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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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You will now sing every new limerick you hear for the rest of your life.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There was a young woman named Bright.
Whose speed was much faster than light.
She departed one day,
In a relative way,
And returned on the previous night!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This is set to music at the end and beginning of the Alphaville album Afternoons in Utopia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Enough. At first I was like, "Yeah, I love Alphaville!" However, upon further reflection, it occurred to me that I had confused Alphaville with two separate Austin-based bands, Alpha Rev and Storyville.

I'd did check out that album and sure...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)
There once was a man from Nantucket
Who kept all his cash in a bucket.
    But his daughter, named Nan,
    Ran away with a man
And as for the bucket, Nantucket.
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd always assumed the lyrics to this were far obscene :/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Oh, they are. That's a clean version.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

There was a young lady called Jean

Who fell in a washing machine

She tumbled around

Till she almost drowned

But she came out remarkably clean

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I couldn’t remember the tune to Home on the Range, so I used Piano Man, and that worked.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

'Theeeere once was a girl from Nantucket' ... well, sort of works.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

No idea what that even is, so no wörries, I won't

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Doesn't the first line of home on the range have five syllables? Limericks have 8

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

essentially a limerick

The first line of a limerick has a flexible number of syllables. Sometimes eight, sometimes nine ("There once was a man from Nantucket..."). It still remains that any limerick can be put the to tune of that song because there is enough space for each syllable.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Mmmmyeah it essentially is, except for the first line.