Comments on: Outside Lands 2011 limerick contest: The Winnahs! http://boingboing.net/2011/08/05/outside-lands-2011-limerick-contest-the-winnahs.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Mon, 20 May 2013 14:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Adrian Mercylist http://boingboing.net/2011/08/05/outside-lands-2011-limerick-contest-the-winnahs.html#comment-1181857 Adrian Mercylist Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:07:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/08/05/outside-lands-2011-limerick-contest-the-winnahs.html#comment-1181857 Oh sh*t, I couldn't have won.. When asked for some words.. i had none my poem lacked conviction, tone, prose, and diction Next time...a haiku, or a pun? Congrats to the winners! those are gold! Oh sh*t, I couldn’t have won..
When asked for some words.. i had none
my poem lacked conviction,
tone, prose, and diction
Next time…a haiku, or a pun?

Congrats to the winners! those are gold!

]]> By: cjhowareya http://boingboing.net/2011/08/05/outside-lands-2011-limerick-contest-the-winnahs.html#comment-1181838 cjhowareya Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:44:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/08/05/outside-lands-2011-limerick-contest-the-winnahs.html#comment-1181838 ^Limerickus Interruptus.  Now that's funny.^ And: Woo to the Freaking Hoo! Huge thanks to the most esteemed panel of arbiters. I am beyond grateful and am indeed amped to be digging BAD and The Meters (and Beirut! and Mavis Staples! and The Black Keys!  ... and, and, and ..!) I'll patiently await details. Thanks, thanks, thanks! PS: Jefferson Airplane reference in my first limerick?  Too forced? ^Limerickus Interruptus.  Now that’s funny.^

And: Woo to the Freaking Hoo!
Huge thanks to the most esteemed panel of arbiters. I am beyond grateful and am indeed amped to be digging BAD and The Meters (and Beirut! and Mavis Staples! and The Black Keys!  … and, and, and ..!)

I’ll patiently await details. Thanks, thanks, thanks!

PS: Jefferson Airplane reference in my first limerick?  Too forced?

]]> By: daemonsquire http://boingboing.net/2011/08/05/outside-lands-2011-limerick-contest-the-winnahs.html#comment-1181825 daemonsquire Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:32:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/08/05/outside-lands-2011-limerick-contest-the-winnahs.html#comment-1181825 Congrats to the limerick winners, Whose poems ate everyone's dinners! It looks like my plans For next weekend are sans Any need to keep coming up with rhymes. Congrats to the limerick winners,
Whose poems ate everyone’s dinners!
It looks like my plans
For next weekend are sans
Any need to keep coming up with rhymes.

]]> By: Trevor (KVB) http://boingboing.net/2011/08/05/outside-lands-2011-limerick-contest-the-winnahs.html#comment-1181784 Trevor (KVB) Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:58:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/08/05/outside-lands-2011-limerick-contest-the-winnahs.html#comment-1181784 There once was a contest, two Boing Whose winners, to a concert were going. That my 'rick didn't win Seems like less of a sin, Since these two better entries were showing ;) There once was a contest, two Boing
Whose winners, to a concert were going.
That my ‘rick didn’t win
Seems like less of a sin,
Since these two better entries were showing ;)

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