Comments on: Which Limerick Will Win the HP TouchSmart PC?

By: Seth

Seth — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:17:26 +0000

This contest once seemed so much sweeter
when my name topped the vote counting meter.
But can poetry clever
survive an endeavor
designed to reward the best tweeter?

Thanks all – this was fun :-)

By: Gnomedex: Why do Geeks Gather Here? ~ Chris Pirillo

Gnomedex: Why do Geeks Gather Here? ~ Chris Pirillo — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:04:54 +0000

[...] It’s too bad if you weren’t with us at the conference. HP was an amazing sponsor, and provided many excellent prizes to attendees! We already gave away an HP Notebook, and an HP Mini. Right now, the voting is in place for one lucky attendee to win an HP TouchSmart. So get out there and cast your vote! [...]

By: Jim Fidelholtz

Jim Fidelholtz — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:51:59 +0000

None of the limericks *really* followed the rules for limericks. First, they have to be *dirty* (the closest was Seth, who talked about ‘kicking a**’–come on!). Second, while the rhyme scheme is indeed AABBA, there are also meter requirements, which very few of the limericks followed correctly. The only exceptions to the first requirement come in (a) kiddie books with limericks (or Edward Lear, who made a career in the early 20th century of bowdlerizing dirty limericks, and also butchered them by basically repeating the first line in the fifth) or (b) if they are really funny. But it’s always better to be really funny *and* dirty.
DISCLAIMER: THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXAMPLE OF A DIRTY LIMERICK

The prick-naming contest of Wole
Was won by a fellow named Dole.
He said, with great bonhommie,
“I call mine metonymy,
Because it’s the part for the whole.”

And one of the *very* few decent clean limericks:

There once was a lady named Bright
Who could travel much faster than light.
She set out one day
In a relative way
And arrived the previous night.

Anyway, I voted for Trish & Al. because at least theirs was funny, although I did think about voting for Seth.

Sorry I couldn’t get to Gnomedex from Mexico, but good luck (and–please–better limericks in the future). Not having been at Gnomedex, my excuse for voting anyway is that I call myself ‘a kind of sewer of limericks’. (The late Gershon Legman, author of the 2-volume _Anatomy of the dirty joke_, also wrote –anonymously — the 2-volume treatise _The limerick_. (Many Ls there are *very* raunchy –not, by the way, a guarantee that they are funny.)

Jim

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:42:58 +0000

A limerick you’re asked to vote,
As they’re all trying to be especially of note,
To Chris they’re appealing,
With emotional feeling,
Because they want the computer ! :-p

By: daylan

daylan — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:54:16 +0000

Seth Strump
You’ve engaged and inspired the masses.
You’ve replaced the old chattering classes.
Great content will flourish
if you take care to nourish
your instinct to keep kicking asses.

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Help me Win an HP TouchSmart PC! » katzcorner.com — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:41:10 +0000

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By: Dolan

Dolan — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:36:45 +0000

I think that 14 should win because she managed to throw the word “sex” into the limerick

By: Dallas

Dallas — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:25:01 +0000

Beth Goza should win for sure!

By: henry

henry — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:42:58 +0000

i will win!

By: mattb4rd

mattb4rd — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:42:49 +0000

Fun stuff. (Mainly this is a post to check your link off to geeks.pirillo.com)

By: drew olanoff

drew olanoff — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:36:55 +0000

Duncan Riley’s fake accent is unfair! I call foul!!!

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So you want to learn Linux? - Geeks! — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:17:42 +0000

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By: Dennis Bjørn Petersen

Dennis Bjørn Petersen — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:43:18 +0000

Since it’s Duncan Riley’s birthday today. He get’s my vote.

Great limericks by everyone though ;)

By: Michelle Trent

Michelle Trent — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:42:52 +0000

What a great contest! All of them were good.

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