And still more limericks

Just after Christmas I posted some limericks, including this one with an explanatory note:

(Wemyss is pronounced “Weems”)

There was a young lady named Wemyss

Who, it seems, was much troubled with dremyss; 

She would wake in the night 

And, in terrible fright, 

Shake the bemyss of the house with her scremyss.

This prompted a response from Robyn Tychsen (Robyn okayed use of her name), whose art work I have previously admired – see:

http://bytesdaily.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/robyns-art.html 

Robyn commented as follows:

I was interested to see the name Wemyss in one of the limericks in today's Bytes. My father who was born on 5 November 1918 was named Wemyss for the senior British officer who took the surrender from the Germans at the end of WW1. I always thought it a little strange given that both my father's parents were of direct German heritage and indeed his mother's Australian family had to change its surname from Ringke to Ring owing to hostilities to the Germans during WW1. The family pronounced it Waymiss which together with our surname (pronounced Ticksen) was always a handful to explain.

I can only comment:

Robyn said that for the name Wemyss

There is no need for extremyss.

My vocab’s amiss

It should be Waymiss,

Not everything is as it semyss

Some more wordplay limericks:

This limerick goes in reverse

Unless I'm remiss

The neat thing is this:

If you start from the bottom-most verse

This limerick's not any worse.

    - Web cartoonist Zach Weiner

The British wordplay and recreational mathematics expert Leigh Mercer (1893–1977) devised the following mathematical limerick:

This is read as follows:

A dozen, a gross, and a score

Plus three times the square root of four

Divided by seven

Plus five times eleven

Is nine squared and not a bit more.

A mademoiselle named Renee

Would never say nay to a lay.

For sexual action 

Her standard reaction

Was simply to urge “Allez!”

An early psychologist, Freud, 

Had the bluenoses very anneud; 

Saying: "You cannot be rid 

Of the troublesome Id, 

So it might just as well be enjeud!"

A merchant, addressing a debtor, 

Set down in the course of his lebtor: 

"I choose to suppose 

A man owes what he owes, 

And the sooner he pays it, the bebtor!"

There was an old lawyer named Dolan 

Whose income was happily swollen 

By charging huge fees 

For interpreting these: 

The , the - and the : 

[The comma, the dash and the colon.]

And to finish on a bit of philosophy:

If no Pain were, how judge we of pleasure? 

If no work, where's the solace of Leisure? 

What's White, if no Black? 

What's Wealth, if no Lack ? 

If no Loss, how our Gain could we measure?