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Category: Entertainment
Posted on: June 25, 2007 10:16 AM, by PZ Myers
This is a dangerous link: the Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form. A number of obsessed lunatics have been submitting limericks on each word in the dictionary — they've got over forty one thousand entries so far — so it can just suck you in.
Here, try looking up limericks on evolution. The really hazardous part is when you start thinking you could do a much better job than that…
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Comments
Some of those are pretty clever, others are kind of okay, and others:
are just plain "a-HURRRRRRR".
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Posted by: Patrick | June 25, 2007 10:40 AM
Curse you, PZ Myers!!! A dangerous site, indeed!
There is a biologist, Myers
Who tells us each day what transpires
Inside of his brain.
My day goes down the drain.
He is surely the best of town criers!!
Posted by: kmiers | June 25, 2007 10:51 AM
Hey! My favourite corners of the Internet are joining up!
(Hello from one of the obsessed lunatics. It's a good addiction, you know.)
/relurk
Posted by: waterrocks | June 25, 2007 11:01 AM
There once was a man from Lehigh
Who dreamed of a man in the sky.
He wrote line after line,
Yet none showed design;
Alas, for he wished not to die.
Posted by: Thanny | June 25, 2007 12:32 PM
In no way was humanity helped
when the lunatic cultist named Phelp'd
with hatred un-furled
sang "God hates the World"
demonstrating an intelligence undevel'ped
Posted by: woozy | June 25, 2007 12:52 PM
Arrghhhhh!
Let me try again:
In no way was humanity helped
when the lunatic cultist named Phelp'd
sing "God hates the World"
with hatred un-furled
demonstrating an intelligence undevel'ped
There. That's better.
Posted by: woozy | June 25, 2007 12:54 PM
The fact that Woozy's limerick works equally well with the 3rd and 4th lines reversed is, without question, proof that Woozy is speaking the Revealed Word of God. I challenge anyone to show me even one limerick published over the last two millenia that exhibits this remarkable characteristic.
Posted by: Kseniya | June 25, 2007 1:55 PM
Kseniya:
Oh, snap!
Posted by: Blake Stacey, OM | June 25, 2007 2:41 PM
A trouble with the Limerictionary
Is that many entries are fictionally
A limerick is renown
For a person or town
At the start, not terms dictionary.
Though on any subject Darwinian
Expression will be Godwinian
But if not revolution
Perhaps then evolution
Of stuff is the way hominian
Posted by: Torbjörn Larsson, OM | June 25, 2007 2:55 PM
Oh boy! Was this post spurred by the email from me? If so, my day is made. Or do you too subscribe to AWAD?
Posted by: Faithful Reader | June 25, 2007 3:01 PM
There once was a lass named Kitzmiller
Whose school board just couldn't fulfill 'er
Their cause (hypocritical)
And minds (analytical)
Were worthy of Sandler and Stiller
Posted by: Kseniya | June 25, 2007 4:14 PM
Finally, a peer-reviewed publication of suitable stature for the creationists to publish their work!
Posted by: Moggie | June 25, 2007 4:33 PM
As though I didn't have enough sites to waste time on!
*sigh* ... i love that site now and have already submitted three limericks...
BTW, I changed the lines of my Phelps limerick not for order (which I realized immediately after wasn't nescessary) but to change "sang" to "sing" to agree with "Phelp'd" (Phelp would sing-- rather than Phelp would sang). Of course I realize now his name is "Phelps" not "phelp".... sigh
Posted by: woozy | June 25, 2007 5:47 PM
The OEDILF is one of the things that stops me writing more for PhaWRONGula (which may indeed be a good thing) and messing around in the comment threads here.
Pharyngulans, if you see some glaring biological inaccuracies in the OEDILF limericks, please let us know. There's a Technical Definitions forum here where you can post your observations. (There's also an email link to me in the copyright of the main OEDILF site if you have any trouble with the forum.)
Posted by: Virge | June 25, 2007 7:40 PM
Regarding Darwin and evolution
that propted an ID revolution
since it challenged creation
all the dims in our nation
thought mythology the better solution.
Posted by: Rick T | June 25, 2007 10:56 PM
The green is the Sun's strongest ray,
But a plant will just throw it away.
Does natural selection
Explain this rejection,
And why isn't chlorophyll...grey?
I've always wondered that!
Posted by: Chinchillazilla | June 26, 2007 1:15 AM
Aaaah, just found this one:
Said the nautilus, "Cousin, keep back.
As an octopus, you never lack
For romantic, dark charms
With tentacular arms
And your cephalopod's large ink sac."
Posted by: Chinchillazilla | June 26, 2007 1:17 AM
The Pleistocene was intelligent and learned
Until one day their social hierarchy turned
By fools easily intimidated
by the knowledge they subliminated
And soon all written records were burned
The real reason we don't find written records more than ten thousand years old.
Posted by: woozy | June 26, 2007 2:13 AM