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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'calvinistical clergymen'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> At the toll of their grim Sunday bell, Calvinistical clergymen tell How a few will be saved But we're mostly depraved And predestined to fester in Hell. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'named gutting'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> An assiduous surgeon named Gutting Worked hard on his slicing and cutting. Knowing patience would pay, He would practise all day — Though he sometimes lost patients while putting. <LIMERICK...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cranial rectal'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Said young Dilbert, "I'll make an assertion: This manager wastes my exertion. He's so out of touch— Then, one doesn't see much With a cranial rectal insertion." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'blind fate'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Decisions, decisions! I muse, Does it matter at all what I choose? Things can change in a trice When blind fate rolls the dice. Life's a crapshoot be ready to lose. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'hans'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Hans was poor, a mere woodcutter's son. He went poaching just once with his gun. He was caught and harangued By his "betters", then hanged: Thus the "gentlefolk's" ruling was done. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cross fade'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "In a film or a vid that you've made, When a shot ends, a new one is laid On the first, so they merge," Said film editor Serge, "In a process we call a cross-fade." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'public defender'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> If you give yourself up, you surrender To one who's a great, holy mender Or to one who wears blue. Mine's the second. It's true. I'm in need of a public defender. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bach great'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> As precise as equations, Bach's great And glorious music's a spate Of such beautiful sound And so timeless, profound, That I hear it, transfigured in state. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'circuit'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "This module," said astronaut Jo, "Will provide a precise current flow, But a wire's exposed, So the circuit's not closed. I don't think that all systems are go." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'fred worldview'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Fred's worldview is horror; it's dreadfulness, And he's aiming for maximum spreadfulness. He's a self-centered fool With ambitions to rule, So his speeches are brimming with Fredfulness. <...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'great valor'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Though their mission explicitly failed, In the North their great valor was hailed. Recognition was due These brave soldiers in blue, So a brand new award was unveiled. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bring'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The verb should be take and not bring When discussing conveying a thing That is moving away From the speaker; so hey, Would you take her (not bring her) this ring? <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'see birefringence'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> You will see birefringence when rays, Which are polarized each of two ways, Diverge going through A crystal, so you See the image as two as you gaze. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'sweet crinion'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> If I told you you had a sweet crinion You could rightfully doubt my opinion, Since the point where your hair Meets your forehead, it's fair To suggest, is your private dominion. <LIMERICK_E...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'ex fiancée'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Saving sex till we wed was the plan, But the deal-breaker came when I ran Into someone she knew At a gym. I'd no clue That my ex-fiancée was a man. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cataphora'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> This clever linguistic invention Gives rhetorical works new dimension. "What is it?", you cry. You won't know it 'til I Say "cataphora!", breaking the tension. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cattle logging'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Making notes on the steers in the mob Is an overworked cowherd named Bob. He's been at it since dawn And now stifles a yawn. Cattle logging's a tedious job. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'syllables stressed'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> For OEDILFers, the rules compositional Are in general mostly traditional. Standard syllables stressed Are of course for the best. But just make the damn thing definitional! <LIMERICK_E...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'stolen cash'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Stolen cash has been stashed by a brute, Name of Stan, in a van. Now the loot From the break-in today Is paid out on the way— Tagged in bags by old lags while en route. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'poltroonish coward'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I once was poltroonish, a coward, But somehow my bravery flowered And flourished till I Was a stouthearted guy, And no longer felt weak, but empowered. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'monarch'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The monarch's the role I've assumed; The previous king has been doomed. He was not labeled mean, Neither base nor obscene, But persistently shabbily groomed. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'sharp'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "Be sharp!" was a phrase from Gillette And the Friday-night fights on the set. But B-sharp is a tone— Like a ring on the phone Or a note on trombone or cornet. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'galen'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> This Galen's a guy you can trust; His anatomy texts are a must. Yet I hear there are rumours His theory of humours Falls very far short of robust. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'nathan favoredness'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Nathan's favoredness wasn't too great In the footrace. He'd started out late, But that second rate wimp Won in spite of his limp 'Cause the others were worse—it was fate. <LIMERICK_EN...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'orange pekoe'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Said a teamaker, decades ago, "Orange pekoe is tasty, although My new flavor, Earl Grey, Will be savored some day." His employer replied, "Make it so." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'chancroidal ick'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> When the doctor examined the mound A chancroidal (ick) ulcer was found. "A syph chancre's more firm. Best we find out which germ; Might be chancroid. Here's pills. Don't sleep 'round." <L...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'means deploration'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Deplorement? It means "deploration" — That's "deploring" or just "lamentation", Though I find it quite strange That there's such a huge range Of words with this same application. <LIMER...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'egotheism'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Egotheism I can define: To myself, I've erected a shrine. My divinity claim Is the lot of my fame, Since my movie career's in decline. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'java bananas'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Blue Java bananas how neat! They have silvery skin and taste sweet. They taste (it's a dream) Like vanilla ice cream, So as snack food, they just can't be beat. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'pay'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I was hoping I might make it pay, But my fair-weather friends wouldn't play. I was wrong to begin, So I'll just chuck it in, Give it up, call it off, walk away. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dating connection'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Your internet dating connection Was the model of dating perfection. So romantic, that peach Took long walks on the beach— 'Til he drowned, lacking sense of direction. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'tape csis'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Once the robbers had made their escape, The whole crime scene was roped off with tape. CSIs set the pace Where a crime's taken place; There the clue-finding work will take shape. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'burning bridges'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Cast aspersions at those you may need? Burning bridges seems foolish, indeed. Should you ever descend To back-capping a friend? If his wife looks delicious… proceed. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'elector'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> To be an elector is quite An impressive and powerful right. Don't be cynical fools: The electorate rules. You're in charge. Use your wisdom and might. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'nosy customs'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> No matter what country I'm in, I always feel guilty as sin. "Any goods to declare?" Really gives me a scare— Nosy customs guys. Why must they grin? <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'actinobacillus'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Actinobacillus can creep Into tissues of horses and sheep. It infects your pig's lung, Gives your cows wooden tongue; Have them treated—your livestock's not cheap. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'poll tax'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> When our council tax bills first appeared, They replaced the old "poll tax" we feared, Which, in turn, had displaced Civic rates, which were spaced To be paid when the quarter-year neared. <LIME...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'thrillers'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I don't care for thrillers that frighten Or tomes that are meant to enlighten. Just bring me a body Who'll read me some Noddy: It's scandal I crave—Enid Blyton. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'african wood'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Afrormosia: African wood That for furniture-making is good. Since it's hard and it's sleek And it's rather like teak, I would buy some today if I could. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'take agrypnotics'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Agrypnias (wanting for slumber) On occasion my nighttimes encumber. When it bugs me to wake, There are drugs that I take: Agrypnotics too daunting to number. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dalo use'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> When you gobble up dalo, use care. Eaten raw, it can cause a bad flare. But boiled taro transmutes, And the leaves and the roots Are both edible. Still...say a prayer! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'molested'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> If in public, a gal's been molested, In India, then she's protested, She's been eve-teased, and may Have revenge (in a way), As the eve-teaser might be arrested. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'illiteracy fetters'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Elementarily learning his letters, Johnnie hopes he'll soon read like his betters. Though his steps may be small, They'll scale Ignorance Wall And escape those illiteracy-fetters. <LIM...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'whereas interoception'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Let's consider a word and its twin, And with exteroception begin. Here reaction, no doubt, Comes from something without, Whereas interoception? Within. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'hot flashes'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> They're events that occur now and then— Episodic: we can't say just when. Like my red itchy rashes, Or Grandma's hot flashes, They leave us but come back again. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'billingsgate cheney'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> With billingsgate, Cheney let loose (In No Uncertain Terms) his abuse. He felt better, he stressed, Having tried to suggest How the senator might reproduce. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'sermon'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> When I see that our rules have been breached And my sermon on evil's been preached— Don't stand in my way, I've got demons to slay— For my boiling point's finally been reached. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'tree edition'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Allow me to make this admission: Although we've no lack of ambition, You never will see The complete A to Z Of this work in a dead tree edition. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'evacuate kate'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "Go evacuate Kate and her friends!" Shouts the marshal, and I'm who he sends. Though their house is on fire, Their status is dire, It's enemas Chief recommends?! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'little bee'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> When I sat in the grass, next to you, I was stung in the rear. The pain grew. Tears arrived in a race And bedewed my whole face. What on earth did that little bee do? <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'blood oranges'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Blood oranges make a fine juice From flesh that's deliciously puce. I guzzle a flood, 'Cos it's good for the blood, Though it's not like I need an excuse. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'numbs kext'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Sy sighs at the text; he's perplexed That the jumbers are numbled. He's vexed. Decipherment's tough When the hode's card enough; Now the alphabet's strange. What numbs kext? <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'scout cookies'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Although busted for drugs in my pad, Girl scout cookies was all that I had. "To my shock and great shame, I was fooled by the name! It's for medical use, I might add." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'natural dyes'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Dyer's woodruff may cause some disputes As I seek a red dye for my boots. A rival of madder, It's high on the ladder Of natural dyes. Use its roots. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'alaskan'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> With his malamute blinded by snow, An Alaskan is struggling to row Through a river of ice, When he hears this advice From the dog, "Let's just go with the floe." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'scottish'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I just had a thought that I'll share: "Stay a While" should a Scottish group dare Do a cover, appalled I would be were it called "Bide a Wee." By the way, do you care? <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'yogini'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The yogini sought balance and chose A vinyasa designed in its flows, So that lefty and righty Were equally mighty, Ambidextrously holding each pose. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'opened dress'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Vera opened a dress shop this spring, Just in time for a warm-weather fling Of selling cool frocks. "Stylish outfit, you fox!" She announces as registers ring. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'compazine'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> What is Compazine? It's a synthetic Medication that seems energetic, And a wee bit exotic— It's an anti-psychotic And also an anti-emetic. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bounce'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A ball or a beam (wave or matter) May rebound from a wall or a platter Or whatever you know, Any surface. Just so: It may bounce (or the window may shatter). <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'champit tatties'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Could it be champit tatties are greens? Are they some sort of special Marines? Or a group on safari? In Scotland, no, sorry, "Mashed potatoes" is all that that means. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dizzy ellipsing'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> When a binary system's eclipsing, Two stars in their dizzy ellipsing Are hidden in turn; There is much we can learn From their brightness's rhythmical dipsing. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'copyright sins'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> We undo many copyright sins, As we know all the law's outs and ins. Want your works to be free? Use our licenses. See, "When we share," we say, "everyone wins". <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'roommates'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> His roommates? About to combust; His attitude triggers disgust. When he said that the world Spins around him, they hurled. Attitud'nally, he'd better adjust. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'robert assay'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Robert's assay's arrived, and he's crowing: His claim's where there's blossom rock showing. That oxide-stained quartz Very clearly supports Bob's faith that his future is glowing. <LIMERICK_...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'fruit acinaceous'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> If a food comes with kernels bodacious, Tiny grains grown internally spacious, Or seeds you can scrape (Like a kiwi or grape) Then you know that your fruit's acinaceous. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'blind mice'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I sneaked into the president's villa To join his bizarre camarilla. I found thirty blind mice Giving secret advice, And a guy who looked just like Godzilla. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'instrument'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Said the girl to the handsome young fluter, "Your instrument couldn't be cuter. Is it made, do you think, Out of nickel, or zinc, Or Britannia metal, or pewter?" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'trash reputations'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I trash reputations for fun, Leaving victims upset and undone. Since I suffer from fell Halitosis, as well, I can bad-mouth in more ways than one. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'making buttermilk'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Churning cream into butter's an art— Making buttermilk, tasty but tart, And fresh butter so good On baked 'taters' it could Make a meal that goes straight to the heart. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cows'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> If our fields were all aquamarine, And we cows came in pale shades of green Mixed with hues of light blue, Please vote "Moo" if it's true We cud udderly fade from the scene. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'great ambition'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> In my life, I have one great ambition— A goal, you might call it, a mission— To relax in the shade As a job, and get paid. What I want is a cushy position. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'fairness opinion'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A fairness opinion is where A bank checks on a deal to declare If the terms as agreed For it then to proceed (As in buyback or merger) are fair. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'fabulous bathroom'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "This fabulous bathroom's so plush! I'll bet it cost all of your slush." "No, I never have pandered To bling—it's bog standard, With bath and a bog that will flush." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'rhyme though'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Show epanodos: that is my plan, In this thirteen-foot limerick span: Though it scans, it's a crime If the words do not rhyme; Though they rhyme, it is vital they scan. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'sailing'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> If the wind gets too strong whilst you're sailing Then it's reefed sails you need, speed curtailing. At the end of your trip Stopped at buoy, quay or slip Then it's furled sails that should be pr...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'insane'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Fans of antipsychiatry still Would believe the "insane" are not ill — But the world doesn't pause To determine the cause When it's easy to just give a pill. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'catnip'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Many cats enjoy catnip and find That it drives them right out of their mind. After going berserk, They'll stretch out with a smirk, As to catnap they're rather inclined. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'macbeth'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> 'Poor me, and poor Duncan. He's dead; I'm troubled. I'm watching the spread Of his blood as it's spewing, His doublet embrewing.' Said Macbeth: 'Now his threads are all red.' <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'nurture'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> We nurture them, pray they'll excel. They move on—perhaps linger a spell. Then one night, "Wait a sec, Dad, we'll pick up that check." What a tab—guess they're doing quite well. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'demanding feeding'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> His Lordship's demanding a feeding. A good meal's what my baby is needing. So what if I'm sleeping! I can't stand his weeping. And so with my breast I'm acceding. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'detained'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> In the heat of the moment my fists Flailed about. A cop snapped round my wrists Cuffs, and so thus restrained, I was charged and detained. That's the fate of a drunk who resists. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bitter acrimony'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Bitter acrimony sure isn't fun, And especially when there's a gun. If you're apt to get hurt, Here's advice, short and curt: You'd better just beat it and run! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'frailness today'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My frailness today clearly showed. At the kerbside, I'd rested my load. Well, I must have looked weak, As a lad came to speak: "Let me help you, my dear, cross this road." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'throwing crab'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I crabbed it: my scandalous blab Interrupted him. Throwing a crab, I caused his affront; Cramped his style (made it blunt)! Now in Crab-street (or "crab'd"), he feels drab. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'church key'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> At the edge of the drawer what's this? It's my church key! my symbol of bliss. Its triangular punch Brings a long, liquid lunch As I puncture each can with a hiss. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'sweat'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I am tired and my shirt's wringing wet— This exertion is making me sweat! Though it takes elbow grease My hard work shall not cease. With much effort I'll fix my car yet! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'voters cried'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "Elect me!" I was begging them. "Please! I implore you! I'm down on my knees!" Public office? Denied. "He's insane!" voters cried, And the head of this psych ward agrees. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'pastor'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Preparation—at that I'm past master: I've a bankroll put by for disaster. If survival's in doubt, I can spend my way out, 'Cause I don't expect much from the pastor. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'three mice'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Three mice on the run, sight-impaired; One wife of a farmer, not scared. She strikes from behind, Decaudation in mind; Three quick blows, three blind-mouse bottoms bared. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'sparkling wine'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> It's champagne or a sparkling wine Mixed with orange juice—simply divine. As a cocktail for who? A nice Buck's Fizz will do As a drink for Bucks Fizz when they dine. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'adina'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Adina is fickle and vain; Nemorino is lovesick, in pain, Till a phony elixir Becomes a true fixer— And Amor wins all, once again. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'breaking speeding'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Haphazardly cutting and shearing The corners, you're swerving and veering. This neck-breaking speeding Is leaving you leading, Careening and keenly careering. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'large pock'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> In our last consultation the doc Discovered a rather large pock: "Large and moist, shining red— Just be glad you're not dead. Now keep calm, we'll consult Doctor Spock." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dwarf'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A dwarf not a midget named Bridget Said that dapperling's use made her fidget. This old word for her state Made her highly irate And reprove with her dapperling digit. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'horse provocative'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> He contrariously rode into town With his pants in the back sagging down. They said, "Man, that's perverse! But you know what is worse Is your horse's provocative gown." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'golf widow'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Every weekend my hubby goes play, But he grinned on returning today. "Hole in one. Won the cup, But my back's playing up." I'm a golf widow. Caddy? No way! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'gecko hoped'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "Would you please come upstairs for a dekko?" Said a lass, who made paintings of gecko. I hoped for some leching, But saw just an etching In pigments that echoed El Greco. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'style'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> As for style, she's the Post's heart and soul, And she rules with despotic control. She will pick every nit In her search for good wit; There's a toll if your limerick's not droll. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dinner'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My dinner with Anne had been splendid, But my stomach was grossly distended. Great intestinal gas Then exploded, alas. It was then that my date with her ended. <LIMERICK_END>
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