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Mary Chambers
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« on: 16:16:20, 19-02-2007 »
The haikus have just about passed their peak, I feel, so how about limericks? Write them yourselves or tell us the best ones you know. I've just come across this, which I think is quite good even though the scansion is dodgy - I didn't write it:
 
Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina
Was of ornithosexual demeanour,
As you'll clearly discern
From his "Screw of the Tern" -
Just like Ben Britten's, but cleaner.
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« Reply #1 on: 19:43:48, 19-02-2007 »
The music man Michael Kemp Tippett
Was almost as slim as a whippet;
Now I'm rather supposing
When he was composing
He'd not stop for a meal, but just skip it.
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« Reply #2 on: 19:35:24, 21-02-2007 »
When they asked of Lord Benjamin Britten
Why by Pears he was totally smitten,
He replied: "You may quote;
When he opens his throat
Why I feel just as weak as a kitten."
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Mary Chambers
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« Reply #3 on: 20:04:26, 21-02-2007 »
You're obviously the only talented limerick writer round here, Ron!

My version of that one is:

A composer called Benjamin Britten
Was completely and totally smitten
By a singer called Peter,
No voice he thought sweeter,
And that's how the operas got written.

Well, there are a limited number of rhymes. Smiley

I had a try at rhyming Caruso, but could only come up with this:

The tenor Enrico Caruso
Had no need of help from the booze-o.
He said "A high C?
No problem for me!
I can sing thirty-five if I choose-o."

I suppose there's no need to put a name at the end of the first line. I feel that there must be a good limerick lurking that rhymes "castrato" with "vibrato". Anyone care to take up the challenge?
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« Reply #4 on: 21:11:59, 21-02-2007 »
Senesino, the famous castrato
Was a young married woman's amato
He was super at kissing
And though he'd parts missing
What was left still performed ostinato.

Farinelli, another castrato
Took these things much more moderato,
"Am I rubbish in bed?"
"No!" the great singer said,
"I am great! But in tempo rubato".
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« Reply #5 on: 08:22:13, 22-02-2007 »
Very good, Reiner! I thought there must be something along those lines. Couldn't quite think of one myself, though.
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« Reply #6 on: 11:03:18, 22-02-2007 »
 A good friend of this Board-Ian Pace
 On the joanna is really quite ace.
 But, mention the ballet
 And he's off on a rally
 'Gainst hoofers he thinks a disgrace.

 (Outside an opera house)
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« Reply #7 on: 12:17:05, 22-02-2007 »
Poor old Maria Stuarda.
She dissed her coz: 'Vil bastarda!'
By Act Three she knew
That her time was through,
Leaving Bess v The Spanish Armada.
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