Spyderco Limerick Contest

[Stuart Ackerman]

Once upon a time in the land of Earth,
Sal Glesser's mind, to a Delica gives birth!
To have and to hold,...and to cut, of course!
A buddy in times of a bad, bad need
Slicin' and dicin' at the sound of speed
Dr Snubnose....Magnifica! To reckon with, a Force! :)

[Rob]

Paul, you are flattering me :) Actually I've been working with American customers for years and I also like to watch movies and TV series in English so I guess something rubbed off :D

I think that the liberty of poets to change the language is the hardest part for a non-native speaker. I can understand it just perfect but I doubt that I could come up with something like that myself. :o

Anyway, better to try and fail than to fail without trying :D

Cheers, Rob

[UK KEN]

Hello All

A limerick is a five-line poem written with one couplet and one triplet. If a couplet is a two-line rhymed poem, then a triplet would be a three-line rhymed poem. The rhyme pattern is a a b b a with lines 1, 2 and 5 containing 3 beats and rhyming, and lines 3 and 4 having two beats and rhyming. Some people say that the limerick was invented by soldiers returning from France to the Irish town of Limerick in the 1700's.

I'm facing a terrible plight
Too many great knives on this site
Which one to chose?
To collect 'em or use?
I know....one of each :D ......alright!

Ken

[224477]

Good job guys here's another from me:

And I went and bought me a Dodo
and my wife said that's a No No
So she cut off my thing :eek:
and now wears it as bling
and when I look down I say Ut-Oh
....Doc :D

Hey Doc.,

it looks to me like you wanna win the prize LOL!

[Dr. Snubnose]

LOL 224477, I could use a CE Delica! :D ...Doc
BTW: Employees of this Limerick Contest are not eligible to win a prize...
I just like writing Limericks...Doc

[Dr. Snubnose]

Centofante, Walker, Keating, Janich
I got myself the Spyderco itch
I scratch and scratch much to my delight
only thing that helps is another knife
If I had them all I'd be filthy rich

[chart]

Thank you to everyone who commented kindly on my limerick. There is a lot of good work in this thread! Lots of fun....

[ken]

OK this is the best can do so I won't give-up my day job!

I have this knife, this endura you see-
but the hardness is not what it should be!

Sal said:
Send it to me and we shall see-
I said:
It's not all that I sent the dang thing back, it was causing a heart attack!

To make a long story short-
Sal Glesser's the man and now I'm part of his clan! Just call me the Joyful Girl!
He made it all right I guess it's called a spyder bite and he sent me a knife for FREE!!!!!


Who is it????

ken

[Stuart Ackerman]

Dennis Rodman? :D

[Stuart Ackerman]

I never knew true love,
I searched and pined all the time.
But then the Rainbow parted.
So many Spiders...
Not enough time. :)

[David Lowry]

One year ago I had me some strife
Then I bought me a Spyderco knife
I love the Spyder Hole
Now I laugh and cajole
And I sure have a simple mans life

:D

[Stuart Ackerman]

There once was a young man with cavities,
His sweet tastes and lifestyle, depravities.
His dentures and health...Well?
His lack of all wealth...
Still allowed him to have Teeth, made by Sal :)

[clovisc]

some of these are pretty good, but quite a few are not really limericks... how will that impact the contest? does the winner have to be a genuine limerick... or should i up the ante by submitting an epic poem of my own?? :D

[Stuart Ackerman]

Yup...you might not win, but we will be entertained :)

[David Lowry]

some of these are pretty good, but quite a few are not really limericks... how will that impact the contest? does the winner have to be a genuine limerick... or should i up the ante by submitting an epic poem of my own?? :D

I agree. I have only counted about 4 that are "true" limericks.

:)

[UK KEN]

....here you go! (not mine by the way)

There was a young lady from Ryde
Who ate a green apple and died
The apple fermented
Inside the lamented
And made cider inside her inside! :D


Boom.....Boom! :D

Ken

[Dr. Snubnose]

I am looking for true Limericks here...the Epic poems are nice and interesting reading but the title of this contest is the Spyderco Limerick Contest and one needs a Limerick to win...hope this clarifies things....Keep those Limericks coming....Doc :D

Maybe a new thread should be started for the Epic poem writers....

[clovisc]

yea -- the epic poems are MIGHTY impressive! they really do deserve their own thread!

there shoud be a contest to see who can write the longest!!!

[clovisc]

here's a california university's detailed definition/discussion of a limerick...


Rhythm
The beat must be anapestic (weak, weak, strong) with three feet in lines 1, 2, and 5 and 2 feet in lines 3 and 4. This will be explained further below. However the following exceptions are allowed:

The first foot of an line may have only one weak beat in front of the strong beat.

Trailing weak beats that continue the rhyme are allowed at the end of the each line. Naturally these sounds must be identical over rhyming lines.

The following covers most cases, where S equals a strong beat, w indicates a weak beat, and the brackets indicate that the beat is optional. Note that on the same line, different strong beats are always separated by exactly two weak beats. The options apply only to the leading and trailing beats.

Lines 1,2,5: w [w] S w w S w w S [w] [w]

Lines 3,4: w [w] S w w S [w] [w]

Restriction on Rhyming Beats.
The last strong beats in the lines must rhyme (125 and 34) and the any weak beats at the end must match and must have the same sound over rhyming lines. Limericks with two weak beats at the end are less common than those with one or none. In poetry books, single beat rhymes are called masculine rhymes; two-beat rhymes are called feminine rhymes. A combination of wwS is called an anapest; a combination wS is called an iamb.

[STR]

There once was a Glesser name-ed Sal
who saw need for a knife and knew how.
So he took to the bank
to propose his think tank
which is why you are reading this now