National Limerick Day

It's not really National Limerick Day but we're celebrating it anyways and you should take the day off

Episode Transcript

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This is a Bramble Jam podcast.Hey it's Tuesday, May eighteenth. Happy
birthday, Alonzo. Take the dayoff everybody. Okay, yeah, okay,

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how you go? You go,you go. I'm not very good
at Yeah. It always looks justit's at a little stiff. Yeah.
You gotta get a little wiggly uphere. You gotta get wiggly. And
that rest my obliques. Maybe Wriggleyexperiment. Gum, just rake rig I'll

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come out when I'm good and ready. Okay, buddy, you just keep
it, keep it, trap shit, trap and keeper. Tough night last
night, hop out of the best. All right, I'm sorry. I
tried to go double dutch. That'dwork out. Who was it? Clary?
Yeah? She Clary? You knowClary shot for Clarice. We call

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her Clary, of course they do. She's a great clarinet player, if
you say so, I mean sheis, really if I've heard her play,
Wow, you know all those clarinetsolos. You know you don't ask
you this. If someone played aclarinet, would you be able to tell

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if it was good or not?No? Absolutely, not like anything this
anything north of recorder. I don'tknow if it's good or not are you
kidding me? I mean that's nottrue. Like drums and guitar, I
could tell you this, I couldn'ttell you if a guitar solo was difficult
or not. I'm always confused bythat because I can tell you when I
think they sound good. But sometimeswhat I think is difficult just isn't difficult

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for actual guitarists. Like when they'reup here high on the neck and they're
just doing this, it's probably prettyeasy, but it looks really cool.
Yeah, right, yes, that'scorrect. Where if you're skipping more chords
and has hopping around a lot,and that's difficult, but like the yeah,
but it looks hard because usually they'rewailing like like kind of like It's

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what we're trying to say, isSlash is not a great guitar player.
Yeah, that's what we're trying.What is more impressied? Like? What's
harder? Like that's not the wayto phrase the question. What's is John
Mayer's guitar playing good? Like ishe a really good guitar player or does
he just look like he's a reallygood guitar player based upon facial like he's

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a really good guitar player. Okay, okay. I mean he started a
jazz trio. I felt he hadto be decent and he's in a jam
band. But he looks like he'splaying for the Philharmonic. All that the
key looks like he's just all kindsof in the zone. He's in the
pocket, as they would say,auto sound. Um, it is not
National Limerick Day, but we're celebrating. He missed it last week because we're

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on vacation. Today was like museumday or something made an audible audible Omaha,
Limerick Limerick, Limerick Limerick get afree audio book today by using to
take the day off. Right,Um, let's see what happens. I
don't know, lots of good booksout there. Um, it's National Limerick
Day. I don't what is alimerick. It's a poem that rhymes and

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it has a thing at the end. It's five lines. I'm pretty sure
it lines one to five rhyming andlines three it's it's uh, it's like
an A A B B A.I think, yes, that's right,
A A B B A is whatwe're going for. Yes, exactly right,
yes, um, which is justfun. And talked with my good

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friend brand We decided to take theday off should stands. We looked all
around. There was no town,but we said why not fan So like
a famous one is like the missuscrumpet one R yes, yeah, yes,
amos Limerick. Um so Limerick Daywas actually my twelfth or celebrating it
today. So just to give us, just extend some grace here, because

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a lot of people wrote a lotof great limericks and we want to get
to them. Um. I wasreading a book of limericks written by John
L. Limerick Dawson. Dawson's hislast name. So one of his middle
names is L. Yes, periodyou do talk about and the other one
is Limerick. It's Limerick High.If we don't, it's Limerick High fen

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Dawson. You said Dawson was hislast name. You specifically said I did.
Limerick is a part of that too, though, Okay, and L
it's just got a period. Butwe don't talk about it talking even though
they says L. Why not justsay John Limerick Dawson. Well, we
talk about it, but we don'ttalk about what's the name. It's hard
to spell, it's hard to say. Oh. Um, he wrote this

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a phenomenal book of limericks. Andin one of the limericks, it doesn't
follow the traditional aa ba aa bb ba ba bah. He says this.
I love when I get to sayall of the things that make me
say Dan knows about National Limerick Day. Hey hey, hey, hey hey

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hey, okay, hey yes wow. So I found that to be fascinating
you I do. And it actuallygoes back to lim Rick Um. John
Ricky wanted to be known as limrick Now. What do I mean by
that is John wanted to be atree. He from the time he was

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born, he believed the highest ascensionthat you could reach in life was to
become a religion. He kind ofhe founded a cult. He did found
a cult um and uh. Andhe wanted to be a tree. And
so he would go and try tostand in places for like long periods of
time, like with his arms outstretched. He would have people water him um

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from from time to time. Uh. And then he started the the the
the branches was the name of thecult obviously. Uh. And in the
Branches. It all culminated on likea June eighteenth, Now, yeah,
it was June eighteenth, nineteen sixtyeight, which you know they had him.
They cemented his legs into the ground, and he believed that if they

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put the living soil all around it, um, that he would slowly become
a tree. Uh. It diddidn't work, um, And when he
tired to the point to where hecould no longer stand, most members of
the branches started to realize that maybelim Rick was crazy. Uh. So

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the branches fell apart. Uh JohnRicky Ricky never became a tree, but
they did established lim Rick Day,which they've changed to Limerick One Day.
June eighteenth is when it all fellapart. But it started. Yes,
he founded the branches on May twelfth, nineteen sixty six. That's why they

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did live. You just a quickquestion before I when you say they watered
him, Yeah, did they likepour water in his mouth? Because like
you know, when you water atree, is it's drinking up the water
or did they just pour it ontop of him like like he won the
game. You had to uh,you know, through the stages of the
branches, you had to ascend tobeing able to use the sprinkler pot on

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his head. So like there waswatering the roots, which is where everybody
started. And you would wash hisfeet pretty much. You would you would
water his feet um and then youknow, as you ascended up the ladder,
you know, up the branch ladderwhere there was definitely some money involved,
no doubt about it. Uh,you would get to water like his

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his thigh, his thighs and hiskneecaps, and then you moved up to
torso and then watering giving him water. Edward Lear was a poet born on
made about eighteen twelve in England.He became known for his Nonsense collection of
limericks, poems, stories, recipesand artwork. And while limericks have been
around since the eighteenth century, itwas Lear that popularized them with his book

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of Nonsense that was public in eighteenforty six. We already talked about what
limericks are traditionally doing to one,two, five and then the three four
rhyming, but Leir didn't always followthat rule. He wrote over two hundred
limericks. They didn't all follow thatrhythmic pattern, and sometimes they only had
three or four lines to make spacefor his illustrations. And that does beg
to a question, what is itlike if a limerick doesn't have to like

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it like? All of these poemshave rules and they all break the rules.
This is why people like math,unless you're Shakespeare and doing like Sonnets
in iambic containment or every other rules. And I'm pretty sure Shakespeare brooke those
rules. This is why people likemath. It's empirical. Two plus two
will always was four. People lovethat. Some people hate it, obviously,
but I hate it. It's weird. I'm all about breaking the rules.

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Yea too, but I also likemath. It's helpful in life.
So our limericks and the holiday hasbeen around since the nineteen eighties. We
don't know who actually started it,but it is to celebrate Edward Lear and
not Limbrick. But it is possiblethat at some point, and here we
are today, we want to celebrateby writing our own limericks today. And

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so many of you did that,and so we're gonna take a quick break,
we'll come back, we'll read thoselimericks here on take the day off.
So eventually they would sprinkle it onhis head, and that was distilled
water. That was from did heever drink engine? Did he ever drink?
A second up from from the top, So the top of the head

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is more is more a big dealbecause that's your watering right where the growth
is. That's the fruit of thetree, roots the tree through the tree.
That was his shower. I'm guessinghe didn't take showers. Well yeah
he I mean he was watered right, you get it. Limerick baby limb
rick, you know the kind rickylimbs limbs. Uh boy. We got

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some great limericks here today, danoum, and we just didn't want to
lose them. Yeah, and sowe wanted to read those. I'll kick
it off, Sarah Brinkman. Younormally asked for haiku. Limericks were a
little harder to do. But I'lltry my hand. It'll be It's a
little bit bland. Still, it'sone I'll submit to the que That was

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good, very good. How aboutPrincess Amy Matthews Once who were three friends
from yeah that Greenville. They starteda podcast and it became a big deal.
They watched a bunch of flicks justfor giggles and kicks. They never
failed to give the Deckers all thefields, Greenville deal, green Vial.

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It's a stretch, Amy, butI love stretch. There once were this
is Katie McCarthy. There once weretwo guys on a podcast whom loved to
tell them days on a broadcast.Sometimes they made sense where Dan was on
the fence. I'm curious if Pandafeels like an outcast. No, I
don't think. Yeah, people areclamoring to be a part of the Take

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to Day Off podcast. Believe you'veme and we've told Panda know that's what
that's what's happened to you. Hewe we He came in once and then
he left before Friday. That shouldforget That's right, we tried. Yep
um, here's Julie. Uh.There are these two guys with a pot
who have so much fun at theirjob. So send in a few pallahahiqus

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hikusikus and then you should take theday off. I like that pod job
off few haiku we got it.I love it. Man. There's a
lot of them about us, whichis great. Steph says there were three
guys who started a podcast. Theywanted to chat and have a blasted centers
on a homework movies and surprisingly theyhave groupies. Now, if only they

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could just talk with Lacy. Lacydoesn't rhyme was blasting podcast. But I
would like to talk to Lacy.I think we all would. We'll see
what happens they're once This is fromBrian. There once was a boy named
brand Boy who could tell a limerickfrom his hand. Good thing he's got
Dan, I got I think hemeant who couldn't tell a limerick from his

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hand? I think it either one. Good thing he's got Dan his right
hand man. He'll never forget thispoem type again. All those are all
they'll run. They all rhyme,so you can't. The rules don't matter
here. That's exactly right. It'slike the points in uh in whose lines
anyway? Or for slew of nuts? Sorry, it's a dumb callback.

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What's said about the rules? Stephsays there were three guys who started a
podcast They wanted a cat and havea blast. It centers on Homewark movies
and surprisingly they have groupies. Justread that one, literally, just read
that one. Were you even listening? Do you even care about me anymore?

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Stacy says, take the day offwith a friend, make fun of
my laughter and fun will not endhere. Brandon Dan joining their plan every
morning until the weekend. Stay verygood. Yeah, that should be the
take the day off like theme song? Somehow do you want to read one
more? Yeah? There Once wasa sweet guy named Brand who had a

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pedantic, grumpy friend named Dan.Come on, come on, Tracy pedantic.
He added a panda to the mixand for a hilarious podcast fix.
I couldn't be a bigger DTH fan. That's nicely done. It's nicely done.
I don't know what. I loveyou. Okay, okay, out

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there. Um we're gonna be backtomorrow with another exciting day, and we
want to know this. What isthe best way to spend a sunny day?
Sunny day sweeping thes A way fine, my way to where the Can
you tell me how to get allthe way to Sesame Street? All the

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way? Really? I thought,so tell me how to get I think
he just says how to get again? How to get to Sesame Street?
Oh interesting, yeah, happy birthdaylouns over Either way works, yeah,
either way And just like limericks don'thave roles either. All the way to
Sesame Street, it's a long wayfrom here, all the way. Please
get me there? Can you giveme all the way over there? We'll
see you then until then with alimerick. Once was a guy named Brand

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who hated Jerry with all of hisglands. Jerry said watch out. Don't
you pout. I'm gonna come backand kill you. A fan, Oh
that's a murder threat. Look Outcoming in hot it's a joke. Well
I'm right it ma