Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Limericks

I should have organized a get-together for the friends for Limerick Day! It'd have been hilarious and so so fun. Limericks and anti-limericks would be thrown up galore. I know of just the right 10 people to make a party to pit wit and skills! Drunken debauchery, literally.

Dear Dawnie blew me away with her skills over msn. On-the-spot creativity. Not bawdy, but quite cute! I gave her 3 words- lollipop, rainy days, hot chocolate. Here's what she came up with in 5 seconds:

On rainy days I like my chocolate hot,
Mix it in with your lollipop.
Twirl it in with cinnamon and spice.
I guarantee you something nice.
If you don't agree, I'll doff my top.
©

I was duly impressed. I can't, for the life of me, make anything rhyme. Writing in iambic pentatmeter is no sweat. But I royally suck at writing to rhyming schemes. The second set consisted of pink, bear, whisky.

Said the bear to the whiskey, I do like your tone,
Your taste is rich, not to mention your colour alone.
To call you just merely a drink,
Would be like saying that I was pink.
But to take more than a sip, would mean tomorrow I must atone.
©

Mind you, she was rushing out for lunch with her mom. Between pulling on her clothes and pee break, she came up with limericks just like that. "Magic." I said. She gleefully announced, "It's my party trick!" and gave me a parting gift:

According to Imp, today is Limerick Day.
And far be it for me to doubt what she has to say.
So I sit here and write her a piece of fluff.
No Illiyad or Chaucer or Beowulf,
But one to briing her a laugh if it may. ©

If she had merrily spouted anymore of these saucy lines, I'd have prostrated myself in complete deference to her superior intelligence.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

wow shes good!!
This gf must be quite a character, love her intellectual humour!

jazzgal said...

okay. she's good. i need a minute or 2 at least to compose one that's sorta funny.

meteor said...

u must make her write bawdy stuff! that's a proper limerick! hahah.

Dawn said...

Haha - seriously it's the sign of a misspent childhood :) I love limericks!

mistipurple said...

i feel that my life is a laugh.
okay, outta topic.

and yes, your friend is really good.

imp said...

nuttyjas: she is. absolutely a gem. i always love talking to her.

jazzgal: HEH. still way better than me.

meteor: hmm. u can try! see if she'll bite..!

dawn: it's exactly the sort of skill i'd want my children to possess. eloquence, wit and intellect. they should be 'mis-spending' time to learn all these than doing useless stuff like playing computer games and living in silo.

mistipurple: don't let anything get u down. i thank u on her behalf.

moo said...

Wow. She's good!!

=eLaiNe= said...

She is really good and talented!! in between changing of clothes and getting herself dolled up, she is able to come out with all these, amazing! =p

Dawn said...

Impy is exaggerating - it wasn't 5 seconds :) There was no dolling up either :)

As for a bawdy one I can't really think of a subject right now, so here's the best I can do :-

I sit here to write this text,
pondering the prevalence of sex.
A ditty about a fuck?
Well, they're shit out of luck!
My morals, if not my meter, aren't lax!

imp said...

moo: she is!

elaine: heheh. she's very fast. we're usually out in and out of shower and out of house within 20minutes.

dawn: OH DEAR> *roll eyes*

Dawn said...

Sorry - I have to admit I've never been good with the bawdy (and I know it!). since it's a party trick, I'll take three words and try what I can with them!