Literary Lion – Skool Dayz
Here is my contribution for Laura’s fortnightly Literary Lion challenge. The Literary Lion has spoken, and this week’s prompt word is “limerick“.
The photograph was taken by Christopher Web (flikr) and supplied under a Creative Commons licence.
Mr Glass looked around the class.
“Right everyone, I hope you’ve done your homework. Randall, we’ll start with you.”
Randall stood up and began reading.
“Limerick is a town in Ireland, innit. It is in the province of Munster, yo. It…”
“Let me stop you there, Randall,” interrupted Mr Glass. “The assignment was to write a limerick, not to write about the town of Limerick.” The class tittered.
“Woah dere. I has spent hours…”
“… minutes at most…” broke in Mr Glass,
“… on dis!” finished Randall.
“I’m sorry, Randall, but…”
“Right! Here is a limerick den, yo!” Randall began to make boom-box noises.
“I does da homework on time,
But Mr Glass he wants a rhyme,
I was doin’ jus’ fine,
All dahn the line,
An’ I don’ do drugs,
‘Cos I ain’t no mug,
Rub-a-dubba-dub. Pshhhhhhh… the Word. Yo.”
The class burst into appreciative applause.
“Randall,” said the long-suffering Glass, “two things. One, that barely makes sense. Two, that’s a rap, not a limerick.”
“Oh man, it’s like I can’t do nuffin’ right!” exclaimed Randall. “Okay den, here’s a limerick for ya!
“Dere once wuz a teacher named Glass,
Who always had trouble in class,
He hates all da kidz,
Now his life’s on da skidz,
He could do wiv a kick up da…”
“RANDALL!”
Ha! Love it! 🙂
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I’m glad 🙂
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Haha! Too good
👍
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Thanks for the cool little thumbs up, I’m glad you liked it 🙂
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You’re welcome :p
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Oh my, this had me laughing and choking on my lemonade. Well done D-Man 😀
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I’m glad you liked it, and hope you didn’t spray your lemonade everywhere 🙂
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Hilarious, Ali. 😀
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I’m glad you liked it 🙂
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This was simply hilarious, a very interesting student to say the least. Nice one!
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I bet there’s one like him in every class 🙂
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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I very much like the limerick. I have some really GOOD ones … and some really dirty ones that believe it or not, I got from my mother who had a weird fondness for dirty limericks.
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The best limericks are the dirty ones.
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HaHaHa! Randall is obviously talented and bright. A + for research and thinking on his feet.
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I think Randall will go far. He’s certainly quick with a witty response!
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So hilarious 😛 Also shows some of the issues of the school systems.
Ellespeth
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I’m glad you liked it! Randall seems very creative, it needs nurturing.
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Very funny, and most likely true! 🙂
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Yeah, I’m betting this is quite a common class room scene 🙂
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I’m very impressed with your ability to throw down some sick rhymes, yo!
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Pretty good for an Oldie, innit 🙂
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We’re all oldies to those kids, aren’t we?
Sigh.
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Straight Outta Limerick!
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🙂
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Wow! Impressive skillz there, yo! 🙂
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I is dahn wiz da kidz, innit 🙂
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You is da whiz and shiz! 🙂
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🙂
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A very amusing story, Ali! I wonder whether Randall will be heading for detention after that? Very nicely done. 🙂
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If he is I’m sure he’ll have something vaguely illiterate to say about it 🙂
I’m glad you liked it!
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Haha, nice. I like that you put the limerick into context, and I’m a huge fan of an inferred rhyming word that isn’t quite said, it reminds me of naughty songs I used to learn in the playground.
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I thought it was funnier leaving the obvious unsaid 🙂
And you got a free rap out of it as well!
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