| hard-working by Kevin (Limerick #112127) | I'm a hard-working limerick guy
Who draws up his poor lines by and by
And heaps word upon word
(Or so I have heard).
Yes, I try and I try and I try … |
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| Great Yarmouth by Kevin (Limerick #112126) | Great Yarmouth: East Anglian port
And also a seaside resort,
Where tourists take dips
And can buy fish'n'chips
Or visit a Roman-built fort. |
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| gaze, gaze of raccoons by Bluebelle (Limerick #112125) | This omnivorous creature can graze
On fat berries or frogs. She'll amaze
You with looks like a bandit:
You really must hand it
To raccoons who will group in a gaze. | This is currently the last of a collection of limericks based on collective nouns pertaining to animals, beginning with army. |
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| brood, den, generation, nest, pit by Bluebelle (Limerick #112124) | In the summer I'll nervously sit
Near to bracken. Supposing a pit
(Generation or brood)
Of sleek vipers gets rude
And takes aim? On my butt I'll be bit! | Additionally, a group of vipers can be a den or a nest. Apparently, generation and brood are both biblical collective nouns for these snakes.
This is one of a collection of limericks based on collective nouns pertaining to animals, beginning with army. Next up is gaze of raccoons. |
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| football helmet by Duncan Stevens (Limerick #112123) | With this helmet securing my head,
Am I safe playing football? The tread
Of yon lumbering giant
Who'd make my skull pliant
Inclines me to knitting instead. |
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| fairy-slipper, Calypsoa bulbosa by Duncan Stevens (Limerick #112122) | While on shore, I strolled out with the skipper:
"Look, some sprite can't be feeling too chipper—
Left a shoe in this bog!
Pixie duties: a slog
When a fairy is missing its slipper." | Actually, a fairy-slipper, Calypsoa bulbosa, is a purple orchid found in bogs across North America. |
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| executory by Duncan Stevens (Limerick #112121) | I said, "Yo, Hitman Fred, here's my plot:
For now, you're withholding your shot.
Kill my brother the moocher
Some time in the future—
An executory contract you've got." | (ex-EC-u-to-ry, ex-EC-u-tree) |
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| gemmiparous by Duncan Stevens (Limerick #112120) | The gemmiparous trait's in my blood:
I go out and I pick up a stud
When I'm drunk on cheap beer—
Nine months on, looky here!
I produce all my young through a Bud. | Actually, this refers to an asexual method of reproduction known as gemmation, common among plants and certain unicellular organisms. |
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| clatter by Len Farano (Limerick #112119) | In the kitchen she's mad as a hatter.
She does flips as she whips through the batter.
She'll toss cleavers with grace
Smoothly into their place
She has poise, but makes noise—rack knives clatter. | This is one in a short collection of limericks using homonyms for the phrase Black Lives Matter, a slogan adopted by social advocates for racial justice, beginning with diver. They aren't meant to demean or lessen the importance of that movement but are being used in a similar manner as the collection of limericks parodying the last line of "The Star Spangled Banner." See cheat. Next up is chive. |
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| fact-check by Len Farano (Limerick #112118) | For his tweets (untrue, twisted and bitter),
He was fact-checked and labeled by Twitter.
He threatened to shutter
What's his bread and butter.
Will his future lies end in the shitter? | In May 2020, impeached President Trump threatened to shut down social media platforms that he claimed interfered with freedom of speech. This action came after Twitter tagged two of his tweets regarding an unproven claim that mail-in ballots were sources of extreme election fraud. Twitter added links to other respected fact-checking posts that disagreed with Trump's assertions after comparing them to objectively determined facts. Trump used Twitter on a daily basis to rally his base with highly questionable claims unaccompanied by evidence. Social media platforms are exempt from legal actions that would apply to publishers regarding content accuracy.
After the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 by Trump supporters, Twitter suspended Trump's account, claiming that two tweets violated the company's policy against glorification of violence. Twitter explained, "These two tweets must be read in the context of broader events in the country and the ways in which the President's statements can be mobilized by different audiences, including to incite violence, as well as in the context of the pattern of behavior from this account in recent weeks." |
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