[Terese Coe]

LOL! I'm not surprised one iota at your answer[s], John. The Speccie no doubt abjures speaking about doing the nasty...in so many words.

How can I share them here before they get rejected? No, that would never do. Tell you what--I'll email them to you if you'll promise to give me some idea what you think of their chances. Quid pro quo, deal? But no sending them around to anyone else! One has to protect one's assets, and mine are few and all too elusive.

Email coming soon.

T.

Originally Posted by John Whitworth

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.

[Philip Quinlan]

Martin

Remember the genes are selfish. Richard Dawkins says so - so it must be true.

If your limericks outlive mine and/or get to reproduce they were simply fitter is all.

Nature doesn't make moral (or literary) judgements.

P

[Martin Elster]

Originally Posted by Philip Quinlan

Martin

Remember the genes are selfish. Richard Dawkins says so - so it must be true.

If your limericks outlive mine and/or get to reproduce they were simply fitter is all.

Nature doesn't make moral (or literary) judgements.

P

Here is an interesting quote:

"Selfish", when applied to genes, doesn't mean "selfish" at all. It means, instead, an extremely important quality for which there is no good word in the English language: "the quality of being copied by a Darwinian selection process." This is a complicated mouthful. There ought to be a better, shorter word—but "selfish" isn't it. —Andrew Brown

[John Whitworth]

Therese, My ear is open, like a hungry shark.

[Terese Coe]

Just wondering, John: does that mean you didn't get my email? I sent it yesterday & did not receive a failure notice (not from you or those idiotic Mailer-daemon twits).

T.

[John Whitworth]

No, Im afraid I didn't get it Terese. I'll look again.

[Martin Elster]

Deleted by poet.

[R. S. Gwynn]

Whilst strolling the deck of the Beagle
Charles Darwin called out to a sea-gull.
It lit on his hat
And discourteously shat,
An outcome he did not inveigle.

Darwin offered a pound or a dollar a
Rower but found not one follower.
"I will buy you all dinner if
You'll take me to Tenerife."
But the crew were put off by the cholera.

When he finally saw the Galapagos
Charles Darwin clicked beads on his abacus:
"I am making a tote
Of the species I'll note,
For now I am truly one happy cuss!"

[R. S. Gwynn]

Darwin's grandson could often be wordy,
But his grip on his niblick was sturdy.
He once asked, "Will a par win?"
"No, par will tie, Darwin."
So he promptly chipped in for a birdie.

http://www.golfblogger.com/index.php..._on_golf_book/

[Roger Slater]

A favorite remark of Charles Darwin's
was only the top superstar wins,
...and slackers like me
...with our beer and tv
will never be given the garlands.

For years this remark made me bitter,
but then I said, "Don't kid a kidder!
...Your theory's worth shit
...cause I may not be fit
but my parents were not any fitter!"