II. Do you like limericks?

A limerick is a five-line poem written with one couplet and one triplet. If a couplet is a two-line rhymed poem, then a triplet would be a three-line rhymed poem. The rhyme pattern is AABBA with lines 1, 2 and 5 containing 3 beats and rhyming, and lines 3 and 4 having two beats and rhyming.

Some people say that the limerick was invented by soldiers returning from France to the Irish town of Limerick in the 18.th century.

Limericks are meant to be funny. They often contain hyperbole, onomatopoeia, idioms, puns, and other figurative devices. The last line of a good limerick contains the "punch line" or "heart of the joke." An example – a rather old one, I believe:

There was once a priest from Liberia,
Whose morals were really inferior.
Once did to a nun
What he shouldn't have done,
And now she's a Mother Superior.

Does any of you, dear blogger friends, collect limericks? I mean those "spicy" ones that make you laugh as a fool.
I find limericks particularly refined as far as sane, good humour is concerned.

Friendly greetings to Ireland/Eire and to the Irish!

UPDATE
Here's a jewel two blogger friends just presented me with (I couldn't help posting it):

There once was a blogger named Ric,
Who posted a rude limerick.
Once with Kapitano,
They went mano a mano,
And both had a handful of dick!

Kapitano + Gray

Thanks a lot!