What's your favourite Nonsense Rhyme/Story?

Question

My points have doubled in a day, so I need to lose some - what's your favourite Nonsense (such as Jabberwocky or Edward Lear or something)?

Make something up if you want!

I'd love to hear some original stuff - there are a LOT of talented people on here!

Everyone's got something to say.

Even if it is total nonsense!

Answer 1

I love "The hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carrol.

(watch out for those Boojums!)

Answer 2

"Jabberwocky" is the greatest nonsense poem ever written. Carroll was a profound thinker.

I like "The Mad Gardener's Song" from the Sylvie and Bruno books, as well as "They told me you had been to her," in _Alice's Adventures n Wonderland._

Of Lear's: "The Akond of Swat," "The Jumblies," "Tghe Dong with the Luminous Nose," "The Pobble Who Has No Toes" and "The Owl and the Pussycat."

I'll try to find this question and answers as I am devoted to the genre.

Answer 3

Someone on here once asked to make up a new religion, based on the basic bible type story or something like that, here was mine...

In the beginning there was the Holy Jack and Jill Ice Cream Truck. It was so Holy that it only used Holy Cows for it's products.

The Holy Truck needed a place to keep it's Ice Cream off season. Too close to the sun and it would boil. To far and it would break the follower's teeth. So the Holy Truck perfectly created the Earth at just the right temperature.

Then the Holy Truck created people, people who would love Ice Cream and obey it's musical voice. But Holy Truck also gave the people free will, and the will to choose what flavor, although only one flavor was right, but Holy Truck could not tell them.

When the Holy Truck saw the sin of the people who were creating other brands and knockoffs, it came to Earth as a physical auto, and lo it had many followers. Every time they heard the mighty song of the Holy Truck they followed it.

But some people did not follow. They were sinful for being lactose intolerant. They wanted to kill the Holy Truck. They beat it with bats and marked it with spray paint. Then they crushified the Holy Truck in the unholy auto compactor.

For three days and nights the Holy Truck was compacted, until on the third day it disappeared from the compactor. Some followers saw the Holy Truck, and claimed it did rise back up into the Ice Cream Milky Way.

The people created Holy Truck religions, but no one was sure which flavor was right. They fought, each convinced that their Mint Chocolate Chip or their Strawberry Ice Cream was right.

At the end of time for people on Earth, Holy Truck would judge them and know who had chosen the right flavor and who had followed Holy Truck right. Those who had not done so or had turned away from Holy Truck's Ice Cream would boil forever in the Hot Fudge of Ice Cream h**l.

Answer 4

Once there were two skunks..ones name was "in" and the others name was "out"...When In was out, Out was in...When Out was in, In was out. One day In was out and Out was in.. Their mother said, "Out, go out and bring In in ... SO Out went out and brought In in. She said, "Out, how did you manage to find In so quickly??"  Out said, "Easy mother...Instinct"

Answer 5

Owl and the Pussycat....I love it because I was read this at a young age at primary school and love it still at 29. Lovely poem/story.

Answer 6

Sorry no talent but i love Lears the dong with the luminous nose. I also love limericks but most are too crude or rude for an open forum.

Answer 7

Here's one from my primary school days (ie pre 1967).

Buffalo Billy had a ten foot willy.

He shoved it through the fence to the girl next door.

She thought it was a snake

And hit it with a rake

So now it's only four foot four.