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02-05-2009, 04:52 AM
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Darwinian Limericks
Here's the latest from the Speccie. I know you'll buckle down.
No. 2584: Rhyme and reason
You are invited to clamber aboard the Darwin bandwagon and submit a limerick to mark the bicentenary of the naturalist’s birth (maximum three entries each). Entries to ‘Competition 2584’ by 19 February or email lucy@spectator.co.uk.
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02-05-2009, 07:02 AM
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Thanks, John. I've got a doozie for her.
Cathy
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02-05-2009, 11:31 AM
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I will ship this:
There once was a ship called the Beagle,
And a sailor who took on an eagle,
And a finch and a tortoise
By which he would sort us
So that not buying-in is illegal.
Last edited by Rick Mullin; 02-05-2009 at 01:46 PM.
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02-05-2009, 11:35 PM
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When Darwin announced that we come
from slime via primates, the thrum
****of episcopal snarls
****was great, but our Charles
just showed his opposable thumb.
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02-06-2009, 12:56 AM
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The [In]De[s]cent of Men
Like testicles, we have descended
From apes, though we've never pretended
To be better than they:
Scratch our balls night and day,
Belch and fart, and have bellies distended.
Last edited by Philip Quinlan; 02-06-2009 at 01:29 AM.
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02-06-2009, 01:31 AM
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The Monkey at Kew
The monkey that lived in a zoo
said now I'll be welcome at Kew--
as I'm pleased to discover
the keeper's my brother,
and an old, old Book writ anew.
Last edited by Jim Hayes; 02-06-2009 at 03:25 PM.
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02-09-2009, 10:28 AM
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John,
Well, I've got a number of them but I'm still working on which to send. What do you think the Speccie's preferences run to re: lewd, filthy, risque, or....not?
If you don't mind my asking. Naturally only one of mine is filthy. The others are merely suggestive.
Molte grazie!
Terese
PS It may be unfair to ask questions whose answers are known only to the cognoscenti, so never mind...
Last edited by Terese Coe; 02-09-2009 at 10:56 AM.
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02-09-2009, 11:14 AM
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Send the dirty ones Terese.
Snigger, snigger..
(That'll be one less to worry about)
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02-09-2009, 11:18 AM
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I think I would avoid the filth - at least in Spectator Competitions. But I hope you'll share it with us. Please go and look at the Conquest limerick I put .. hell I've forgotten where I put it. It goes like this. Actually there are two. I would judge them too filthy for the Speccie. But not for us. And quite masterly.
AT THE ZOO
There was plenty of good-natured chaff
When I popped in to fuck the giraffe,
And the PRZS
Could hardly suppress
A dry professorial laugh.
When I came back to roger the gnu
I was scarcely delayed coming through,
and the staff - most polite -
cried, “please stay overnight”,
It’s a privilege granted to few.
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02-09-2009, 12:08 PM
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Deleted by poet.
Last edited by Martin Elster; 02-11-2009 at 06:27 PM.
Reason: italicized "that"
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