I’ve written some pretty dreadful limericks over the years, but this one is okay, I believe. According to Wikipedia, a pure limerick is defined by its AABBA rhyming scheme and by a bawdy nature. I must say I can’t remember producing an off-color limerick; remember, Arlo & Janis is a newspaper comic, after all. However, that’s why I have you people! I can rely on you to give almost anything a bawdy spin.
66 responses to “Food for Thought”
Jimmy,
It’s Tax day! (excuse the extension) my state extended the filing date but NOT for paying estimated payments.
The limerick packs laughs anatomical,
Into a space really quit economical.
But the good ones I’ve seen,
So seldom are clean.
And the clean ones are seldom comical.
The limerick form is complex,
Its topics run chiefly to sex.
It burgeons with virgins,
And masculine urgens,
And sundry erotic effects.
“However, that’s why I have you people! I can rely on you to give almost anything a bawdy spin.”
I’m sorry, Mr. Johnson, but you must have us confused with some other group of people. 😀
Just to be annoying, there are 9 syllables in the first and third “A” section, but 10 in the second. 🙂
Limericks don’t have to be bawdy. Take a look at OEDILF.com — The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form.
“Who me?”- Alfred E. Newman
Isaac Asimov, was a brilliant essayist ad science fiction God, was most proud of his bawdy limericks. He published at least five volumes of them.
No, me- Jackie Monies
Is anyone else still experiencing name switching here?
It happens on my phone and both tablets now.. Random no patterns.
(This is reallyJackie)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYb_nqU_43w
Bet this will ring a bell with Jimmy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MED3EFeFJ5U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAL9W3rNdvo
See if you can work this one out:–
There was a young curate of Salisbury
Whose antics were quite halisbury-scalisbury:
He’d walk around Hampshire
Without any pampshire
Till his Bishop said he must walisbury.
(If you have trouble, ask an English person.)
And one of my own, beautifully illustrated:–
http://gsidlethoughts.blogspot.com/
And one of my own, artfully illustrated:–
http://gsidlethoughts.blogspot.com/
If I hit post comment and I don’t see my post show up, I just wait. It eventually appears.
At my age (same as Jimmy’s) I ought to have more patience, Kerry!
Jimmy, thank you for todays Small Touches. I totally concur.
Love, Jackie Monies
JAckie, I wholeheartedly agree. An instant classic A&J.
Steve Parks, thanks for the linnericks!
Jackie (who instantly changed to Kerry?)
It looks good on you. -Kerry
You’re welcome, Kerry (and/or Jackie). I’m afraid there’s a lot more nonsense where those came from 🙂
JJ- It seems the more risque the strip – the more positive the comments
I erased Kerry but here I am back as Kerry! I will erease again, I do!
Read the linmerick jokes and poems about 4.30 a.m. and went back to sleep. GUESS what I was doing in my sleep? Writing limmericks!
All I remember started ^There was an old lady in Eufaula”. I have no idea what rhymed, it is prounounced U-Fa-La like in Christmas song chorus Fa-La-La.
Jackie Monies
The lady from Eufala may have been named Paula. As the years passed, instead of growing, she got smaula!
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I leave the exact words & meter to you.
Ref the 4-16-21 real-time cartoon: Yeah well, I do that all the time, and all I get is my hand slapped. What’s wrong with all those women I run into on the street, anyway? 😀
I think today’s cartoon about Small Touches should be made into a poster and posted in the offices of Marriage Counselors. Hey Jimmy – another revenue stream!
The next time he does t-shirts, that should be on one!
Today’s strip touched home. That’s how my late wife and I made a high school sweethearts marriage last 5 kids and 58 years.
Pound for pound, terriers seem to be scarier than bears?
https://www.ksl.com/article/50148239/have-you-seen-this-more-bearpocalypse-warnings-and-im-not-even-sorry
TruckerRon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2RXVHCCces
Ref the 4-17-21 real-time cartoon: There’s an app for that!?!? What is it…”iWetNakedAndThirsty”?
By the way, the name of my next rock band will be Wet Naked & Thirsty.
“Listen, my children and you shall hear / Of the midnight ride … .” Not sure any Villagers hale from MA, where tomorrow, the 18th of April, is celebrated, but happy Patriots Day anyway. Peace,
Lord have metcy, Trucker Ron is back! (Jackie haunted)
Bwa-ha-ha!
I never left.
😉
Trucker you came back AGAIN after I erased you and I left it but just now you were gone. Empty space.
Spooky.
I’ve noticed a something strange on the gocomics page. I start reading my comics but some of them don’t open to the current date. It shows yesterday’s date and strip. I find it very annoying. Sometimes when I open the comic it starts at a week ago Tuesday. I read them everyday.
Kerry, Happens to me, too. If there is indeed a current strip, usually clicking the R-pointing arrow below yesterday’s strip will take you to today’s strip. Peace,
But annoying – I would think they/it(?) would be updated by 11 at night. Then just after midnight CDT (or standard when appropriate)
it goes to the current date- so now you have to go back. 🙁
I am Old Bear today –
https://www.youtube.com/embed/KXatvzWAzLU?fbclid=IwAR0c4Wq0o7px9BVgZOm7-Ef9wiTbO0PgGDojhJZ_uccFdYgf_ZXYBma_Nos A little music for Sunday.
Just how ridiculously stupid is a sheep anyway?
https://www.ksl.com/article/50149057/have-you-seen-this-rescued-sheep-needs-a-little-more-rescuing-than-planned
Trucker, Very stupid, like falcons. There is a long dead egg in a CA nest ledge, which peregrines intermittently incubate. As long as that egg is there, no other falcons can use the site. Lovely, inaccessible ledge. The CA DNR should send a drone in, to roll the egg out.
There are still cranes aloft in NE, though I think most have migrated N & NW. Peace,
https://explore.org/livecams/birds/crane-camera
Some of those cranes circled back to spend another night in NE. Here’s a single crane in the Miss. R. in SE MN. Peace,
https://explore.org/livecams/birds/mississippi-river-flyway-cam
Emb I have been to see the cranes as they migrate. They cover the river like an island. I have seen them in the wild in Texas and in Florida. I am unsure if they are in Louisiana in the wetlands but I think they are. We used to go see the migrating birds there as well.
Re 4/19/21 real-time cartoon: Midnight Snack Leftovers Raid…the bane of weight watchers everywhere.
For heaven’s sake! Trucker Ron is back again in my tablet! I use my phone and two tablets. He has been in and out of ALL of them!
I am losing weight on the Ghostly food plan and an hour or two of bed bound exercise executed alone. It’s how I lost half my body weight six years ago before cancer. It got my diabetic disease controlled before cancer and steroids. I am controlled again with a 6.2 A1C.
Despite this I have appointments with a diabetic dietician and the diabetic weight loss program at my heart center and wellness center. We are NOT doing this the right way.
Arlo eating smaller amounts is right way but probably not ribs and beef.
Love Jackie Monies
I never thought I’d be replying to myself…
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Ribs and beef don’t directly raise your glucose levels, of course, but the sauces sure can pack a wallop!
Rhinos nr S Afr lodge. Will read stuff above later.
https://explore.org/livecams/african-wildlife/nkorho-bush-lodge
Mechanical issues led to this moment:
https://www.ksl.com/article/50149705/have-you-seen-this-torpedo-bomber-invades-florida-beach
Ghost and I went out for pizza tonight, the first time I have WALKED in anywhere since Thanksgiving. I used my stationary walker and walked about 50 feet into the restaurant. My physical therapy limit is 50 feet and we pushed it.
Ghost forgot her $10.99 vegetarian pizza are huge, so he ordered two! We brought home two large halves for another meal this week. And I am stuffed.
My broken leg is doing amazingly but the unbroken one hurts so badly. I can’t trust it at all.
About the current wine strip. Long long ago zi used to stand in grocery aisles and wine shops giving away free glasses of wine to any shopper I could interest in drinking one. Janis would have enjoyed shopping like that.
Unfortunately that was an act of love and unpaid but I loved doing it. I love wine and loved turning others onto drinking wine. Unfortunately I can’t drink wine now but if things go wrong I think I would go back to drinking soda pop wines in the bath tub like Janis does.
No one drinks noble vintages in the tub.
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