Limericks by Richard Long. © 2014. All Rights Reserved.

Walthamstow
Joined March 2014
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It is the feast day of St Thomas Aquinas, inventor of the limerick. bit.ly/1EOOBGg
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The character limit on Twitter, Prevents limericks — if you're a quitter. But with one little cheat, You can quickly defeat (see line 1)
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The lovely @missushippy writes about the origin and evolution of #limericks: thereader.in/limericks/
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Have a look (& follow) Richard Long's (@rlonguk) limericks on Twitter: @FiveLineVerse He's from Walthamstow
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On this day, 1812. The great nonsense poet and humorist, Edward Lear is born, in Holloway, London. #LimerickDay
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Happy #LimerickDay folks. Tweet us your literary limericks and we'll RT the best. (We're working on ours)
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