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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'tailed grouse'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Sharp-tailed grouse, on their dancing grounds (leks), Strut about in a prelude to sex. There, midst short prairie grasses, They swell their plump asses While inflating their fine-feathered ...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'obama'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I confess that it doesn't seem strange That Obama has clamored for change. I would love to comply, But removing this guy Is the change I would rather arrange. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'sharp major'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> B sharp Major was majorly pissed: They'd omitted his name, he'd insist. "My Concerto for Harp In the key of B sharp? I can't C why it's not on the list!" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'hearth logs'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Though outdoors, all is covered in snow, In my hearth, logs are softly aglow. Let it freeze, let it storm— I'll stay cozy and warm By the fireside, with nowhere to go. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'alcohol'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I resolved, when the year was still new, That all alcohol I would eschew. But perhaps, though, a brief Little aperitif At my desk? I don't mind if I do. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'zodiac creatures'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> To a restaurant I went for Chinese, Saw the placemat, and felt ill at ease. I mistook what it features— Their zodiac creatures. "The menu," I asked, "includes these?" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'ant cow'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Don't assume that the ant cow's a cow. To milk one, we just don't know how. But ants like to tend To this aphid's rear end, From which honeydew passes for chow. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bollard pull'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The bollard pull measures the forces Of tugboats with plenty of horses. Each tug that we use Must have powerful screws, Which the annual testing endorses. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'headache excruciates'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My headache excruciates me, And I'll share all my torment for free. I can make your life hell When I'm not feeling well. Is there somewhere you'd much rather be? <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'kennel'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> She sold me a boxer, a brindle. I took the dog home, watched him dwindle. He's sickly and weak, And his future seems bleak. Guess her kennel's a con game, a swindle. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'newt'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Newt was creditable, high in repute. Though he wore a discreditable suit, Which was frayed, patched, and tattered, He was right when it mattered. This astute old galoot I salute! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bible'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> This Bible was not recreated, But from Latin (the Vulgate) translated. For Catholics, the Douay Let them read in a new way: In English each verse was restated. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'angel trumpets'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Told my faithful old gardener, Zed, "Angel's trumpets would brighten that bed." I envisioned a bower Of the pink, cone-shaped flower. Sweet bawds grace my chambers in stead. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'hate james'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> There's a boy in fourth grade that I hate. James thinks calling me names is just great. Though on quizzes he'll cheat, Bending over my seat, He says females are dumb and don't rate. <LIMERICK_...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bastard file'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My bastard file, I must insist, Is kept in my tool chest. Resist The temptation to think It's those fellows who stink, And whose names I put down on a list. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'state bettors'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Our gaming rooms? Tops in the state; Bettors tell us our action's first-rate. But the pace sometimes slips And we sell fewer chips— Sleepy nights when the drop isn't great. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'abrogation means'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Abrogation means treating as void All those treaties we don't want deployed. At Guantanamo Bay (Many neocons say), The Geneva convention annoyed. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cystoplasty reid'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The car crash caused more than a scare. In my bladder, it seems there's a tear. Says my doc, "What you need Is a cystoplasty, Reid— That's a surgical bladder repair." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'giant'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A giant is coming towards you; There's really not much you can do. As his hand reaches out, You're unable to shout When your dad smiles and says, "Cootchy coo!" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'billy butlin'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Billy Butlin was head of a chain Of large holiday camps. In the main They were built by the sea, Where we all like to be And would go to again and again. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'twelve stamens'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Dodecandrous: These flowers empowered With twelve stamens, from gardens embowered, Make exciting bouquets Whose enticing displays May result in fair maidens deflowered. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'helluva stir'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Just a brief, fevered coupling with her, And the rest of this week's been a blur: A hot, frenzied embrace In too public a place, But it's causing a helluva stir. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'awareness'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Ray's explaining, and though the initial Result's I'm alert, prejudicial To my learning, I know I'll glaze over, and so My awareness remains superficial. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'gay gladioli'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Glads gladdened my heart in a glade (Forest clearing) where blooms were arrayed. I gave myself wholly To gay gladioli, Whose flowery spikes don't like shade. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'arsonists'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> They were arsonists both, refused bail, Facing time for their crimes, locked in jail, When their passion's new flame Trumped their fire-raising fame— Now the love match they've struck will prev...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'honeybee team'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> When the honeybee team won the game, There were claims about cheating—for shame! This they roundly denied: "There's no crime on our side, So how dare you befoul our name?" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'maze'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I give the designer no praise. It was tough getting out of that maze. All that twisting and turning Was downright concerning. I found no escape route for days. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'limericks agreed'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Twenty masters of limericks agreed To cut back on their weight and their feed. Now they're each looking trim, But their word flow is slim; They can hardly a haiku exceed. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'suffered baryphony'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I once knew a woman named Tiffany Who silently suffered baryphony. Her best action yet Was to go on the net: In her own words, she had an epiphany. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'de hydrochlorinate'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Let's bid hydrogen chloride farewell; It is toxic and has a bad smell. So we'd better just de- hydrochlorinate, see? If that fails, then get out, run like hell. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'ike fisher'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Ike Fisher's career wasn't big. Did the ballplayer think it a dig When the team said, "The rookie Is a pretty sharp cookie," And gave him the nickname of "Fig"? <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'art critic'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> While I strive to develop my art— Understanding that painting's a part Of the art critic's view Of each painting I do. Then who cares; art is good for the heart. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'odor smelling'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A bachelor pad is a dwelling That often is gross and repelling, With clothes and much more Spread all over the floor. And just what is that odor I'm smelling? <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'heavy cloth'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Our bodies are pressed close together; Heavy cloth and a thin coat of leather Keep us slightly apart As our work day we start With commuting in cold, wintry weather. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'friends macs'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Your PC (and I don't want to harp) Is, I'm sorry to say, not too sharp: To locate your friends' Macs Takes some smarts that it lacks On its own, so it needs to use ARP. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'danube'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Sure, the Danube is brown as can be — It gets flooded with feces and pee. This unclean human dung Down the Danube is flung To the chronically mucky Black Sea. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bristlelike hairs'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The least pliable hairs that one grows (They were braided for fun, I suppose— Not because of a curse— In Miss waterrocks' verse) Are the bristlelike hairs in your nose. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'hans replied'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> On the diving board stood the next diver In the meet, and I said, "Here's a fiver. I'll wager he'll win With his jackknife and spin." Hans replied, "The guy's not worth a stiver!" <LIMERICK_...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'understand eath'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Though not easy to say without teeth, It was easy to understand eath. It meant "easy", I said, But this word is now dead, So this verse is instead of a wreath. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'thee betroth'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "Will you marry me, Rachel?" asked Roth. "With this ring, my love, I thee betroth." At this camp now they hitch. No one's wearing a stitch As they're joined by a man of the cloth. <LIMERICK_...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'activist newsman'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> An act of the Congress could free An activist newsman or three; But if they're inactive, I'd find this attractive: Enact a vacation for me. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'sewer inspector'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Our new sewer inspector, Rex Hector, Is a very intrepid expecter. He expects that his nose, Wherever it goes, Will find leaks it's a "fecal detector". <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'basketball'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> He could shoot from the day he could crawl. No one else could so handle the ball. As a basketball great He was tops, so first-rate He went down as the best of them all. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'child prodigy'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I was once a child prodigy. Under Age ten, I, a natural boy wonder, Could play with the best. Shoulda guessed that the blessed Still need practice. My gift went asunder. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cardinal winds'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The cardinal winds, sailors know, Are the ones from due north that do blow, Or due south or due west, Or due east; but it's best If the wind blows where I want to go. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bookseller'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A biblioklept has just sinned, And the bookseller's really chagrined. This most bookish of crooks Has run off with his books, And it looks like they're Gone with the Wind. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'loudmouth'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> He's a loudmouth, a babbler, a dope, A right gullible gobshite, a mope. He is also a gob, Though he botches each job On the USS Lark. He can't cope. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cutlass fish'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The cutlass fish, not often seen In the summer, is long and it's lean— With a shape like a sword. It should not be ignored As, with teeth sharp as daggers, it's mean. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'entangle entwine'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Without her I couldn't exist. Her future and mine I'll entwist, I'll entangle, entwine; If our lives we combine, Down the line we'll be fine—I insist. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'virtual world'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> This virtual world is the worst! My avatar looks like he's cursed. The rendering's shoddy— His head has no body! A second life? Oh, for a first. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'perennial herb'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A walk in the woodlands may calm, And so leave you with nary a qualm. But try not to disturb This perennial herb— It is hairy and smells: bastard balm. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'complexion'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My complexion went thoroughly ashen. Would anyone show some compassion? Could I show my grey face In a haute couture place Without wearing the latest in fashion? <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'pre hieroglyphic'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I am trying to read these inscriptions That were written by ancient Egyptians, But the symbols, prolific, Are pre-hieroglyphic. Curiology gives me conniptions. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'pliers'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The first task? Removing the faceplate (That large plate on the front). Next the baseplate. There's a raceway for wires In our way get your pliers And unfasten what I call the "raceplate". <LIMERI...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'frying pan'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Flat-bottomed and wide (like my wife), A frying pan could save my life — Cooking eggs on the hob Or one more vital job: Shielding me from my wife's wicked knife. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'john wilkes'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> At Ford's Theatre, one fateful spring day, John Wilkes Booth chose Abe Lincoln to slay. Some folks asked, "Mrs. L., That you're sad, we can tell, But assassins aside, a good play?" <LIMERICK_...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'carnivals big'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> 1. At carnivals, big wheels are found; In their carriages, people go round. 2. As tops in their field, Lots of power they wield. 3. They're trikes that ride low to the ground. <LIMERICK_END...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'colony'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> An archaic word's usage has charm And this colony's no source of harm. Its meanings are plural: A settlement, rural, Or a seventeenth century farm. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dull stubs'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> An epiploce figure might be: "My good sir, you are dumb as a tree. A tree? Nay, a shrub… Less than shrub, just a stub. Sir, sharp studs, not dull stubs, are for me!" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'adverse selection'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> An insurer has adverse selection When subscribers comprise a collection Of overweight smokers And nail-biting cokers Instead of a normal cross-section. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'skin mag'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> You're gonna catch hell from your dad When he learns what you've done. He'll be mad As a hornet and scold You severely. You sold That prized skin mag collection he had. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dead presidents'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> To finish a deal on the street, Dead presidents make it complete. This refers to the faces That occupy spaces On greenbacks that dealers find sweet. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'creditors test'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> For you, re your debtor, what's best? Should you grant his restructure request? Or just grab what he has? That's a judgment known as The best-interest-of-creditors test. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'kneeling praying'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Late at night, at the bedside I'm kneeling, Praying, "Lord, please forgive double-dealing, For I will, when I'm through, Give the devil his due With blaspheming and cheating and stealing...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'gays frolic'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> See those gays frolic freely on dates? They cavort in the joy each creates. Yet we're mopey and down, Always wearing a frown. That's our fate in this town desperate straights. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'jessica lynn'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I played marbles with Jessica Lynn, And I wished her best cat's-eye I'd win. But my aggie bounced high— Whacked me right in the eye— Then smacked Jessie Lynn on her chin! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dinnertime prize'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Would you like a reward? Fold your shirts, Assist all your schoolfellow squirts, And eschew all things hurtful. You'll then be desertful. Your dinnertime prize? Just desserts. <LIMERICK_...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'areopagites'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Areopagites had quite a lot Of idols, but God they knew not. As they worshipped their gods, They considered the odds That Saint Paul's God was right on the spot. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'christ resurrection'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The frontispiece of my new book (It faces the title page—look!) Shows Christ's Resurrection From a private collection In the Isle of Wight township of Brook. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'many birders'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Many birders are in for a thrill When they witness the avocet's skill. It's a shorebird that's sleek With an up-curving beak, Which can dig while it's filling the bill. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'rich encarpi'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Rich encarpi are ornaments found On some friezes and ofttimes abound As festooning in part, With quite decorative art Showing flowers and fruit strung around. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'frown'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> We were strolling last evening through town, When my wife said, "Let's boogie on down To the club for some clubbing." "No, the pub for some pubbing! 'Cause dancing," I said, "makes me frown." <LIME...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'river'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> When faced with a river or stream And crossing it's only a dream, Don't you get in a flap, Just try bridging the gap; Things are never as far as they seem. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'naval museum'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Here's Hackensack. This is a city In New Jersey. It's old and it's pretty. I haven't yet seen Its "Church on the Green"— Nor its Naval Museum. A pity! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'aardvark'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> An aardvark? Now I have a hunch That OEDILF features none in the bunch. It's not hunting for limes Or unbearable rhymes, Just some sweet little anties for lunch. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'chemical energy'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> What is chemical energy, say? A potential one, given away In reactions. We need It so badly to feed, And to fuel our cars, day by day. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'orator moved'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The orator moved one and all As his baritone voice filled the hall. By the end of the night We were ready to fight In response to his clarion call. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'papal respect'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> So, you're starting a Catholic sect? If you're looking for papal respect, You might want to rethink Robes of fuchsia and pink As the items in which you're bedecked. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'teenagers egos'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> As I age, I am often bemused At how teenagers' egos are bruised. Every time I see Jim Look at Joan, I see him Discombobulated—deeply confused. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'linguistics'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My professor of English linguistics Is also adept at statistics. This Anglicist knows All the numbers in rows, And their fricative characteristics. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'pits'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> If the smell that emits from your pits Clearly gives all those close to you fits, There's a way you can cope If you run out of soap: Use some Right Guard just give it a spritz. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'pig head'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> There's this stuff that they sell at the deli, Calf or pig head in pieces in jelly: It's got lip, one supposes, Chunks of cheek, perhaps noses — It's brawn in the store, not my belly. <LIMERICK_...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'thrash'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Have you noticed that words such as thrash Are all brutal or hurried like flash? When you rip off their starts, They are burnt at their hearts, And you're left with just worthless grey ash. <LIMER...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'disconnectionists urge'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "Irksome digital gadgets prevail; Turn aside, now and then, to exhale," Disconnectionists urge. "Give the soul time to purge," They persist, and I counter, "No sale." <LIMERICK_END...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'tension'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The tension was eating me, truly, Till my wife came and said to me, coolly, "Don't stress out. Keep your head. With the witnesses dead, There's no reason to worry unduly." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dimwit'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My son Jack couldn't find his way out Of a paper bag given the route. This big dimwit can't do Simple tasks. With no clue, Basic skills he knows nothing about. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'aplasia'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> It's aplasia if something's not there When a baby is born. It's not rare That the lobe of the ear Has just failed to appear. You appear to be missing a pair! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'phrase birds'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Once you'd hear the odd phrase "birds of bees," Or of wolves, serpents … fish, if you please! Now it's not apropos, But a long time ago, It meant "young." (Hence those birds in the seas.) <L...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'catheter'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> It's so sad, being sick, but what's sadder— My nurse makes me madder and madder. That dame with ten thumbs With a catheter comes And tries ramming it into my bladder. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'despicable ness'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Despicable Ness is so crude; She's so morally loathsome and rude, That's she's more shunned of late Than that lewd Fawny Kate, Or even that bad Hattie Jude. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'football club'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> In Britain, the letters F.C. Stand for football club (soccer): e.g., Aston Villa or Reading. If you're thinking of heading... I bet you're a club devotee. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'quiz abibliophobia'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I'll give you a brief little quiz: "Abibliophobia is?" If you answer, "A fear No more books will appear," That it is! At this quiz you're a whiz! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'secured bond'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> In the stock exchange, Bond picked some locks To ensure he could flee like a fox, But he then spied a blonde And so failed to abscond. The police secured Bond in the stocks. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'foul disobey'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Mind the rules playing Murder Most Foul; Disobey other players will growl. An enforcement device That's built-in and precise Could oblige one to throw in the towel. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'work hard'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Those guys who work hard, it is said, Are assured of success—get ahead, As their aim is expansive, And their actions advancive (An old-fashioned word, if not dead). <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dago guinea'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I'm a dago, a guinea, a wop? I suggest that your name-calling stop. Or you'll find in your bed Your most prized horsey's head Luca Brasi, my goombah, will lop. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dali'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The Persistence of Memory is funny: Painted clocks, sort of melting and runny! "Surreal" says the spiel, But is Dali for real? When I asked, the curator said, "Bunny!" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cravings'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I have cravings for gherkins, ice cream, Macadamia nuts, and I seem To have never enough. I must be up the duff! How I retch with this wretched regime. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'auden poet'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Let's hear it for Wystan Hugh Auden, A poet progressive and mauden. He shunned all such rhymes As may constitute crhymes, And for which I am begging your pauden. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'spiders'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My attic's been cobwebbed by spiders, From the rafters to Granny's old gliders. Their thread's woven tight Round each item in sight. To remove them I'll bring in outsiders. <LIMERICK_END>
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