More Limericks About Limericks

Well, interest in InfiniteQueso’s 1st Annual Limerick Writing Contest is building to a fever pitch. For those of you scared off by the strictness of the original rules, it should be noted that they have been revised (loosened) slightly.

(Thanks goes to Skip Dahlmann over at Current Christianity, who pointed out that my sample limerick didn’t follow my own rules.)

For those of you having trouble adapting your thoughts to the traditional limerick structure, I leave you with this:

There was a young man from Japan
Whose limericks never would scan.
When asked why this was,
He answered, "It's because
I always try to fit as many syllables into the last line as ever possibly I can.”

And this:

There was a young man from Timbuktu
Whose limericks stopped at line two.

Reminder: All entries must be posted in the comments section of this post by midnight (CST) on Saturday, March 14, 2009. Good luck!