| browns and whistlers by rusty (Limerick #107913) | "Farthing" whistlers and "halfpenny" browns
Are much simpler to pass than "gold" crowns.
The poor fools won't suspect if
Base coins are defective.
Get forging. Then send in the clowns. | This is one of an alphabetically arranged collection of limericks, starting here, based on entries in A NEW AND COMPREHENSIVE VOCABULARY OF THE FLASH LANGUAGE COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY JAMES HARDY VAUX (1819), Australia's first dictionary.
Next up is bub. |
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| go with by Celia Warren (Limerick #107912) | I've made croutons to go with the soup,
Also ice-cream, at least one big scoop,
To go with fruit pie.
These accompaniments, I
Think, will make us all feel cock-a-hoop. |
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| glow-worm, glowworm by Celia Warren (Limerick #107911) | Adding batteries and bulbs to a worm
Will result in no light, just a squirm,
For everyone knows
That a glow-worm that glows
Is a beetle. On that I stand firm. |
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| clbuttic mistake by GalFisk (Limerick #107909) | All bad words met with e-radication
Automatically, no hesitation.
But computers will make
The clbuttic mistake,
And necessitate buttbuttination. |
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| do a Harold, do a Harold Holt, do a Harry, do the Harold, do the Harold Holt, do the Harry by rusty (Limerick #107908) | '67: "PRIME MINISTER HOLT
DISAPPEARS!" This news caused a jolt.
Chinese sub or great white?
Did he drown or take flight?
(Which is why do a Harold means "bolt".) | On 17 December 1967, the Prime Minister of Australia, Harold Holt, went for a swim in the Southern Ocean. He was never seen again. The mystery of Holt's disappearance has been rich fodder for conspiracy theorists and rumour-mongers. It also spawned a new Aussie idiom. |
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| go with by Celia Warren (Limerick #107907) | Pink curtains will go with our chairs
And tone with the carpet downstairs.
But they'll clash something rotten
With cushions we've gotten
From Mum. They're bright orange — two pairs. | go with: match, tone, fit in, coordinate |
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| go with, goes with, went with by Celia Warren (Limerick #107906) | Though married, that swine Eddie goes
With Elizabeth, Sarah and Rose,
And Rachel and Jane;
He says, "Let me explain:
It's to keep my dear wife on her toes!" | go with: have a sexual relationship with |
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| gladsomeness by Celia Warren (Limerick #107905) | Pure gladsomeness shines in the eye
Of Sir Oliver Pilkington-Pie.
Life and soul of the party,
He's chipper and hearty.
His spirits are always sky-high. |
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| glint by Celia Warren (Limerick #107904) | "Tell me, wherefore that glint in your eye,
Sir Oliver Pilkington-Pie?
Does it indicate ire?"
"No, the heat of the fire
Put a spark in my eye, that is why." |
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| go together by Celia Warren (Limerick #107903) | I'm sure no-one could ever disparage
The song's message that claims love and marriage
Go together (they match;
They're well suited, no catch)
Like the lyrical horse and its carriage. |
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