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I heard of a loan shark named Lars
who worked in the seediest bars.
Thirty percent per day,
and if you didn’t pay,
He’d shoot off your kneecaps, of carse!
So, tonight at dVerse Poets Pub, the innkeeper is serving up glasses of Irish and pints of our favorite brew. In my case that would be Murphy’s; although I acknowledge the preference of many to that other purveyor of stout. Anyway, in payment we are being cajoled into sharing a limerick or two. Here’s mine.
Nothing like high interest rates to mess up the underground economy. Nice limerick sound!
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Thank you! I haven’t more than a sixteenth of Irish in me.
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Hey, I love this one! Lars gets around doesn’t he?
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So it would seem! Glad you enjoyed it.
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Ha! Good one. Lars is a scary dude.
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Beware of Viking mobsters! Haha!
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I love the forced rhyme of carse …
Better than shooting knee-caps and arse…
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Yeah. Too easy, and no surprise to it. Thank you, Bjorn!
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Ya gotta watch out for those Viking boys. I know. I married one.
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I am one. Grew up in Minnesota. Glad you enjoyed it.
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Mine’s from ND!
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:-X
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🙂
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Funny stuff. I like a good pint of Murphy’s but he doesn’t like me taking his drink.
Carse is a Scottish geographical term. Of carse you were not using it in that context but I thought you might be interested.
In Scottish geography, a Carse (the modern form of older Scots kerse) is an area of low-lying, typically alluvial and fertile land occupying certain Scottish river valleys such as that of the River Forth.
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I did learn that once. Wasn’t in my mind at the time… at least not the front part of my mind. I’d like to see Scotland some time. I have a branch of my family that were originally called Malcolm. Dropped one of the La. Perhaps were told to get the L out….
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It’s a Bonny Wee place and I think you’d take to it.
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Clever rhyming there at the end! You always give it your own unique twist 🙂
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I am my own thing. 🙂
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‘deed
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I’m still laughing at my propensity for reading too quickly. At first I read “…he’d shoot off your arse”. Thank heaven I took a second look! Love it!
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No speed reading for poetry, Ma’am!
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That’s great! Lars was a wise guy
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Aren’t we all?
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yup, it’s profitable
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Very cool, Charley!
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Thank you!
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Ha, what fun! Make mine a Guinness, please.
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What, no Hamm’s or Grain Belt? Guiness it is!
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Please no! Though there are some nice micro brews around WI and MN now. (Er, I ‘m not really a beer snob, I just like my drinks to have a little flavor, lol).
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That’s why they used to put peanuts and pretzels on the bar! 🙂
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