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    Tweetable Limericks
    Tweetable Limericks
    Tweetable Limericks
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    Tweetable Limericks

    By Lenny Everson

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    Great if you’re getting tired of telling people what you had for lunch and want to send something more profound. There are 193 limericks here, many adapted from famous and thought-provoking ideas and quotations. Others; not so much.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLenny Everson
    Release dateJun 16, 2011
    ISBN9781465736406
    Tweetable Limericks
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    Lenny Everson

    List of Completed Works by Lenny Everson (As of November, 2014, over 36,000 copies of Lenny's works have been downloaded.) Novels • Death On a Small, Dark Lake. 67,700 words. Our hero snags a body in a remote lake. • Death on a Rocky Little Island 71,500 words. Our hero convinces a friend to take a canoeing trip to the 30,000 islands. • Mount Moriah 50,000 words. A strange sequence events involves a priest, a poet, a CSIS agent, a space alien, four horny teens, among others. My most fun fiction. • Last Exit to Pine Lake. 45,000 words. A dying writer goes back into the bush to off himself. Grimly literary. My best fiction. • Ally Oop Through the Ulysses Trees. As much fun as Mount Moriah! • Marley Was Dead: A Christmas Carol Mystery Novelettes • Granite and Dry Blood. 9,700 words. Our hero wants to write a book on Massassauga Park. Various people would prefer that he didn't. • Death on a Foggy Spring Portage. 11,800 words. One member of a paddling group is found dead on a muddy portage. Screenplays • Murder on a Foggy Spring Portage. One member of a paddling group is found dead on a muddy portage. Plays • Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont. Ghosts of the two Métis leaders meet in today's world to remember their lives. A short (20-minute) play for two actors. Full-Length Poetry Books • The Minor Odyssey of Lollie Heronfeathers Singer. A middle-aged woman tries to connect with her aboriginal ancestry. • In The Tavern of Lost Souls. Four poets meet at a grungy bar once a month to give their poetic answers to random questions. • Love in a Canoe. A set of five chapbooks and a songbook about the love of canoeing. With illustrations. • Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont are Dead. Ghosts of the two Métis leaders meet in today's world to remember their lives. Includes the play. Poetry Chapbooks • Encounter in a Small, Old Cemetery. Autumn. Midnight. Poet visits a small, old private graveyard. Best poem I ever wrote. • Fire and Ashes. Poems about life's flames and regrets. • The Empty Tarmac of a Long-Abandoned Airport. Poems about having a midlife crisis. • Love Poems A compilation • Pray for Me: 22 Poems Probably Slandering God and Jesus • Ballads from an Unlucky Fisherman: Poems from a fisherman • Tweetable Limericks. 60 limericks small enough to be tweets • Hiking Poems. Co-Authored Poetry Chapbooks • Who Would Be a God? ...

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      Tweetable Limericks - Lenny Everson

      Tweetable Limericks

      By Lenny Everson

      rev 1

      Copyright Lenny Everson 2011

      Smashwords Edition License Notes:

      This free ebook may be copied, distributed, reposted, reprinted and shared, provided it appears in its entirety without alteration, and the reader is not charged to access it.

      Cover design by Lenny Everson

      Published at Smashwords:

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      Thank you for downloading this free ebook. You are welcome to share it with your friends. This book may be reproduced, copied and distributed for non-commercial purposes, provided the book remains in its complete original form. If you enjoyed this book, please return to Smashwords.com to discover other works by this author. Thank you for your support.

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      Chapter 1: Introduction

      What are Tweetable Limericks?

      Tweetable limericks are limericks that are short enough (less then 140 characters) to be sent as a Tweet on the Twitter application.

      These Tweetable limericks were all written or adapted by myself. Some of them are even original thoughts! Many of them, however, are adapted from famous quotations that I have shamelessly and without acknowledgement stolen, then adapted into the limerick format. (I’m quite appalled at myself.)

      Lenny Everson

      [email protected]

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      Note on Format

      If Twitter has a way to maintain line breaks, I haven’t found it. So if you want to send any of these as Tweets, you’ll have to replace the line breaks with slashes.

      For example, the following limerick:

      We’re gonna hide in a bog

      With only kibbles and grog

      Cause the more I see

      Of humanity

      The more I like my dog.

      would be sent as:

      We’re gonna hide in a bog/With only kibbles and grog/Cause the more I see/Of humanity/The more I like my dog.

      This document has two parts. The first part has the limericks laid out in proper limerick form. The second part has the same limericks, but with the line breaks replaced with slashes for tweeting.

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      Sections

      This book is divided into the following sections:

      Politics

      Love

      Deep Thoughts

      More Deep Thoughts

      Not-So-Deep Thoughts

      More Not-So-Deep Thoughts

      Seasonal and Outdoorsy

      The Arts

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      Chapter 2: Politics

      It's a cheap thing to dis politicians. So I did.

      Democracy’s noisy and blind

      The worst system out of man’s mind

      The most foolish insanity

      Of humanity

      Except for all of the others I find.

      Our leaders - a curse

      Sucking the public purse

      It won’t do what it should

      But democracy’s still good

      ‘Cause other systems somehow are worse

      Yesterday’s answers, it’s

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