voice

[zen_en_vert]

[Bruce comes on the network rarely, but makes an exception on this particularly dark night. He considers, comes very close to asking is everyone out there holding up all right? They're living in interesting times. There's no shame in asking for help. They should all be taking care of themselves and each other.

He's a little maudlin tonight, to be perfectly honest. But he recognizes the tendency, and asks instead;]

Does your world have limericks? I've got a prize here for the best, another for the silliest, and another for the rudest. Let's have 'em, Asgard.

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[Video]

[madcuriosity]

I know limericks! I know a good deal of silly poems and limericks!

[Video]

[zen_en_vert]

Well, I'd certainly like to hear one.

[Video]

[madcuriosity]

Ah! Here are three!

The first one goes like this:
There once was a lady named Sue
Who had nothing whatever to do
And who did it so badly
I thought she would gladly
Have stopped before she was through.

Then the second one:
There once was a Thingamajig--
Like a Whatsis, but three times as big.
When it first came in view
It looked something like you
But it stayed and turned into a pig.

And this one is a bit mean, but this is the third one:
I once knew a word I forgot
That means, "I am sorry we met
And I wish you the same."
It sounds like your name
But I haven't remembered it yet.

I don't think the last one is very good. But my favorite is the second one. It's always fun to make up words!

[Video]

[okamichild]

What are limericks?

[Video]

[zen_en_vert]

There once was a farmer from Leeds,
Who swallowed six packets of seeds;
It soon came to pass
He was covered in grass,
And he couldn't sit down for the weeds.

video;

[neversurrender]

A silly young man from Clyde,
In a funeral procession was spied;
When asked, "Who is dead?"
He giggled and said,
"I don't know; I just came for the ride."

video;

[zen_en_vert]

Whether abstract, profound, or just mystic,
Or boring, or somewhat simplistic,
A theory must lead
To results that we need
In limits, nonrelativistic.

voice;

[writeswrongs]

There once was a young man named Rick,
and writing was clearly his schtick,
but he needed a muse,
so in order to choose
he instead became a Dick.

[Not particularly funny or bawdy but it is the story of his life over the past 6 years. And poetry is not really his thing anyway.]

voice;

[zen_en_vert]

Autobiographical limericking should be the subject of your next class.

voice;

[tonsofpun]

What, what's a limerick?

[This sounds relevant to her interests. Hopefully Bruce is willing to provide a small english lesson.]

Re: voice;

[zen_en_vert]

A kind of poem!

A wonderful bird is the pelican;
His beak can hold more than his belican.
He can hold in his beak
Enough food for a week,
Though I’m damned if I know how the helican!

voice

[grandsassmaster]

[Haytham cannot help but to be amused as he replies to this. Really, the entries one sees upon this network thing.]

A prize? And what prize would you have to give to the people, I wonder.

[He's not likely to participate. He's just curious.]

voice

[zen_en_vert]

I think that depends on the winner.

[brainsqueeze]

What are your prizes?

[zen_en_vert]

As of yet to be determined.

[Video]

[comeonthensexy]

[ Oh boy limericks. ]

There once was a cowboy whose horse,
Had the power to leap with great force,
Into space she would jump,
Then the cowboy would slump,
As he died in the vacuum, of course.

[Video]

[zen_en_vert]

That's- simultaneously weirdly fanciful and scientifically accurate. I kind of like it.

[text]

[allpurposescarf]

[Oh now this is something worth a moment or three.]

A decrepit old gas man named Peter,
While hunting around for the meter,
Touched a leak with his light.
He arose out of sight,
And, as anyone can see by reading this, he also destroyed the meter.

[text]

[zen_en_vert]

The best ones are always slightly morbid, aren't they?

[ video ]

[thoughts]

[ ok pretend she says this in mandarin because i looked forever for translations and all i could find were really crude jokes about chinese folk which cries just go with it ok ilu hello ]

Archimedes, that well-known truth-seeker,
jumped out of his bath with “Eureka!”
He ran half a mile
wearing only a smile
and became the very first streaker.

[ video ]

[zen_en_vert]

Funny, I really believe that, actually. It sounds like most of the scientists I know.

video

[fire_punk]

[Kevin's giggling as he answers. He listened to all the answers first and now he can barely stop laughing enough to actually say anything.]

I don't know any poems. But those are really cool.

video

[zen_en_vert]

Think you could make one up? They're pretty straight forwards.

WOW I AM THE LATEST WHO EVER DID LATE

[redhourglass]

Limericks, Banner?

( she looks .. amused, at the very least. )

no problemo! Better late than never.

[zen_en_vert]

So I've got a soft spot.