1. The capital seat of Papeete,
A tropical town in Tahiti,
Finds its residents (daft)
Have perfected the craft
Of defacing the place with graffiti.

2. All the ladies you'll see in Tahiti
Cannot be described as "petitey".
For example, graffiti
On walls says my sweetie
Is mammothly, monstrously, meaty.

3. All the birds flying over the city,
Papeete, on isle of Tahiti,
Have eaten their fill
Of the garbage and swill,
So what falls on your head's always shitty.

4. A very sweet lad name of Petey
Got on a boat to Tahiti.
For he'd oft heard the word,
From a great talking bird,
All of the lads there are meaty!

5. While on a trip to Tahiti,
A fellow found love in Papetee.
He then went bora bora,
In a woman named Dora;
She gave him the clap, wiki-wiki!

6. I'm freezing and cold and so needy.
In my puffer I look very meaty.
On my toes and my fingers
The frost always lingers.
I'd die for a week in Tahiti!

7. My sweetie has gone to Tahiti.
I texted her this little Tweetie:
Do C Papeari
U will not be sorry
Musée Gauguin, X from Papeete

8. She heard my determined entreaty
As we lay on the beach in Tahiti
But the in spite of my pleas
She gave my hand a squeeze
And answered me, "Not just now, sweetie."

9. There was a slim girl of Tahiti,
A fan of the star Warren Beatty.
'No way,' said her friend,
'Will he like your tail-end.
He prefers them much more meaty.'

Question:
Please select your favorite (and don't get too bogged down in the technicalities). Good luck!

Choices:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.

 

I think there is a typo in Limerick 8, where in Line 3 "but the" should be "but then", but then at least two voters have read straight past it and read what they expected to see.

One must make allowances for Kalleh's typing abilities.

I too saw the error, and assumed it to be a typo.

BTW, Greg, are you boiling where you are? I heard from someone in NSW today who said it was 106F there. Ouch!

I thought they meant to delete the "the". It matches the same no. Of syllables that way.

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BTW, Greg, are you boiling where you are?

Not yet but it's coming. First day of the Australian Open Tennis in Melbourne today and the prediction is that it will be around or above 40 Celsius for the next 4 days. Can't imagine how the players are going to cope with those long 5 set matches they have in Grand Slams in that heat, but I guess they can console themselves with how much they get paid to do it, even if they have to withdraw 2nd or 3rd round with fatigue. I'm heading off to the beach for a week - hope the aircon in the place we are renting is good.

We missed yours, Greg!

As for #8 - funny thing. It was sent to me like that, but I questioned the writer about it. "The" was a mistake in L3 so I said I'd remove it. Then when I posted them, I forgot all about it. Sorry about that, limerick writer! If I change it now, the 5 votes will be deleted. So everyone, please delete (in your minds) "the" in L3 of #8.

#8 has won despite the error, so not to worry, Kalleh!

I was hit by debris, old and meaty,
When the sewage plant blew in Tahiti.
Children, husbands, and wives
Quickly ran for their lives
As the atmosphere filled with excreti.

I woulda voted for that!

So would I

Any more votes?

I tried, but it won't let me vote twice. Mayor Daley would be upset.

I'm good.

I guess voting for your favorite is different than creating some definition for a book (or limerick dictionary). For me, as far as voting, I make the adjustments in my head when I read. If I can glean the pronunciation that the author is using by rhyming it with the poem, it "works" for me. They don't have to make it rhyme to my local idiosyncrasies or dialect. Also, if I can see that they put in an extra "the" I just erase it in my reading. Same with pronouncing "Tahiti" in a way that rhymes with 'pity' and 'shitty'. I would normally pronounce it "ta-hee-ti", but I pronounce it "ta-hit-ee" when I read that poem.

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Same with pronouncing "Tahiti" in a way that rhymes with 'pity' and 'shitty'. I would normally pronounce it "ta-hee-ti", but I pronounce it "ta-hit-ee" when I read that poem.

Dialects vary considerably regionally and somewhere someone is probably pronouncing Tahiti that way. However, as I told Kalleh when I submitted it, I only used that pron (even though I think it wrong, too) to justify the L5 ending. In a more formal setting, it probably would be totally rejected, just as it was here since the voters fail to appreciate fine art.

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..... just as it was here since the voters fail to appreciate fine art.

Well, when dealing with limericks here, it is a fine balance between appreciating both fine art as well as "shitty" art all in one medium.

All great minds think in the same gutter.

Speaking of shitty, this person is my cousin! Really! http://www.whitepages.com/dir/...rolina/Wood/Lishitia

We have 6 votes, which isn't bad. I'll post the authors - and the winner - tomorrow. Tom, next time we want one from you, and you, too, Greg!

Okay - here are the authors. Guess who won? Robert Hale - even though I didn't correct his typo. Nice job, Bob!

1) Proof

2) Proof

3) Proof

4) Geoff

5) Geoff

6) Guess???? Me! Brrrr!

7) Bethree

8) Bob

9) arnie

Great game, and now I am handing it over to Bob.

So, Bob, where are we going next?

New game is up - any and all pronunciations permitted on this one