| 1 | Or God will toss off a limerick for your pleasure. | |
| 2 | The jokes kept on welling up and Mr Trillin made a parallel reputation as a writer of funny stuff. | |
| 3 | Wilson was obsessed with limericks prior to his stroke, but what about the post-stroke limericks? | |
| 4 | During heartbreak, love is a doggerel, caustic and mocking, eloquent and glib . | |
| 5 | I want the man I love and honor to be something finer and higher than a perpetrator of jokes and doggerel. |