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A short drive from Limerick, Ireland (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/dadjokes@lemmy.world

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[–] ToffeeIsForClosers@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Reminds me of an oldie:

“Roses are red, Violets are blue. Some poems rhyme, This one don’t.”

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 13 points 2 months ago

I will occasionally go out of my way to put together birthday cards etc for friends and family rather than buy something off the rack. One year I made this for my cousin:

Roses are red

(Rose dot jpeg)

Violets are too

(Violet in red dot jpeg)

open

I ran out of cyan

Happy birthday

[–] RarePossum@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago

I knew it as

Roses are red.
Violets are blue
I hate rhyming.
Zebra

[–] Kuma@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Yes these kinds of works works best when you sing them like bards would. Just reading them as is is not as good. Or you can sing them like tenacious d (they got the bard style going on)