In a moment of pre-coffee hysteria, I attempted to write a limerick beginning with the above line. Then I thought better of myself and decided to just say: Happy Birthday Julie!! :)
Oh, why did you think better of it? I think it's totally worth attempting. Here, I'll try:
There once was a girl named Julie
Who loved her dear ones so truly
She sang all the words to "Tom Dooley"
And made many a boy go drooly.
Do limericks have to be true? Because unless Jules does know "Hang your head, Tom Dooley, Hang your head and cry. You killed poor Laurie Foster and now you're bound to die...", and unless "drooly" is actually a word in some dictionary I don't own, lines 3 and 4 are a stretch...
Thanks, Katy! What do you think? Should we tell Neema to quit her day job? :)
I do love making the boys go drooly, though, I must admit.
C'mon now. It was either "drooly" or "cruelly", and it didn't seem appropriate to put that you did anything 'cruelly' in a birthday limerick.
And ironically, this IS part of my day job. I'm teaching poetry in two weeks... Have mercy on my students!!!!!!!!!!
Truth be told, I loved the limerick. :)
Yay! I'm glad you liked it. :) I was trying to incorporate "scrappy" in there somewhere, too..