My mind is trying to wrap around itself re: L5... thinking teeth cracking? (mine have) or street candy?... dunno... I'll assume there is a more pleasant resolution that escapes me :)
Poem hopefully to follow...
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
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My mind is trying to wrap around itself re: L5... thinking teeth cracking? (mine have) or street candy?... dunno... I'll assume there is a more pleasant resolution that escapes me :)
Poem hopefully to follow...
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Thanks Y/N. I just checked out her website. She's got lotsa cool stuff there. I love those quirky little corners of the web. Anyway on with the challenge:
Haw, haw, haw,
Allons down on de bayou
Ça c’est si bon
Boudreaux, he sippin’ a long-neck Jax
Thibodeaux, he got a question to axe
Whas dat dere in de pot?
Eessa somepin you caught?
Un p'tite Co-co-dree, nuff fo some snacks
Love the dialectic poem :)
whilst craving a snack
a brightly lit snack vending machine
all slots stocked with snacks easily seen
dropped in all of my shekels
equaling all of two rolls of nickels
!@&*!@* trinitrophenylmethylnitramine !
11/14/2025
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Bravo!
You win the internet today, Tailor.
Love that word, trinitrophenylmethylnitramine, Tailor, and hopefully the co-co-dree was tasty, Sancho.
Esther Chilton offers "scale" for this week's Laughing Along With A Limerick: https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/11/...-limerick-258/
There once was a scale on sale
and a guy who weighted more than a whale.
He decided to see
what he weighed needlessly
and then that was the end of the scale.
Poor co-co-dree!
As there are now three Lymerickers might it not be opportune to ressurect the poetry contest?
Re: "Love that word, trinitrophenylmethylnitramine" Lol, I was giddy when it showed up as a rhyme word on the Rhyme Desk page https://www.rhymedesk.com/desk
I don't think we're quite ready for contests quite yet, they are more robust when many are at hand to play. Just my humble opinion.
Enjoyed your take on such a weighty matter :)
Tipping the Scales
Tipping the scales in Gold Rush times
Has been the subject of a dearth of rhymes
But know if a gold weighing was insincere
That justice was swift and severe
For the unhappy purveyor of these crimes
11/17/2025
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Sorry Danik…
Thibodeaux gotta go, me-oh my-oh
Wit a crawfish pie and a filé gumbo
Co-co-dree got tails
Sac-au-lait, got scales
Bon appétit down on the bayou
Thanks Hank
https://youtu.be/4hi8maQH_SI?si=LkvfEvSpGWb1UGZp
That looks like a useful rhyme dictionary, Tailor. Justice is swift for those who tip the scales. It is amazing what they will eat on the bayou, Sancho. Poetry contests can be fun, Danik.
Esther Chilton offers "shopping" for this week's Laughing Along With A Limerick: https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/11/...-limerick-259/
Shopping My Life Away
With nothing to do I went shopping.
The eyes in my head were a-popping.
I saw this. I saw that.
Everything thing I looked at
asked me why I don’t buy? Price is dropping!
Enjoyed both limericks... have to revisit Hank later... Synchronicity is playing :) Back later...
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
shopping for glimmers
shopping for glimmers amongst the wares
thrift castoffs by billionaires
"... None of scant cause thy sorrowing can accuse,
Since, losing that which thou for aye dost lose,..."*
found in a loose frame a first draft poem of Molière's !
11/24/2025 * translation
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
J'accuse les billionaires of being ten lords a-leaping!
There is a young gal named Leigh
She's the own true love of me
Went out a-shopping
Sales were a-popping
Came home with a partridge in a pear tree
Who knows what wonderful wares one will find that billionaires have thrown away, Tailor. That girlfriend knows that partridges and pear trees reproduce, Sancho.
Esther Chilton offers "boring" for this week's limerick challenge: https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/12/...cription_popup
Though it's boring I'm snoring away
all those daydreams that come during day
and those nightmares as well
got me snoring. I'd tell
you a story - "It's boring," you say.
A boring challenge... I'd rather be snoring... Enjoyed :)
madness
an earworm has found its way
by boring into my skull to my dismay
"And some kind of madness has started to evolve"*
an enigma with no apparent resolve
tormenting me throughout the day
12/1/2025 * L3 from L2 of Madness, song by Muse
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
This Ole House
Under the sink water was pouring
Home ownership never boring
The floors are creaky
The faucet leaky
Which likely needs a new O-ring
Here’s an ear worm for ya, Tailor:
Brian Setzer Orchestra, This Ole House
https://youtu.be/VfLIJPRX-tU?si=XOumKMKhw5IvtMOJ
Same tune by Shakin’ Stevens
https://youtu.be/dRvcrWGUmR4?si=4YRTN_iGtX0Pg2Q0
Poem & music sounds like home, lol. A rollicking earworm at that... loved this comment: "@sparkimusmcfeely5131
2 years ago This album is the shisnit for the dental visits with Nitrous..." Lol!... next song(s) for me after was 17-minutes of Pink Floyd (DSOTM) :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon has played in my ole house many times. It's gotta be one of the all-time great albums. I clearly remember buying it, taking it home, tearing the cellophane off the cover, sliding the record out of the sleeve, holding it by the edges with the tips of my fingers, setting it on the turntable, spinning it up and holding a wooden handled lint brush over it for a couple of turns, adjusting the rpm to 33 1/3 with a strobe light device on the turntable, rubbing my finger across the needle to check for lint (and speaker gain — rrrip), gently setting the needle in the groove, and cranking the volume knob (you know, so the neighbors can rock out too).
Nowadays I just say — Hey Siri, play me some Floyd.
She says — Okay, playing Floyd Dixon's Hey Bartender.
I say — No Siri, not Floyd Dixon, Pink.
She says — Okay, playing P!nk's Let's Get This Party Started
I say — No Siri, it's from the 20th century
She says — Okay, playing Pink by Aerosmith
I say — Arrgg
Never bought the album myself, had it on 8-track and cassette I believe, but have played it too many times to count. I watched a laser light show featuring DSOTM at De Anza college in Cupertino, CA circa 1980 that was amazing :) I get the same type responses from Alexa. Sometimes I'll ask for Pink Music instead of Pink Noise and get stuff by Pink instead of my sleep aid noise, lol.
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Ya know one of the cool things about an 8-Track player is that you can listen several tunes at once. The head on my machine never quite seemed to line up with the tape.
My 8-Tack's pumpin' out a country song
'bout a girl that's done me wrong
It's a Tennessee tradition
To loose your inhibition
So c'mon honey sing along
^Doesn't really work as a limerick. Here's the tune:
https://youtu.be/UbpWBEQwfhc?si=RBmurmBgICQZboko
Brian Setzer, 8-Track
Bonus, there's yodeling!
The limerick is fine by my standards... a rollicking quick pickin' ditty with yodeling that manages to dovetail nicely... Enjoyed :) Reminded me a bit about Hot Rod Lincoln :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Now yer talkin’! Rockabilly limericks
Hot Rod Lincoln
Outta San Pedro and he may not survive
So he shoved it on down into overdrive
Man, what a ride
Then he sighed
If only I had a 8-Track tape drive
https://youtu.be/MBUfNxfc2w4?si=wodbrBUUefKWEPag
Maybellene
There once was a fella named Chuck
Who was drag racing his V-8 truck
Rain water blowing all under his hood
Knew that was doing his motor good
But was leading the pack so he didn't give a ... darn
https://youtu.be/RMkIK0qZnjw?si=P_oMunWIN61FjLXe
Uneasy Rider
There once was a fella named Flynn
Went to a joint called the Dew Drop Inn
Cross the Mississippi line
Ordered the redneck wine
Then barely got outta there with his skin
https://youtu.be/952h-AJ3Bcg?si=a26IMf-elQ444lD_
Nice tune by Brian Setzer, Sancho! It's good that everything is digitized today. I remember tape recorders and 33 1/3 rpm records. I still haven't got Siri, but she might be listening for all I know. My most tormenting earworm for me was Bird Is The Word, Tailor. I hesitate to even mention it.
This week Esther Chilton offers "candy" for her limerick challenge: https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/12/...-limerick-261/
Though I used to think candy was sweet,
well, it is and it was. I could eat
my fair share of the stuff
even more than enough
even more than my share. It's so sweet.
Lololol!!! Classics !
Bird is the word... sing it often, lol! and a song by Timbuk3 "I study nuclear science... "
Maybe a little off topic:
Blind Justice
reminds me of a red VW microbus
pertaining to Alice's restaurant's garbage fuss
included 27 - 8 x 10 color glossy pictures
in a soliloquy bordering on scriptures
about Officer Obie's court distress
12/8/2025
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...B&opi=89978449
Candy, eh... sweet. I wrote a tiny poem (thought it was a Haiku) once about Candy in a different vein:
Candy's Walk
Mimicking a tawny owl
invading the shadow'd light
Death coos: oo-oo, oo-oo
10/10/2013
I'll see what I can come up with :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Hell yeah! Protest music.
A dispatch from the Group W bench.
I’m protesting high caloric snacks:
I think it’s time for a reduction
Or perhaps a course of liposuction
Been eatin’ Pecan Sandies
And hard-rock candies
But my waistline’s on the eve of destruction
Barry McGuire, Eve of Destruction:
https://youtu.be/Zu0hh7eI4_A?si=AaOqot914nxoSglF
Years ago on this website we got to chatting about diets and weight reduction programs. Somebody asked about methods for combatting sugar cravings late at night. Being a midnight snacker myself, I suggested eating a pickle because the salty, vinegary taste acts as a natural appetite suppressant.
I don’t want a pickle
I Just wanna ride on my motorcicle
And I don’t want a tickle
I Just wanna ride on my motorcicle
And I don’t want to die
Just wanna ride on my motorcycle
Motorcycle song, Arlo Guthrie
https://youtu.be/g266Uwp6ZnI?si=Jtt-9F4zGZu4kcoP
Enjoyed the low calorie limerick :) Another classic song... Here's one that reverberated in my home at the time prior to getting my draft card... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0feH6a3FKg
I used to sing Arlo's pickle song to my grandkids when they were little... and this one too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QQhWSQV5P0
(So I'm Told)
There once was a lass named Cotton Candy
Had big feet and her legs were bandy
As a barmaid she was unsurpassed
Catering to the upper classed
Her hair ravishly scented with jaborandi
12/8/2025
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Draft card. Yikes. In the 80s I got a nastygram from the gov’ment for not registering for the selective service. I reasoned it was a moot point since I was on active duty at the time.
On to more pleasant endeavors. Some would call it a deformity, but equine-minded folks say it just makes sense.
There once was a bandy legged gal
Who rode her horse from the corral
There was a melding
Of her and the gelding
Explained by an orthopedic rationale
A case of the Government's left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing.
Lol, a melding with a gelding :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Haha
Thanks, T. That one just wrote itself.
More barnyard rhymes to work into a limerick later:
Supine with the swine
Wonky for the donkey
Making a scene with a holstein
In a state of zen with the hen
Fell asleep with the sheep
At peace with the geese
In a state of flux with the ducks
There’s always trauma with the brahma
I remember Motorcycle Mama although I don't think I ever knew most of the words until listening to it now. And I do remember the draft.
This week Esther offers "sleigh" as the prompt: https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/12/...-limerick-262/
It’s away in a sleigh we will go
though it’s warm and there isn’t much snow.
In fact, it’s quite hot
and the reindeer are not
really reindeer. Oh, well. Here we go!
Nice! Tis the season, eh?
I’m trying to think of something original, but I’ve got an ear worm right now, which is making it problematic:
Our cheeks are nice and rosy and comfy and cozy…
Lol... "Ring-a-ling-a-ling, a-ding-dong-ding!"
Slay Bells
Amusing limericks sleigh me
And homophones to, too a degree
'Cause my spell checker can't catch 'em
As if stuck in my throat like phlegm
Perhaps isle just order a laryngectomee
12/15/2025
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Haha. That one sleighs. It’s homophonic.
There was a young gal named Faye
Who was having an awfully bad day
Her car broke down
So to get to town
She hitched the horse to her sleigh
Giddyup!
Faye’s resourceful
Enjoyed :)
Seems it Never Snows in New Delhi
They've never heard sleigh bells in New Delhi
'cept on the radio or on the telly
Though in years long past it has snowed
Oh, the traffic - how everything slowed
"Nought may endure but Mutability" quoth Shelley
12/16/2025
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
Nice sleighing limericks, Sancho and Tailor. Tis the season and Esther's next word is "holly": https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/12/...-limerick-263/
With the holly and ivy we go.
Grab a kiss under sweet mistletoe.
But is mistletoe sweet?
Well, the rhyme was no cheat.
May that kiss bring you bliss and love grow.
^ Nice. That one makes me happy. Mine, by contrast, shoots for angst. Is it finals week?
There once was a freshman at M.I.T.
Who sought an engineering degree
She studied so hard
Out in the yard
In the shade of a good-luck holly tree
Enjoyed ^^ :)
In the past I've used holly to surround a Nativity scene for a table presentation at church...
https://www.online-literature.com/fo...8&d=1766433073The Holly Tree
a seasonal snip to our holly tree
for Christmas decorations to guarantee
the spirit of Christ be made manifest
that one and all be blessed
with remembrance of the Nativity
12/22/2025
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
I like the idea of clipping holly for decorations, Tailor. The one thankful thing about those exams, Sancho, is I no longer have to take them.
Esther's word this week is "door": https://estherchilton.co.uk/2025/12/...-limerick-264/
The cell of my prison’s fine door
was opened. I stood on the floor.
Do I dare to go out?
Dare I run, walk about?
I stayed stuck so they locked the cell door.
There was a wrecked steamer, The Alice May
Was set ablaze on the marge of a bay
“Please close the door”
“I must implore”
Said Sam who thought the heat should stay
There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold.
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold.
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights.
But the queerest they ever did see
Was the night on the marge of Lake LeBarge
I cremated Sam McGee.
My Granddad loved this poem. He would not only recite it. He’d enact it. It was grand.
Worthy limericks :) Great story by your Granddad. :)
I haven't had my cocoa yet, and I still need to peruse LitNet, and I have need to study a bit more for a lesson to give tonight, so later on :)
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
The Doorway Effect
There is an unsettling condition
which some find an imposition
when passing through a door
one's memories theretofore
are purged in the new location
12/30/2025
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor