There once was a clue from Nantucket, this kind of humorous 5-line Irish verse (sorry, that's it)
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Five-Line Rhyme Time: A Limerick Contest | Sentence first  I'm sorry if that's a problem for some readers. ... It's no different in kind ... entry was posted on Monday, September 12th, 2011 at 11:19 am and is filed under humour, poetry, writing. .... September 12, 2011 at 5:00 pm ..... when asked for a clue ... There once was a phrase from Nantucket, .... And our Pres became Irish O'Bama.
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jeopardy/378_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  OH, "IC" | There once was a clue from Nantucket, this kind of humorous 5-line Irish verse (sorry, that's it) | limerick. right: Brice. Wrong: Value: $200. Number: 1.
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Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Focus of onomastics ...  Aug 14, 2016 ... So that's about the level at which this puzzle hit me, emotionally. .... Loren Muse Smith 5:40 AM .... I have seen "Futurama" more than once, LEELA was not quite there. ..... A slog ona Sunday with very little fun and a bunch of abstract clues. ..... I use KODIAK every day, not the kind that comes in a BARREL.
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LIMERICKS - Good, Clean, Fun from Brownielocks and The 3 Bears  Definition: Nonsensical verse of five lines. ... mocking life in today's world as the foundation for humor and entertainment. Limericks, particularly Irish ones, can also be a bit bawdy. ... "That park bench--well I Just painted it, right where you're sittin.'" 5. A canner, exceedingly canny, .... There once was a guy named Othello,
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LimerickMaker.com - The Place to Make Limericks  Contributions that do not have the correct meter or rhyme will be removed ... HINT: Fifth line should have 6, 7, 8, or 9 syllables and the last syllable should ... there once was a girl from dorset, who ought to have been wearing a corset, (Anon.) ...... that wonderful kind man named Greg, (Anon.) ..... for the Irish to stay alive, (chris).
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Expressions & Sayings (S)  The phrase is usually credited to Benjamin Franklin (1706-90), who was very ... Franklin wrote this epitaph in 1772: 'Here Skugg lies snug, as a bug in a rug'. .... To complete this transformation of a rustic expression into a nautical-sounding...
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from - Search-ID.com  ... target="_blank">Jimmy of the Clue Crew points to a blackboard.</a>) In Gaelic, "" means this, as in "Tha mi  glaschu"; it can mean the exact opposite in...
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James Joyce Finnegans Wake  (song): 'Still as the night, deep as the sea, should thy love be! ... nozze (it) - wedding + naughty + No, No, Nanette (musical comedy of 1920s). ... jeer - sneer + three cheers - three successive cheers in unison + (notebook 1924): '3 cheers for the ... the beverage, etc. brewed + Three Cheers for the Red, White and Blue (song).
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Five line humorous poem or an Irish county Crossword Clue ...  Find clues for Five-line-humorous-poem-or-an-Irish-county or most any crossword answer or clues for ... DONEGAL, Rough-textured fabric named after an Irish county, ... tweed ... IDYLL, Poem or prose work describing an idealized rural life (5).
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Snark (Lewis Carroll) - Wikipedia  The snark is a fictional animal species created by Lewis Carroll in his nonsense poem The ... According to Carroll, the initial inspiration to write the poem  which he called an agony in eight fits  was the final line, For the snark was a boojum, you see. Carroll was asked repeatedly to explain the snark. In all cases, his answer...
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Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson: Chapter 1  Authors: 267, Books: 3,607, Poems & Short Stories: 4,435, Forum Members: 71,154 ... the brown old seaman with the sabre cut first took up his lodging under our roof. ... and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards: ... in the high, old tottering voice that seemed to have been tuned and broken at...
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All About Irish Limericks - Irish and Celtic Jewelry  May 7, 2010 ... The classic, five-line Irish Limerick has endured through the ... In fact, early limericks were often used to entertain children at ... These short poems are believed to be named for the town where ... In limericks, the first line will tend to refer to a place or a person, with the location appearing at the very end of the...
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Why are limericks called so? - Answerlib  Is it anything to do with the place?,Answer:When poems ye do enjoy ... Limerick Ireland is famous for the doggerel poetry called limericks. ... A light humorous, nonsensical, or bawdy verse of five anapestic lines usually with ... limerick [limmrik], an English verse form consisting of five anapaestic lines rhyming aabba, the...
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From Port Us on Nets - Scribd  SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE BY ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING SICVT^^1 ^IL LILIVM ..... The kiss my mother left here when she died. ... While thine doth close above it. borne From year to year until I saw thy face. as a thing Which its own nature ... O my palm-tree. Rustle thy boughs and set thy trunk all bare.
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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce  and during mighty odd years this man of hod, cement and edi-: fices in .... in swimswamswum and all the livvy-: long night, the delldale dalppling night, the night .... This: is bode Belchum, bonnet to busby, breaking his secred word with a ... Drink a sip, drankasup, for he's: as sooner buy a guinness than he'd stale store stout.
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Notes and Queries  It occurs in his delightful poem, entitled "Erin," commencing: "When Erin first rose from ... Nor one feeling of vengeance presume to defile The cause, or the men, of the ... ISLE-in a party song, written without the rancor of party, in the year 1795. ... of the beam nearly through, and in the night the fox fell into a place whence he...
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A parody of a parody  I, Q.  Sep 20, 2012 ... The form and pressure of high thoughts will burst: ... Today's post, though, was occasioned by a couple of poems that I just read ... as the sonnet (so was Shakespeare); these are poems with 14 lines, ... Wordsworth wrote more than 500 of these in his lifetime. ... Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frown'd,
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James Joyce. The Dubliners  The Dubliners ... The old chap taught him a great deal, mind you; and they say he had a great wish for ..... The man who wrote it, I suppose, was some wretched fellow who writes ...... I feel a ton better since I landed again in dear dirty Dublin.
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Neil/Fred's Gigantic List of Palindromes  A dank, sad nap. .... No, it a cud eater, G. Guns 'n' robes, a base born snug. ..... a pin, a peek, a parabola, a dog, a pat, a cud, a nu, a fan, a pal, a rum, a nod, an...
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Humor in America | HA! Intelligent writing about humor and stuff  Five of the first seven Great Pumpkin strips reveal Linus Van Pelt spreading the joyful ... Laughter here is defensive: relief at seeing something so horrible happen to someone else. ... HEMPSTEAD, NYSaying he would probably introduce the falsehood in his .... I am convinced that the very concept induces anxiety.
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Limerick (poetry) - Wikipedia  A limerick is a form of poetry in five-line, predominantly anapestic meter with a strict rhyme scheme (AABBA), which is sometimes obscene with humorous intent. ... Exploitation of geographical names, especially exotic ones, is also common, and .... Jenni Nuttall  'Limericks (5-line verse)' file at Limerick City Library, Ireland...