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12 July 2009
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Limericks no more!

Pick up the rhyming, don't forget the timing.

Sadly the days of this limerick page are numbered.

We'll keep them up for you to chuckle at, but please don't send any more in!

LISTEN

If limericks are your thing, make sure you listen to Hurley Burley on BBC North Yorkshire radio between 9am and 12pm on Saturdays. Frequencies 103.7 in York, 104.3 in Harrogate and 95.5 in Scarborough. Listen Live

SEE ALSO

Hurley Burley's page on the Radio York web site

Sal's page on the Radio York web site

H2G2 Limericks entry

Best of The Limerick Parade

Collected works of Bob

FACTS

Limericks are named after the Irish town of the same name.

The first limericks to be published appeared in 1820 in The History of Sixteen Wonderful Old Women Exhibiting their Principle Eccentricities and Amusements by James Harris.

Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense published in 1846 featured 73 illustrated limericks aimed at children

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Limerick genius Bob's page

Best of the Limerick Parade

Here's the first line for your limerick this - the LAST - Limerick week.

The limerick line was missed off

The limerick line was missed off,
So Hurley will soon meet the wrath,
Of us Internet writers,
Why can't they delight us?
Instead we shall just be pee'ed off!

Philip Lickley, York

Where's our new line?

Oh where is our limerick line?
We wanna-be poets are sighing...
Please give us a clue....
(We love them, .......we do!)
Before we all fall into decline!

Val, somewhere in the USA

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