Anyone interested in making up limericks? For those who don't know, a limerick is a (usually) humorous rhyme consisting of five lines. The first, second and last lines are longish ones, all rhyming. The second and third are shortish ones, rhyming to each other. No one really knows how or where the form originated but here's a sample of one of Edward Lear's 'A Book of Nonsense' (1846):

There was a young lady of Wilts
who walked up to Scotland on stilts
when they said it is shocking
to show so much stocking
she answered, "Then what about kilts?"

My idea is, to have one person writing the first line, then the next one the second one etc until the five lines are completed and we end up (hopefully) with a very funny limerick. Just remember, two longish lines, then two short ones, then one long one with a punch.
Then the whole sequence starts again... perhaps the last person to add the last line could start the first of the next one?
Anyone game to give it a go? OK, I'll start the first line:

An old lady on Waiheke Isle,

who was full of cunning and guile

one day she went walking.

i followed along stalking

Till she gave me the finger in style


There was an old man called Stan,

who one morning ate too much bran..

Then quick as a flick,

he was terribly sick.

in the back of his best mates van


there was once a woman called claire

The best limericks are by Edward Lear. I love his books of nonsensce..


Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator and writer known for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form which he popularised.



There was an Old Man of Aôsta,
Who possessed a large Cow, but he lost her;
But they said, 'Don't you see,
she has rushed up a tree?
You invidious Old Man of Aôsta!'

or this one by mr Lear..


There was an Old Man in a tree,
Who was horribly bored by a Bee;
When they said, "Does it buzz?" he replied, "Yes, it does!
It's a regular brute of a Bee."

have Fun..