The Limerick Challenge

[angelophile]

Okay, inspired by the fact that I've spent most of the day on one of my online forums talking exclusively limericks, here's a quick meme for you:

1. Post a first line in the comments here and I will attempt to write a limerick using that line.
(Use your name or screenname if you want a personalised one, say.)

2. Post this to your own journal and challenge your friends to do the same.

3. The use of the place name "Nantucket" is banned.

Here's an example or two:

A religious fanatic named Bow
Was obsessed with the Pope, and how!
He'd make girls give supreme unction
Right up his junction
It's more than the Catholic faith will allow

A horse faced buffoon, name of Bay
Was an ego maniac who often would say
"I INVENTED THIS BIT!"
or "THAT STUFF IS THE SHIT!"
So his commentaries we refused to play

A fellow named Stan (also called Twat)
Had conspiracy theories that
Some might find quite mad
Or simply just bad
But he felt safe in his tin foil hat

Comments

[julia-sevin.livejournal.com]

Wow, those are some utterly *terrible* limericks. Are they yours? Where's your commitment to cadence, man!?

Okay, I'll bite, but you better keep the beat:

The girl was an ace at complaining

[angelophile.livejournal.com]

I have a liberal attitude to scanning.

Okay.

The girl was an ace at complaining
If sunny she'd wish it was raining
And if it was not
She'd say it was too hot
Her attitude was simply draining

[julia-sevin.livejournal.com]

Bravo! Well, except for the extra syllable in the second short line, but that's easily patched: She'd call it too hot

I guess coercing someone into writing a backhanded poem about me is better than having no poems written about me at all!

Here's one for you:

Angelophile's got us all green
With envy of talents we've seen.
All man and all geek,
Find him if you seek
An unstoppable Icon-Machine.