You will now sing every new limerick you hear for the rest of your life.

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    4 months ago

    There was a young woman named Bright.
    Whose speed was much faster than light.
    She departed one day,
    In a relative way,
    And returned on the previous night!

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      4 months ago

      This is set to music at the end and beginning of the Alphaville album Afternoons in Utopia.

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        4 months ago

        Enough. At first I was like, “Yeah, I love Alphaville!” However, upon further reflection, it occurred to me that I had confused Alphaville with two separate Austin-based bands, Alpha Rev and Storyville.

        I’d did check out that album and sure…

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    There once was a man from Nantucket
    Who kept all his cash in a bucket.
        But his daughter, named Nan,
        Ran away with a man
    And as for the bucket, Nantucket.
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    There was a young lady called Jean

    Who fell in a washing machine

    She tumbled around

    Till she almost drowned

    But she came out remarkably clean

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    I couldn’t remember the tune to Home on the Range, so I used Piano Man, and that worked.

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      4 months ago

      essentially a limerick

      The first line of a limerick has a flexible number of syllables. Sometimes eight, sometimes nine (“There once was a man from Nantucket…”). It still remains that any limerick can be put the to tune of that song because there is enough space for each syllable.