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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'taking nap'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "I'm exhausted; I must rest my head. I'll go beddy bye now," my Ma said. "Ma, you're taking a nap. Lose that baby talk crap And just tell me you're going to bed!" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'diesel engines'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> These begin with a generous suck, Then a squeeze makes a bang! with some luck. With a blow it all ends. Diesel engines, my friends, Have no spark plugs (I'm not writing muck). <LIMERICK_EN...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'singular crincum'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> In the singular, crincum's a turn Or a twist or a bend, but we learn If you got the French pox From that syph-spreading fox You can say it's the crincums that burn. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'rosasharn'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Rosasharn was dirt poor from the start, But she played a significant part. Though her little was lost, At a terrible cost She still gave, from her richness of heart. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'acridness bites'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A sarcastic, malevolent man Has deservedly been on the pan. His acridness bites, Till at last it invites Biting back—so he's getting the can. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'encephalography'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Encephalography has several kinds. One type reads people's brains (not their minds). There electrodes are placed On the scalp where they're spaced Such that printouts form clearly, one fi...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'thought splendor'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "Of my dreams," he thought, "splendor is born," As the five stepped on stage on that morn: Fulfilling his mission — A grand composition For flute, three kazoos, and a horn. <LIMERICK_END...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'maiden slipping'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The occurrence embarrassed the lass. A banana peel, left where she'd pass, Caused the young maiden's slipping. The suspense was, well, gripping— Would she handily land on her ass? <LIMERI...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'urine'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> You've ingested some beets, then you pee. Now your urine's as red as can be. But the doc says, "No bleeding. That color's misleading." Check beeturia. Take it from me! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'lusty summer'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Lusty summer is here! Cuckoo, sing! Make the woodlands and meadows all ring! The bullocks are starting To leap, goats are farting, Seeds burgeoning. Exit pale spring. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'look casual'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I've dressed down 'cause it's Friday today And "relaxed" is the company way. To look casual but smart Is a difficult art— Does this top hat and thong look OK? <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bleep bleep'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> At times, when I'm asked to opine On Prime Minister Blair, I incline To declare he's a bleep, Bleep duplicitous creep. (But that's just when I'm feeling benign.) <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'knot'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Caveman Dana exclaimed with elation, "I've come up with one more innovation! I've invented the knot, But it seems I forgot The untying: it lacks enodation." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'breast feeding'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Christina Aguilera's been reading 'Bout benefits gained from breast feeding. She hasn't been lax With her new baby, Max, And her waistline is also receding! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dan discreetly'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "Daniel, hop to that errand!" I urged. From that charge Dan discreetly diverged. He stopped in at a pub For a pint and pub grub — His plod odd when his sod bod emerged. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'hoffa'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> After Hoffa stops paying his dues, The mob ships his body in shoes Of all-purpose cement To a Meadowlands gent. It's a Hoffa this guy can't refuse. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'mary ann'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Mary Ann got her claws into Fred. He would follow wherever she led. You might comment, "Poor guy!" But not me. You know why? I have heard she's a tigress in bed. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'word fable'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The word fable? A statement fictitious, Maybe made for a purpose suspicious, Like when guys choose to lie, Hoping romance is nigh, And say, "Sweetheart, this meatloaf's delicious!" <LIMERICK_E...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bacterium growth'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Though each of them has but one cell, A bacterium's growth can be hell. To inhibit this spreading, Use chemical bedding: Bacteriostasis is swell. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'pope christopher'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Pope Christopher (let's give three cheers) Was a pope for one thousand-plus years! Yet today, check the list And his name will be missed: He no longer appears with his peers. <LIMERICK_E...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'see birthdays'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Bea could never see birthdays with glee. A comparable outlook might be Harold's holiday gloom Over Christmas. No room For the bright side discourages me. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'rock'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Your actions have left me confused And I'm feeling a little bit used. You would call me your rock But your words would then mock. Now my ego is battered and bruised. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'boat chagrined'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I'd feel safer if scaly and finned: On high seas, in this boat, I'm chagrined. I might later turn tail From the teeth of the gale; Now, my bow's to the eye of the wind. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'caddoan languages'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The Caddoan languages found On the plains—do we know how they sound? The five tongues remain linked, But now Kitsai's extinct, And the rest may not long be around. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'chevron'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A chevron's the shape of a V, Like these « guillemets » used post and pre. It adorns soldiers' shoulders, And forms out of boulders Thrown inland as storm-tossed debris. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'germs'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Since the growth of these germs is dramatic, My response will be swift and emphatic. I'll thwart with elation Their multiplication; I'll use a bacteriostatic. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'tale metaphorically'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> It's a tale metaphorically hoary, All bewhiskered, and well past its glory. It's a parable able To conjure a fable, Some old allegorical story. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'balalaika guitar'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Balalaika: guitar-like, three strings, A long neck, and three sides are the things That distinguish its body. Its music's not shoddy— You'll hear it at most Russian flings. <LIMERICK_END...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'day return'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A day trip to London again? A day return ticket, it's plain. You're arriving past ten? A cheap day return, then, Because this is the age of the train! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'preflight'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The preflight we'd never neglect Since a whale of a ride we'd expect. We kept Jonahs away (We'd need luck in a fray); The A-3 wouldn't let us eject. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cornflower blue'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I was dazed by the crays laid on trays All arrayed in a strange, grainy glaze, Like a cornflower-blue Coloured cornflour goo, Newly made from a strain of blue maize. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'youthful matthew'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Youthful Matthew, a lad I once knew, Was quite bashful (and shy he was, too), Yet once in a while, He'd chuckle and smile, And make a wry comment or two. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'antisabbatarian sect'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> That antisabbatarian sect, Those damned pagans, our laws don't protect. May they slither away! They reject the Lord's day — A commandment the last time I checked. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'babalaas'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A babalaas doesn't go pthrrrrr With a stink through a sphincter. No, sir. It's when drink leaves you curled, The commode your whole world, Your head aching, your mouth full of fur. <LIMERICK_END...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'chortling queue'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Standing last in the chortling queue Is the best that a chuckler can do. You were chuffed, laughing last, 'Til you noticed, aghast, That some cackler arrived after you. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'mein knockwurst'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "Mein knockwurst iss dere on de shelf; In de ice box, I put it meinzelf," Said my Austrian cousin. I asked, "Got a dozen?" "I denk zo," she cried. "I got tvelf!" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'accountant'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I admit it: I've borne a slight grudge Over how my accountant would fudge My investment returns, Which is why he now earns, From this window, the tiniest nudge. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'contours'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> When attention is caught by the flow Of her contours, his eyes quickly go To the point where the breeze Lifts her skirt, and he sees How re-shaping has heightened the show. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'katie grady'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> At a blood house sits Katie O'Grady. She frequents the squalid and shady, Like the bars, pubs, cafes, And hotels where she stays. And despite what you've heard, she's a lady. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'yelled mcbane'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "When you land, chock the wheels," yelled McBane, "To ensure that your plane will remain. Skip this step and I say If your plane rolls away, You'll have no frickin' right to complain." <LIM...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'birthmarks'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> If you've six of the birthmarks they say Are the color of café au lait, Then you may feel a grudge That this too-common smudge For you could mean grief on the way. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cell nucleus'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The cell nucleus: there in your cell All the genes and the chromosomes dwell That determine your fate (Not just skin tone and weight)— Are you swell or a devil from Hell? <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cryptogram'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A cryptogram's written in code. Which, of course, is a difficult mode To decipher. I try As the hours fly by, And by midnight, I'm fit to explode. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'rehearse aerobatic'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> While the eagle still swoops when he shrieks And still banks to the max when he streaks, Because humans now fly, He's a little too shy To rehearse aerobatic techniques. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'phd'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Her husband was quite reverential As he looked at each well-framed credential— But their doc's PhD Was in finance, and she Found its relevance somewhat tangential. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'english garden'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> English garden, serene, quiet, pleasant, May be walked through by fox, deer or pheasant; Painters capture this scene, With fine lawns, broad and green. "I say, gardener, do please shoot th...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'epinephrine'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> You are highly allergic to bees? Had a stinging encounter with these? Epinephrine just might Be the drug that is right To restore you to breathing with ease. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dress'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Here's an etiquette tip you can use. Any restaurant or bar that you choose Won't much care how you dress, But one thing they will stress: They expect you to show up in shoes. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'poor hen'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> This poor hen's received no acclamation, No applauding, no strong commendation, For eggs laid standing up, Nicely dropped in a cup. Clap for Cluck and her standing ovation! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'pigeons'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> An eight-year-old pupil demanded To know why some pigeons get banded. "It helps them tell right From their left," lied Miss White, Who thought "savvy" more vital than "candid". <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bobber denotes'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The job title bobber denotes You're employed taking fish off of boats. On the other hand, bub, Maybe metals you rub So your work a fine luster promotes. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'white'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Even thinking of crossing the street Makes my face turn as white as a sheet. Whirling traffic's quick breeze Sets my body to freeze My enslaved, agyrophobic lead feet. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bone ash'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Oh, how versatile, bone ash! (My stash Comes from cattle bones burned in a flash.) In ceramics, for scours, To fertilize flowers— Don't toss out those bones in the trash! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'faux turkey'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My mother, with age, has grown quirky "For Christmas I've bought some tofurkey," She chirped with a smile, "In the vegetable aisle!" (It's a kind of repulsive faux turkey). <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'flash'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> In a flash, at the drop of a hat, Without further ado, just like that, In the blink of an eye, It's that old custard pie, And your dignity's gone with a splat! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'sweatpants'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I got sweatpants for Christmas (Fantastic!) For those rare times I'm feeling gymnastic. But what makes them so great? Well, the way I gain weight, They'll still fit since the waistband's elast...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'court'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> On the court are my wife and a freak. At this moment, right now, as we speak, They're delaying the game. I cry, "Ethel, for shame! Get your clothes on, you hussy! Don't streak!" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'lawyer'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> If you bifurcate something, it's cleft. Take a part, and another part's left. If what's left isn't right, You've been spited, in spite Of your lawyer, 'cause hers was more deft. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'old salt'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The old salt muttered something obscene, Then, "I'll meet you on Fiddler's Green. Sassy strumpets and rum Will await when you come." Then he drowned; he's an aqua marine. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'hate furry'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I hate, yes I truly mean hate, Furry critters—I will not debate. They are better off dead And contained in my shed— I have barrels full. (Don't tell the state.) <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'purple plush'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> In intense purple plush, he was draped; 'Gainst the tempests and rains he was caped. Once he strode into view In this rich, royal hue, People froze, struck a pose or just gaped. <LIMERICK_EN...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'glycogen storage'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> In glycogen storage disease You don't synthesize sugars with ease; For some the condition Improves with nutrition, But others get worse by degrees. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'glares'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> When the mind is quite absent upstairs, Well, you can't send it in for repairs. You just have to make do. So come up with some clue, And your talk will not bring all those glares. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'thomas edison'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> This inventor, known hither and yon As the greatest, would happen upon An idea. That's when Thomas Edison then Had an overhead light bulb go on. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'tangent'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My maths teacher told me at school, "Get the tangent, you blithering fool! The cotangent is found When you flip the tan round; Just apply the reciprocal rule." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'ball nettle'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Ball nettle will out-weed the rest. Forget herbicide that suits it best; Competition removed, Growing space is improved And it spreads with more vigour and zest. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'french fauteuil'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Say it "FOH-til" or say it "foh-TOY," It's an armchair that one may employ— One that's often upholstered. My spirits are bolstered When my fine French fauteuil I enjoy. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'british quip'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "By God, Sir! I've just lost my leg." "By God, Sir, you have, but I beg That a stiff upper lip And some brave British quip Will encourage the troops, what? Good egg!" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'etiolate plants'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> If we etiolate plants, they go pale; Without life-giving light, they will fail. In deep shadows, at length, Plants lose color and strength. Think of drowning—no air to inhale. <LIMERICK_E...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bonapartism governing'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Bonapartism's governing view Is that only a general will do To lead all the classes, And play to the masses: The many submit to the few. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'derby hat'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> For this ego that I have been dealt, Please don't gift me with necktie or belt. But a new derby hat Would be great; give me that, 'Cause I crave that my presents be felt. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'coaster brakes'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> On your bicycle, downhill you scoot At a hazardous speed, what a hoot! On their own, coaster brakes Can be trouble it takes A good quality rim brake to boot. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'disaccommodate thee'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I shan't disaccommodate thee; Thy convenience means all things to me. Prithee lie thee beside Me, as I, a new bride, Am convenient as any could be. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'creepiness'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> There's a house on the crest of the hill That gives children a terrible thrill. It's cloaked in a creepiness That reduces to weepiness Any girl who is caught in its chill. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'chef'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The chef just resigned (what a schnook), Took the pans and the recipe book. But our diners must eat, So I'm braced for the heat And accinging myself to be cook. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'director cut'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> This director's cut weirdly reflects His original vision. Execs At the studio made Him cut scenes. Had they stayed, This G film would have rated an X. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dilly dilly'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Dilly dilly so lavender's green, Dilly dilly so you shall be queen. The singing of dilly, Is simply just silly, As dilly, well, NILLY doth mean! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'caravansaries'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Caravansaries don't make the grade If too little attention is paid To what travelers need, So it's useful to heed All the inns and the outs of the trade. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'light seen'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Striking carbon electric arcs blazed! The public were shocked and amazed. There was never a light Seen before quite so bright— That's despite only eight being raised. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'sylvan groves'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Some have crowns reaching fifty feet tall And they're beautiful trees in the fall, Flaunting leaves brilliant red. Of these black gums, it's said Sylvan groves often lovers enthrall. <LIMER...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'crossed tight'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "Cross my heart and (perhaps) hope to die: I speak true, not one word of a lie!" But all credence is lost As his fingers are crossed Tight behind him I think we know why! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'crystal'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> This crystal has prominent cleavage, But flat not the sort you believage. Bring those thoughts to a halt! This is cubic, like salt. (Dirty minds! This geologist's peevidge.) <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'senate campaign'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Attached to this favor I bring To your Senate campaign is a string. I won't give it away. You will have to repay. Don't expect a free lunch—no such thing. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'brewed'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> This here 'beer' that you've brewed's not presentable. The cause is both clear and preventable— There's no fizz; there's no zing; There's no taste. Here's the thing: It's mere water, and that ain'...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'hidden lagoon'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> From a hidden lagoon, deep and black, Steps a creature who feels an attack From a scientist team, Whom he kills. To his stream He returns then, but later comes back. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'going'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I am going! Don't push. Beating feet! Get your hands off my neck and my seat! I'll soon fade out of sight And just blend into night— That's me, vanishing there, down your street. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'armored car'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Like a shot from a high-powered blaster, The armored car driver drove faster. Sliding into a curve, Just avoiding a swerve, He came back from the Brinks of disaster. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'get corkscrew'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Get a corkscrew—a curly device That will lift out your corks in a trice. Never stab at the cork With the prongs of a fork; Oh, you may do it once, but not twice. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'grimace'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Speak the speech. Neither grimace nor quiver; They're but choric, the lines you deliver. Here description's the point. Got your nose out of joint? Okay, actor, then act—just a sliver. <LIMERICK_E...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'anxiety'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> When you enter a menacing place Where there's danger, your heartbeat will race— And with senses alert To avoid getting hurt, The anxiety shows in your face. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'ate cabobs'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Sundry nabobs and snobs ate cabobs In the heyday of Empire. Now mobs Eat these skewered delights At the end of long nights — Even those on the dole without jobs. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'subject serb'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> In a sentence, a transitive verb Has been given a subject (a Serb), And an action is made That's directly conveyed To an object (a joint filled with herb). <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'olympian judge'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The Olympian judge was unjust; When he wouldn't discuss it, I cussed. "That's a discus," I pled. "It's a Frisbee," he said. So I stomped off the field in disgust. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'want farmland'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I want farmland that's "green", more sustainable. I was told it would help if it's drainable. Said a farmer, "No doubt If the water flows out Of the soil, then your goal's more attainable."...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'eggplant'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "What's for dinner?" my children demand. "It's delicious, sufficiently bland— Aubergine, and it's good!" Then I pray, knock on wood They won't notice it's eggplant that's planned. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'pour'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I've found a technique not too shoddy. I pour her a warm glass of toddy; We sit by the fire, Never mention desire; 10 P.M. she's all over my body. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'raelettes'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Backing vocalists bring extra zing To the song the lead singer will sing. The Raelettes, led by Ray When he vamped "What'd I Say," All displayed that ineffable thing. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'fungal infection'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> You've a fungal infection? That's rich! Chromoblastomycosis? A bitch! I'll be spreading the word Right away: "Have you heard? Joe's got warts on his legs and they itch!" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'unmask'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Well, I have a question to ask, And it isn't too hard of a task. Though I post as a beagle, And that's not illegal, Will you still love me if I unmask? <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'feague away'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> To set off in motion quite quick, To agitate thoughts (with a stick?), To work at full stretch: Several meanings I sketch— Feague away is the phrase that I pick. <LIMERICK_END>
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