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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'social death'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Social death will not find me, I hope, If I say (meaning excellent) dope. Old-school slang is my thang, And I'm liable to hang With enough conversational rope. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'riding cher'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Part-Svengali, part-Bozo on air, Sonny Bono created the pair. He drove at the start, But switched seats on the cart, Quite content to be riding a Cher. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'boffo word'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Here is boffo, a word I wrote down, That resembles the name of a clown. Something's boffo if it Is a laugh or a hit. It's an adjective; also a noun. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'protest'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Watch a guy first protest, and then holler— But in vain. You can bet your last dollar, There's no more he can say, 'Cause what gives him away Is a small lipstick smear on his collar. <LIMERICK_E...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'lenin renown'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> V.I. Lenin's renown hasn't spread, So this commie's been keeping his head. When he speaks to a crowd At the Kremlin, they're wowed— And so loud that it dazes the Red. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'prunus avium'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "The botanical name", said my mum, While she drank from a large glass of rum, "Prunus avium means 'cherry', Though it's sorta contrary, Since it's Prunus, which makes it a plum." <LIMERICK_E...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'named marge'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> There once was a woman named Marge, Whose ego and size were quite large. Into rooms she would barge Like a blustery sarge. Glad she had no big guns to discharge! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'carbon disulfide'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Since it's poisonous, flammable stuff, I'd say carbon disulfide is tough. It's a solvent for rubber And a pesky-fly clubber. These uses are more than enough. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'catching bass'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Think a scholar just sits on his ass Taking entrance tests hoping to pass? There is stiff competition For free rides on tuition For an angler who's great catching bass. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'fm'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Federation of far-flung isle states In the western Pacific awaits. They've a code, it's "fm", Which will show us it's them (Or their Internet radio mates). <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'new annoybots'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> New annoybots are flooding the Net. They act mostly like humans, and yet They post nonsense and flames. This is one of the games Childish hackers enjoy, I would bet. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'vanishing cream'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Cosmeticians say looks really matter, And they push preparations that flatter. So would vanishing cream On my butt make it seem Any slimmer? (It can't get much fatter.) <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'rhymed star'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Just imagine his state of chagrin When he found out why he couldn't win. He had rhymed star with war And the judges all swore 'Twas an entry they wouldn't let in. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'archbishop'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The archbishop was firm, unassailable. "There's no sickness to cure? That's bewailable!" Yes, within his archdiocese, The pain of psoriasis Was the only disease still available. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'hubby'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "Hubby's trying to gaslight you, Jane— Make you think something's wrong with your brain." "My position's not grim. Ha! The joke is on him, Since the truth is I'm truly insane." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'breast bud'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> As the changes of puberty near, The breast bud is first to appear. A small swelling is seen In the female pre-teen, For her childhood, the final frontier. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'horse'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Your grandfather, ma'am, I'm not judging. But the facts, I believe, you are fudging. Yes, the going was slow Through the deep winter snow, But the horse, not the man, did the trudging. <LIMERICK_EN...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'glass'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Effervescible substances might Start to fizz, which could lead to a fright: With two plinks in your glass, It may well come to pass You'll remember what happened last night. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'actors respond'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Some actors respond to direction, But others display an objection. "Look luvvy," they say, "Let me do it my way; Died last night, but tonight resurrection!" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'chris christie'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Chris Christie, who's plumper than plump, Is derided by some as a chump When this governor says, "Vote for Donald as prez!" Though Trump's trash talk belongs in the dump. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'produce stds'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Sex, the leader of all indoor sports, Will produce STDs of all sorts. Some are bad. Some are worse. Brothel sprouts are a curse (Or in other words, genital warts). <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'human trafficking'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A fat cash cow allows you to sell On and on and keep milking it well. Human trafficking is One such high-profit biz, But its victims experience hell. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'thoroughbred stallion'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A thoroughbred stallion named Blue Finished last every race or withdrew. His also-ran status Delivered him gratis To Elmer's, where Blue became glue. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cawdor macbeth'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> You've taken your ultimate breath In the clutches of Cawdor's Macbeth. Is a dagger the cause Of the infinite pause That now draws from this instant of death? <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'pam seemed'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I'd been shot! Though I'd dropped to my knees, Pam seemed dead to my panicky pleas: "Darling, quick! Nine-one-one!" Then I noticed the gun In her hand... (I crossed over with ease.) <LIMERICK_...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'sex'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> You should see what that trendsetting fella writ: "Try giving up sex for the hell of it." But the guys that I've kissed Find me hard to resist. It's a concept he might have to sell a bit. <LIMERICK_E...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'extremities'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My extremities all have turned blue, My toes and my fingertips, too. They're so far from the fire Of my heart, they'll expire From exposure. Then what'll I do? <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'compass'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> In a ship the effect of location Of much iron will produce aberration In the compass. We need To ensure that we heed The ship's card listing course deviation. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'nobleman thing'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A grand duke over land has control. The "Head Cheese What's in Charge" is his role. He is not quite a king; It's a "nobleman" thing, And a pretty sweet gig on the whole. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'car stalled'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My car stalled and the dashboard went black On a grade crossing, right on the track. The train's coming, can't brake. Gotta bail! Should I wake Dozing mother-in-law in the back? <LIMERICK_END...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'accelerate'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> You accelerate terribly hard, Yet we're only just leaving the yard! There's a bluey-grey cloud; We've attracted a crowd, And the surface is blackened and charred. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'beef tenderloin'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> If you'd like a delicious filet, Our beef tenderloin's rated Grade A. The Black Angus is fine, And the Kobe's divine, But the Charbray is special today. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bed'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Try a pure cotton candlewick spread, Soft and warm, to enhance any bed. The wavy design Is a classic, but mine Has a waffle-style texture instead. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'voters gay'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Up till 10pm sharp, polling day, I had not told the voters I'm gay. Now the ballots are cast And they're sorting them fast, I am out for the count, as they say. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'clear amaurosis'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Though it's plain you've no vestige of sight, It would seem that your eyes are all right, So be of good cheer. Diagnosis is clear: Amaurosis. We've now seen the light. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dream awoke'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> In the midst of a nightmarish dream, I awoke to a blood-chilling scream: I heard my heart pump As the voice made me jump But the scream was my own, it would seem. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dnieper river'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The Dnieper's a river that flows Out of Russia. Through Kherson it goes, As it shows on this map, So to find it's a snap— But pronounce the word? Dnobody dnows! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bag sag'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My transgression is sealed in a bag (Zigzag hem, slip-proof drawstring, you brag). My iniquity's sewn Up within; like a stone It weighs heavy and makes the bag sag. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'derby today'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Always Dreaming showed all he's no dud As he cruised 'round the track in the mud. Won the Derby today. Owner shouted: Hooray! Horse who placed got his face full of crud. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'tummy'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I'm full up, really filled yes, replete; I've had more than what's proper to eat. My poor tummy you hurt. Say that looks like dessert! I guess I'll return to my seat. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'floppe'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> An elegant lass from Detroit Thought her taste and her class she'd exploit. But her tony, chic shoppe Was soon panned as a floppe Since her spelling was so maladroit. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'stealing kiss'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Ideally when stealing a kiss From a miss, she'll find nothing amiss. Is there passion? A trace. Then a longer embrace. I could dally for days, just like this. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'contraposition'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "Contraposition? It's logic-wise this: Conversion through negation, sweet miss. If all B must be C, Then not-C means not-B. If you get that, just give me a kiss." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'stunning delays'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> While it's true you look utterly stunning, Delays, dear, I've got to be shunning. I happened to grab A damn Limerick Cab And his anapest meter is running. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'zit face'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I am finding my faculties stalled; I'm enraptured, astonied, enthralled; I'm too awestruck to sigh! You ask, "Zit-face, but why?" "Well, that hottie, from English? She called!" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'rib steak'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> For a meal in a class all its own, Try this rib steak sliced clean of its bone: Entrecote, lightly broiled (Lose the pink and it's spoiled). King of entrees, it's hard to dethrone. <LIMERICK_EN...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'seaman mcgee'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> With his boatload of know-how at sea, Able-bodied is Seaman McGee. His skill-set entails Climbing ropes, hoisting sails, And attaching his peg to his knee. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'climbing bolt'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> As a purist, I often resent When a climbing bolt aids the ascent, Where it lures the unwary. Mountaineering is hairy; These anchors were not God's intent. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'book critic'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Once a book critic showed his review Of my books (as, in fact, there were two) To his wife and his friend, Who would say in the end, "We have read them; do tell us: have you?" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'poor scarlett'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> When poor Scarlett designed that fine dress, It was Rhett she had tried to impress. Later, "Where shall I go?" He replied, "I don't know, And quite frankly I couldn't care less!" <LIMERICK_...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'barnet comb'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> When you've spent all night acting the lush, And you dress, half asleep, in a rush, Give the barnet a comb Before you leave home Or your head will resemble a brush. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'harry bailly'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Harry Bailly let beds and made sales, At Southwark, of suppers and ales. But a fabulous fame Has attached to his name: He's the 'hooste' in the Canterbury Tales. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'center stage'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Center stage, a theatrical phrase, Is employed in more general ways: It's a prominent place Or position—the space That commands our attention or praise. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'pry curiosity'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> There's the who, there's the what, where and why: These are words that emerge when I pry. Curiosity's drive Proves my brain is alive. So tell all—I must know—and don't lie. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'discourse'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Your discourse is nothing but blather. I'd lend you an ear, but I'd rather Get into the zone And spout tripe of my own. 'Tis better to sow than to gather. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'chihuahuas'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Chihuahuas are tiny and cute, And smaller than many big fruit. They're considered high-brow, Though their high-pitched bow-wow Makes me wish they'd been born nearly mute. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'elder'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Pieter Brueghel the Elder was new. Of the sacred in art he'd a view: To reject the ornate, To which folk can't relate. Make it simple: the Bible's still true. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'skateboarding'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> That fun politician is making A statement by skateboarding, breaking Tradition. This stunt Shows his right foot in front. That is one goofy stance that he's taking. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'circus'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> All the moms at the circus are awed By the tigers that circle, bare-clawed; But the sequin-legged thing Upside-down on a swing Always causes the dads to applaud. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'kraut'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Das Kraut is a veggie, the cabbage; It's grown and then gathered by "grabbage." A "Kraut" is a German, As Kohl (Helmut, Herman?) Or Zuse, the "Krautish" Charles Babbage? <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'czechoslovakian'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> On my Czechoslovakian trek, Met a native (quite long in the neck). So I traded a snack For a ride on his back. You could say that I rode a lank Czech. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'harassified'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My co-workers failed to be pacified; They bugged me to tell what my classified Work was about. How our boss chewed them out When I bitched about being harassified! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'gig'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> For this role as a Regency prig, I'll be donning a Brutus style wig, Tightly curled and short-cropped — Not a look I'd adopt Among mates. Still, a gig is a gig. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cuckooflowers'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Cuckooflowers are bloomers that grow In the garden below my chateau. They have petals of pink And sweet nectar to drink— Once a watercress substitute? Whoa! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'husk ears'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> When you husk ears of corn, get 'em clean So there's no trace of corn silk between Or around each plump kernel. That stuff is infernal! (. . . when it's stuck in my bridgework, I mean.) <LIMERI...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cried bartender'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Cried a bartender, trying to cope With the dirt in his tavern, "I hope That I'll have some success With the worst of this mess If I scrub with a little bar soap." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'accounting year'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Pick a day, any day, from the pack And then count twelve long months further back. With the "profit and loss" You prepare for your boss, The accounting year's figures you track. <LIMERICK...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'chicken'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "Ugh! This chicken has yellowy skin— Shall I throw it away in the bin?" "No! No hormones were fed To that bird, which, now dead, Shows by colour that corn was within." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'monster hair'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Hallowe'en, at my door, a monstrosity Loomed with a fiendish ferocity. As gusting winds grew The monster's hair flew Into windrows of crimson crinosity. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'sleep til'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> It really can be quite a boon To sleep 'til the late afternoon, That part of the day When the sun's on its way Between peaking and setting too soon. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'nelson choke'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> An armlock and half-nelson choke Helped subdue a disorderly bloke. A tobacco-crazed lout, He was getting thrown out Somewhat forcibly. Lesson: don't smoke. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'low attendance'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Low attendance has plagued the State Fair; It's in trouble. The people who care — Crowds who go every year — Have dropped off, and I fear That next year it will cease to be there. <LIMERI...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'channel home'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My wife hates my habit of hopping From station to station—no stopping— While watching TV. Only snippets I see. But I'll stay on that channel Home Shopping. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'write subroutines'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A programming method I choose For code that is common: reuse. I write subroutines when I will call them again; If well structured, they should not confuse. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'minority suffers'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A minority suffers aggrievement When injustices lead to bereavement. They fight, don't you see, For their right to be free, Which becomes their historic achievement. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'maude naked'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Once you spoke, the world rose to applaud. Then those photos with Harold and Maude: Naked romps in the rain Can be hard to explain. Campaign's over; your image is flawed <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'rumbling sound'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> What's that low rumbling sound? Distant thunder? Or could it be brontides, I wonder. Feeble earth tremors may Cause great damage one day If the earth 'neath our feet's torn asunder. <LIMER...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'puberty zits'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Certain things come with puberty: zits, And your crotch hair, and hair in your pits. If your Mother should say It's not hair, it's crotch hay, Don't believe her; but watch out for nits. <LIM...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'death spiral'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "That's a death spiral; that's what it's called? I won't have it; I'm simply appalled! Your young man might let go. You'll be splintered, you know," Cried old Gran, "Still, the crowd was ent...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'affordable housing'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Affordable housing's low-key. It's low cost but I wouldn't say free, Often government backed And set up to attract Low-income new buyers like me. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'beaufort scale'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Like a ruler, to twelve I can go. On the Beaufort scale, clearly I show That I'm calm down near one, But at twelve I can stun— That's when trees will be flung to and fro. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'three golf'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Four ahead on the fourteenth for Jay, But his next drive went somewhat astray, So he's now dormy three — A golf term you will see When the lead equals holes left to play. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'knights fought'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The knights fought to the death to contend For their honour, and neither would bend. Each strove for the blow That would finish his foe. 'À outrance! To the last bitter end!' <LIMERICK_END...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'annette made'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Acting/singing in Mickey Mouse ears, She had assets most every boy cheers. Films and records would follow. Though some call them hollow, Annette made me smile through the years. <LIMERICK_EN...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'rare colors'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> What rare colors did army types grab From the muddy gray shades at their lab? Not pastels, nothing light, Nothing vivid or bright— They were khaki- or olive-dyed drab. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'gay michigan'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Gay, Michigan, once had a mill, Which crushed rock to get copper. All's still 'Cept the town's Gay Parade, Which the locals invade, A museum, and Gay Bar and Grill. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bell breathed'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A religious fanatic named Bell Breathed his last and was cast into Hell. He complained, "It's not fair!" Satan scoffed, "I should care. Save your prayers—God's indifferent as well!" <LIMERI...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'ginny exigent'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Ginny's exigent: always intent On demanding that others assent To each whim she'd invent. Soon she'll double this bent— She's to marry an exigent gent. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'absurd ahistoricism'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I was shocked when I read in this book An absurd ahistoricism. Look: It says Hannibal crossed The high Alps, snow and frost, With giraffes. The book's author's a crook. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'practice dummies'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Practice dummies are heavy and tough, Which is good, since they're beaten enough. "Hit those bags!" coaches yell. "What makes uniforms swell— Is it muscle or marshmallow fluff?!" <LIMERI...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'pickled bud'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Would ye care for a caper, my dear? Pickled bud? That sounds ever so queer. Have an oatcake and cheese — Butter, too, if ye please. It will go very well with your beer. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'competitor bart'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A competitor? Bart's one at heart. He is quick, and he's crafty and smart. While I'm still in my seat, He is off to compete. The coach calls it a fine flying start. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'auto correction'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My word processing program can take Care of many mistakes that I make. I use auto-correction, But careful inspection Is needed for "step on the break". <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'severe bipolarity'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I am given to fits of hilarity, Interspersed with rare moments of clarity. When my mood isn't high, I would rather just die— This is caused by severe bipolarity. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'go calabria'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> While sipping Pollino real slow, I dream of where I'd like to go. I'm Calabria bound, That peninsular ground; On Italy's boot, it's the toe. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dactylis'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> What is Dactylis? Genus of grass That is also called cocksfoot. Alas, That old moniker may Keep the lasses away, When they ought to make hay. Time will pass. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dick clark'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Dick Clark built success after school: Philly teens danced on Bandstand, looked cool As groups lip-synced to hits, Selling records. Clark's wits Let him profit, no pay-for-play fool. <LIMERICK...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'police hate'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Police hate a domestic dispute Where big problems may lie at the root. Household members who fight Get so angry they might Both each other and officers shoot. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'becoming pope'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Clergywomen, abandon all hope. For, although as mere priests you can cope, Unlike masculine vicars, The bits in your knickers Preclude you becoming a pope. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'going deasil'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Going deasil? I learned this in school. It means travelling clockwise. It's cool— Through the day's constant run It is said of the sun; It "moves deasil", without any fuel. <LIMERICK_END>
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