Subj : Limericks
To   : Roy Witt
From : Ardith Hinton
Date : Mon Feb 19 2018 23:42:56

Hi, Roy!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

DH>  A tutor who tooted the flute
DH>  Tried to tutor two tooters to flute
DH>  Said the two to the tutor
DH>  "Is it tougher to too
DH>  Or to tutor two tooters to toot?"

AH>  Hmm.  I wonder who else will spot the typo?  :-))

RW>  I noticed right away. The typo breaks up the flow
RW>  of the 'limerick' too much.


            I'm not sure whether you were thinking of the same item I was, but
I imagine you wanted to give our friends in Russia time to respond... as I did
.... before identifying the item specifically.  :-)

            Dallas copied a written version he'd found elsewhere.  The version
I remember has "toot" rather than "flute" at the end of the second line.  Okay
.... while that would be my preference, I realize there are variations in stuff
which is generally passed on by word of mouth.  I suspect he left out a letter
at the end of the fourth line, however.  OTOH I left out a punctuation mark in
an example which I probably heard before I'd learned to read... [blush].



RW>  The limericks I learned when I was growing up can't be
RW>  repeated here.


            Uh-huh.  Thanks again for your restraint....  :-))




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