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On the Web
- Limerick o' the Day - A daily (ribald) limerick, with an archive of previously featured limericks.
- Limerick.com - Limericks - Humorous verses from this eponymous Irish town.
- Limerick Self Catering Tourist Accommodation - Limerick Self Catering Tourist Accommodation midway between the city centre and the universitry of Limerick
- Ed Donnelly's Limerick Page - All about Limerick City, including numerous links to other Limerick related sites.
- Limerick City Council - Information about all the services that Limerick City Council provides for the citizens of Limerick
- Loony Limericks - Huge and still growing collection of limericks both naughty and nice. Visitors can also add a line to the mass limerick.
- Alien Limerick Generator - This interactive 'net artifact is an exercise in computer glossolalia that allows users to randomly generate metrically perfect nonsense-limericks--in an "alien" (that is, not spoken, now nor ever, on Earth) language.
- Adam's Page of Weird and Wonderful Limericks - A dozen original limericks with disgusting themes.
- Lear, Limericks and Literature - "An introduction to the limerick and other zany rhymes made famous by Edward Lear in the 1850's." An online lesson plan aimed at creative writing classes; includes information on the history of the limerick form, as well as biographical material on Lear.
- Poetic Limericks - Genuine poetry written in the limerick style. Background information on this style of poetry and samples of the work of Joel D. Ash. Gateways to online books containing Poetic Limericks.
Wikipedia Articles
- Lecherous Limericks - Lecherous Limericks is the first of Isaac Asimov's several compilations of dirty limericks, published in 1975. The book contains 100 limericks.
- Slim Goodbuzz - Slim Goodbuzz (born 1970) is an American writer known primarily for his reviews of drinking establishments in newspapers and magazines. He is also the author of a collection of dirty limericks.
- Today Bandha Ghorar Dim - Today Bandha Ghorar Dim or Toray Bandha Ghorar Dim is a collection of nonsense rhymes by the acclaimed Indian film director Satyajit Ray in Bengali. The collection contains several translated rhymes and limericks besides some original works by him.
- The Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form - The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form (The OEDILF) is an open collaborative project to compile an English dictionary whose entries all take the form of limericks. The site, launched in August 2004, has attracted several hundred writers from around the world, many of whom are active at any one particular time.
- There once was a man from Nantucket - "There once was a man from Nantucket" is the opening line for many limericks and is among the most familiar opening lines in poetry. This literary trope can be attributed to the popularity of the limerick genre and the way the name of the island of Nantucket lends itself easily to humorous rhymes and puns.