December 31, 2007, 06:35
shufitzquote:
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.)
January 04, 2008, 08:42
BobHaleOK, 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….