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  • He would be named Patrick for the first of my line of Grogans to arrive in the United States from County Limerick, Ireland.†   (source)
  • Bad poetry, but even Helen of Troy probably started with, like, a limerick, right?†   (source)
  • Maybe she will try writing again, nothing too ambitious, a fun poem in the limerick mode.†   (source)
  • Dad has a saying for every subject under the sun—as well as a wide selection of limericks and truly terrible jokes.†   (source)
  • One night Matron took Ghosh aside and said: "Your limericks are usurping my prayers."†   (source)
  • He still had a horse and wagon, and it was not too uncommon then to see Bobby riding around the mill village in his long underwear, drunk as a lord, alternately singing and cussing and—it must be said—shouting out bawdy limericks to mill workers and church ladies.†   (source)
  • "Hey, can I try one of those sand dollars you bought?" asked David, tracing the carved lines of a limerick with his finger.†   (source)
  • I think of how useless the Dresden -part of my memory has been, and yet how tempting Dresden has been to write about, and I am reminded of the famous limerick: There was a young man from Stamboul, Who soliloquized thus to his tool, 'You took all my wealth And you ruined my health, And now you won't pee, you old fool' And I'm reminded, too, of the song that goes My name is Yon Yonson, I work in Wisconsin, I work in a lumbermill there.†   (source)
  • I could parachute you into County Limerick this very day, Mr. McLean, and it is very likely that within a single year you'd be cultivating potatoes, courting an ugly Irish wench, and running guns for the IRA.†   (source)
  • He managed to get the driver of the train drunk as well and was finishing a bottle of gin every hour walking up and down the carriages almost naked, but keeping his shoes on this time and hitting the state of inebriation during which he would start rattling off wonderful limericks—thus keeping the passengers amused.†   (source)
  • It was when he was into composing limerick obituaries for people he didn't care for, so I never knew if his cemetery-expansion idea was serious or something crafted to irk my mother.†   (source)
  • Also, three days after initial appearance of a very rough limerick, one that implied that Warden's fatness derived from unsavory habits, this limerick popped up on pressure-sticky labels with cartoon improved so that fat victim flinching from Simon's pitchfork was recognizably Mort the Wart.†   (source)
  • I'm trying to think of a limerick," said Eustace.†   (source)
  • Tis not as bad as the time he visited Limerick.†   (source)
  • I wasn't the first gunter to decipher the Limerick and find the Tomb of Horrors.†   (source)
  • I shivered, thinking of the oak trees' limerick.†   (source)
  • A fine old Limerick name you have there.†   (source)
  • Madeline: "Good limerick" is a contradiction in terms.†   (source)
  • He could get out an' help poor Pat of a Friday night when the Limerick Leader is a ton weight.†   (source)
  • Olly: what's wrong with a good limerick?†   (source)
  • So I devoted an entire section of my grail diary to deciphering the Limerick, line by line.†   (source)
  • After the sneezing
    Healing peeps, parsing limericks
    Worst God Award?†   (source)
  • Once the message became public knowledge, gunters nicknamed it "the Limerick."†   (source)
  • He must've been really upset with me to send me limericks instead of haiku.†   (source)
  • I cycle all around Limerick with telegrams and stop at every church.†   (source)
  • It had taken me years to decipher the Limerick and locate the Copper Key.†   (source)
  • There is no hope of a laboring man with a North of Ireland accent getting a job in Limerick.†   (source)
  • Olly: haikus are awful. they're just less fun limericks   (source)
  • Everyone in Limerick is talking about this page and they're dying to get their hands on it.†   (source)
  • What if the Limerick was saying that the tomb was hidden right here, on Ludus?†   (source)
  • Dad gets his first job in Limerick at the cement factory and Mam is happy.†   (source)
  • " Hearing her repeat the phrase "to learn" was enough to make me think of the Limerick.†   (source)
  • Let it never be said a child went sick in Limerick for want of an onion.†   (source)
  • Mam wraps Alphie in an old blanket and we set off through the streets of Limerick.†   (source)
  • I am sure you don't want to languish in the dungeons of Limerick jail far from friends and family.†   (source)
  • That'll keep you from wandering around Limerick with hooligans.†   (source)
  • Frankie was the first outlaw till we went raiding for coal all over Limerick.†   (source)
  • America is not like Limerick, a gray place with a river that kills.†   (source)
  • If he gets a job at the Limerick Cement Company or Rank's Flour Mills he loses it in the third week.†   (source)
  • · · · The horse clop-clopped through the streets of Limerick.†   (source)
  • No one knew why he was called Ab Sheehan, The Abbot, but all Limerick loved him.†   (source)
  • They dress the baby in the Limerick lace dress we were all baptized in.†   (source)
  • No son of his would have a Limerick name.†   (source)
  • He fills his hat with the Limerick Leader torn into little bits.†   (source)
  • I'll be in Limerick forever, growing roses with my head dead and my ballocks all dried up.†   (source)
  • I wish that in Limerick they only knew The kind kind neighbors I came unto.†   (source)
  • Philomena will write it because a teacher in Limerick told her once she had a fine fist.†   (source)
  • Your father walked every street in Limerick looking for you.†   (source)
  • It takes us all day to haul the furniture on the pram from one end of Limerick to the other.†   (source)
  • I already did "The Siege of Ennis" and "The Walls of Limerick," which are real dances.†   (source)
  • We have morals in Limerick, you know, morals.†   (source)
  • That's the favorite word of every priest in Limerick.†   (source)
  • The priests of Limerick have no patience with the likes of me.†   (source)
  • Any city can have a Confraternity, only Limerick has the Arch.†   (source)
  • He's crying and calling to her in a pure Limerick accent.†   (source)
  • The eyelashes fall off and every bit of dust in Limerick blows into my eyes on windy days.†   (source)
  • His BBC accent is gone and he's pure Limerick.†   (source)
  • Toby says nobody knows Limerick like the telegram boy.†   (source)
  • I hobble through the streets of Limerick.†   (source)
  • If we meet anyone in the lane or the streets of Limerick we are not to tell them where we're going.†   (source)
  • She had green eyes like the fields beyond Limerick.†   (source)
  • Christ, he's dragging your feckin' papers all over Limerick and you can't--Oh, never mind.†   (source)
  • She dragged me through the streets of Limerick.†   (source)
  • Jasus, says Toby, there isn't a door in Limerick we don't know.†   (source)
  • I think we better go now or we'll be missing that train to Limerick.†   (source)
  • Isn't it enough that we dragged him all the way from Brooklyn to Belfast to Dublin to Limerick?†   (source)
  • I climb on my bike and wobble through the streets of Limerick, dizzy with sherry and pain.†   (source)
  • We might even wind up having tea and cakes at the Savoy Cafe with the nobs and toffs of Limerick.†   (source)
  • If you grow up in the lanes of Limerick you're bound to rob the odd orchard sooner or later.†   (source)
  • We'd rather lose large amounts than have the people of Limerick and Ireland corrupted by this filth.†   (source)
  • And what class of a spectacle you'd be strolling down the street, lopsided in Limerick.†   (source)
  • If she had the money she'd bake all the flour in Limerick and regions beyond.†   (source)
  • From October to April the walls of Limerick glistened with the damp.†   (source)
  • Gassed in France and back to Limerick to work in the gas works.†   (source)
  • I'll have to save a few shillings from my pound because if I don't I'll be in Limerick forever.†   (source)
  • I run through the lanes of Limerick shoving letters under doors, praying no one will see me.†   (source)
  • Go to school, Frankie, and get out of Limerick and Ireland itself.†   (source)
  • That's the Limerick slum talk that always worried Dad.†   (source)
  • Not skinny mind you but a feather in my arms and there was many a sorry man when she left Limerick.†   (source)
  • Oh, Jesus, I wish I had my strength and I'd search every pub in Limerick.†   (source)
  • Everyone in Limerick knows these houses are old and might fall down at any minute.†   (source)
  • I'm black because I work at the Limerick Gas Works shoveling coal and coke into the furnaces.†   (source)
  • Get out of Limerick before your legs rot and your mind collapses entirely.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't wipe the hole of my arse with the Limerick Leader.†   (source)
  • I'm worn out from being the worst sinner in Limerick.†   (source)
  • Mam says, Why can't he be like the other men from the lanes of Limerick?†   (source)
  • I want to get pictures of Limerick stuck in my head in case I never come back.†   (source)
  • I meet Uncle Pat at the Limerick Leader on Friday evening at five.†   (source)
  • I remember the red dress and a name comes to me, The Red Hearts of Limerick.†   (source)
  • He didn't live in a palace like the bishop of Limerick.†   (source)
  • He said, I don't want my sons growing up in a Limerick lane saying, Oush of ish.†   (source)
  • Limerick gained a reputation for piety, but we knew it was only the rain.†   (source)
  • "If Paul Revere had written a limerick, you'd think it was wonderful, poetic, inspirational.†   (source)
  • Like, except for the limerick?†   (source)
  • A limerick?†   (source)
  • Subject: limerick #1†   (source)
  • Subject: limerick #2†   (source)
  • Limericks.†   (source)
  • From the moment I saw the title, I was certain the second line of the Limerick was a reference to it.†   (source)
  • At least two other gunters were sharp enough to connect the dots between Ludus, the Limerick, and the Tomb of Horrors.†   (source)
  • If any other gunters out there shared my interpretation of the Limerick, so far they'd been smart enough to keep quiet about it.†   (source)
  • "You deciphered the Limerick on your own, otherwise you wouldn't even know about the Tomb of Horrors module, right?"†   (source)
  • But that was the rub: The Limerick didn't appear to give any hint as to where Halliday had hidden the damn thing.†   (source)
  • He fries four cuts of bread and wraps them in pages of the Limerick Chronicle, two cuts in each coat pocket.†   (source)
  • She goes into hysterics when she says, And Limerick town has no happier hearth Than mine has been with my man from the North.†   (source)
  • She's like everyone else in Limerick, ashamed of the TB, and she doesn't give me a shilling or any kind of tip.†   (source)
  • Next year we'll have a goose or a nice ham and why wouldn't we, isn't Limerick famous the world over for the ham?†   (source)
  • If all the people that has consumption in Limerick were to die this would be a ghost town, though I don't have consumption meself.†   (source)
  • Jesus, Angela, if you stuck your head out the door and called, Kevin or Sean, come in for your tea, you'd have half o' Limerick running to your door.†   (source)
  • I don't want nothing that's half Limerick and half North of Ireland, so I don't, so ye can take him home.†   (source)
  • It's a lovely night with the June moon floating high over Limerick and you can feel a warm breeze off the Shannon River.†   (source)
  • If we left it up to you we'd have the poor people of Limerick jumping into the arms of the Protestants.†   (source)
  • They push me all the way back to the lane, barking at me and disgracing me on the streets of Limerick.†   (source)
  • That's the worst thing you can say to any Catholic in Limerick or Ireland itself because of what happened in the Great Famine.†   (source)
  • He looks at me and the pig's head and tells Mam it's a disgraceful thing to let a boy carry an object like that through the streets of Limerick.†   (source)
  • That means I must be a miracle and I might grow up to be a saint with people celebrating the feast of St. Francis of Limerick.†   (source)
  • He gives us books of tickets and we swarm all over Limerick for Leamy's School boot fund, first prize five pounds, five prizes of a pound each.†   (source)
  • Peter is fed up with Limerick, no girls, and you're driven to yourself, wank wank wank, that's all we ever do in Limerick.†   (source)
  • He's the only one who will listen but he's at the other end of Limerick and it takes me an hour to walk there, sitting on steps, holding on to walls.†   (source)
  • Mam is delighted I earned sixpence for reading to Mr. Timoney and what was it he wanted read, the Limerick Leader?†   (source)
  • The man says, Do you expect Limerick to start building lavatories in houses that are falling down anyway, that will be demolished after the war?†   (source)
  • The boys at the post office tell me I'm lucky to get the Carmody family telegram, a shilling tip, one of the biggest tips you'll ever get in Limerick.†   (source)
  • Mam says she likes the names Kevin and Sean but Bridey says, Ah, no, there's too many of them in Limerick.†   (source)
  • You live in Los Angeles with sun and palm trees day in day out and you ask God if there's any chance He could give you one soft rainy Limerick day.†   (source)
  • What else would I be standing there on his doorstep in Limerick with a batch of telegrams in my hand?†   (source)
  • Saturday morning I meet The Red Hearts of Limerick and we wander out the road looking for a football challenge.†   (source)
  • I push the pram down to the Dock Road, out to Corkanree where all the dust and garbage of Limerick is dumped and burned.†   (source)
  • She wants to make sure the children won't starve while she's gone and she roams Limerick begging for flour.†   (source)
  • We grew up ignorant in Limerick, so we did, knowing feck all about anything and signs on, we're mothers before we're women.†   (source)
  • Too good for the post office but ready and willing to deliver all kinds of filthy English magazines all over Limerick.†   (source)
  • Limerick City erupts with whistles, horns, sirens, brass bands, people calling and singing, Happy New Year.†   (source)
  • Go home, she'll say, and tell your father to get off his northern arse and get a job like the decent men of Limerick.†   (source)
  • I'm the new boy and I have to be messenger boy while he's gone, cycling around Limerick on the bicycle with the big metal basket in front.†   (source)
  • I don't think Jesus Who is Our Lord would have liked the weather in Limerick because it's always raining and the Shannon keeps the whole city damp.†   (source)
  • I don't know how a man in his right mind can go off and leave a wife and family to starve and shiver in a Limerick winter.†   (source)
  • I'm floating over the whole field till The Red Hearts of Limerick clap me on the back and tell me that was a great goal, Frankie, you too, Billy.†   (source)
  • The cement factory is miles outside Limerick and that means Dad has to be out of the house by six in the morning.†   (source)
  • He knows Mam would come for him or send us and there are so many pubs at this end of Limerick and beyond we could be looking for a month.†   (source)
  • I put on my shoes and run quickly through the streets of Limerick to keep myself warm against the February frost.†   (source)
  • She brings him the cigarette and tells Mam the guards in the barracks have taken up a collection to pay our train fares to Limerick.†   (source)
  • Men are walking or cycling toward the coal yards and Rank's Flour Mills and the Limerick Steamship Company on the Dock Road.†   (source)
  • He couldn't swallow the wafer but did that stop his mother from parading him around Limerick in his little black suit for The Collection?†   (source)
  • But, Paddy, would the quality in India talk to you if they knew you were from a lane in Limerick and had no shoes?†   (source)
  • There will be a motor car to pick up our trunk and leave us at Kingsbridge Railway Station and, You'll be in Limerick in three or four hours.†   (source)
  • Everyone knows Limerick is the holiest city in Ireland because it has the Arch Confraternity of the Holy Family, the biggest sodality in the world.†   (source)
  • My mother, the former Angela Sheehan, grew up in a Limerick slum with her mother, two brothers, Thomas and Patrick, and a sister, Agnes.†   (source)
  • Angela wanted to give him a middle name, Munchin, after the patron saint of Limerick but Malachy said over his dead body.†   (source)
  • The boys had shaved heads, snotty noses, and no shoes and we followed them through the streets of Limerick.†   (source)
  • People in families in the lanes of Limerick have their ways of not talking to each other and it takes years of practice.†   (source)
  • Mam says she's sure God is good for someone somewhere but He hasn't been seen lately in the lanes of Limerick.†   (source)
  • No, not the bloody Limerick Leader.†   (source)
  • They're bad enough here in Limerick.†   (source)
  • Mrs. O'Connell gives me telegrams to deliver to Mr. Harrington, the Englishman with the dead wife that was born and bred in Limerick.†   (source)
  • Then there are stories of people committing all kinds of sins you wouldn't find in Limerick, getting divorces, committing adultery.†   (source)
  • If he has a few pints taken he sits up eating his chips from the Limerick Leader and singing "The Road to Rasheen.†   (source)
  • This is our first Christmas in Limerick and the girls are out in the lane, skipping rope and singing, Christmas is coming And the goose is getting fat, Please put a penny In the old man's hat.†   (source)
  • We know that if Our Lord had grown up in Limerick He would never have been crucified because the people of Limerick were always good Catholics and not given to crucifixion.†   (source)
  • Bunch of Limerick men in India.†   (source)
  • I know it's my father because he's the only one in Limerick who sings that song from the North, Roddy McCorley goes to die on the bridge of Toome today.†   (source)
  • After a night of drinking porter in the pubs of Limerick he staggers down the lane singing his favorite song, Who threw the overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder?†   (source)
  • There are boys from all over Limerick climbing the steps to take the exam and a man at the door is handing them sheets of paper and pencils and barking at them to hurry up, hurry up.†   (source)
  • Men come in from other parts of the pub to see the two coal-black men with the lime-white man in the middle and they want to send down to the Limerick Leader for a man with a camera.†   (source)
  • The Limerick Leader, Mr. Timoney?†   (source)
  • The master sent a note home saying Mikey was to practice receiving Communion with his father or mother but even they couldn't get him to swallow a piece of the Limerick Leader in the shape of a wafer.†   (source)
  • Everyone knows Irish girls keep themselves pure especially Limerick girls known the world over for their purity who have a man to come back to like Gerry Halvey himself.†   (source)
  • But there's not--and I say it with joy and with pride A better man in all Munster wide And Limerick town has no happier hearth Than mine has been with my man from the North.†   (source)
  • He's going to tell us what it would be like if Our Lord had grown up in Limerick which has the Arch Confraternity of the Holy Family and is the holiest city in Ireland.†   (source)
  • Her oldest son, my uncle Tom, thought he'd go to England to work like other men in the lanes of Limerick but his consumption got worse and he came back to Limerick and now he's dead.†   (source)
  • She says, Sorry for your troubles and I hope that's all you'll ever have, and he says that some day, with God's help, we'll get out of Limerick and far from the Shannon that kills.†   (source)
  • I'm sorry I wrote threatening letters to the poor people in the lanes of Limerick, my own people, but the ledger is gone, no one will ever know what they owe and they won't have to pay their balances.†   (source)
  • He has to write down facts not a lot of bloody poetry, which is all you hear in Limerick with men in pubs going on about our great sufferings under the English.†   (source)
  • I try to make up words, Oh, The Walls of Limerick are falling down, falling down, falling down, The Walls of Limerick falling down and the River Shannon kills us.†   (source)
  • She tells Minnie stories about characters in Limerick and Minnie tells her about characters in Belfast and they laugh because there are funny people in Ireland, North and South.†   (source)
  • I remain, yours in litigious anticipation, Mrs. Brigid Finucane She tells me, That's a powerful letter, by, better than anything you'd read in the Limerick Leader.†   (source)
  • She's not happy I'm a messenger boy because that's the lowest you can drop in Limerick but if it brings in ham like this we should light a candle in gratitude.†   (source)
  • I'll have to wait till I go to America where there are priests like Bing Crosby in Going My Way who won't kick me out of the confessional like Limerick priests.†   (source)
  • Of course, he said, you're bound to have the cough when you live in Limerick because this is the capital city of the weak chest and the weak chest leads to the consumption.†   (source)
  • It means you have to crawl before Mr. Coffey and Mr. Kane and thank God the Dispensary is at the other end of Limerick so that people in our lane won't know we're getting the relief.†   (source)
  • He tells Mam, no, she can't have boiled bacon or sausages and if she has any sense she'll take the pig's head before they're all gone the way the poor people of Limerick are clamoring for them.†   (source)
  • He hobbles along the streets calling, Anna Lie Sweets Lie, which doesn't sound a bit like Limerick Leader and it doesn't matter because everyone knows this is Ab Sheehan that was dropped on his head.†   (source)
  • Grandma says to Mam, Your brother Pat, bad leg an' all, was selling papers all over Limerick by the time he was eight and that Frank of yours is big and ugly enough to work.†   (source)
  • He's sitting up in bed finishing his fish and chips, dropping to the floor the Limerick Leader they were wrapped in, wiping his mouth and hands with the blanket.†   (source)
  • The Limerick moon was so bright I could see bits of it shimmering in the water and I wanted to scoop up moon bits but how could I with the fleas leaping on my legs.†   (source)
  • Malachy and I don't get any because we have shoes on our feet even if the soles are worn away and we wonder why we ran all over Limerick selling tickets so that other boys could get boots.†   (source)
  • If a man goes off and joins the English army his family might as well move to another part of Limerick where there are families with men in the English army.†   (source)
  • He had such a high time of it he spent all his money and when he came back to Limerick the only job he could get was in the gas works shoveling coal into the furnaces.†   (source)
  • He blesses me again, asks me to pray for him, and I'm happy trotting through the rainy streets of Limerick knowing Theresa is in heaven with the cough gone.†   (source)
  • The grown-up people of Limerick are not going to be handing out money to every little Tom Dick and Mick with a First Communion suit that doesn't have his mother with him.†   (source)
  • When a man dies in Limerick the women always say, Grand man he was, shoulders that big and wide he wouldn't come in the door for you, had to come in sideways.†   (source)
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