This one should be a breeze.

But you can try the other one if you like.

Bob, could you please write a phonetic pronunciation guide for the other one? I couldn't even count how many syllables it has since I don't know how half of them are pronounced. We can probably get around that with some kind of rhyming slang, though, right?

WM

Heck, I don't even know the pronunciation of Kathmandu! Bob, is it: kaht-mahn-DOO? Is the last syllable stressed?

I have always pronounced Kathmandu with the stress on the last syllable.

What he said!

So far I have four limericks but three of those are from the same person so it seems that most of you just aren't trying!

And after I picked such an easy word for you.

Come on people. Get your pens out.

Mine's in your PMs, Bob. The word is easy, but I know little to nothing about the city, even after reading Wikipedia.

I've submitted another couple, both scurrilous!

Not counting my own I now have seven but STILL only from three participants. I'm not going to put them out until AT LEAST two more DIFFERENT people send me something.

quote: I've submitted another couple, both scurrilous!

Wouldn't that be a great last line for a limerick? Unfortunately, I can't find any rhymes for 'scurrilous'!

(Mine's now in, by the way.)

Snuck one in under the wire! (That's sneaked to you, Bob.)

LAST CALL!!!
I'll post the ones I have tomorrow!

OK, here are the entries. Better late than never.
We'll start with a trio of my own so however good I think they are I can't pick one of these as the winner. (I suppose I could but it would hardly be fair would it.)


There is a large sign in downtown Kathmandu that says "Welcome to Clean, Green, Healthy Kathmandu. (I have a picture if you doubt me) which was clearly placed there by someone with an overdeveloped sense of irony as it is the dirtiest city I have ever visited.

This is "Clean, healthy, green Kathmandu"
It's right there on the sign, is it true?
Excuse me while I cough
For I don't want to scoff
But it's quite hard to breathe in this goo.

Lots of temples to see there though, including just down the road , the Temple of the Erotic Elephant.

If the temples of old Kathmandu
(For it's true there are more than a few)
Were piled up end to end
Oh, how high they'd ascend!
They'd have heaven itself right in view.

And a simple one to finish off.

A visitor in Kathmandu
Said "I've come a long way, it is true"
But there's no time , I fear
To look around here
For my plane to fly home is now due.


Next up we'll have a look at jerry's offering starting with a traditional offering that sadly doesn't have the city in the A-rhyme position

He's from Kathmandu in Nepal,
As nearly as we can recall,
It's a place of the sort
Where the women are short,
And all of the men are quite tall

And a variation thereof…

He's from Kathmandu in Nepal,
As nearly as we can recall,
He's no longer around.
We've heard that he drowned
Diving into the spring in the fall.
And one that does have the word in the A-rhyme position

Like a lightning bolt out of the blue
Thunder rumbled around us anew
While it hailed and thundered
The audience wondered,
What would a real Kathmandu ?

Now we can move on to a selection from Richard. The place referred to in line 4 is a temple where you can see the bodies being burned by the side of the river and the ashes being thrown into the sacred water. You can read more about it on my website linked in one of the above posts.

A Buddhist might see Kathmandu
His religious beliefs to pursue.
But he'll make sure his path
Avoids Pashupatinath
For that holy place is Hindu!

And two more from Richard with his introductions

I think this is sufficiently slanderous, as well as obscene, to qualify for this competition!

Said a novice from near Kathmandu,
"The celibate state I eschew!
Though some fellow feeling
Sets my senses reeling
It won't when that fellow is you!"

And maybe this as well:

A young girl while in Kathmandu
Saw that monk and she said "Hello you!
Though godly salvation
's your last aspiration
Right now I'll give sexual début!"

From Kalleh who says she knows nothing of the city we have

Have you visited great Kathmandu,
Whose name is from Sanskrit (who knew?).
But what's there to do?
I could go to the zoo
Or drink a good brew with my Shu.

And from shu, who says the title is part of the limerick, we have this one

Cat's Husband, or He May Not Be Good-Looking, but ...

CW's husband, it's true,
Is unprepossessing to view,
But CW said,
"He's amazing in bed!
Oh, the wonderful things Cat Man Do!"

And finally something educational from bethree5

Stranger food than in old Kathmandu?
I've heard Aussies eat wombat fondue...
But to re-taste your burp-a,
You just ask any Sherpa
For a big cuppa po cha and kyu .

And the winner is….

bethree5 for the burp-a, sherpa rhyme

Over to you. Which place shall we immortalise in verse next?

Thank you one & all. I had a leg up (?) on that one because I'm reading Three Cups of Tea. New location under new thread.