Hi, Dallas!  Recently you wrote in a message to All:

DH>  Limericks


          Named after a town in the Republic of Ireland, apparently....  :-)



DH>  are a way we play with language. Here's a musical one
DH>  for you:

DH>  A tutor who tooted the flute
DH>  Tried to tutor two tooters to flute
DH>  Said the two to the tutor
DH>  "Is it tougher to too
DH>  Or to tutor two tooters to toot?"


          Hmm.  I wonder who else will spot the typo?  :-))



DH>  The absence of punctuation is typical of limericks, by
DH>  the way.


          Uh-huh.  I reckon they're generally passed on by word of mouth for
awhile before somebody gets around to writing them down... by which time the
identity of the original authors has been forgotten & we can't consult these
folks as to whether they'd have used a period, a colon, a semicolon, a comma
fault, or no punctuation at all in certain places.  It's like looking up the
words of a song when many others are reporting what they thought they heard.
The usual copout nowadays is to assume a pause at the end of each line.  ;-)


          Here's another I heard as as child:

               A flea and a fly in a flue
               Were imprisoned -- so what could they do?
               Said the flea, "Let us fly!
               Said the fly, "Let us flee!"
               And they flew through a hole in the flue.




--- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+
 * Origin: Wits' End, Vancouver CANADA (1:153/716)