One man's joke has become his mission: to give each word a rhyming definition. Chris Strolin was teasing English buffs in an online forum years ago when he said the dictionary should be rewritten in ...

What is a limerick? These silly poems make a really fun writing exercise. Limericks are a fun and timeless way to tell short, silly stories. They can be about anything, as long as they follow their ...

Bindy Bitterman, a Chicago-area woman in her 80s, recently emailed me to ask what I thought of limericks. I am a fan, as is Bitterman, who subsequently sent me a smattering of the limericks she writes ...

Some people make vows to exercise daily. Or work on their novel. Or play the violin. Oregon State University biochemistry and biophysics Professor Kevin Ahern, meanwhile, has been writing a limerick a ...

Texas Rangers Hall of Fame radio announcer Eric Nadel, seen here calling a game in July 2014, has self-published a book of limericks after he and partner Matt Hicks started including a nightly, eighth ...

David Kragnes explains the joys of small town summer festivals and offers up three limericks he wrote about lake life. David Kragnes writes of "Sailboat Envy" in one of his limericks, like these ones ...

North Korea for summer vacation, That passing-a-gallstone sensation And intestinal flu Are all comparable to The appeal of this damned sequestration. We're still basking in the glow of last week's ...

There is a statue of James Joyce in Dublin, Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize, and Frank McCourt got the Pulitzer. None of those great Irish writers, however, won a tour group bus limerick contest on ...