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• Recreation: Humor: Poetry: Limericks (8)

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• Alien Limerick Generator - This interactive 'net artifact is an exercise in computer glossolalia that allows users to randomly generate metrically perfect nonsense-limericks--in an "alien" (that is, not spoken, now nor ever, on Earth) language.
• Bibliography of Limericks - List of print books of and on limericks, compiled by Karl Dilcher.
• Funny Limericks For Everyone - A limerick blog, with a clean, humorous limerick posted each day. Includes a limerick generator and accepts submissions.
• Giggle Poetry - The Limerick - Limerick writing for kids. By Bruce Lansky.
• Here-Be-Limerick-Poems.com - Limerick poems, funny or jaded, useful for: birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, graduations, toasts/roasts, retirement, work humor, bitter dregs, friendship, and professions.
• Less Ludicrous Limericks - A collection from thinks.com. A companion to "More Ludicrous Limericks."
• Limerick Books of the 1820s - The two earliest known books of limericks, with a link to a third. Part of an Edward Lear home page.
• Limerick Poems - Invites visitors to write and rate limericks. Includes a "how to" section and a description of the form.
• Limerick Poetry - A limerick page for children, with a simple explanation and some family-friendly examples, including the option to print out limericks in color. Be warned: the site generates pop-up and new-browser-window ads.
• Limerick o' the Day - A daily (ribald) limerick, with an archive of previously featured limericks.
• Limericks - A brief description and definition of the limerick form, along with an example.
• Limericks - A collection and short explanation of the form.
• Limericks - Limericks by teachers in England. Includes suggestions for classroom activities.
• Limericks - A brief history and explanation along with numerous examples from "A Book of Nonsense" by Edward Lear.
• Limericks by Brownielocks - Clean and funny limericks.
• Loony Limericks - Huge and still growing collection of limericks both naughty and nice. Visitors can also add a line to the mass limerick.
• Meskhi lines - Limericks and short lines by Slava Meskhi. English, Russian and Georgian languages.
• More Ludicrous Limericks - A collection from thinks.com. A companion to "Less Ludicrous Limericks."
• OEDILF - The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form - A project to write at least one limerick for every word in the English language.
• Poetic Limericks - Genuine poetry written in the limerick style. Background information on this style of poetry and samples of the work of Joel D. Ash. Gateways to online books containing Poetic Limericks.
• Polish Limericks - Translations of English and Polish limericks (English-Polish and Polish-English).
• Smithsonian Magazine - "The Limerick is Furtive and Mean..." - From the Maigue poets to Ogden Nash, witty wordsmiths have delighted in composing the oft-risqué five-line verses. Introductory article.
• The "L" Blog - A limerick blog. The limericks, however, are not in the classic form, and the rhymes are often not exact.
• The Classic Nantucket Limerick - The original Nantucket limerick published in the Princeton Tiger in 1924, with various extensions that appeared in other publications.
• The Limerick - A brief but insightful description of the limerick form.
• The Pentatette Home Page - The Limerick Special Interest Group website. Includes definitions, technical and scholarly information on limericks.
• There Was a Young Man Who Sent E-mails - The incomplete collected limericks of Richard C. Long.
• What is Limerick? - Limerick Poems - A fairly mundane and unsubstantiated discussion of the structure and origin of the limerick, but the site includes a charming children's limerick by Graham Lester and a wonderful song and set of limerick videos taken from various limerick sites.
• Writing Limericks for Fun and Profit - Twelve tips, with additional commentary and numerous examples by Robert Birch. Includes collections of both clean and bawdy limericks.

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