There was an old man of Calcutta,
Who coated his tonsils with butta,
Thus converting his snore
From a thunderous roar
To a soft, oleaginous mutta.

There once was a #limerick for hashes,
While AIs are stuck on em-dashes,
But here on the #fedi
It’s all retro-steady,
And I don’t mean C : backslashes.

#LimerickAnything
#HashTagGames

Happy #LimerickDay! In lieu of a (bad) limerick of our own, we’ll point you to our video about Verse, which talks about the basics of poetic form, including the limerick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxFzgH0y9Jw

#DogsOfMastodon #SecondChanceSPCA #adoptamutt #Poetry #limerick Fiona barking at rabbits and squirrels

Limerick, here we are!

30 Apr 1608: burial #otd of Edmund FitzJohn Fitzgibbon, 11th White Knight at #Kilmallock Co. #Limerick #otd (Sheila1988)

"Family Time"

By Scott Loring Davis, Fine Art Photography https://pixels.com/profiles/scottloringdavis

A heartwarming moment as a pair of baby Bald Eagles spend time with their mom in the nest. See More Here https://pixels.com/featured/family-time-scott-loring-davis.html

Happy #Walpurgisnacht!

Eine Hexe, die flog Richtung #Brocken,
um zu Walpurgis so richtig zu rocken.
Doch wegen Pannen
kam sie nur bis Drei Annen.
Jetzt muss sie den Brocken hoch joggen.

[Fediverselle Wegwerflyrik, Bd. 4, 30]
#Limerick

A thpeeth teacther named Mitheth Bathye
Had thome thtudentth who acted quite lathye;
They lithped and they thputtered,
And thome of them th-th-thtuttered:
She thought they might jutht drive her crathye.

A dinosaur stomped into a mall
where people are tiny and small
Now why did you think
I was really extinct
the dinosaur roared with a drawl.

1's are white, and 5's are pink,
10's yellow and 20's green, I think.
50's are blue, 100's are tan,
But 500's are orange.
There's no natural rhyme for orange.

#limerick (I'll mortgage a cheap purple deed.)
The cash is just what I need!)
(What am I thinkin?!
Oh! Too much drinkin!)
(Fake dough can't buy me no weed!)

#haiku You've been sent to Jail
You must proceed directly
Kiss two bills goodbye

(Luxury) Taxman

#MonopolyASongOrPoem
#HashTagGames

Today in Labor History April 14, 1919: Workers in Limerick, Ireland, initiated a General Strike against the British military occupation. They ran the city as a soviet for two weeks. Workers printed their own newspaper and issued their own currency, which local businesses accepted. They also regulated food supplies to keep prices low and prevent profiteering. Numerous other soviets were created during the Irish War of Independence.