Monday, March 31, 2008
News / Chicagoland Limerick maverick
Posted by Whet Moser on Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:16 PM
I got your limerick right here.
Last century it wasn't thought dumb
To name Weeghman Park after a gum
Almost a hundred years later
A new kind of hater
Thinks poor Sam Zell is a bum
Update:
About Wrigley I'm wholly nonplussed
Oppose Zell? I don't see that I must
I don't stand athwart history
Only bad baseball gets t'me
Ashes to ashes, and gum to dust
Worth noting: the anti-Zell limericks at the Beachwood Reporter are far superior to the ones the S-T has collected (they seem to be missing a line in their own doggerel); h/t Ryerson in comments. Also, revised the first one slightly to avoid word repetition.
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The Beachwood Reporter originated the Zell limericks earlier this month. http://www.beachwoodreporter.com/sports/there_once_was_a_man_named_zel.php
Hardly any of them get the form right! The ones that don't have the right rhythm (or number of feet or whatever) should be disqualified.
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