{"id":68785,"date":"2011-10-27T21:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T01:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/68785\/friday-fling-fun-ghouls-monsters-limericks\/"},"modified":"2011-10-27T21:00:05","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T01:00:05","slug":"friday-fling-fun-ghouls-monsters-limericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/68785\/friday-fling-fun-ghouls-monsters-limericks\/","title":{"rendered":"The Friday Fling Has Fun With Ghouls and Monsters in Limericks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/?action=view&amp;current=FlingPoster102811.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/FlingPoster102811.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"FlingPoster102811\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"6\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Friday Fling #152 October 28th 2011<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>It&#8217;s almost Halloween, and time for monsters, ghouls and other trick-or-treaters!  We love them little critters here on the Friday Fling!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/?action=view&amp;current=heavenhalloween1-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/heavenhalloween1-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>We also love Limericks!  So we thought, why not put them together and make Limericks about monsters and ghouls!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>As you almost certainly know, a Limerick is a five line poem of roughly 9-9-7-7-9 syllables in which the rhymescheme is AABBA. Usually the point is to amuse.  For instance:<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"3\" color=\"#999999\">There once was a monster, Raoul,<br \/>\nwho believed he was ever so cool.<br \/>\nHe haunted a singles bar,<br \/>\nthought he&#8217;d get very far<br \/>\nshowing ladies his monsterous tool.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"2\" color=\"#999999\">Copyright October 25th 2011 RGD<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>A year or two ago Scotorum began writing what he called &#8220;Slim Limericks,&#8221; which have shorter lines of 7-7-5-5-7 syllables and in which there is an internal rhyme in the first line, but the first line does not rhyme with any others.  In other words the rhymescheme is ABCCB.  Like this:<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"3\" color=\"#999999\">A foolish ghoul named Raoul,<br \/>\nbelieving that he was hot,<br \/>\nwent in a saloon<br \/>\nexpecting that soon<br \/>\nhe would find love; he did not.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"2\" color=\"#999999\">Copyright October 25th 2011 RGD<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>This week the Friday Fling writes ghoulish Limericks and Slim Limericks about monsters and stuff! <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Be sure to save time to read and comment ghoulishly on your fellow Zombies&#8217; abominations &#8211; I mean your fellow Pals&#8217; poetic masterpieces.  Then, following a weekend of pre-Halloween merriment, take a friend trick-or-treating Monday night (before visiting the CPC&#8217;s Cheryl&#8217;s Pals&#8217; line blog of course!).<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>As always, should the recommended format not be your preferred piece of Halloween candy, you may post your write in any format you like, or not.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"6\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Fickle Finger of Fate Award for\u00a0 October 21st<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"5\" color=\"#999999\"><strong>Congratulations Silver!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"5\" color=\"#999999\"><strong><\/strong><\/font><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/?action=view&amp;current=5FAwardCert-3-89.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Posters%20and%20Awards\/5FAwardCert-3-89.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/?action=view&amp;current=Ghoul.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/Ghoul.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/?action=view&amp;current=MonstersHouse1.gif\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/MonstersHouse1.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/?action=view&amp;current=tumblr_lqx0msLeB71qbqrtb.gif\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i136.photobucket.com\/albums\/q183\/scotorum\/Fling%20Pics\/tumblr_lqx0msLeB71qbqrtb.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday Fling #152 October 28th 2011 It&#8217;s almost Halloween, and time for monsters, ghouls and other trick-or-treaters! We love them little critters here on the Friday Fling! We also love Limericks! So we thought, why not put them together and make Limericks about monsters and ghouls! As you almost certainly know, a Limerick is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}