LimerickDB.com
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 Now so many dirty limericks are a generation out-of-date, and the really clever ones lie neglected and un-retold.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.
February 4th, 2008 at 1:59 am
Geeks must like limericks. There are several dozen already.
The one I submitted that starts with “A burleycue dancer…” is by Cyril Kornbluth, pulled from the “Fantasia Mathematica” anthology.
February 4th, 2008 at 2:03 am
I was just thinking about limericks a few days ago! Yet another example of “Randall Is In My Head.”
February 4th, 2008 at 2:05 am
there once was a man who could boast
due to low latency at his host
that when blog posts went down
he was always around
to sit down and type swiftly “FIRST POST”
February 4th, 2008 at 2:07 am
Xenobiologista and Colin
Pals, your lifespan predictions are fallin
And I won’t stop at you
Warn your families too
I’m more pissed than Mao talking to Stalin
February 4th, 2008 at 2:11 am
I don’t think I can fit these in your site and make sense, but freshman year I had 2 weeks to make a binary tree class. After finishing it in about half an hour, I was left with plenty of time for comments. I have a whole program full of stuff like this:
void tree::_count(int& c) //_count steps through tree recursively
{ c++; //while always incrementing c
if(left) left->_count(c); //repeat if its there,
if(right) right->_count(c);} //and jump to it’s heir
//so c can return count to me
tree::~tree(){ //This function does nothing you see,
} //I tried to have it use kill() tree.
//But kill() calls delete,
//and makes it repeat…
//An infinite loop guarantee!
tree* left; //tree* left is the small value’s node
tree* right; //and tree* right is left’s antipode
string data; //right here is the key
int byte; //and where it may be
void _count(int&); //_count tells how much data has flowed
February 4th, 2008 at 2:13 am
Wow, this is a ridiculous coincidence. I’ve been writing limericks on my own for over a year and now this site gets created. I’m so very, very happy.
February 4th, 2008 at 2:14 am
I see what you did there, taking down the part about 4chan. Fear of Anonymous striking you down, eh?
February 4th, 2008 at 2:16 am
…the limerick that I’ve always wanted to hear to the end is from a star trek episode…
“There was a young lady from Venus, whose body was shaped like a—”
- ST:TNG, S01E03, “The Naked Now”
…sadly, I had to look up the episode number and name *sigh*
February 4th, 2008 at 2:23 am
You allow multiple up/down votes from the same person on the same limerick as long as they wait 5 seconds.
February 4th, 2008 at 2:39 am
> I see what you did there, taking down the part about 4chan. Fear of Anonymous striking you down, eh?
Nothing of the sort — I just decided it wasn’t adding to things. If nothing else that was a compliment to 4chan, who I have a sort of grudging old-school affection toward.
February 4th, 2008 at 2:45 am
> You allow multiple up/down votes from the same person on the same limerick as long as they wait 5 seconds.
Yeah, this is just like with xkcdb.com, where the moderator just keeps an eye out for too many votes from a given IP. Rash doesn’t seem to support any kind of complicated moderation, sadly, which means I have to do that from the http level. For now I could just kick up the delay to 30 seconds, although that means you can’t place two separate votes within a short time for any quotes …
Rash seems to be a work in progress.
February 4th, 2008 at 2:49 am
the thing about the requirement for meter, though… it’s not a strict metrical system, like iambic pentameter and the like (accentual syllabic). it’s a very loose metrical system, accentual only, with no guidelines on syllables. stresses are 3 3 2 2 3, yes? and even then, where the stresses lie in any given poem often can be debated. the wonderful thing about this system is that it’s so easy to follow. the anglo saxon poets used a four stress per line meter, and most popular poetry, like nursery rhymes, use this accentual system. mk, lesson over. thus speaks the english nerd.
February 4th, 2008 at 2:50 am
If only the other Anons could put their minds towards doing something useful; the power we wield these days is enormous. We could cause huge shifts in politics, religion, the media, etc, but instead we just raid Habbo over and over again. I can see why you have the old school affections towards us, but don’t really support us as we no longer strive to reach our potential.
February 4th, 2008 at 2:55 am
Didn’t you complain about bash.org style rankings when you did thefairest.info et al.? What with older submissions being ranked higher by dint of having more time to collect votes?
February 4th, 2008 at 3:14 am
You know, I just discovered a few weeks ago that one of my favourite songs, “We Will All Go Together When We Go” by Tom Lehrer is written in Limericks! Here is an example verse (the song is about how nice it is that we’ll all die at the same time, with no mourning. it was written during the cold war when WW3 looked imminent):
We will all bake together when we bake.
There’ll be no-body present at the wake.
With complete participation
In that grand incineration,
Nearly Three Billion hunks of well-done steak!
It’s also the only thing I’ve heard that puts music to the Limerick meter.
February 4th, 2008 at 3:23 am
See:
$ whois -h whois.ripe.net -t limerick
for another database of limericks.
February 4th, 2008 at 3:30 am
I’m very disappointed that limerick #69 ended up being about mosquitos and not about sex acts.
February 4th, 2008 at 3:35 am
Change the title of the site so that when I link to it on facebook it doesn’t call it “Rash Quote Management System”!
February 4th, 2008 at 4:20 am
I get my daily fix of limericks from OEDILF:
http://www.oedilf.com/
Original — and often very clever — limericks, at that…
February 4th, 2008 at 4:28 am
Theres a comic called XKCD see
The humor does oh so amuse me
So I check it all week
The updates are meek
But when they come; oh how they please me!
– Chad S.
February 4th, 2008 at 4:35 am
I’m not taken with the forced anonymity; there are already several famous limericks up there whose authors are known and deserve to be credited.
I’d suggest a feature to enable corrections where one comes across poor scansion, but perhaps it would cause trouble.
It’s already clear that the warning about scansion needs to apply also to punctuation. Contrary to what some people seem to think, it’s not all right, to put commas in, all over the place, just because there happens, to be a line ending there.
February 4th, 2008 at 4:57 am
I’ve been communicating with some of my friends in limericks fairly constantly for the past term or so — none that are interesting enough by themselves to put up though, I’m afraid.
February 4th, 2008 at 6:14 am
Ekimekim, it’s uncommon, but Gershwin did it too in “It Ain’t Necessarily So”. Limerick meter, anyway, with repeated lines instead of an entire limerick rhyme scheme.
Ol’ Jonah, he lived in a whale
Ol’ Jonah, he lived in a whale
He made up his home in
That fish’s abdomen
Ol’ Jonah, he lived in a whale
Methuselah lived nine hundred years
Methuselah lived nine hundred years
But who calls that livin’
When no gal will give in
To no man what’s nine hundred years?
etc.
(I could swear there was another song with that meter, but it’s not coming to me now.)
February 4th, 2008 at 6:59 am
I almost hate to mention it, but the great blog Metamorphosis (http://metamorphosism.com/archives/002601.html) has a Valentine’s Day Limerick Contest each year. It has strict rules about subject matter, too, which only makes it more fun. I almost hate to mention it because I’m a past winner and want to win again this year…
February 4th, 2008 at 7:09 am
“the power we wield these days is enormous.”
no
you are a user on an internet site which is an offshoot of another internet site. you hold no power over anyone but your own imaginary hive-mind.
4chan is an awful, awful website.
February 4th, 2008 at 7:19 am
[...] xkcd has created a limerick database. This is much-needed. It should go without saying that it’s absolutely [...]
February 4th, 2008 at 7:27 am
I assume you know about Edawrd Lear, right?
February 4th, 2008 at 7:27 am
Edward, even.
February 4th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Randall made a quote database
Where limericks would chat quotes replace
We all know in the latter
The authors are fatter
And often get sprayed with a mace
(I’ll admit the above one’s untrue
I can’t write in the morning, can you?
I tell my untruth
Because in my youth
I need to be rhyming and new)
February 4th, 2008 at 9:18 am
I love limericks :D
Is there any chance there will be an RSS feed for the site any time soon?
February 4th, 2008 at 9:36 am
I submitted one I wrote years ago where the meter is in reverse (”A Limerick-writer perverse…”) - hope that’s allowed. :)
February 4th, 2008 at 9:47 am
I recommend this volume featuring many older limericks. It is a well organized and spaciously printed hardcover, available used on Amazon for $0.01 + shipping. In the editor’s words, “”This is the largest collection of limericks ever published, erotic or otherwise. Of the 1700 printed here, none are otherwise.”
http://www.amazon.com/Limerick-G-Legman/dp/0517139111
February 4th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Speaking of the meter of limericks, mel, my favorite limerick has always been:
There once a man from Japan
Whose Limericks would never quite scan
When asked why was so
He said “I don’t know”
“But maybe it’s because I always try to cram as many words into the last line as I ever possibly can!”
(it’s better when read aloud, of course, rushing the last line to try to make it fit into the same amount of time as the first two lines)
February 4th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
>If only the other Anons could put their minds towards doing something useful; the power we wield these days is enormous. We could cause huge shifts in politics, religion, the media, etc, but instead we just raid Habbo over and over again.
The problem with organizing the masses to do anything is….the masses are really, really dumb, on the average.
February 4th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
I’ve added the only limerick I ever wrote, inspired by uncyclopedia:
There once was a CEO named Steve,
Who threw chairs at employees for reprieve,
He shot lasers from his eyes
To bury other guys,
And he’ll Fucking Kill? you if you don’t believe.
February 4th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
“The problem with organizing the masses to do anything is… the masses are really, really dumb, on the average.”
You underestimate a simple fact, sir: that none of us is as dumb as all of us. The masses are individually dumb, sure - but as a group? 4channers can reach a level of stupid that few could even imagine.
Imagine, if you will, PATRIOT act -enabled wiretapped phone calls being cracked by Anons and crapflooded with requests for Battletoads.
February 4th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Anon, we must make this happen. I’m sure that we could convince the rest of us to do it. Also, we do wield power, if you don’t believe that, go look at what happened when we hacked Fox news. Why is it that some of us have been arrested by the FBI? I say we have power.
February 4th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
There’s a very good qdb system called Chirpy (http://chirpy.sourceforge.net/). It’s far better and far less buggy than rash, and it’s used on a number of sites such as
http://quotes.burntelectrons.org/ (irc.mozilla.org qdb)
http://tjbash.org (TJHSST quotes)
February 4th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
What i find interesting is the choice of the first line usage. It seems that one can either use the initial line as a way to advance the story (introducing character and action, or functioning in a similar vein), in which case the author will have 5 lines in which to create a basic storyline with varying degree of wit and/or wisdom. One could also decide on a story with a difficult A rhyme, in which case you can use the first line as a sort of ‘throwaway’ by just creating a town name that ends like said rhyme in order to complete the scheme. Of course, then you only have 4 lines to present the plot, so your story has to be even more streamlined.
Unfortunately, none of this structural analysis is making my limericks come out any better.
February 5th, 2008 at 3:38 am
Great site! Should be good for many happy hours of perusing.
Pardon my ignorance, though, but what does it mean to “flag” something by clicking the “X”s next to the titles?
February 5th, 2008 at 11:33 am
To: Bob the Squirrel
Re: Flag
To flag something is to put an entry up for review that you find a.) offensive*, b.) distasteful* or c.) incorrectly added to the database. The admins will review the entry and decide whether a, b, or c are justified.
*relative to the other content of the site, i.e. racially abusive, etc.
_____
Also, how far backed up is the database, so I know if my two entries have been denied or not. (I thought they were passable, if rather tame…)
Using HTML and not Flash
And presumably quite little cash
One guy named Randall
Flew off the handle
And created a fun clone of Bash
February 5th, 2008 at 11:47 am
For a great book of limericks go
To any big bookstore you know
For Penguin Limericks look
Its a great little book
and its Copyright 2000 or so
February 5th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
My wife recommends Joe Greens’ “The Limerick Odessey” … http://limerickodyssey.blogspot.com/
February 5th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Ooooh I love this DB
Now somebody just needs to make a handy Facebook Application for this so I can share to joy with others!
(wut u say? a useful facebook app?! UNHEARD OF!)
February 5th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
I love limericks!
I only I coulds write good.
;D
February 5th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
There is a chain of limericks that I’ve been desiring/seeking for aeons, but by now I only remember that it involved frosting and that the last line was:
“Quite frankly my dear, you’re exhausting!”
Please add it if you’ve got it.
February 6th, 2008 at 2:07 am
I don’t know if anybody here is familiar with Bob and George, but I was reading the author’s commentary today, and xkcd was mentioned. I guess being called “a huge geek joke” is about the most flattering compliment you can give this awesome comic.
http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/index.php?date=010205
Feylias, it’s called Jenny’s Poem. And it’s beyond dirty. Plus it’s a whole lot of 5-line limericks, so I’m not sure it’d go into the DB. But with the words you gave me, it’s possible to find it with Google.
February 6th, 2008 at 2:36 am
What a wonderful site!
Problem though, the limericks have been stuck at #269 since this afternoon. And I submitted quite a doozy! :(
February 6th, 2008 at 5:49 am
[...] reading xkcd’s blog, I went to LimerickDB.com. It looks and works just like bash.org, but for limericks. Quite amused [...]
February 6th, 2008 at 10:57 am
When my husband and I married this last summer, a friend of ours gave us a gag gift of an “adult trivia” game. Sadly, the thing was published before either of us were born, but nearly every other card contains a dirty limerick! I’ll be sure to take the time to input a few into the db. Be warned, though: many of them are terribly lame ;)
February 6th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
The rocket limerics from gravity’s rainbow are excellent, mirrored here: http://bryannewbold.com/k/books/gravitysrainbow/
February 6th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Great! Now what about the poor neglected form the HIGGLEDY-PIGGLEDY?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgledy_piggledy
February 6th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Somewhere at home, I have a scholarly work studying limericks, which is full of some of the best dirty limericks of the last century or so.
I’ve just added one of my favourites to the site, but I’ll see if I can find the book and add a heap more.
(Captcha: “he Purity”. Yeah, right.)
February 6th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
There once was a man who’d admit
He was a geek, so he writ
A brilliant web strip
That was geeky and hip
‘Til the raptors found his ball pit
February 6th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
It seems to be stuck on limerick 302. I’ve submitted 4, but none have yet shown up. 302 has been the last for the past 15 minutes. How long does it take for new limericks to be added?
February 6th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
I submitted one that hasn’t shown up either, but I also accidentally clicked the “flag” link on one of the limericks first so I hope that didn’t have something to do with mine not appearing. I also found the layout a bit confusing so maybe I’m not looking in the right spots?
February 6th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Most QDB sites, such ash bash.org, qdb.us, xkcdb, or limerickdb need someone to approve a quote before it is added.
February 7th, 2008 at 1:40 am
http://chirpy.sourceforge.net/ limits votes to one per cookie and supports tags and a comment field. “The Chirpy! project originated mainly out of frustration caused by the Rash Quote Management System, due to its numerous bugs and its lack of efficiency and extensibility. While its developers openly admit that it was a quick job, eventually, this became unacceptable.”
February 7th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Great fun reading that page!
Seems I accidentally flagged someone’s quote by clicking that X.
Hope they’ll forgive me.
February 7th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
I just want to say thank you so much for creating the limerick db! It has brought me much joy.
February 7th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
“So, we can cycle about 10 times as fast as we walk. A raptor can run at 40mph. How fast could it pedal?“
February 7th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
[...] LimericksDB, from the always hunky Randall. [...]
February 7th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Any plans to include existing collections in the database? The fortune program as often distributed with Linux (probably a derivative of the BSD one) contains one thousand limericks in the “offensive” file. I realize these could be submitted individually (and some have been), but it might be interesting to toss them all in there and let the votes sort ‘em out.
Source package, which includes the offensive limericks, at http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/fortune-mod/fortune-mod_1.99.1.orig.tar.gz
February 8th, 2008 at 12:02 am
Hey, I submitted a limerick a few hours ago that went like this:
A boy from Seville once did spy
Through a belljar the kilo, SI
He lifted the glass
And took out half the mass
And thenceforth jumped four times as high
Now there’s a less metrically proper alteration of it listed. What gives?
February 8th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
The lyrics to the song “The Negotiation Limerick File” by the Beastie Boys (off the Hello Nasty album) are, not surprisingly, in limerick form.
February 8th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
“The integral of zee-squared dee zee,
From 1 to the cube root of 3,
Times the cosine,
Of 3 pi over 9,
Is the log of the cube root of e”
I might be making an embarrassingly obvious error here, but I get .5 instead of the given solution. Thoughts?
February 8th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
the limerickdb always says it’s unreachable from my computer, I’m not sure why.
@Phil:
the first four lines equal 1/3
the last line should be read as ln(e^(1/3)), which is, of course, also equal to 1/3
February 9th, 2008 at 7:24 am
Phil:
int(z^2 dz, 1..3^1/3) = 2/3
cos(3*Pi/9) = 1/2
log(e^1/3) = 1/3
And 2/3*1/2 = 1/3
Hope you understood my notation.
February 9th, 2008 at 10:49 am
haikuDB plzkthxbye
a finite union
of disjoint rectangles is
elementary
February 9th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Ah, thanks guys. I’m used to log simply denoting base 10, and natural log being used for base e.
February 9th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Man, people like you amaze me. You just decide to make something, and have the brains and tools to do so, and WHAM, a whole new piece of the internet world is born. Phenomenal. :)
February 10th, 2008 at 12:32 am
Dan A — I clicked on the link for the Limerick collection on Amazon — I have that book! Now if I only knew where it was. It was the best.
February 10th, 2008 at 2:02 am
i just thought of this joke, and no one i know gets it. and then i decided to see if xkcd had any new comics up. and then i decided to see if i could email you my joke, but i found this is the easiest way to put it up. its really not a good joke at all, i just want to be able to tell somebody.
“00000000 00000000 to your mother!!”
February 10th, 2008 at 2:26 am
This is completely unrelated to the Limerick website, but I just wanted to say that concerning comic #314 (Dating Pools), I am so that girl at the end of the bell curve.
Turn ons: Complex mathematical equations, graphs, songs about robots, medieval weaponry, and handcuffs.
February 10th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
@Lindsey
You sound perfect, I’ll take half a dozen!
XD
Also: LimerickDB had me in stitches for about an hour. Great stuff.
Now to finish working on my limerick… :P
February 10th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
First off, this is genius, I love it, it’s wonderful. Who knew limericks could be so amusing.
Secondly - I submitted a few limericks last night, and they haven’t gone through yet. I was just wondering if there was some sort of scanning process, and mine didn’t make it, or if the server is simply slow…
February 10th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
I am now of course musing on exactly how I could fill that order, but keep ripping the fabric of time/space… :P
February 11th, 2008 at 1:21 am
I read way faster than five lines every fifteen seconds. :(
February 11th, 2008 at 1:58 am
Hey Lindsey, I’ll just take you, have a dozen (six) times. ;)
February 11th, 2008 at 1:59 am
Hey Lindsey, I’ll just take you, have a dozen (six) times. ;)
February 11th, 2008 at 3:19 am
well, fact of the matter is that i love to read the comments you put on the comic that you get on mouse over…
Sadly, it kinda doesnt work on firefox, it truncates it and puts…
I am a typical geek whose solution was to go to view> source and read it from there..
But i recently discovered that its fully visible in Internet Explorer :( is it possible for you to do something about it?
February 11th, 2008 at 3:20 am
love your comics to the core
and the recaptcha shows 2 words now hmmm
http://snazzed.blogspot.com
February 11th, 2008 at 3:27 am
Sandeep, the bug in Firefox is addressed in the FAQ (the “About” link from the comic). See “Why can’t I read the whole comic mouseover text in Firefox?” for a link to an extension that corrects the problem.
February 11th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Oh, you boys… ;)
DizzyPion, is that all in a row? Because then I’m impressed.
Oh, and Sandeep, even more helpfulness:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1715
I refuse to even touch IE.
February 11th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Well it would be more of a fuction of time versus a row. I’m not really into determinants. I didn’t mean to post twice, I must have been distracted while typing, since I’m so dizzy. =P I also mispelled half and typed have.
February 12th, 2008 at 12:07 am
Well aren’t you the sweet-talker :P
I was going to let that go, by the way.
February 12th, 2008 at 4:40 am
Isaac Asimov would approve.
@lindsey…. i was searching for that addon right as i read your comment.
much more quick. cheers.
February 13th, 2008 at 10:30 am
There’s truth in all that she speaks
About open source browsing techniques
The firefox fine tuning
Has got them all swooning
And she’s besotted a small clique of geeks!
February 13th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Does limerickdb actually work? I submitted some limericks and the don’t appear at the site. I tried contacting the admin and the mail was returned.
Then I show this:
% host limerickdb.com
limerickdb.com has address 216.93.242.10
limerickdb.com mail is handled by 0 limerickdb.com.
February 13th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
@ Will:
Is that about me? (I don’t want to assume.. how presumptuous!)
If so, it made me happy!
Nobody’s ever written a limerick about me before, though the form does seem apt.
Oh, and glad to be helpful. I aim to please ;)
February 13th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
I joined the forums by the way.
February 13th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
I’m an Associate Editor at OEDILF (as mentioned by Adam Sampson above). We have over 41,000 approved limericks and thousands more going through the workshopping process. We’re aiming to define every word in the English language using a limerick — so far we’re up to the Co- section of the alphabet. We have some clever writers, too. I for one would love to see some xkcd readers come and join in the fun. It’s addictive, though — be warned!
http://www.oedilf.com
February 13th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
It needs a rss feed. Seriously.
February 13th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Funny you should be talking about this, i had actually been googling funny limericks the other day because i was interested in it but at least the superficial/quick google results were not very satisfying.
February 13th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
My father has published not one but two books of his own Limericks here in Australia, called “Rude Places Down Under” and the creatively titled sequel “Very Rude Places Down Under”. Finally I feel able to confess that.
February 13th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
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.)
By Isaac Asimov and, I think, someone else - possibly John Ciardi?
There is something about satyriasis
That arouses psychiatrists’ biases,
But we’re both of us pleased
We’re in this way diseased
As the damsel who’s waiting to try us is.
February 13th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Yes Lindsay, it was *your* direction
That I pointed my rhyming inflections
And make no mistake
I think Mozilla’s great
… but I’d like to make one small correction
*bum, bum bum*
If it’s tool tips you need
With infallable speed
And a GUI that don’t vex or perplex
It’s display standars nicely
Linux, Windows and thricely
.. as nicely, on ol’ osX
So I’ve sped timing lightly
And rehearsed politely
I hope it conveys all my glee
See it’s *Opera* for me
‘Cause like Firefox, it’s free
And all tooltips are belong to thee!
And no, I don’t work there
I just felt I should share
For me, all the standards are key (you see?)
‘Cause it fucks up the margins
By a few thousand farthings
So ANYTHING ELSE BUT IE.
Please?
– The Mourned Designer
February 14th, 2008 at 1:41 am
/r/ing limerick version of “Doom: Repercussions of Evil”.
I worked on it for half an hour but couldn’t get it to work. And then I was a zombie.
February 14th, 2008 at 2:16 am
There was once a limerick database
Presenting dog’rel in a font style monospace
Though contributions did flow
The updates were too slow
Yet maintained steady presence in the webspace
February 14th, 2008 at 3:44 am
If you don’t speak in verse all the time, then you should.
Oh- and I have both Opera and Firefox installed- and use them both!
February 14th, 2008 at 5:56 am
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?
February 14th, 2008 at 7:38 am
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.
February 14th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Am I the only one that thought about resistor color code limericks??
February 14th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
[...] the genius behind xkcd just opened up LimerickDB. Be warned, many (if not most) are definitely NSFW, but I find many of them quite [...]
February 14th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
@Nachtkreicher:
I got it. I laughed. :) I’m going to send that joke to some of my CS friends.
February 14th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
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.)
February 14th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
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.
February 15th, 2008 at 1:56 am
God bless you for this.
February 15th, 2008 at 3:13 am
Hoh man, this is awesome.
February 15th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
“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
February 15th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
@ 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.
February 15th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
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.
February 17th, 2008 at 2:50 am
There’s a cooperative limerick project over here. They could use some fresh blood.
February 17th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
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
February 17th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
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.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:24 am
ajax voting please!
k thanks
February 18th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
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!
February 19th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
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.
February 20th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
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
February 21st, 2008 at 12:47 am
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.
February 21st, 2008 at 12:02 pm
[...] And many more, found here: LimerickDB. See also a note from the site’s creator. [...]
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:51 am
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
February 22nd, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Can anyone help me? I can’t get my limericks to appear on the site. Any tips?
February 24th, 2008 at 7:53 am
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”
February 26th, 2008 at 10:15 am
The British radio show “I’m Sorry I haven’t a Clue” still generates limericks every now and then.
February 29th, 2008 at 8:41 am
[...] 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 [...]
March 1st, 2008 at 1:51 am
Please, could we have an RSS feed? There used to be one for bash.org too, but they stopped it.
BTW, XKCD rocks. ;-)
March 21st, 2008 at 8:35 pm
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.
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:02 am
awesome
April 7th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
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.
April 21st, 2008 at 12:30 pm
I live in Limerick if that helps.
April 30th, 2008 at 9:11 am
this is my comment
April 30th, 2008 at 9:20 am
hello
June 12th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
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