H05004 PRIZE-WINNING LIMERICKS- 1/5/05 - HARDY FORUM ARCHIVES ____________________________________________________________________________
From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: Re: PRIZE-WINNING Limericks:
Date: January 5, 2005 9:49:58 AM PST
Greetings ALL:
Announcing the Prizewinners for the Best Limerick of the Frolicking Season!
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Well -- I have to say that here's a pretty kettle of fish: It may well be that TTHA's Board of Judges has been extended to its utmost intellectual limit in evaluating these verses! However, after submitting our votes to a renowned Hardy scholar for final assessment we are delighted to announce that the
First prize goes to . . . . Limerick Number 9 -- Michael Barry
Second prize goes to . . . Limerick Number 13 -- Martin Hemming
And a third prize will be awarded to Limerick Number 1. -- John Bridell
CONGRATULATIONS to all on a wonderfully inventive set of verses and thank you everyone -- all contributors -- for the pleasurable entertainment you have given all of us over the past few weeks.
Prizewinners should contact me privately to let me know their choice of prize from TTHA's list of publications or the Man of Wessex videotape created by Professor Eugene Davis (sorry to say this only works with US equipment).
And a Happy New Year to One and All!
Cheers,
Rosemarie
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1. There once was a preacher distracted
Who obeyed every law as enacted
But, his love by bold chance
Smuggled brandy from France
And the preacher was quite flabbergasted!
2. A shocked and censorious press
Took Hardy to task over _Tess_
Their morals weren't higher,
'Twas twisted desire
To see Tess divest of her dress.
3.With Jude Hardy broke many a rule
And they called him a rake and a fool
They'd have given him slack
If he'd been a mere hack
Had he gone to a much better school.
4. With Jude Hardy broke many a rule
Critics called him a rake and a fool
They'd have given him slack
If he'd been a mere hack
Had he gone to a much better school.
5.There once was a Dorsetshire fellow
Who carolled all night on the 'cello
His extremities froze
He lost three of his toes
'cos the cider had made him so mellow.
6. If one aimed to be named "magisterial"
When one pounced on old Hardy's material
As an endless supply
That would never run dry
Take my tip!
Ones ideas are ethereal.
7. Hardy_s channeled through R. Nemesvari
Through the Morgans both BIll and Rosemarie
Through Niemeyer and Schweik he
Lives on in our psyche
Through Cortus and Buckle and Barry.
8.A sozzled hay-trusser 'strook dumb'
Sold his Sue to a sailor for a sum
The results of his sin
Were few kith and no kin
And twenty-one years off the rum.
9. Nubile but poor Ethelberta
Refused to let men ever hurt her;
Won Society's glories
By telling tall stories
Then allowed an old Lord to unskirt her.
10. A modest young milkmaid named Tess
To her bridegroom a sin did confess
Her proud husband grew wild
When he learned of her child
And decreed they must part, more or less.
11.
At a fair Mike and Susan ate furmity
While he secretly fed his infirmity.
Then he sold off his wife,
Fashioned a grand new life
'Til his past came out in a skimmity.
12.It majestically rolls to a climax
Through ten years, three parts, nineteen acts,
Innumerable beings
In innumerable scenes
And a tolerable fidelity to facts.
13.Arabella the crude captured Jude,
And her company rude, Jude eschewed.
But his life in the city
With Sue ... pretty ... witty,
Was a story condemned as too lewd.
14. Though Hardy's vision of life was ironic
And some of his themes were Byronic,
About a world ruled by Chance
And crass happenstance,
He wrote numbers of works quite iconic.
15. To Hardy the world seemed a joke,
For him, circumstances were merely cloak
To make thou and me
Think how important we be,
When life really was all just thin smoke.
16. There was once an importunate he-male
Tried his luck with a difficult fe-male.
But she said 'Sorry mate you're already too late:
'And you cannot get round me by e-mail!'
17.To Me, this Tom Hardy is brand new,
Both He, Emma, Jude, Tess, and Florence;
Barbara Owen, and Max Gate
Are just Myst'ries, just can't wait --
So, now, I read onward, with patience.
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Resent-From: HARDY-L@csusm.edu
From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: Re: PRIZE-WINNING Limericks:
Date: January 5, 2005 6:17:20 PM PST
To: HARDY-L@csusm.edu
Reply-To: HARDY-L@csusm.edu
Greeetings --
Just to assist the Limericks' poets (Seasonal Frolics Prizewinners) choose their TTHA publications I am giving the url to a "Table of Contents Page." This is rather a rough and ready page and incomplete but it may help.
http://www.yale.edu/hardysoc/Journal/journal.htm
With every good wish,
Rosemarie
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From: fsiedow@omniglobal.net
Subject: Re: SENT AGAIN: PRIZE-WINNING Limericks:
Date: January 9, 2005 3:54:07 PM PST
Rosemarie Morgan wrote:
Hi folks- .....Announcing the Prizewinners for the Best Limerick of the Frolicking Season!
Hi, Rosemarie, and all: Thanks for the great Limericks, and their creativity disclosed. Boy, was my face red when I saw my limerick didn't even rhyme the 1st line!! Somehow, the last word of the 1st line got left off -- "hence,". There were so many markups, deletions, other words, piled up on that scrap of paper, no wonder; I probably just copied it wrong to the email.
And, the last word should be vengeance. Thanks, and KUDOS to those more scholarly and elegant entrants.
The proper listing:
17.
To Me, this Tom Hardy is new, hence,
Both He, Emma, Jude, Tess, and Florence;
Barbara Owen, and Max Gate
Are just Myst'ries, just can't wait --
So, now, I read onward, with vengeance.
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From: Rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu
Subject: Fred's Frolic
Date: January 9, 2005 4:23:08 PM PST
Fred-- I admire your persistence. This is certainly a most ambitious limerick (all those names).
I think -- given your diligence -- we'll have to rethink the word "Frolics."
With every good wish,
Rosemarie
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From: michael@perceptivecreation.co.uk
Subject: Re: PRIZE-WINNING Limericks:
Date: January 9, 2005 8:34:24 PM PST
Mercy me, Good Heavens and Ohmygosh! I am delighted to be so honoured as to
win a Limerick Prize - I guess my Irish ancestry must tell! Whilst the deep
suspicion that the absolute peak of my literary talents has clearly come to
the fore in these Seasonal Frolickings is worrying (I think I won a prize a
year or two ago too!), I do relish the recognition and adulation that goes
with it! What a cheer-up to arrive home to, after the misery of stepping off
the Mallorca seven-day-sunshine plane into the grey wet sodden blustery
English January! Thanks Judges - and many congratulations to the other
winners, and indeed all the contestants, who offered us so much pith and wit
at this Annual Unwind Season. It's a pleasure to be counted "in" in such
company! Thanks too to Mr Hardy for the inspiration!
Best wishes for 2005
Michael Barry
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From: fsiedow@omniglobal.net
Subject: Thanks; Re: Fred's Frolic
Date: January 11, 2005 2:28:51 PM PST
Rosemarie Morgan wrote:
Fred-- I admire your persistence. This is certainly a most ambitious limerick (all those names).
I think -- given your diligence -- we'll have to rethink the word "Frolics."
With every good wish,
Rosemarie
WELL ! ! That's about the nicest thing you could say. Limericks, especially, should be funny, I think, and to have it (or myself) called a frolic is a great compliment, especially from this august group!
With my best wishes, frolicin' Fred.
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From: m.hemming@perpetuitygroup.com
Subject: Bowled over
Date: January 11, 2005 3:20:57 PM PST
My Limerick's won me a prize!
I confess I could scarce trust my eyes,
But receipt of an email
From such eminent female
As Rosemarie won't brook no lies - Thanks Guys!
Martin Hemming
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From: hardycor@owl.csusm.edu
Subject: Bowled Over
Date: January 11, 2005 4:02:47 PM PST
That was delightful Martin! Thank you too Fred. It seems the talents of
our members are unstoppable.
Best Wishes to you Both,
Betty
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From: fsiedow@omniglobal.net
Subject: I'm Bowled over, too
Date: January 12, 2005 11:00:46 AM PST
Martin Hemming wrote:
My Limerick's won me a prize!
I confess I could scarce trust my eyes,.....
.......BRAVO ! ! Even better than the 1st one. Thanks: Fred Siedow
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