Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Genea-Musings Limericks - not mine!

Terry Thornton on the Hill Country of Monroe County, Mississippi blog challenged the genealogy bloggers to write limericks about genealogy and blogging in his post titled Blog/Blogger/Blogging/Poem/Poets.

Great idea, but alas... I've tried for several hours to come up with something funny and rhyming, but have a poetic block or something. But others have done a good job of it, for which I'm grateful.

Thomas MacEntee at the Destination: Austin Family blog has created limericks and haikus for a number of genealogy bloggers - see his post Genea-Poetry: Limericks, Haikus but no Quatrains. Thomas' creations about Genea-Musings are:

Limerick:

There once was a young man from SD
blogged of musings about the genea
but what oft takes his heart
not a family chart
but grandchildren of which he has three

Haiku:

"Warm climes," said Randy
only cold I can locate
is "trail" whilst searching.

(c) by Thomas MacEntee, 2008

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Lori Thornton of the Smoky Mountain Family Historian blog posted a limerick about Genea-Musings as a Comment on one of my posts:

Near the organ in Balboa Park,
Lived a blogger who's right on the mark,
When it comes to his picks
He has a great mix
That will leave no great post in the dark.

(c) Lori Thornton, 2008.

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Terry Thornton, who writes the Hill Country of Monroe County, Mississippi blog, has posted three limericks about Genea-Musings as a comment to this post:

Seaver blogs daily from Chula Vista
And mentions his sweetie, Angel Linda,
In posts and articles that are nifty.
a mention by Randy
makes hits just dandy
A Seaver blog avalanche fiesta!

Seaver is one of the kings
of bloggingdom things.
He dances and sings ---this aerospace guy
who loves to eat pie ---
But hasn't any wings.

There is a blogger named Seaver
Who posts and posts most eager
And when we all need a dealer
of help and advice
both naughtly and nice
We turn to Randy leader beaver.

all (c) Terry Thornton, 2008.

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And Bill West of the West in New England blog contributed this one in Comments also (note that a Boston accent is required here):

An ace genealogy mister
Who lives out in old Chula Vista
Climbs family trees
With greatest of ease
Without even raising a blister!

(c) Bill West, 2008

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GreenmanTim from the Walking the Berkshires blog contributes this limerick in Comments to this post:

For Randy, who's Genea-musing
Illuminates posts of his choosing,
Conducive to eager perusing,
So now let us praise,
His most generous ways,
It is he we should all be enthusing!

(c) Tim Abbott, 2008

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Janice Brown on the Cow Hampshire blog has penned this limerick about your humble scribe --

Randy is dandy no matter what topic
Without glasses his focus is purely myopic
And his "
elevator speech" is quite gyroscopic.
Prolific is one word that oft comes to mind
When viewing his hundreds of musings combined
Residing he does near the Cancer of Tropic.


(c) Janice Brown, 2008.

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Thank you to Thomas, Lori, Terry,Bill, Tim and Janice for their creativity!!!

If anybody else puts one together about Genea-Musings, I will post it here also. I really appreciate the good humor and creativity of my genea-blogger friends.

I need to get with the flow here and put some limericks together. Now what rhymes with Chula or Vista? Or San Diego (away we go? ho-ho-ho? dough) ? Seaver (beaver, cleaver, fever, conceiver, deceiver, ...)? Randy (candy, dandy, handy, sandy)?

UPDATED: 2/12, 7:30 PM: Added Terry's and Bill's fine contributions.
UPDATED 2/13, 4 PM: Added Tim's excellent limerick.
UPDATED 2/16, 9 PM: Added Janice's wonderful work.

Pressure's really on now - my bar is really high!

4 comments:

Terry Thornton said...

Randy, Sorry you are rhyme-blocked! LOL! So here are three for you, my friend. TERRY

Seaver blogs daily from Chula Vista
And mentions his sweetie, Angel Linda,
In posts and articles that are nifty.
a mention by Randy
makes hits just dandy ---
A Seaver blogavalanche fiesta!

Seaver is one of the kings
of bloggingdom things.
He dances and sings ---
this aerospace guy
who loves to eat pie ---
But hasn't any wings.

There is a blogger named Seaver
Who posts and posts most eager---
And when we all need a dealer
of help and advice
both naughtly and nice ---
We turn to Randy leader beaver.

Lori Thornton said...

Randy,
I actually started a rhyme with Chula Vista but when I realized half of the poem would have to be in Spanish or that I'd have to use terms like Sandinista, I decided to give up that rhyme. Park was much easier for rhyming, and I do love that organ there! I was fortunate enough to be there on a Sunday and heard about the free organ concerts. I had a lot of fun on that San Diego trip--but the trip across the border was not part of the fun. I was very much ready to set my feet back on U.S. soil after a short time in Tijuana.

Lori

Bill West said...

An ace genealogy mister
Who lives out in old Chula Vista
Climbs family trees
With greatest of ease
Without even raising a blister!

Janice said...

Randy,

I wrote one about you also....

Randy is dandy no matter what topic
Without glasses his focus is purely myopic
And his "elevator speech" is quite gyroscopic.
Prolific is one word that oft comes to mind
When viewing his hundreds of musings combined
Residing he does near the Cancer of Tropic

Janice