[Nigel Mace]

Under ground he loved watching Big Fred,
Who to country and warfare was wed;
Not having an I-Max
When it came to the climax
He just died on Braun’s marital bed.

[Roger Slater]

For purposes of entering the Washington Post contest, I would definitely anticipate that Pat (the judge) would strongly prefer a new rhyme for the final line, though she would make an exception if the overall effect was extra funny.

[Roger Slater]

And do enter the contest, people. I'm pretty familiar with it, and I confidently predict that some of these limericks would be printed in over 700,000 newspapers and chuckled over in thousands of homes over the Sunday breakfast table. Plus, you could win a coffee mug, grocery bag, or bobble-headed Abraham Lincoln.

[Marion Shore]

Bob, how many can you enter? You probably posted it somewhere before, but could you give the link?

[Roger Slater]

Twenty-five. I posted the link above.

Here it is again.

My sense is that the more popular and well-known the movie, the better your chances, and that some of the more obscure and arty films people have done so expertly here will have a harder time winning. But since you get to send up to 25, you might as well send them all. You also won't win if you use the word "crap". Also, don't send them anything that's been published.

Remember as well that the contest isn't limited to movies. Books and plays and tv shows are also fair game. And it looks like it needn't be a plot summary, just something "about" movie or play or book or tv show.

Those of you who Facebook can also look at the group called Style Invitational Devotees, where some of the regulars make inane banter and the editor, Pat Meyers, often posts as well.

We had something like five or six Sphericals in the last contest results, but the invasion is not yet complete. Let's take over the joint.

[Marion Shore]

With a bum rap poor Andy gets hit
for a murder he didn't commit.
He breaks out of the joint,
but to get to that point,
he has to go through lots of shit.

[Roger Slater]

Marion, the Washington Post won't print an entry with "shit" in it, though it could possibly end up in the blog.

[Marion Shore]

With a bum rap poor Andy gets hit
for a murder he didn't commit.
He breaks out of the joint,
but to get to that point,
he has to go through lots of sewage.

Could I do it like this?

[Marion Shore]

Here's the latest in my King sequence.

Poor Louis should have been more wary
when he moved near that old sematary,
for the dead that are lain there
aren't apt to remain there,
and--well, the rest's just too scary!

[Roger Slater]

Originally Posted by Marion Shore

With a bum rap poor Andy gets hit
for a murder he didn't commit.
He breaks out of the joint,
but to get to that point,
he has to go through lots of sewage.

Could I do it like this?

Yes, a limeroid might fly. As a general rule, you can be dirtier if you make the reader have to figure out it's dirty, but not if you just put it out there. We were told onc on Facebook that the top guy at the Post once said we can never use the word "crap," which would eliminate your Sound of Music limericks, though I seem to recall that a "crap" once slipped by even still, so who knows? Your most likely winner so far, in my opinion, is your Sixth Sense, even though I'm guessing she'll get more than one submission on that movie.