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In Sidney, too, we find a cry for simplicity housed within an elaborate construction: an exactly rhymed sonnet in iambic hexameter. Inside these covers you will find a collection of licentious limericks which have been handed down from generation to generation by word of mouth, some of them for over a hundred years.
Unfortunately rather than being hardcover as described at time of sale, it was a paperback but it is in good condition .FUNNY BOOK FOR HIM OR HER - This book of dirty limericks is a hilarious inappropriate gift book for friends who enjoy dark humour, and is sure to give them a bad case of the giggles! The poem might belong to some old-fashioned, run-down pantomime show, with a brilliantined emcee wagging an extended index finger at his squirming middle-aged male patrons: “Ooh, you naughty boys, what were you thinking? She looked at me and made a threatening gesture; now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. Lear, who was born in 1812, was all about a bit of fun and wrote his ‘Book of Nonsense’ of 72 limericks in 1846 with exactly that in mind.
Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places. I feel as confident about the lastingness of Lear’s owl and pussycat as I do of Tennyson’s kraken or eagle, of Lear’s Uncle Arly as of Tennyson’s Ulysses.Plus, the ladies love them, and you’ll be a hit at pandemic Zoom parties for your wit and originality. These constructions are miles away from the modern-day “dirty limerick,” the sort one used to encounter with dependable regularity on the unwashed walls of public men’s rooms. The book was a huge success, not only making the author popular, but also boosting the limerick into popular culture across the world.
Some of his creations strike me as just as assured of immortality as those of his great hero, Tennyson. Unlike his brilliant science fiction stories and his formidable volumes of non-fiction, Asimov’s dirty limericks are ineloquent, arhythmic, juvenile and tedious. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.
First Name * Please enter a First Name Please enter a valid First Name, the maximum length is 50 characters. And of course such attempts to craft a language free of ambiguity, rendering a contract’s terms incontestable and inescapable, and hence immune to all vagaries of interpretation and intervention, are invariably doomed; even the most straightforward words, set out in the most straightforward fashion, engender mist and smoke, shadings and concealments. Furthermore, he accompanies each and every limerick in the collection with a paragraph or two of commentary. Grown clear-sighted with time, they now recognize that life’s ultimate rewards are few and fleeting.
I raised the question with Better World Books and although they could not supply a hardcover version they were extremely generous in making up for the descepency.Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy. FUN COMEDY BOOK - Alongside our adult nursery rhymes book, if you want funny gifts for men, rude gifts or funny books for secret Santa, birthdays or Christmas, Rude Limericks will make anyone smile!