Looking for a limerick

[nq:1]"Don't worry, .. It's one minute or two to two-two. Can someone help me with the mssing words?[/nq]
Pure guesswork, as I hadn't seen it before:
There was a young lady of Looe
Who wanted to catch the two-two.
"Don't worry,
There's no need to hurry.
It's a minute or two to two-two."
Looe is the only British place name I could think of that rhymes with "two".

20:16, lunedì 11 febbraio 2008, John Hall:
[nq:2]"Don't worry, .. It's one minute or two to two-two.[/nq]
[nq:1]"Don't worry, There's no need to hurry. It's a minute or two to two-two." Looe is the only British place name I could think of that rhymes with "two".[/nq]
Is the "two-two" a train?

"Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin," thought Alice; "but a grin without a ca

[nq:1]20:16, lunedì 11 febbraio 2008, John Hall:[/nq]
[nq:2]"Don't worry, There's no need to hurry. It's a minute ... place name I could think of that rhymes with "two".[/nq]
In American there's a colloquial 'San Berdoo,' and Saint Louis could conceivably be called 'Saint Loo,' but with those names the limerick doesn't scan well.
[nq:1]Is the "two-two" a train?[/nq]
It is if it lea

[nq:1]"Don't worry, There's no need to hurry. It's a minute or two to two-two." Looe is the only British place name I could think of that rhymes with "two".[/nq]
Crewe seems more likely, Looe was (is in fact) on a tiny branch line. Crewe is a major junction.
There was a little local difficulty when the twenty-four hour time system was introduced by British Railways (as was). People would t

[nq:1]Is the "two-two" a train?[/nq]
Yes, timed to depart at two minutes past two.
As has been pointed out, Crewe is a much more likely station than my original idea of Looe.

John Hall
"Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin" attributed to Sir Josiah Stamp,
a former director of the Bank of England

[nq:2]"Don't worry, .. It's one minute or two to two-two. Can someone help me with the mssing words?[/nq]
[nq:1]"Don't worry, There's no need to hurry. It's a minute or two to two-two."[/nq]
Another one in a similar alliterative vein:
A tutor who tooted the flute
Tried to teach two young tooters to toot.
Said the two to the tutor,
"Is it harder to toot or
To tutor two t

[nq:1]20:16, luned? 11 febbraio 2008, John Hall:[/nq]
[nq:2]"Don't worry, There's no need to hurry. It's a minute ... place name I could think of that rhymes with "two".[/nq]
[nq:1]Is the "two-two" a train?[/nq]
Yes, I should have mentioned this, it's meant to be a train.

Gruß Olaf

16:14, martedì 12 febbraio 2008, Olaf Foellinger:
[nq:2]20:16, lunedì 11 febbraio 2008, John Hall: Is the "two-two" a train?[/nq]
[nq:1]Yes, I should have mentioned this, it's meant to be a train.[/nq]
I suppose there are limericks using the sound resemblance in "for ~ 4" as well.

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[nq:1]I suppose there are limericks using the sound resemblance in "for ~ 4" as well.[/nq]
There's a clear difference, at least in my regional accent, but that didn't stop a rock group back in the 70s calling themselves the Four Skins. Puns are absolutely fundamental in English.

sprocket schrieb:
[nq:2]I suppose there are limericks using the sound resemblance in "for ~ 4" as well.[/nq]
[nq:1]There's a clear difference, at least in my regional accent, but that didn't stop a rock group back in the 70s calling themselves the Four Skins. Puns are absolutely fundamental in English.[/nq]
In most accents "four" and "fore" are pronounced the same, even if "for" is pro