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    Aug 28, 2008

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    Limerick competition: Penguins Stopped Play

    By Will last year, mid-March, 24 Comments »

    With the World Cup mere days away from starting proper, it’s definitely time I flung you some freebies. Four copies of Harry Thompson’s excellent Penguins Stopped Play: Eleven Cricketers Take on the World and, a month in advance of any shop, it’s in paperback. How fortunate you all are to read this blog. Many thanks to James Spackman and the good folk of John Murray.

    It’s limerick time!

    Your starter for five is either:

    1) West Indies are hosting the Cup

    2) They say the World Cup is wide open

    We’ve run a few limerick competitions in the past which have gone down well. For those not sure of the style a limerick takes, it’s really simple: using one of the two starting lines below, construct a five-line verse with the rhyme scheme of aabba. See here for ideas. Or here.

    Get to it. And don’t forget, if you don’t win, snag a copy from the shops.

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    Another limerick - this time with prizes

    By Will 2 years ago, at the start of March, 2 Comments »

    OK, have launched a new competition at The Googly, but everyone’s welcome to join from here. And prizes are on offer from the marvellous and terrific people at Crease Clothing. Their T-Shirts are all cricket-related, emblazened with cricketing slogans and puns! Well worth getting a couple for summer even if you don’t win one of the two on offer.

    Go! Now! Enter! Make me laugh and win yourself a prize.. NOTE: you need to make your entries at the other blog, not here! Thanks.

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    Cricket Limerick part deux

    By Will 3 years ago, at the end of November, 10 Comments »

    After the surprising success of the first limerick idea I had, it’s time for a repeat. For rules and regulations, see here - but the concept is simple: use the a a b b a 5-line form, and make it as funny and irreverant as possible. And the first, second and fifth lines generally have eight syllables, hence a limerick’s rhythm. For example:

    A flea and a fly in a flue

    Were caught, so what could they do?

    Said the fly, “Let us flee.”

    “Let us fly,” said the flea.

    So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

    Anon

    The starting line this week is: The series resumes at Lahore. Go for it!

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