Although injuries knock their stars flat,
The Blazers will go to the mat.
Though their line-up grows lean
They’ll still field a team:
Three rookies, one coach, and Trail Cat.
When you marry you think it’s forever,
And it’s fine to be sad when it’s over.
But no matter how mad
You might be at their dad,
You DON’T throw your kids in the river.
Supposedly we’ve turned the corner,
the Recession is finally over,
I’m sure that sounds fine,
to the folks standing in line,
at the soup kitchen waiting for dinner.
The Westside got told what to do:
Boil tapwater a minute or two.
I wonder what’s odder,
boiling our own water,
or that fact that we’re drinking bird poo?
We hope you enjoy New Year’s Eve.
And you spend a day off at your ease.
But please keep in mind,
as you’re watching halftime,
The Oregonians at war overseas.
(Editor’s note: We invite you to add your own in the comments. Or should we say, we dare you….!)
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geoffk had a tantrum and bailed,
but thankfully cool heads prevailed.
Now OurPDX
is hotter than sex!
(Tho’ it sucks you can’t read it in Braille.)
Leaving OurPDX was a fantastic move for me. I’ve enjoyed writing, interviewing and commentating on my own siteOn Portland much more than my short stint here. Also I’m not the only person who departed from this site this year, there have have been a number including Dieselboy whose departure is far more significant that my time here ever was.
Odd that my leaving made such a huge impression on you that you felt compelled to revisit it here, completely out of context.
Geoff –
The tweet that invited limerick submissions, from @BetsyWhim:
“It is with great personal trepidation that we invite you to add your own 2009 limerick in the comments to this post: http://ourpdx.com/Gr”
You left in ‘09, yes? And this is a year-end, looking back sorta thing? I’m not sure how “out of context” that makes my little limerick.
OurPDX cannot toot their own horn (well, they can, but sometimes it’s nice for others to do it for them). And I needed a rhyme with “Braille.” That’s right, I dredged up this particular event for a rhyme/punchline. It did not make a huge impression on me.
I suppose I could’ve done “The Blazers are no longer jailed/they just have some ligament FAIL,” but that doesn’t really give me a hook into the five syllable pair praising Our PDX. There needed to be an event, specific to this here site, that involved them soldiering on despite losing something.
I’m very glad that you are enjoying your work writing and curating over at On Portland. I wish you all the best, have your RSS feed in Google Reader, and follow @onportland on Twitter. I might not be following you personally but I’m butting up against the follower cap and I thought it was better to focus on the account that tells me when there’s new content.
Deiselboi didn’t delete all his stuff when he left. Also, his twitter handle is three syllables with, as they used to say, the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLABle. Yes, that’s right, I also dredged up the event for the purposes of scansion. Prosody trumps just about everything on the planet when it comes to rhyme-and-meter forms.
I’m sorry it irked you. Limericks are silly. That’s the point. Perhaps not funny ha-ha, but taken in the light of “this is going to attempt to be funny.”
That is dieselboi with an i
There was a debate hall of famer
whose hashtages were #dad #lawyer #gamer.
Though truly a dish,
still Betsy did wish
that his limericks were, how you say, tamer.
If OurPDX is hotter than sex for you, you have been doing it WAY wrong. And to avoid offending, I will leave it there.
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