Week 777: More Honorable Mentions

From the Style Invitational contest to write a limerick featuring a word or term beginning with da- :

At Smucker's, my boss looks askance
As I whirl and I twirl and I prance.
Yet I fill every tin
With preserves as I spin,
'Cause I'm canning as fast as I dance.
(Chris Doyle, Ponder, Tex.)

There is nothing, we're told, like a dame;
That was Rodgers and Hammerstein's claim.
But through Internet browsing
I've found this arousing
Contraption that's almost the same!
(Brendan Beary, Great Mills, Md.)

The artist Duchamp flew to Rome,
But his artwork got sent off to Nome.
Said the airline: "Don't worry.
Sit back, what's the hurry?
Just wait till your dada gets home."
(Jay Shuck, Minneapolis)

Dahlia

At the plant sale, I chatted up Hope:
"When pronouncing this flower, I grope:
Is it 'doll-ya' or 'dally-a'?
Enlighten me, shall ya?"
Said she, "That's a daisy, you dope."
(Brendan Beary)

Couldn't stomach the melamine beef,
Was reluctant to torture a thief.
So the question is: "Ain't he
A little bit dainty
For China's new protocol chief?"
(Kevin Dopart, Washington)

A cheeky young geek named O'Malley
Had a tendency sometimes to dally
While fixing computers
For clients from Hooters,
Implanted in Silicone Valley.
(Beverley Sharp, Washington)

In the spring, as you wander quite merry,
Stop to eat the small blue dangleberry.
Please take heed: I said "dangle";
With "dingle" don't tangle
Or I fear you'll be sorry, and very.
(Jeff Brechlin, Eagan, Minn.)

For Dad, we're betwixt and between
On that damnable casket routine:
Leave it open or shut
At the service? Just what
We've decided remains to be seen.
(Chris Doyle)

My cereal! He'll try to grab it,
That monomaniacal rabbit!
We've told him (yet still he
Keeps acting so silly)
That Trix are for kiddies, dagnabit!
(Cy Gardner, Arlington)

She has dacryorrhea-- she's weepy.
It's a side effect, nothing too creepy.
Though it's far from routine,
It is commonly seen
In those married to one Beary, B.P.
(Brendan P. Beary, Great Mills)