I think you pronounce the T referring to the sea.
La Porte really does fit.
Although it’s not an especially poetic community. Even less quaint than Nantucket–another port town widely used in Limericks.
Yes, it’s a perfect fit meter-wise, but it’s not funny. 
For what it’s worth, there is also a La Porte, Colorado…wide spot in the road just outside Fort Collins.
Indiana, too, where it’s the county seat of La Porte County.
Yep.
For those who don’t know, Beaufort, South Carolina, is correctly pronounced with the beau as in beauty.
The first name that came my mind was Kennebunkport.
Bridport
Gosport
Both places in England if that counts.
So when do we get to see the limerick?
This has been quite the build-up.
Now that’s funny!
I wrote an email to Gene Weingarten of the Washington Post regarding this article:
Poems that byte: Gene Weingarten’s thoughts on data entry-level versification
To make a long story short I included the following limericks in my email. The first one might have been as follows had I asked for advice earlier, though the meter is a bit tortured:
[FONT=Arial]A girl, a voluptuous sort[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]Found a bug in her web cam support[/FONT]
When she clicked on her mouse
[FONT=Arial]It took off her blouse[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]And it broadcast her breasts to Kennebunkport[/FONT]
Here’s what I actually sent:
[FONT=Arial]A voluptuous woman named May[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]Found a bug in her web cam one day[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]When she clicked on her mouse[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]It took off her blouse[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]And it broadcast her breasts to Bombay[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]There once was a writer named Gene[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]Whose technology interest was keen[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]He wrote about bytes[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]During many late nights[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]‘Till his Underwood smoked—what a scene![/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]The Washington Post Magazine[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]Has a last page that’s written by Gene[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]His mem’ry’s not big[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]It’s only 1G[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]But the sizeof his disk is obscene[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]There was a young Microsoft ace [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]Whose Excel was a desperate case [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]When he hit CTRL-V[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]It locked up his PC[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]And then pasted him one in the face[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]A programmer fellow named Pat[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]Thought his date would be spicy, not flat [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]But when he unzipped[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]His girlfriend then quipped,[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]“Can you download an upgrade for that?”[/FONT]
Good stuff, CWG.
I like the first one with Kennebunkport since it so badly fits the meter it suggests trying to quickly cram the square peg into the limerick’s round hole.
The others are good too. A bit risqué but nothing Weingarten can’t handle.
Thanks–I’m not expecting him to publish them, just wanted to show him that a technically correct and poetically correct limerick can be written.