Rubes by Leigh Rubin for November 24, 2018

I can’t speak to its veracity… but AFAIK Mr. Merritt’s clever limerick actually goes….

“A wonderful bird is the pelican,

His bill will hold more than his belican,

He can take in his beak

Enough food for a week

But I’m damned if I see how the Helican!"

I’m impressed that the pelican can support its own weight.

Silly fellow doesn’t even know what a pelican looks like.

That bird is not a pelican.

I love how the pelican so blithely ignores gravity. But then, I love pelicans, period.

A wonderful bird is the pelican,

His bill can hold more than his belly can.

Then Ed saw with a grimace,

That it’s belly WAS biggest,

And decided to start a new poem again.

What a wonderful bird the pelican is, too bad he can’t play basketball worth a @##&

Sounds a bit like Ogden Nash to me.

Was that Ogden Nash ?

Bombs away!

Ogden Nash quote