09.16.04
OEDILF
Sometimes the web turns around and not so much bites your ankle as nuzzles your knee with an unexpected affection. An unbriefed visit to OEDILF certainly feels like a large animal of otherwise uncertain behaviour placing its paws on your leg and purring. For at OEDILF a tremendous amount of time, energy and passion is being harnessed into rewriting the dictionary in limerick form.
That last phrase demands to be rewritten. In italics. Instead, I suggest going to look at the site itself, because otherwise the overweening nuttiness of the project can’t be sensed. A college of limericists (ahem) are working their way through the alphabet, offering definitions for every word in limerick form.
They are, naturally, still on the letter A. If you ever want to see them hit the middle of the alphabet, you’d better go and offer them some help. They’ll need it.
Chris J. Strolin said,
September 8, 2005 at 9:31 am
The first time I read your beautifully worded review, I intended to write to thank you for it. Time has passed and I honestly can’t recall if I ever did so. I certainly hope so.
If not, let me just say, somewhat belatedly, that not only are your words greatly appreciated but also that I take them to indicate that you would fit in perfectly in our insane little project. Internet privacy issues being what they are, I realize that you may already be writing with us and that I’ve simply been unaware of your presence in our database. That’s fine. One way or another, I hope you continue to enjoy our efforts.
By way of an update, we are presently all the way up to words beginning with the letters Bl-, just racing through the alphabet, and have taken in over 18,000 limericks. I believe this makes us the largest collection of original limericks (and maybe even poetry in general) in history but, then again, who knows? Who keeps records of this sort?
Thanks again for your kind words. Your review came up in conversation recently prompting this return to your site on my part. Best regards to you and yours.
Chris J. Strolin
Editor-in-Chief, The OEDILF