This is the final Going40 post to mention limericks. Promise.
Impartiality be damned, I simply must highlight two limericks I really loved, both for their wit and topicality. They're both written by good friend Mark, or from now on, Mr. RM (Renaissance Man. Seriously, there is nothing this man can't do). So, the Blogger's Choice Award winners:
The students at Hamline deserve
To wonder aghast at the nerve
Of the studious soph
Who’s as old as the prof,
’Cause he's probably throwing the curve.
Anthropology’s boring and sad.
Anthropology’s boring and sad.
LitCrit isn’t going half bad.
And it isn’t the German
That sets Scott to squirmin'.
It’s the jammies in flannel of plaid.
If you're wondering about the flannel pajamas: they seem to be de rigueur for trashy co-eds, and it's a really unfortunate look. Not so studious.
I recently attended a roundtable hosted by a group of Hamline staff engaged in collaborative research about the pedagogical possibilities of blogging. Their accompanying blog, Blogpeople, has much good information, and even more promise, so check it out. As a thank you for my participation in the discussion, the facilitator of the event sent me a limerick, having checked out Going 40! I was honored, and it's a great limerick (his talent must stem from the fact that his name is also Scott). Here 'tis:
There once was a project on blogging.
Its aim was to prompt dialoguing.
Though (k)nots may be Gordian
You brought Going40 in
and kept us from downwardly bogging.
5 comments:
Gee, Scott. I'm blushing. Thanks.
It's the perfect name for him. And Scott, your inner English major is showing - now you're naming people in pallindromes...
I don't think we're done with limericks here at G40/20Z. Even if you proclaim The End of Limericks, you can't stop people from speaking from their hearts, deeply felt and soulful, in AABBA.
I think the limerick is the literary form that will define the hero's journey in this blogspace. I think and hope there will be limericks that appear from time to time, simply because we can't say what's true about ourselves and our journey without them. We've come to understand the unique beauty and expressive accuracy that's possible with limerick form, and really only through limerick.
Amen, SistahDeb!
Humble thanks for the recognition, Scott. So. . . when does the rondelay contest begin?
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