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Lavatorial language

Posted on October 10, 2019 by twitmericks

Recently, more and more people on Twitter have been translating my limericks, especially into French and German. So when the bog paper shortage went Dutch as well, I put out an appeal to the hive mind to see how many … Continue reading →

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Prize Limerick Competition

Posted on March 19, 2017 by twitmericks

Your turn again – to mark the publication last month of  There Once Was a Man with Six Wives, my humorous and irreverent limerick history of kings and queens, I’m holding a limerick competition with copies of the book to give … Continue reading →

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News: Limericks Live, Oct 22nd

Posted on August 27, 2016 by twitmericks

This month on the north London scene/ A festival hits N19/ Called ArchWay With Words,/ Where limerick nerds/ Can hear a Mick Twister routine. If you’re in London in October you’ll have the chance to hear me read some limericks … Continue reading →

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Twitmericks and Twitter

Posted on March 5, 2016 by twitmericks

View at Medium.com Just wanted to post a link to  this article on Medium.com by Karen Wickre. Saying goodbye to Twitter after working there as an editor for 4 1/2 years, she reflects on “how its constraints fuel wholly original uses”, with … Continue reading →

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A Twitter Milestone

Posted on August 11, 2014 by twitmericks

Three years and three months after the first Twitmerick, today @twitmericks reached 5,000 Twitter followers. The cause of today’s little boost was pickup by Guido Fawkes, who made the baroness Warsi limerick his quote of the day. http://order-order.com/2014/08/11/quote-of-the-day-899/ I know … Continue reading →

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Mick Twister

Posted on February 14, 2014 by twitmericks

Mick Twister is an anagram of Twitmericks. Mick writes limericks about the news on Twitter, pretty much daily, as @twitmericks. These are also reproduced below, with links to the relevant news stories. He is the author of There Was an … Continue reading →

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