The Purple Dragon Blog

Written shortly before I went into hospital and afterwards forgotten. Happy belated New Year, guys.

The Reverend’s bovine blog is always rivetingly readable,

With tales of the ridiculous and frankly unbelievable.

With shots of Simple Graphics Man and dear Sister Veronica,

With stories of the spooky and some unrelated trivia.

Anne Arkham’s is the place for stories strange, funny and wonderful,

Whether from her life or from the net the effect is always powerful.

With insightful eye and golden pen she opens up a different world,

And if you are a bit low-brow she really is a pretty girl.

Dear Kenya’s Dark Lord fantasy is full of Sithly parody,

While ’words‘ is just hilarious despite its well-loved brevity.

But the blog that I just must promote (for the interests of reciprocity),

Is by the wonderful, the talented, the blogfriend! Ms Sithsnoopy.

That my pick for 2006 and until next year I’ll stick to it.

I was bored on the train the other day. Someone should have stopped me before I resorted to writing limericks.

“There was a delusional bullfrog,

Which believed that it was a Balrog.*

It tried to breathe flame,

But just looked real lame,

So now it just hides in the marsh fog.”

“There once was a wizard named Snape,

Who wore all his robes like a cape.

They billowed as he walked,

Impressed when he talked,

Left the frightened first-years all agape.”

“There once was a Sith Lord name Vader

Who was a confirmed Jedi-hater.^

He was really frightening

Thoguh he had no Force-lightning

 – Instead he just used his lightsaber.”

And now a couple of challenges, people:

A)        Write your own pop-culture-inclusive limerick

B)        Finish the limerick below:

“There once was a wonderful Time Lord

Who, now and then, just got so bored

He dropped into his memories

Of a young lady named Emrys

[INSERT LINE HERE]”

*A fictional creature from the Lord of the Rings universe.

^Vader doesn’t hate Jedi, he feels superior, but hell,  this rhymes better.