Britain’s world limerick-writing title hope Liam McSweeney was this morning being comforted by family and close friends after sensationally choking in the dying seconds of the championship final last night.
McSweeney, holding a narrow lead in front of a hushed, tense crowd, was unable to find a final rhyme for the word ‘Nantucket’.
The Ulsterman found himself presented with a winning break point:
“A daring young man from Nantucket
Kept bionic balls in a bucket
When tempted by sin
He’d plug them back in
Saying “see how they glow when I….”
“I’m gutted,” he told reporters, “An amphibrachic foot to the meter was playing to my strength, but I just couldn’t get that final rhyme. Cluck it? Duck it? Nope.”
McSweeney was a hot favourite after romping to a semi-final victory with:
“A clever young man from Caerphilly
Possessed an inflatable willy
When drunk on the stout
He’d whip it right out
Wave it around and look silly.”
But his failure to rhyme Nantucket proved a turning point in a dramatic final against The Very Reverend Norman Hembury, Suffragan Bishop of Droitwich, who scored the winning points with a sensational topical bonus on:
“Pippa’s accent was perfect cut glass –
For an aristocrat she could pass
But the pose fell apart
When she trumped a great fart
And said ‘Now what d’you think of my arse’?”
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Title hope chokes in limerick world final with failure to rhyme Nantucket
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offlineMemberHat tip to friends at the pub last night, whose limericks were the main reason I posted nothing yesterday as when I got home I couldn't work out which of the three keyboards in front of me I was supposed to type on.
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