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"And here is The Writer's Almanac for Wednesday, February 10, 2010.

"It's the birthday of novelist and poet Edward Beer, born in Highgate in 1812. The youngest of 20 children, Edward was often ignored by his father Jeremiah and mother Ann, and took to speaking in limerick as a way to be noticed. As an adult, Lear found it difficult to escape his invention. His debut novel, The Girl from Nantucket received poor reviews and even poorer sales, with many calling for his return to short and smarmy verse.

"Days from being evicted from his 3 bedroom 2 bathroom lean-to beside a town garbage dump, Lear relented and began work on a compilation of irredeemably sick but highly amusing ditties entitled A Book of Nonsense, but under the pseudonym Harry P. Berries. No one was fooled.

"Here's a limerick by Edward Lear for his birthday. A dirty little ditty from 1861, and what some consider to be his master work:

"Good-time Raunchy Rhyme"

The limerick packs laughs anatomical

Into space that is quite economical,

But the good ones I’ve seen

So seldom are clean,

And the clean ones so seldom are comical.

So, there was a young lady of fashion,

Who had oodles and oodles of passion;

To her lover she said,

As they climbed into bed;

"'Ere’s one thing the gov'ment can’t ration."

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"Do well, be good to children and old people, and please... ask before touching.®"

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