[John Whitworth]

Well, I don't know, Jerome - you write a limerick about shit and then you ask if it is clean enough. Do I smell some English IRONY here?

[Jerome Betts]

Ironic, moi? It has never entered my soul.

Voters greet you with Boo ! mixed with Yah ! ?
Change your accent, it's too la-di-da.
To avoid the 'posh' label
Use a plain desk or table
And get rid of that damned escritoire.

[Brian Allgar]

Ah, but John, as Roger pointed out, it's all in the words used. If Jerome had used the word 'shit', his entry would certainly be going down the toilet of history. But with luck, many readers will think that "Excreta" means someone who emigrated from Crete.

P.S. I like your first two - keep 'em coming!

[Brian Allgar]

Said Pat Myers, “Now who is this toff
Who fills with ‘excreta ’ his trough?
I’m willing to betcher he
Next writes of lechery ...
Bingo! So all Betts are off.”

[John Whitworth]

And here is my chaste muse.


My poetry's all Esperanto.
Pray listen! I'll give you a canto.
According to some
it's a pain in the bum,
But to me it's as good as a panto.