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In today's post :-

Happy International Limerick Day
Limerick Facts
A Limerick
Weird News
Friday's Advice Column with Anne Tandek

Happy International Limerick Day

Book of Nonsense

Limerick Day, also sometimes called National Limerick Day honours the birthday of Edward Lear, born in 1812, Lear popularized this form of poetry in his 1846 book called A Book of Nonsense.

It is believed that the term limerick to refer to this specific genre of poetry comes from the city of Limerick, Ireland.

5 Lines & AABBA Scheme

Limerick is a genre of poetry that traditionally has 5 lines and has an AABBA rhyme scheme. A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes in a poem. To identify a poem's rhyme scheme, each line is designated with a letter. Lines that share a letter rhyme have words at the end that rhyme with each other. This means that in a limerick, which has an AABBA rhyme scheme, the words at the end of the first, second and fifth sentences rhyme, while the words at the end of the third and fourth sentence rhyme with each other.

Humorous Situations

Traditionally, the first line of a limerick introduced a person and a place and the rest of the poem described a humorous and often times obscene situation involving the subject or the place.

How to Celebrate?

• Celebrate Limerick Day by reading some of Lear's limericks. Also, check out other poets' limericks as well.
• Write your own limericks and share them with your family and friends.

Facts About Limericks

Nobody knows for sure why limericks are named limericks. 

An early example of a poem which resembles a limerick was written by Queen Elizabeth I. 

‘The Doubt of Future Foes’, written in around 1571, Elizabeth (who reigned from 1558 until 1603) Mary Queen of Scots: 

‘The daughter of debate, 

that eke discord doth sowe, 

Shal reape no gaine where

 formor rule hath taught

stil peace to growe’. 

The rhythm and basic form, if not the rhyme scheme, anticipate the modern limerick.

There’s a limerick in Shakespeare’s Othello. 

Written around 1604, Iago sings a drinking song which he claims he heard in England:

And let me the canakin clink, clink; 

And let me the canakin clink: 

A soldier’s a man;

A life’s but a span; 

Why then let a soldier drink.

Edward Lear made the form famous in the nineteenth century. 

One of the best-known facts about limericks is that Edward Lear wrote them. In his 1846 Book of Nonsense.

A Limerick ......

A clever young fellow from Leeds

Stupidly swallowed a package of seeds.

Great tufts of fine grass

Sprouted out of his arse

And his nuts got covered with weeds.

Nev 2017

Weird News

Pubs giving away free beer to encourage people to register to vote

A campaign offering people free beer in exchange for registering to vote has launched in pubs across the UK.

To claim a free beer, customers have to register to vote, then show the email to a bartender at a participating pub.

The catch? You are only eligible if you had not registered to vote before the General Election was announced on 18 April.

The “Vote This Year – Get Free Beer” campaign has signed up 30 pubs so far, and hopes to have 500 more on board by next weekend.

Joby Andrews, the campaign’s creator who owns three pubs in Bristol, started the campaign to encourage young people to use their vote.

“I wasn’t engaged as a youngster and wasted my vote for years,” he said.

“But the current political climate has motivated me to start voting. There was only a 30 per cent turnout in the recent mayoral elections in Bristol, and as a result the winning candidate won with only 10 per cent of the vote.

“That, and with the referendum being such a close call, it’s become clear to me that it’s important for people to vote  – and as I run a pub, I thought, let’s encourage them to vote by giving them a pint of beer.”

It is illegal to reward people for voting, but not to reward them for registering to vote. “Hopefully, if people are registered, they’ll then go down to the polling station June 8,” Mr Andrews said.

The deadline to register is May 22, next Monday.

Here is a list of all the pubs currently signed up.

If your local isn’t on the list, why not show them the campaign and ask if they want to get involved.

• The Lazy Dog, 112 Ashley Down Road, Bristol BS7 9JR
• The Pipe and Slippers, 118 Cheltenham road, Bristol BS6 5RW
• The Windmill, 14 Windmill Hill, Bristol BS3 4LU
• The Plough, 223 Easton Rd, Bristol BS5 0EG
• The Holman Clavel Inn, Culmhead, Taunton TA3 7EA
• Red Lion, 206 Whitehall Rd BS5, Bristol BS5 9BP
• The Beast of Brixton, 89B Acre Ln, Brixton, London SW2 5TN
• The Love Inn, 84 Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3QY
• Spit and Sawdust, 21 Bartholomew St, London SE1 4AL
• The Shakespeare, 1 Henry street, Totterdown, bristol, BS3 4UD
• Golden Lion, Fielden square, Todmorden, OL146LZ
• Biblos Calypso Kitchen, Unit 3, Gaol Ferry Steps, Wapping Wharf, Bristol BS1 6WE
• King William, 36 Thomas Street, London Road, Bath BA1 5NN
• The Queens Head, 15 Denman Street, London W1D 7HN
• The Bank Tavern, 8 John St, Bristol, BS1 2HR
• The Grosvenor Arms, 204 Garrett Lane, SW 18 4 ED
• The Feather Star Ale House, 15 St Johns Street, Wirksworth, Matlock DE4 4DR
• The Raven, 7 Queen Street, Bath, BA1 1HE
• Stroud Brewery Bar, Unit 11, Off Hope Mill Lane, Phoenix Works, London Rd, Thrupp, Stroud GL5 2BU
• Constellations, 35-39 Greenland Street L1 0BS
• Flipside Cocktail Club, 109 Whiteladies Road Bristol, BS8 2PB
• The Drapers Arms, 447 Gloucester Road Bristol BS8 7TZ
• The Lord Nelson, 9-11 Enfield Road, Brentford, Tw8 9ny
• The Inn On The Green, 2 Filton rd, Horfield, Bristol, BS7 0PA

Friday's Advice Column :-

Hello everyone, my name is Anne Tandek, I have been a specialist in giving advice since
I was three months. I remember, at that time, advising my Mummy and Daddy on concertreption,
I wanted to be an only child...

This week I've had a letter from a young lady from Essex, Obviouly, I want to conserve he anonimity,
so I won't tell you her name is, Hope Ingforit..

Dear Anne,

I have terrible problem with my fake tan.

I apply it every morning with makeup trowel, but if  I go out in the rain, it runs.

I end up with tan running down my face.

With my lovely pound shop blonde extensions I end up looking like a pint of Guinness.

Can you help?

Love Hope Tngforit

Dear Essex girl,

Yes, I can help.

Simply pop down to your local Q and B and buy yourself some
"Curprenol" or any such waterproof fence stainer.

I believe they come in several "tan colours, I suggest "Mahogany"

One application and I guarantee you'll be waterproof for at least
5 years..

Your's Anne

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