Hadn't seen this one before but I saw this in a book:
There once was a man from Peru,
Whose limericks stopped at line two
and then later in the same book they had
There once was a man from Verdun
I figured that was a double layer of extrapolation.
Also couldn't be bothered typing the rest on a phone.
-Those who understand binary
-those who don't
-those who didn't expect this to be in ternary?
There was once an unfortunate bard
Who found fashioning limericks hard.
He stopped at line three
There once was a bard from Japan
Whose limericks never would scan
When told this was so
He replied, 'Yes, I know"
"But I always try and fit as many words into the last line as I possibly can."
Reminds me of an oldie:
“Roses are red, Violets are blue. Some poems rhyme, This one don’t.”
I will occasionally go out of my way to put together birthday cards etc for friends and family rather than buy something off the rack. One year I made this for my cousin:
Roses are red
(Rose dot jpeg)
Violets are too
(Violet in red dot jpeg)
open
I ran out of cyan
Happy birthday
Yes these kinds of works works best when you sing them like bards would. Just reading them as is is not as good. Or you can sing them like tenacious d (they got the bard style going on)
My favourite language joke:
What's the difference between a cat and a comma?
One's got claws at the end of its paws, the other's a pause at the end of a clause
*fixed order
yeah doesn't even work with the classic joke format, in which the words switch places. I'm sure the joke should actually be:
one has claws at the end of its paws, one denotes a pause at the end of a clause.
... he traded the fifth for a whore
... the four is an Int I adore
... three third bits is all I afford
... the four is an Int I adore
So that's your stand on the square numbers vs fibonacci primes, I see
Not a limerick but I want to share my favorite pun joke
I once submitted ten puns to a pun contest, hoping one would win, but
No pun intended
I always thought that joke needs an actual pun in the first half so the "no pun intended" has a valid double meaning. I came up with:
I told the sad ghost ten puns to raise its spirits. No pun intendid.
whose limericks stopped at line four
Bad rhythm. Should be “whose limericks would stop at line four”
That depends on whether you treat "limericks" as a trochee (long-short, i.e. "lim-ricks") or a dactyl (long-short-short, i.e. "lim-er-icks").
Egerlach, they once called this bard
Who'd school any with whom he did spar
Whether trochee or dactyl
word choice was impec'ble
master of prosody, unflappable.
My bandwidth is crappy through Tor.
OR
Too much exposition's a bore.
OR
Though a quatrain's a ditty,
My pay's itty bitty.
If you cut prose apart, so as to make more,
Perhaps, one day, I'll afford my lost oar.
eh 7-10 in lines 1, 2, and 5. cold have been more consistent but its not like its a haiku. kind of ruins the joke to write a last line anyway
There once was a mute man from spain
Who loved traveling on planes
When ask what he thought
Of the brand new concord
He said
