(Love looks not with eyes but with the mind: - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 1 scene 1)
There was an Italian waiter
who dated a girl named Ruth Slater,
They did something that night,
it must have been right,
they're still doing it twenty years later
There was a young man named Steve
who wore his heart on his sleeve;
he fell in love with a tranny*
a whore, someone's granny
and married his cat we believe.
* tranny: transvestite or transexual
The effects of inernet dating
can turn out to be quite devastating,
your date's obsessive neurosis
and acute halitosis
quickly kill any prospect of mating
A lady who was sophisticated
found Valentine's Day overrated
when she discovered her lover
was slow to recover.
The love affair was soon truncated.
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Comments: 14
Funny how you *-ed tranny.
Do me favor, if you've not, Join Short Story and More! and post your stuff to it when you post -- that way I won't miss your stuff.
(I just can't keep up)
Thanks in advance.
I did not know if tranny was used in the same context across the pond.
It will be a pleasure. In fact I was thinking of bringing along some long (10,000 word plus) stories, posted as partworks like in old fashioned magazines.
Karl, if you ever visited OOOSKN more you could catch Ian anytime!
The limerick is a really good form for you! (tranny also translates here as transmission, so that gives an added unintended layer of meaning).
When I was a early-teen (long ago and far away in a distant galaxy on the far side of the Universe) tranny meant "transistor radio." We all had our little pocket trannies and would sneak them to bed with us. There was even a DJ whose show was called Under The Bedclothes with Jimmy Savile."
Imagine the furore now if a middle aged man mentioned getting under the bedclothes with hormonally supercharged adolescents.
Innocent times.
I really will have to take you in hand. Oops pardon. In the context of the article I'm about to post that remark could be very inappropriate.
Blame Ann M and Sandy Knauer.
I would love to include some of my collection of limericks, but unfortunately they are all X-rated.