Jewish joke.

A Jewish man took his Passover lunch to eat outside in the park. He sat down on a bench and began eating.

A little while later a blind man came by and sat down next to him.

Feeling neighbourly, the Jewish man passed a sheet of matzo to the blind man.

The blind man ran his fingers over the matzo for a few minutes, looked puzzled, and finally exclaimed, "Who wrote this c**p?"

The rhyming couplet in the first post in this thread
doesn't rhyme but goes peculiar instead
I know this humour may not please most
But at least there's rhyming in this post

There was a young man with a goal
To swallow a lexicon whole
  To make a translation
  For the good of the Nation
That was his uplifting rôle

No names, no pack drill!

Could you possibly consider changimg 'a translation' to 'some translations' please?

Then 'nation' could be changed to 'nations' because it is about communication through the language barrier.

Your use of the word 'nation' reminds me of the font Gentium

https://software.sil.org/fonts/

where the name means 'for the nations'.

Gentium arose out of an M.Sc. project.

The use of the word 'young' is kind.

I remember my personal project of when I was young.

William

Hello Jack

I was not trying to be unkind.

I read the first post in this thread and as I started to read it, it seemed like a rhyming couplet but it was not.

And it made me laugh!

I now know that it was not intended as a rhyming couplet but it just sort of, well, humourously jarred that it wasn't as if it were the unexpected punchline of a joke.

So I wrote a poem that bumped strangely as an attempt at humour.

Please note how it bumped at the word 'peculiar'.

The thread is for jokes.

It just seemed funny to me.

William

Hello Jack,

Here is a limerick in response to your challenge

At his letter the writer surmised
She in France might be surprised
Through the language barrier
By electronic carrier
At the reception end localized

William

Hello Jack

Thank you.

Is this forum using continental time?

It is not yet midnight in the United Kingdom.

William

I have some issues with this verse, unlike the second. This first  limerick seems to be a collection of phrases cobbled together, with only the middle three bearing any relationship with each other, and none with  the first and last lines. Also Why the word "some" - I work quite hard to find relevant rhymes.

Why not try: "Having tidied her hair with a comb", or even "And practised the dance Sugar Plum"

Upon further investigation, I’ve found that the Settings section in your profile has a tick in the ‘Daylight saving time’ checkbox. Clear the box, scroll down and press the ‘Update settings’ button to fix the issue.

As she is from Rome, English is probably not her native language. So the word 'some' is what is called an eye rhyme, it looks like a rhyme, but is not.

So the limerick illustrates, by ending with an eye rhyme of 'Rome' and 'home', one if the many inconsistencies in the pronunciation of English words.

William

Punny Pete ~PUNdora