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[Irate Mormon]

OK,

 

Well, the Haiku contest was great fun.  But a limerick?  Now THAT's a challenge!  Especially if it is naughty and fishy, both at the same time.

 

I believe Casper has an extra set of decals which he was prepared to mail out, which is now available...

 

The general format (rhyme scheme) of a limerick is:

 

A

A

B

B

A

 

There is also a certain meter to observe, but I don't feel like analyzing that right now.  So I will just say, be creative and have fun with it.  No rules - winner again will be by popular decree, with Casper making the official determination.

 

 

 

[Michael Wolfe]

T'was a chub from a small creek with no silt

Who was so very proud of what he built

He said, "come see my mound,

Is so big and round,

If you bring the eggs girls, I got milt!"

[MtFallsTodd]

There once was a man from Nantuckett
Who had some nice shiny minners in his bucket
As he said with a grin
Wiping spring water from his chin
If I can't carry this haul I can truck it

[FirstChAoS]

The fishing here is insane

Inside my net their remain

three dace and a burbot

two killies and a turbot 

and trout inside of my seine.

 

(Don't ask how the turbot got their being marine and european, their closest american relative is the windowpane flounder, I just liked the rhyme).

 

Once in a stream so deep

Down where hellgrammites creep

A fish on the bottom

saw mayflies and caught em

Where gravel forms in a heap

 

 

In the marsh an outgoing tide

In the pools the killifish hide

Things can get harsh

here in the marsh

Where these little fishies reside

[mattknepley]

Nice start. And Michael managed to get a little bawdy right off the bat. I'm gonna need a little time to get one of these right, methinks...

[Casper]

Nice start. And Michael managed to get a little bawdy right off the bat. I'm gonna need a little time to get one of these right, methinks...

Yeah, i agree.  I thought we had some kind of policy against that kind of talk.  Michael kicked it off good but i like all of them.  A very creative school of FishHeads we have here.

[smilingfrog]

A dace with a striking red side
Whose beauty may not be denied.
If, in a small sandy stream
you see a brilliant red gleam,
The redside dace may reside.

[FirstChAoS]

Nice start. And Michael managed to get a little bawdy right off the bat. I'm gonna need a little time to get one of these right, methinks...

I had thought of one that I will not post because it is too bawdy. Amazing how dirty you can get with fish names like Slippery Dick, Jacksmelt, and Puddingwife.

 

Now for more tame fare

 

An old man with a stick did bludgeon

a school of slow swimming gudgeon

why not take a net

and make one a pet

but their is no changing that curmudgeon

 

(I had to look up what exactly a gudgeon was, three definitions. a European cyprinid, a sleeper goby, or a type of tropical fish inhabiting reefs).

[smilingfrog]

The fishing here is insane
Inside my net their remain
three dace and a burbot
two killies and a turbot 
and trout inside of my seine.
 
(Don't ask how the turbot got their being marine and european, their closest american relative is the windowpane flounder, I just liked the rhyme).

I think I might have the answer:

A wayward turbot and burbot once met
and created a terrible fret.
Chasing killies and dace
all over the place
till they all wound up in Chaos's net.

[Irate Mormon]

Nice start. And Michael managed to get a little bawdy right off the bat. I'm gonna need a little time to get one of these right, methinks...

 

Same here.  It has to (somewhat) border on good taste...plus it needs to trip over the tongue just SO...I'll give it some thought.

[FirstChAoS]

Their once was a brave little herring

Whose actions were very much daring

He swam into a basses maw

left before it could close its jaw

And swam off without even caring.

[mattknepley]

To Nick L., with appropriate manly feeling...

T'was a young man from Virginia
Who didnae mind needles stuck inya
A big arse Redline
he thought mighty fine
But now he wants an Exoglossum maxillingua

[Irate Mormon]

But now he wants an Exoglossum maxillingua

 

I would say that definitely qualifies as naughty!

[littlen]

Well done, Matt. *Clap clap clap.

You may need to rewrite a few lines depending on what ends up getting inked on the other side.

[Casper]

I just sent Konrad five of the Haikus for an upcoming AC.

BTW... Another beautiful American Currents was received in the mail today.

 

Reading over these limericks i am impressed by all.  I count 10 currently.

It seems submissions have petered out so...  Anymore out there?

 

Perhaps Michael can set up an official Pole this weekend using all 10 unless some of you have another limerick wandering in your head.  Thus... submissions close this Friday midnight.

[Michael Wolfe]

Yes sir. I can do that.

[Casper]

Thanks Michael.

We have a bunch of good ones.  Let's give everyone til Friday Midnight to make any more submissions.

Michael will post them all, unless exceptionally naughty, and let's give a couple weeks for voting.

[Casper]

2 days left...

[Irate Mormon]

I'll try to sneak one in...

[olaf]

A gizzard shad looking for cover
spied a shady stick floating above her.
Dashing over with relief,
she met sharp slashing teeth:
in gar-shade the sad shad's life was over.