March 30, 2008, 15:42
KallehMy lovely wireless went out of commission just as I finished putting together this entire post. Grrrr!
Once again...
I received some wonderful limericks and would love to award first place to all of them. Here they are:
JerryWhen Noah lived in Highland Park
He was ordered to build a big ark
It protected some mammals
Like rats, mice, and camels,
And the somewhat illusive ardvaark.
In the suburbs around Highland Park
It is futile to hunt an
aardvark.
We know this at least:
It's an African beast
Not discovered by Lewis & Clark.
A
dentrologist from Highland Park
Made a most memorable remark:
"The dogwood, if you please,
Is unique among trees.
It's outstanding because of its bark."
LisztmanLOL. AFTER I wrote these, I worked my way back up the thread. And saw your top comment on potholes. I SWEAR I had no prior inkling!
No insult intended. I haven't been there. It looks pretty on the website. But I had fun:
Our relationship needed some spark,
So one night I said, "Just on a lark --
Show me something to try,
If Mom knew, she would die."
So he drove me to see Highland Park.
There's a website to plug Highland Park.
Entertainment and such after dark?
They must really need votes --
The first site link promotes
Filling potholes (a passing remark).
Bob HaleFirst up one just to stretch the rhyme a bit.
A said, driving through Highland Park,
When the weather had grown vile and dark
"I don't care where we are
I'm exchanging the car
For something more worthwhile, an ark!"
And two other slightly more ordinary ones.
A man who came from Highland Park
Always said he was "up for a lark"
He was known around town
As a bit of a clown
(Though more of a rogue, after dark.)
A man who came from Highland Park
Thought his sex-life was lacking a spark
"So you think that it's bad?"
Said his wife, "Just be glad,
I'm not moved to some caustic remark."
Richard EnglishThe hookers who used Highland Park
Would rarely be up with the lark.
Their common profession
Required some discretion -
With customers wanting the dark.
A lawyer from near Highland Park
Remarked to his articled clerk,
"You must charge them all twenty,
Though ten would be plenty,
Or they'll not think I'm some kind of shark."
In UK English the word "clerk" is pronounced "clark". An articled clerk is an apprentice in a professional firm in the UK and Commonwealth countries. The term is generally used in the accountancy and legal professions.
For my birthday I had Highland Park
(That's Scotch, I should maybe remark)
But just one month on
The bottle's all gone
And my cupboard's now lacking that spark.
WordmaticIt's a place, I've no doubt, Highland Park;
But it's also a Scotch, smooth, not stark.
An Orcadian wonder,
Whose soft flavors thunder
Their peaty-fog way to the mark.
bethree5A protective Dad in Highland Park
Warned his daughters: beware of the Snark!
Just at dusk does he wake
And creeps out of the lake
And his bite is much worse than his bark.
Well, I loved Jerry's aardvark one (the one with Lewis and Clark), and that gets first runner up. As usual, Bob's are clever, and his rhymes work beautifully for those of us in the U.S. Richard gets sex, lawyers and alcohol in his three...also very nice! Wordmatic's is deliciously descriptive, and she made me look up the
Orkney Islands. And I love bethree5's about Lake Michigan and the snark.
However, I just had to select Lisztman's pot hole one because he
actually wrote it before he had seen the link. Now, that's practically ESP! Congrats, Lisztman, and you're up next.
Great limericks, Wordcrafters! (Hopefully this Post Now will work!)
March 31, 2008, 10:24
KallehOh, I forgot this lovely "just for phun" addition by Jerry:
A physicist from Highland Park
Was intent on describing a quark. ...
Physics. " ... any of the hypothetical particles with spin 1/2, baryon number 1/3, and electric charge 1/3 or −2/3 that, together with their antiparticles, are believed to constitute all the elementary particles classed as baryons and mesons; they are distinguished by their flavors, designated as up (u), down (d), strange (s), charm (c), bottom or beauty (b), and top or truth (t), and their colors, red, green, and blue. Compare
color (def. 18),
flavor (def. 5) ... "
As he said what he said
His students all fled
And he found himself lost in the dark.
I had it originally, and then with my complete rewrite...I forgot it.