Pardon the interruption ...
Mame wrote:I get the message loud and clear
"Keep the beat and make it queer"
I'll do my best
As you request
Let's have some fun, let's persevere
Mame: My apologies for not getting back to you sooner ... the real world called. Sorry if I insulted your sensibilities earlier. It's just that I've seen you post very many well-written limericks, and then all of a sudden the ... uhh ... "blood-engorged-flea/bee's knees" post landed with its odd structure, etc. I believe your message
to me was loud and clear.
Personally I could care less about syllable counts (to a point) ... actually the gold standard of all limericks (Nantuckett) actually ends with 10 syllables. I may be wrong ... and, yes, as Spendius points out, scansion is important, too, but I honestly think scansion is largely in the ear of the beholder. (Take a close look at some of Shakespeare's sonnets.)
No, it's not necessary to "make it queer." I understand you might find chorus lines of hairy high-kicking albino pre-schoolers to be a bit out there, but I believe several of Lion Tamer's posts in that run truly belong in the Limericking Hall of Fame ... sweaty Yeti's, rules/pools, etc. ... very edgy stuff and quite frankly pants-wettingly funny. Some subjects beg for a limericking format, and I just don't think seashores, unicorns, & rainbows fit the genre.
As you say, let's have fun ... queer or no ... and yes, we'll persevere.
I beg everyone's pardon! LOL
