National Limerick Day May 12th

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Night-owl May 2022 1:43pm, 12 May 2022 39,472 posts	0 Night-owl nationaldaycalendar.com Apparently held every May 12th I'm terrible I'm not good at these Let's here yours
Diogenes May 2022 1:48pm, 12 May 2022 69,657 posts	0 Diogenes From Brian Bilston
Cerrertonia May 2022 1:57pm, 12 May 2022 16,467 posts	0 Cerrertonia There was a young lady called night-owl who daily would let out a howl she said that to eat mice is not pleasant nor nice and in fact they taste quite foul
Velociraptor May 2022 2:01pm, 12 May 2022 57,990 posts	0 Velociraptor My favourite was written by my friend Margo at primary school. I wonder now if she had a relative who'd had a parasitic brain infection. There once was a man from Dalrymple On his head he grew a pimple When it burst He grew a thirst And now he's awful simple
Fitz May 2022 2:05pm, 12 May 2022 2,700 posts	0 Fitz One I remember from a childhood joke book. There was a young lad from St Just Who ate apple pie till he bust It wasn't the fru-it That caused him to do it What finished him off was the crust.
Nicholls595 May 2022 2:07pm, 12 May 2022 28,576 posts	0 Nicholls595 There was a young man from Brighton Who thought he’d at last found a tight ‘un. He said, “Oh my love, It fits like a glove.” Said she, “But you’re not in the right ‘un.”
Diogenes May 2022 2:23pm, 12 May 2022 69,658 posts	0 Diogenes A Czech on his hols in Den Haag Was found dazed and confused in the park When asked his address He broke down in distress And cried "I don't know, is it Prague?"
♪♫ Synge ♪♫ May 2022 2:52pm, 12 May 2022 45,441 posts	0 ♪♫ Synge ♪♫ Following Dio's earlier post and in similar vein: There was a young man from Japan Whose limericks never would scan. When asked why that was, He replied "It's because I always try to cram as many words into the last line as I possibly can."
♪♫ Synge ♪♫ May 2022 2:55pm, 12 May 2022 45,442 posts	0 ♪♫ Synge ♪♫ And, possibly thanks to Miles Kington (the creator of the wonderful "Let's Parler Franglais"), this one: In China, the limerick's wrong, A kind of back-to-front song. And this is the worst, The last line comes first, So "There was a young man from Hong Kong".
fetcheveryone May 2022 2:56pm, 12 May 2022 27,604 posts	0 fetcheveryone Mr Jacobs one day said "I feel, that most biscuits are shaped like a wheel! So just for a change, I'll alter my range, So people can have a square meal." My gran wrote that, and sent it in to some sort of competition in the paper, in my name. I won a Walkman