Limerick Contest!!!
04/28/2011 at 2:45 am | Posted in How to this-or-that, Just for Fun, News & Explanations | 26 CommentsImpulses are fun!
Today and tomorrow I am calling folks who bought singing voicemails from me in my fundraiser for my new album Something Fierce, and I was a tiny bit sad because not every fan who desired a voicemail got one. I wanted to give more one away for free just for fun, but didn’t want to devalue the messages folks already paid for.
Then @joethepeacock swooped to the rescue and generously purchased one more voicemail to be awarded to the lucky winner of this contest! Rules as follows:
- Submit a limerick (or as many as you like) to me via Twitter, Facebook, or e-mail (mariancall*at*mac.com)!!
- Material should be PG-13 please as I’m going to post it on my blog!!
- It doesn’t necessarily have to be about me, it can be about anything that might amuse us all!!
- I’ll pick a favorite with no guarantees of impartiality or fairness, and the creator will win a voicemail from me!!
- Several non-winners will be posted on my blog for fun!!
- Contest begins now and ends whenever I wake up tomorrow, likely to be about 10am AKDT!!
The Voicemail portion of my annual fundraiser is of course inspired by the radio show Wait! Wait! Don’t Tell Me! in which contestants play for Carl Kasell’s voice on their home answering machine. Which is pretty much one of my favorite prizes I ever heard of. So in addition to winning a voicemail, the winner gets the fun of being announced as winner on Twitter by @PeterSagal. (If this means nothing to you, well, you should listen to the radio more often, because then you’d know how frakking awesome that is.)
Why limericks? Because I love to rhyme and scansion is my life. Points for working with/against the form.
Go!
Marian
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There are sounds guaranteed to enthrall –
If you listen at night
And you’re lucky, you might
Hear a loon or a Marian call!
Comment by Podblack— 04/28/2011 #
Nearly forgot – my Twittername is TokenSkeptic. :)
Comment by Podblack— 04/28/2011 #
I’m not really much of a poet
If you’ve read my poems you’d know it
When I say “limerick”
It rhymes with “I’m Nick!”
My poems also don’t really flow
it— @V2Blast
Comment by V2Blast— 04/28/2011 #
‘pon eating a huge Baked Alaska,
My girl said she’d dance if I asked her.
Her moves were so fine,
I said “Do be mine!”
What the frak rhymes: Madagascar.
Comment by RichardB— 04/28/2011 #
Coo, I rhymed lines 3 and 4 in line 5 without thinking. I’ll credit that to the Scotch.
Comment by RichardB— 04/28/2011 #
So what did the lady reply?
Comment by Marian Call— 04/28/2011 #
My licence above was poetic.
We do seem to be empathetic.
Each txtd “had fun!’
Courting will be done.
I do hope it ends copacetic!
Comment by RichardB— 04/29/2011 #
The News all around I am dreading
It’s noise that I’d rather be shedding
The shade of the dress
Is way too much stress
It’s not even our Royal _________.
Comment by John— 04/28/2011 #
One last opportunity soon
Atlantis is flying in June
The astronaut’s choice
Is Marian’s voice
They ‘d rather hear “Good Morning, ____”
Comment by John— 04/28/2011 #
There once was a girl from Alaska,
A musical multitasker.
She’d play melodies,
On typewriter keys,
And rainstick whenever you’d ask her.
Comment by treelobsters— 04/28/2011 #
[…] my entry for Marian Call’s limerick contest. If you’ve seen Firefly, you’ll probably remember […]
Pingback by Alaska Robotics » Archive » Saffron Limerick— 04/28/2011 #
Of redheads I have to opine,
A particular penchant of mine,
I love hair that’s ginger,
Especially when oranger,
Oh bugger, I’ve run out of rhymes.
Comment by treelobsters— 04/28/2011 #
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CongrAdulations. In the eternal search for a word that rhymes with ‘orange’, you’ve come close, treelobsters, very close.
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Comment by matozoa— 05/01/2011 #
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OMG, I cannot stop…
A neighbor’s new dog was named Ginge’.
That name sent us out on a binge.
When we stopped the hilarity,
I saw the disparity;
It still doesn’t rhyme up with ‘orange’.
Comment by matozoa— 05/01/2011 #
The worlds of the Twelve Tribes of Man
Were nuked in the Cylon’s grand plan
So jump did the Fleet
Toward Earth in retreat
And all this will happen again
Comment by dunemuaddib— 04/28/2011 #
Just for fun, not competing
An autoerotic named Rand
Hung out with a gambling band
At poker he failed
And at blackjack he failed
But he still had a heck of a hand
Comment by howeird— 04/28/2011 #
A limerick I’ve stuck in my head
On Marian’s blog be share-ed
I’d have made it a tweet
But length limit did meet
So here I will post it instead
@DuneMuadDib
That’s shared as two syllables. Lamenting Twitter’s character limit when posting my last inspired this.
Comment by dunemuaddib— 04/28/2011 #
There once was a man from a land
Which sounds like a masculine gland
Sure you know what I mean
But to stay PG-13
Requires this punchline be bland
Comment by dunemuaddib— 04/28/2011 #
Shouldn’t tempt me when I should be sleeping.
PG – Limerics eh…
There once was a gal full of sass,
who sings folk with a dash of jazz.
Her concerts were great,
touring the lower 48.
Playing a typewriter with great panashe.
There was a show staring Jayne,
And this girl who was quite insane.
It’s on a new station,
to my great jubilation.
Cause dealing with Fox was a pain.
Joe
Maybe more when I get some sleep, but those are usually less creative.
Comment by Joe— 04/28/2011 #
To be, or to not is the question
On which I have spent some reflection.
I think I’ll act madly,
Observe t’effect on the fam’ly.
That decided, let’s get on with the action.
Comment by katiedidwhat— 04/28/2011 #
It’s over. We’re done. I’ve said it.
It feels better now that we both know it.
You shouldn’t look so blue
It was good for you too.
But life’s too short to spend with you reddit.
Comment by Arik— 04/28/2011 #
Late I know, but this came to me while driving.
There once was a girl from Anchorage,
Who at her very young age,
Did think it would nifty,
To drive through all fifty,
To help make her music all the rage.
Comment by Tom B— 04/29/2011 #
One I wrote for someone having a uretral stent replaced:
We hear that you got a new stent
Did you give up the old one for Lent?
Take care on the sofa
And when you bend ovah–
You don’t want that thing to get bent.
Comment by stwidgie— 04/29/2011 #
I thought Marian’s lovely young tone
Would sound perfect upon my cell phone.
My wife gave me a wallop
After hearing “some trollop”
Leave a message. Now I sleep alone.
Comment by Jonathan— 04/29/2011 #
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Prudhoe pumps out day and night,
but Accountants and Lawyers and spite,
with a forest of paper conflate a tax caper —
Why not just meter the pipe?
.
matozoa
Comment by matozoa— 04/30/2011 #
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LIMERICK QUA TRAIN
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These limericks were all just so good.
With minor adjustments they would
mostly be winners
and worthy of dinners
rewarding “Little Engine(s) That Could”.
.
“I think I can I- think I can”
do limericks for made Marian.
I’ll prob’ly be late
the usual fate
when rhyming whilst being a fan.
.
She said she was a “True geek”,
but shyness does not equal meek.
Without adding pompos-ity:
We DELIGHT curios-ity –
Agile mind doesn’t mean freak.
.
So tell me the contest’s not closed,
or on prizes I’m certainly hosed.
The reward’s in the writing,
some message delighting,
as the tune is already composed.
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Aie-yie-yi-yi…
Comment by matozoa— 04/30/2011 #