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Example

Must think of a better example. The metre is wrong on the current one -- Tarquin

Is it better after taking out the vandalism from a couple months ago? --Brion

Much. I obviously didn't read that closely... it's pre-breakfast in my time zone :-) -- Tarquin

Quotations

Those two references about the name, currently reference 1 and 2, are, judging by references on the web, from the fascicle containing the L, 1898, from the Oxford Dictionary 1928 edition. What is it that has to be referenced about Sumer is icumen in, currently the third reference, which has its own page? Mysha

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Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 13:37, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Why is there a " { " at the top of the talk page?

I just noticed this and I was like hmmmmmm? Frittle (talk) 14:09, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I wondered where I'd dropped that. Fixed now. Cheers, BlackcurrantTea (talk) 19:36, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Frittle (talk) 13:38, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Algebra

The successive algebraic simplifications of the mathematical limerick is rather unencyclopedic, isn't it? The limerick stands well on it's own, and explicitly performing the calculations seems like WP:OR. —St.Nerol (talk, contribs) 13:14, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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 Those two references about the name, currently reference 1 and 2, are, judging by references on the web, from the fascicle containing the L, 1898, from the Oxford Dictionary 1928 edition. What is it that has to be referenced about [[Sumer is icumen in]], currently the third reference, which has its own page? [[User:Mysha (nl)|Mysha]]
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-== Meta-limericks ==
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+* [[commons:File:Limerick on the walls of Limerick.jpg|Limerick on the walls of Limerick.jpg]]<!-- COMMONSBOT: discussion | 2023-02-08T13:37:33.185718 | Limerick on the walls of Limerick.jpg -->
-there should be a section on meta-limericks, that is, limericks about limericks
+Participate in the deletion discussion at the [[commons:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Limerick on the walls of Limerick.jpg|nomination page]]. —[[User:Community Tech bot|Community Tech bot]] ([[User talk:Community Tech bot|talk]]) 13:37, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
-meter isn't right on this one, but:
-:There was an old Limerick with the flu,
-:Who lived with his zebra and gnu.
-:And here's a verse
-:even worse than the first;
-:He thought he was a haiku.
-This one is meta in the sense that it's a template limerick ([[Special:Contributions/73.53.44.165|73.53.44.165]] ([[User talk:73.53.44.165|talk]]) 03:16, 17 February 2014 (UTC)):
-:There once was an entity E
-:That satisfied predicate P.
-:  It performed action A
-:  In a specified way,
-:Resulting in circumstance C.
-== More Anti Lyrics ==
-Found these
-:A newspaper poet for Hearst
-:Deprived of his reason
-:By uncontrolled sneezing
-:Was by phantasmal demons coerced
-:To write all of his limericks reversed.
-:A very sad poet was Jenny,
-:her Limericks weren't worth a penny.
-:In technique they were sound
-:but in practice she found
-:that whenever she tried to write any,
-:they always had on line too many.
-:This Limerick is copyright (©)
-:By the author, 1983.
-:Prior written consent
-:Is required to present
-:It on radio, film, or TV.
-:if ( i =  t^2 + e)
-:& (e = 14 + 3)
-:Then i > pi
-:& e > i
-:& (e/pi) i 4 t
-Pronounced:
-:if i equals t squared plus e
-:and e equals forteen plus three
-:then i is greater than pi
-:and e is greater then i
-:and e divides pi by i for t
-(Hmm ...
-:t^2 must be greater than naught
-:if t is aught other than aught,
-:and forteen plus three
-:is the value of e,
-:so this needs a little more thought.
-... [[Special:Contributions/73.53.44.165|73.53.44.165]] ([[User talk:73.53.44.165|talk]]) 04:50, 17 February 2014 (UTC))
-:There once was a fellow from Xiangling
-:China. Whose delight was in mangling
-:Poems. He would drop
-:Words between lines and lop
-:Their ends off, and leave readers dang
-:A lady whose name was McCord
-:Once over this limerick pored
-:To find the evil design
-:Hidden in the last line
-:But alas, she could not see the
-:A cardiac patient named Fred
-:Made a limerick up in his head.
-:But before he had time
-:To write down the last line
-:He died!!  <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/115.117.78.208|115.117.78.208]] ([[User talk:115.117.78.208|talk]]) 07:32, 20 February 2014 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
-::Alternatively, to maintain the limerick's meter: "The poor little bastard was dead." [[Special:Contributions/142.177.218.134|142.177.218.134]] ([[User talk:142.177.218.134|talk]]) 23:59, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
-:::Which would, however, completely kill the joke. - [[User:DavidWBrooks|DavidWBrooks]] ([[User talk:DavidWBrooks|talk]]) 11:02, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
-=="Limerick"==
-The usage of [[Limerick]] is under discussion, see [[Talk:Limerick]] -- [[Special:Contributions/70.24.250.103|70.24.250.103]] ([[User talk:70.24.250.103|talk]]) 22:37, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
-== Analysis of Gilbert example ==
-In respect to the Gilbert example is it worth mentioning that an upper-class affectation at the time pronounced "doesn't" as "don't" (so that lines 3 and 4 nearly rhyme), and that while 1, 2, and 5 do not rhyme all end with a hymenopteran?  <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/72.94.110.44|72.94.110.44]] ([[User talk:72.94.110.44|talk]]) 23:27, 16 October 2014 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
-== Dave Abercrombie ==
-I just removed quite a lot of verbiage from the "Form" section concerning the opinions of David Abercrombie. They seemed to me excessive and giving undo weight to one man's description. But others may disagree, so here's what I cut:
-The following limerick is an example:[not in citation given]
+== Why is there a " { " at the top of the talk page? ==
-The limerick’s an art form complex
-Whose contents run chiefly to sex;
-It’s famous for virgins
-And masculine urgin’s
-And vulgar erotic effects.
+I just noticed this and I was like hmmmmmm? [[User:Frittle|Frittle]] ([[User talk:Frittle|talk]]) 14:09, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
-In the first line of this limerick, there are three unstressed syllables between the first and second stresses, two between the second and third, but only one unstressed syllable before the first stress. There may or may not be an unstressed syllable (or, rarely, two) after the final stress of the line. In the example above there are unstressed syllables at the end of lines three and four but not at the end of the remaining lines. Moreover, it is intrinsic to the limerick that there be a silent stress at the end of lines one, two, and five. A silent stress occurs when the reader undergoes the physiological changes associated with a stress but without any sound. To understand this, imagine that a drum is struck each time there is a stress. Then, in English verse, the drum beats would be equally spaced, regardless of the number of unstressed syllables that separate them. However, in reading a limerick, after the third beat of the first line, the next beat falls at the end of the line, not on the first stress of the second line. Thus, it is perhaps better to think of the limerick as having four stresses (the final one silent) in lines one, two, and five – and two stresses, of course, in lines three and four. Sometimes, the ending phrase can rhyme:
+:I wondered where I'd dropped that. Fixed now. Cheers, [[User:BlackcurrantTea|BlackcurrantTea]] ([[User talk:BlackcurrantTea|talk]]) 19:36, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
+::Thanks! [[User:Frittle|Frittle]] ([[User talk:Frittle|talk]]) 13:38, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
+== Algebra ==
-Sadly, Jack's class named math
-Isn't as easy as taking a bath
-Because he has to sit next to
-A person who rejects you
-If you're a boy like you're a type of giraffe.
+The successive algebraic simplifications of the mathematical limerick is rather unencyclopedic, isn't it? The limerick stands well on it's own, and explicitly performing the calculations seems like [[WP:OR]]. —[[User:St.nerol|St.Nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]], [[Special:Contributions/(St.nerol)|contribs]]) 13:14, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
-(end of cut portion) - [[User:DavidWBrooks|DavidWBrooks]] ([[User talk:DavidWBrooks|talk]]) 19:37, 22 June 2016 (UTC)