Remember limericks? They were huge in the mid-20th century, but fell on hard times over the last couple decades. Now so many dirty limericks are a generation out-of-date, and the really clever ones lie neglected and un-retold.
I want more limericks, and I want the cleverest ones collected somewhere. It strikes me that a certain modern system for collecting bits of funny text might be perfect for both these goals.
So, after a moment’s work, I’ve set up LimerickDB.com, which you’ll recognize as similar to bash.org. Submit away, both old and new! Anonymity is encouraged and a respect for meter is required. Dirtiness is not mandatory, but it helps.
Although speaking in verse is inspiring
It’s rewriting my brains inner wiring
The more I rehearase
I start *thinking* in verse
Which is honestly really quite …
Tiresome?
Hiya…
I just added you to my list for the “thinking blog award”… Don’t feel obliged to follow the meme… but I wanted you to know.
Am I the only one that thought about resistor color code limericks??
[...] the genius behind xkcd just opened up LimerickDB. Be warned, many (if not most) are definitely NSFW, but I find many of them quite [...]
@Nachtkreicher:
I got it. I laughed. :) I’m going to send that joke to some of my CS friends.
Any chance you could upgrade the software running this DB to chirpy? http://chirpy.sourceforge.net/ – Rash is _so_ annoying with not preventing the default action when clicking on a vote link for a quote/limerick; I’m totally not used to having to middle-click anymore. (And even if I do, that’s still a pain for then needing to go close all those tabs again.)
Marcus, probably you are, but by all means feel free to share one such limerick with us. I’m quite curious to see what you have in mind.
God bless you for this.
Hoh man, this is awesome.
“There once was a man from Perdue
Whose limericks stopped at line two.
There once was a man from Verdun.
(There’s also one about a man named Nero, but I can’t seem to find it.)”
:D
:D
:D
@ Will:
Yeah I bet. You can stop now if you want :P
Adoration at alliteration, also! As an apt alliterator, a-aimed alliterations are always amazingly auspiciously assembled.
Oh one more thing, I posted it on my personal blag (fairly new, most of the posts are about anarchism/communism right now) with a request for something a little more bawdy to be written about me.
I have no readers though so nobody will haha. The only reason I created it in the first place was to extrapolate on an assignment, and to share my rantings with my classmates.
There’s a cooperative limerick project over here. They could use some fresh blood.
Something broken? None of my submissions have made it on (they seem good enough to me), and when I send mail to admin@limerickdb.com it replies:
Reporting-MTA: dns; QMTA08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.80]
Received-From-MTA: dns; OMTA01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.11]
Arrival-Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:18:54 +0000
Final-recipient: rfc822; admin@limerickdb.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 554 5.7.1 : Relay access denied
Last-attempt-Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:18:54 +0000
here’s one (#107), is it reminding you of anything at all ?:
See that lighthouse beam in the sky
That guides yonder ships going by?
My friend shines that beam;
She’s living her dream.
I’m in grad school. I still don’t know why.
ajax voting please!
k thanks
The Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form is working on producing a dictionary of the English Language, in limericks. It has over 41,000 limericks, with more added every day. See http://www.oedilf.com/ to read or write!
I can’t actually believe this one hasn’t been posted yet.
There once was a man from Kent
Whose dick was so long that it bent
To keep out of trouble
He’d fold it in double
And instead of coming he went.
A little hacking job on the votes here… ;-)
#!/bin/bash
while curl ‘http://limerickdb.com/?ratingplus&id=27′|true
do
echo ‘Hacked!’;
sleep 16
done
Funny thing about finding this, is that the same day this was posted, I was shown a paper written by my aerodynamics professor at the university of michigan. He wrote an entire CFD theory paper in limerick. Good to know my profs are as bored as I am.
[...] And many more, found here: LimerickDB. See also a note from the site’s creator. [...]
there once was a hooker named jill
who used dynamite for a thrill
they found her vagina
in north carolina
and bits of her tits in brazil
There once was a man of Arnoux
whose limericks stopped at line two
Can anyone help me? I can’t get my limericks to appear on the site. Any tips?
There once was a cat hypothetical
who wrote sonnets and verse quite poetical
He said “Cainines could, if only they would
but I fear that their verse is sheer doggeral”
The British radio show “I’m Sorry I haven’t a Clue” still generates limericks every now and then.
[...] first, I thought Randall Munroe’s* idea of starting a limerick database in the same vein as bash.org was a bit "meh", but, once again, it turns out that the man [...]
Please, could we have an RSS feed? There used to be one for bash.org too, but they stopped it.
BTW, XKCD rocks. ;-)
Thanks. I used to have several limericks of my own stuck in my head, but after reading a couple of dozen of the latest postings I can’t remember them. Sort of a retroactive memory interference thing I guess. In any case I sincerely appreciate forgetting them.
awesome
ThemePark: Thanks. It’s not quite as clever as I remember it, all those years ago, but it’s good to see it again. My own Google-Fu was weak until I got the title.
I live in Limerick if that helps.
this is my comment
hello
I’m here because I was lookin’ for a place to comment on your current xkcd comic #435.
When I was in high school (circa 1960), I chose math as a college major for similar reasons, and then later math logic, ditto: I found that psychology was applied bio; bio, applied chem; chem, applied physics; physics, applied math. But then I later thought: But math is applied philosophy; philosophy, applied psychology. Hence the whole thing is a circle. I put that in a book chapter in 1987, “Complementarity as a Christian philosophy of Mathematics,” in
Heie and Wolfe.
If I were to modify that now, I’d insert “Physics is applied information science” between physics and math.
Enjoyed the video of your talk at Google!
–Gene Chase
christian submissions…
Some weblog software programs, such as Wordpress, Movable Type and Community Server, support automatic pingbacks where all the links…
Woah. I was just googling about what websites use rash and I came across this blog entry. It makes me so happy that you’re using something I wrote.
If anyone’s interested, this project was how I taught myself to program computers, and was definitely a learning experience in such things. It was coded by a complete novice who knew nothing, and that’s why it’s so buggy and hole-ridden. This project led me to major in mathematics in college… a major I’m about to finish.
It’s crazy to think that the owner of one of my favorite websites has been running code I wrote back in high school. It’s pretty amazing – the internet is awesome.
I don’t really have an interest in going back and making things more secure, better operational, or whatever — I don’t love web programming like I used to, but this brought a smile to my face :).
I stumbled on limerickdb
and reading it filled me with glee
alas something is wrong
no updates in so long
im done, no new limericks to see
A man typed “I less than three”,
But he said “What says ‘Love’ to me?…”
The man thought of a comic
Whose awesomeness atomic
Cant be spoken, only spelled, you see.
This limerick only applies until someone creative finds out how to say “XKCD” without totally cheating.
:]
P.S. having justified my posting by putting up a limerick, i’d like to add that XKCD is my favorite website of all time. including youtube, gmail, facebook and google. together. :D
It’s supposed to be written “xkcd”, not XKCD, unless you are one of those GUYS HOO R ALWAYS TYPIN LIEK THIS!?!?!?
I met, once, a man who who was dumb.
He was only able to type with his thumb.
He blogged, not too skilled.
It’s his fault he was killed.
Now I’m playing his funeral drum.
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