Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Esercizi poetici (da perfezionare, temo...)

Cari amici, vi invio due mie creazioni di questa mattina (come vedete, lo
studio mi impegna parecchio...). In realtà questi due limerick sono un
pretesto semiserio per parlare di questo genere poetico: c'è qualcuno nel
newsgroup che si diletti a scrivere dei limerick? qualcuno sa dell'esistenza
di autori contemporanei di limerick? (io conosco solo Edward Lear, che ha
scritto delle cose divertenti e surreali, ma certo non è un autore
contemporaneo!)
The British people speaks
There once was a fellow named Tony
who was always surrounded by cronies;
but after four years
we have no more fears
and we're voting that fellow named Tony.
Doubts of a powerful man
There once was a prez named George W
who toured the Old World and Arabia,
and he cautiously ask'd us:
"Am I always the POTUS?",
that hesitant prez named George W.
Un saluto a tutti e perdonate la parentesi giocosa.
"Fay Ce Que Vouldras"
http://panurgo13.supereva.it
panurgo13

 Un saluto a tutti e perdonate la parentesi giocosa.
Che ci sarebbe da perdonare, pardon? :-)
Anche i tuoi erano sfiziosi. Mo' vado a vedere se c'č ancora il forum 
cosě posto l'indirizzo. Se t'interessa il file intero, che ho conservato, 
te lo mando.
-- 
Ciao,
Anna

 te lo mando.
Sì, grazie Anna, mi interessa molto!
Ciao,
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Potus?? What's that when it's at home? 
Loki
-- 
 

 The British people speaks
panurgo, the word "people" in English is plural, even though in
Italian, "gente" is singular.
In inglese, "people" e' plurale anche se in italiano "gente" sia singolare.
-- 
Dale Erwin
http://home.earthlink.net/~erwintech

 Potus?? What's that when it's at home?
It's a plant, sort of cactus I suppose.
Obviously, in US political jargon, POTUS stands for "President Of The United
States" and it's generally meant as a not-so-serious way to refer to the
President.
ciao.
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Some more limericks of mine, to the unspeakable joy of the whole
newsgroup... ;-)))
1) My girl and my love!
There once lived a lass in Ravenna
who was pretty and whose name was McKenna;
but she went to the beach,
far out of my reach,
that unscrupulous lass named McKenna.
2) On recent elections in Italy
There once was a man from Milan
who sold smoke tinned in a can;
and being right of a Tory
he told us his story,
the wizard who came fron Milan.
3) A bawdy limerick
There once was a man fron Hong Kong
whose d*** was exceedingly long,
so that girls in Bahamas
could taste his John Thomas.
That lucky old man fron Hong Kong.
ciao.
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Un altro limerick che mi č venuto oggi (una piccola chicca tutta per il ng):
I was strolling on the banks of a river,
when I sighted Ow Ouch and a beaver;
they were building a dam
in their cozy wee den,
those lovers, Ow Ouch and the beaver...
Con simpatia per tutto il ng (e senza offesa per Ow Ouch, ovviamente!).
ciao!
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 Con simpatia per tutto il ng (e senza offesa per Ow Ouch, ovviamente!).
What about for the beaver?
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A limerick should be shot dead
for saying a thing it just said
so please when they're penned
make sure they don't end
with a word that was already read.
rick

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Said the young princess from Siam
To her lover, young Khayam,
"To seduce me, of course,
You'll have to use force.
Thank goodness you're stronger than I am."
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 What about for the beaver?
There was a young beaver
with the admirable goal
to protect his young ass
from an ignorant troll
who lurked under a bridge
of copper and glass
hiding his true longings
with attempts to harass
Ciao,
Ron
USA

Two Shakespearean limericks:
He read Shakespeare and was a good fellow
and could tell Macbeth from Othello;
but more than Cordelia
he pitied Ophelia,
who had drowned in a stream not quite shallow.
He thought Shakespeare was very cool,
and he read him at nights as a rule,
but on reading King Lear
he suddenly fear'd
of resembling the dear old Fool.
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 wrote in message news:3B228A47...@wcom.com...
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The father of limericks, Lear,
Could be said to have based his career
On just this device,
Where he used a word twice;
But he wasn't as clever as we are.
Un esempio di Lear:
There was an Old Person of Wick,
Who said, "Tick-a-Tick, Tick-a-Tick;
  Chickabee, Chickabaw."
  And he said nothing more,
That laconic Old Person of Wick.
J
PS I've written some nonsense poetry, which can be found at:
www.bizarreworld.co.uk
No limericks, though, and the quality is patchy.


I looked for this Lear, as you've signed him,
and found that his years are behind him,
so can't, that old bard,
with king calling card,
of more modern tastes, remind him.
Rick

 Con simpatia per tutto il ng (e senza offesa per Ow Ouch, ovviamente!).
Questa mi era sfuggita. Molto carina davvero. Ciao

 from an ignorant troll
Ignorant troll dillo a tua nonna :-)