It's Limerick Day, Piggies and Pals! Got a naughty or nice verse handy? 🐹 💚 💙 💚 ✍️ ✍️ ✍️ 🥕

But if only naughty limericks about a man from Nantucket are coming to mind, here's another one:

"There once was a piggy from Peru
Who believed every lettuce was his due.
He wheeked with great force,
'Till we altered our course
And delivered romaine by canoe."

Limerick Day honors Edward Lear, born May 12th, 1812, an English artist, illustrator, musician, traveler, and poet whose wonderfully absurd verses helped popularize the limerick as we know it today. Though many of his limericks featured gloriously odd old persons from improbable places, Lear’s nonsense writing delighted in musical language, invented words, and older people from various places such as:

"There was an Old Man of Thermopylae,
Who never did anything properly;
But they said, “If you choose
To boil eggs in your shoes,
You shall never remain in Thermopylae."


Wheek! Wheek!