Word: limerick
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...limerick's an art form complex...
These effects notwithstanding, the limerick is very far from being pornography. Indeed, it serves something largely contrary to the purposes of today's pornographers-it produces laughter. Poet Wystan Auden is quoted to this end in the current collection...
...literature of the limerick is of course filled with sagas of girls who went...
...should not be thought that the limerick is lowbrow poetry muttered by beery men glad to get away from their wives and into the saloon. A strict art form, the limerick is the special province of the literate, oldfashioned, word-oriented man. Only those who respect and understand the magic of words can enjoy the holiday from sense in the limerick, where the rhyme as often as not dictates the sense...
...Remember. More than 50 years ago, writes Baring-Gould, the Princeton Tiger published a publishable limerick that went...