are quite practicable assuming the basic laws of phyisics are ignorned.  However, the chances of a reversal of gravity are so slim, that on a horribility scale I'd have to give this a 10 out of 10."

Freak,

Quoted Text Would you like fries with that? You can supersize for a dollar.

I laughed so hard, milk squirted out of my nose.  I hope that you can appreciate my sense of humor when I'm working for you ten years from now.

Don

You think you are great
when all you are is full of hate
you leave kids at home crying
while drugs you're out buying
one day you came home and i could sense the rape

It's a true story, happened to a friend

Wesley:

You are cooking on limericks.  A, double plus.

Funny, I spent the day working in the garden.  I tried to think up a garden limerick.  After a day of turning soil, the best I came up with was one couplet.

Little worms, you wiggle and toil
burrowing your way through the soil.

Don

Don't worry, I won't make you wear the funny paper hat.

Quoted from R.E._Freak, posted March 29th, 2004, 12:00pm at here Don't worry, I won't make you wear the funny paper hat.

Thanks,  I appreciate it.  I look stupid in funny paper hats.  I look stupid in serious paper hats, also. 

Don

Quoted from Heretic, posted March 29th, 2004, 6:25pm at here There once was a farmer named Dock...

A plus for effort.  A plus for rhyming, A plus for imagination.  A plus for lack of innuendo.  F for motivation.  Why did Dock kill his cock?  Why, if Dock is a farmer anything worth his salt, would he want to eat his cock.  Most farmers would agree cocks are for breeding (and waking you up) and the hens are for eating.  Also, since generally, there is one cock to a coup, why did Dock kill his only cock?  What is this doing to his egg business?  This simply raised more questions than it answered.  Oh, wait.  This is a limerick.  It isn't suppose to, like actually make sense. 

Nevermind.

Good limerick.  Edge of envelope pushed. 

Don

hahahhahaahhah!
cleverness abounds.....and i feel like laughing.
personally, don, when we had cocks, we always ate them......er....
cause we just wanted the hens for laying eggs, not reproducing...depends on the farmer.  but up here, we eat cocks like whenever we see one....er....hmmm

neways....

She left her lingerie at his house
Clothes the color of a mouse
She went back to get them,
Found something quite femme,
and said 'this isn't my blouse!'



roughness...but then, what rhymes with 'them'?

Great.  The only farm boy on the site and he reads my post...

Ok, ok, I know nothing about cock. 

Okay!  Off to Cinquains...

Don

Stop! I can't handle this! Too funny!  ;D ;D ;D ;D

When I seen it I thought cock meant just what I thought but it means chickens or whatever they are? That's good

double meaning....i salute you

hahahahahahhahhhahaah!

hmmm, is laughing a single word?  cause that could be conceived as a single word, eligible for execution by Don....

so to make it worthwhile....

I love to look at people
They look like very nice people
They frown, they smile
They work, they pile
But in the end are just people

not really worth it, actually

This meat has a wierd name
And the paper plate is lame.
It has a lot of fat,
I hope it's not a cat.
Or I'll set you aflame.

I hadn't read this thread in awhile.  I'm doubled over in stitches!  ;D