# LOTR Limerick Smackdown: Summarise A Novel In A Limerick

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 14, 2005, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-limerick-smackdown-summarise-a-novel-in-a-limerick/294438 "2005-03-14T08:53:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-limerick-smackdown-summarise-a-novel-in-a-limerick/294438/121 "2005-03-21T13:14:52Z")

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Samueal Shem’s _The House of God_:

There was a young intern called Roy,  
An idealistic young boy,  
But the long hours, the fat man,  
The GOMERS and health plans,  
made him all burnt out, Oy!

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-limerick-smackdown-summarise-a-novel-in-a-limerick/294438/122 "2005-03-21T22:15:10Z")

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A hard-bitten Continental Op  
Told a pretty young burglar to stop  
She said, “Go to hades,  
You won’t shoot a lady.”  
He shot her, and did her jaw drop!

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**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-limerick-smackdown-summarise-a-novel-in-a-limerick/294438/123 "2005-03-27T04:54:01Z")

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Jane was a model young governess,  
When asked to marry she said ‘yes.’  
But he already had  
A wife who was mad–  
Still, the ending is happy, I guess.

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**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-limerick-smackdown-summarise-a-novel-in-a-limerick/294438/124 "2005-03-27T17:40:45Z")

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So happy was Carrie to find  
She could move stuff around with her mind  
When they ruined her prom gig  
with the blood of a pig  
She left their burned corpses behind

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**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-limerick-smackdown-summarise-a-novel-in-a-limerick/294438/125 "2005-03-27T17:51:39Z")

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An inventive young man named John Galt  
Took his ethical stand to a fault  
The best brains of the day  
He did spirit away  
and brought the US to a hault.

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**Author:** ![Sample\_the\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Sample\_the\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sample_the_Dog)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-limerick-smackdown-summarise-a-novel-in-a-limerick/294438/126 "2005-03-29T10:51:07Z")

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Old Lucifer thwarts man’s survival  
in a grudge against God, his great rival.  
All history’s a fight  
'tween the Son and Hell’s might.  
(Most folks think it’s all in the Bible!)

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