I enjoyed them all, but please be aware that you are not going to win with the overtly dirty ones. There's no way they are going to publish John's "fucking" limerick even if it's the funniest one they receive. Some of Brian's may be clean enough, but several are not. They all have a chance of being in the judge's blog (the Conversational), where she often posts entries that were too dirty to be in the paper. This isn't to say that suggestiveness is verboten, but you have to play it right. Potty humor is fine, but don't say "crap," for example. And dirtiness that takes a moment's thought to process, so it wouldn't be immediately understood by the typical 13-year old boy, can slip by.
It's a hard standard to apply. Brian's dentist limerick could possibly make it through, being very funny, not using any "bad" words, requiring a bit of thought to process, and being based on pun. (Puns are definitely smiled upon by the judge, though not at all essential). But then again, I wouldn't be surprised if it were deemed too dirty. It could be one of the winners that is posted only online but not run in the paper.
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