Way down upon the Pee Dee River, far, far away...
Uh, wrong river, but it IS a Southern town. Cheraw is a short distance from my birthplace in South Carolina.

Here's a little history, and how to pronounce it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheraw,_South_Carolina

Send me the absolutely worst limericks you can about my relatives.

Just a quick note about pronunciation for all non-Brits here.

Remember that for us words like "raw" and "more" are perfect rhymes.

Just so that you know...

Brit, Aussie, or Yanqui, nobody's sent me anything. Send limericks, please.

"Raw" rhymes with "more" in The Antipodes too!

Just to muddy the waters more, as a very young boy I remember folks pronouncing it, "Cherry."

Rhyme it as you will - just rhyme it! Still no limericks.

"Raw" and "more" rhyme? Geez! That must be why I never win.

I'll send you one tomorrow, Geoffrey.

Thank you, Miriam.

I assume it's "rore" and "more," not "raw" and "maw."

As for dialect, remember JFK saying, "Cuber" when we West Coast types said, "Cubah?"

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One limerick so far; I need six or nine more.

I kinda like Miriam, Geoff.

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I assume it's "rore" and "more," not "raw" and "maw."

All exactly the same vowel sound to me! I can't even imagine another pronunciation. And they still sound the same when I hear those words pronounced on US and UK TV Shows??

However you say it, it'll be clear once we see your limericks, so git 'em in!

Mine is in. You have it don't you?

Yes, I have it. Just two so far. I need MORE!!!

Is mine your favorite?

Well there's a 50-50 chance that it is. Perhaps even higher given my apparently peculiar accent.

Your accent's not peculiar - ours is!

I've got a few more, so will publish tomorrow.

Since I do not know how to post these in a poll, I'll present them here and let some computer-savvy person redo it in the (for me) impossible to decipher poll format:

1. When Geoffrey was born in Cheraw,
In South Carolina his paw
And his maw were so thrilled,
Excited, fulfilled -
Though his sister just sneered and said, "Blah!"

2. I once told a chap crying poor
'Bout the high price of sex in Cheraw
To stop if once bitten,
But he said he's smitten,
And can't help but go back for more!

3. A Welshman who came to Cheraw
Decided to take him a squaw
They built a nice tepee
O'erlooking the Pee Dee
And bred half-breeds per common law.

4. I've heard it said, down in Cheraw,
They've got them some new kind of law,
says, folks who do pee-pee
In our river Pee-Dee
Will in our jail soon some time draw.

5. There once was a man from Cheraw
Who liked to spit his daily chaw
Down into the Pee Dee,
But folks found this seedy,
And made his deed against the law.

6. Said a virile young man of Cheraw
Whose lover kept asking for more
"I will do what I can
But since we began
I'm becoming increasingly sore.

7. Said a lusty young lass of Cheraw
"You plead that you're reddened and sore
And you can't sate my need
So it's 'Goodbye' indeed
I need someone who can just give me more.

8. Millie, a girl from Cheraw
Rolled in the grass in the raw
With Billy Bob Tilley-
She did sumthin' silly,
Now someone calls them Maw and Paw!

They all Do rhyme, so stand outside your particular dialect and select one.

Geoff, I posted it in poll form for you