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Join the Jimerick!

Written by | Tuesday, 01 March 2011 00:00 | Published in 2011 March
Grab your shillelaghs and shamrocks... and beguile us with your best blarney! This month, we are taking a little side trip from our Haikus and asking for your limericks, written in the spirit of Joomla!.

The JCM Skype chat was abuzz with wit and witticisms, when what started as an article idea turned into a veritable feast of prose, featuring the Limerick. We decided to see what YOU, our faithful readers, would submit.

The Joomla! mag team in Skype
said limericks were just not their type
of rhyming for a reason
but, in the spirit of the season,
they submitted their sanitized hype!

To help you along, here is Wikipedia's definition of a Limerick: A limerick is a kind of witty, humorous, or nonsense poem, especially one in five-line anapestic or amphibrachic meter with a strict rhyme scheme (aabba)...

The standard form of a limerick is a stanza of five lines, with the first, second and fifth usually rhyming with one another and having three feet of three syllables each; and the shorter third and fourth lines also rhyming with each other, but having only two feet of three syllables.

The first line traditionally introduces a person and a place, with the place appearing at the end of the first line and establishing the rhyme scheme for the second and fifth lines. In early limericks, the last line was often essentially a repeat of the first line, although this is no longer customary.

So if you are up to the challenge, give us your thoughts about Joomla! in the form of a limerick and share it with the rest of the community! Add your limerick to the comments area of this page below!

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Dianne Henning

Dianne Henning

Joomla enthusiast and web developer, Co-Lead Editor of the Joomla Commuity Magazine, OSM Board Member, say hello if you see me at a Joomla event! 

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Comments (11)

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    Milena

    That's awesome! Like it a lot!

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    Jackie Fitts

    Joomla's #1 for me,
    Best software around, and free,
    For customizing templates, plugins and extensions
    With your own inventions,
    Can't ask for better than PHP.

    Knock on the back door of admin
    Get creative with sites with a grin,
    Choose from favorite extensions,
    too many to mention,
    You only have to remember your pin.

    (yep, these are hokey, but what the heck!)

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    Michael Richey

    Loving an MVC framework
    the process and logic is brainwork
    it starts on the whiteboard
    and lands on the keyboard
    ouch! Fatal error, rework.

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    Jim Gregory

    The Pastor said, "We need a new site!"
    The Elders then withered in fright.
    I proclaimed, "I've found Joomla!
    It'll cost just a little moolah.
    And then others will see the light!"

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    Bear

    I once had a site in ColdFusion
    Then Joomla broke loose my confusion
    My staff went a-running
    for green beer and some funnin'
    As I created a new cool illusion!

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    Herman Peeren

    A module with too much ambition
    was looking for more recognition.
    He felt so bad,
    but now he is glad:
    I gave him the "top" position.

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    Herman Peeren

    In Queensland you needed a boat
    to not wet your clothes and coat.
    But websites stayed dry.
    If you wonder: why?
    By good use of CSS-float!

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    Herman Peeren

    An unfortunate template designer
    wanted to work a bit finer.
    He used too much bold,
    because, as was told:
    he was a severe borderliner.

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    Alice Grevet

    Oh Joomla freelancing is fun!
    Making websites that dazzle and stun!
    We use php power
    And charge by the hour
    We dance Joom-la-la-la when we're done!

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    Peter van Westen

    The first sentence should end with a place
    to make the traditional Limerick with grace.
    Which makes this one fail,
    by the rules of the tale,
    and only achieves to fill up some space.

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    Peter van Westen

    A developer was out of his mind,
    said WordPress was all he could find.
    He claimed Joomla was shite.
    But his client was bright
    and said, "you can shove that up your behind".

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