Lighthearted Limerick Contest at Pennswood Village
Leslie Wendel, Pennswood Resident
In the March issue of Village Voices, a publication of the Pennswood Village Residents Association, Pennswood resident Leslie Wendel invited fellow residents to participate in a limerick contest. The challenge was to supply a missing fifth line to complete nine different limericks about their fellow Pennswood residents. The response was overwhelming, and with more than 72 responses, it was difficult to determine the winners.
For each limerick, a first and second place winner was selected. There is also an overall contest winner. To win the contest, residents had to come up with the most imaginative, creative, nonsensical, or funny lines. And, it has to rhyme, of course!
The overall winners of the limerick contest are Herb and Charlotte Spencer.
Here are the nine different limericks and the first and second place winners for each. If you’d like to meet the authors or subjects of this imaginative contest call 866-740-4977 for an appointment:
1.) George Fisk
There once was a fellow named Fisk
Whose gait was so sure and so brisk
And, quite often he’d croon
A salubrious tune
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First place winner: Mary Biggin
Response: To all the young ladies he kissed
Second place winner: Henry Martin
Response: Which I thought was taking a risk
2.) Anne Baber
And, as for our friend, dear Anne Baber
Over floral arrangements she’d labor
Oh, the colors won’t clash
If it’s done with panache
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First place winner: Herb and Charlotte Spencer
Response: And wrapped up in bright litmus paper
Second place winner: Nancy Strong
Response: And the piece will win everyone’s favor
3.) Helen Greven
There once was a lady named Greven
Who thought she had landed in heaven
And, at Pennswood I think
She has just reached the brink
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First place winner: John C. Wood
Response: With dice rolls of seven eleven
Second place winner: Nan Cooper
Response: Her talents now far exceed seven
4.) Nan Cooper
A birder, a Cooper named Nan
Once said I am sure that I can
Tell a wren from an eagle
or a lark from a seagull
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First place winner: Caroline Swain
Response: Or even a boobie that ran
Second place winner: Nan Cooper
Response: Or peacock with tail like a fan
5.) Elin Danien
Elin thinks that the Maya were cool
Says their temples were tall, as a rule
And they drank XOCOLATL
From a cup not a bottle
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First place winner: Herb and Charlotte Spencer
Response: And that’s why they often skipped school
Second place winner: Nancy Strong
Response: So careful were they not to drool
6) Charley Peterson
Charley P. he doth vegetables grow
& we’re glad & we want him to know
Those veggies are yummy
Swiss Chard for our tummy
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First place winner: Betty Gonzalez
Response: Gives us plenty of Get-up and Go
Second place winner: John C. Wood
Response: But, take heed, it’s pay as you go
7) Wilma Casella
A lady named Wilma Casella
Had an old, but quite handsome umbrella
And, she said when it rains
I must always take pains
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First place winner: Herb and Charlotte Spencer
Response: Not to fall down and break my patella
Second place winner: Henry Martin
Response: To cover the pate of my fella
8) Mike Posen
Oh he’s a fine fellow, Mike Posen
And a cute little dog he has chosen
They oft’ walk in the rain
Which he says is a pain
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First place winner: Nan Cooper
Response: ‘Cause his socks then become wet hosen
Second place winner: Mike Posen
Response: When he has to remove lederhosen
9.) Charlotte Kuh
A lady whose last name was Kuh
Once said, it is much more than you
Or now I can support
So if we can just thwart
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First place winner: Caroline Swain
Response: The dastardly act, stop the coup
Second place winner: Herb and Charlotte Spencer
Response: An essay by you in haiku