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Lime Ricky

· By Capn Rick · Published 2024-10-16T03:30:54.240Z

Meta Prompt
The meta answer is a rather nonsensical guy.
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  • Sharkicicles 2s · 2024-10-16T04:06:40.730Z
    Shocked it dropped that quickly for me. Aye aye Cap’n!
    • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-10-16T11:29:05.242Z
      Thank you, Sharkicicles. Yes, the meta is pretty easy to figure out, but I'm hoping that folks will have fun completing the poem.
    • Berto 1s · 2024-10-16T04:21:43.950Z
      Thanks Cap’n!
      • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-10-16T11:29:20.662Z
        Thank you, Berto!
      • Darth 🤓10:48 · 2024-10-16T04:29:21.042Z
        I know of a captain named Rick / who likes making things symmetric / when you fill up his grid / find the meta he hid / you'll say his construction is slick! :P
        • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-10-16T11:30:43.289Z
          Hey, that's very good, Darth! Maybe you and I can team up on a future poetic meta sometime!
        • woozy 🤓12:03 · 2024-10-16T04:40:17.529Z
          Ha! I love Edward Lear.
          Interesting choice with C.S. Lewis' poetry.
          • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-10-16T11:32:41.641Z
            Thanks, woozy. I figured the poetry lovers would be familiar with Lear, and I love him because of his convenient 4-letter name! 😄
          • HeadinHome 🤓1:15 · 2024-10-16T13:32:35.172Z
            Ohhh… THOSE themers! ( :
            Can’t put this on Muggles site because a spoiler, but fun fact is the name of Lear’s cat: “He has many friends, laymen and clerical, Old Foss is the name of his cat; His body is perfectly spherical, He weareth a runcible hat.”
            • from “How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear”
            • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-10-16T15:39:43.913Z
              Ha ha! Thanks for sharing that appropriate poem, Wendy! "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" is one of his most-famous poems, right?
            • ajk 🤓6:15 · 2024-10-16T13:48:19.499Z
              lol I once again had to google the name, despite having 'learned' it the first time around. 😂 Still just as fun though, thanks. :)
              • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-10-16T15:40:44.996Z
                Thanks, Alan. I actually had to Google him a couple of times myself. :)
              • woozy 🤓12:03 · 2024-10-16T14:13:15.081Z
                I was just about to write that I didn't get the title when ... it became obvious. Excellent reading pun!
                • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-10-16T15:42:07.611Z
                  Thanks, woozy. I thought it added to the "nonsensicalness". :)
                • hoover 2s · 2024-10-16T04:03:06.742Z
                  Nice one! This was actually my initial guess upon reading the intro. All you need now is an owl and a pussycat in a beautiful pea-green boat.
                  • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-10-16T16:39:17.559Z
                    Thanks, hoover! I, unfortunately, was not familiar with Mr. Lear, although I have heard of "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat". His 4-letter name worked nicely for my mechanism. :)
                  • imontoo 3s · 2024-10-16T15:32:18.206Z
                    Enjoyed it, Cap’n!
                    • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-10-16T16:00:57.907Z
                      Thank you, imontoo!
                    • Carolyn 2s · 2024-10-16T15:34:41.059Z
                      Delightful!
                      • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-10-16T16:01:20.565Z
                        Glad you enjoyed it, Carolyn.
                      • MatthewL 🤓8:18 · 2024-10-16T16:57:47.535Z
                        Stared at it forever, thinking, "is this going to be the 3rd MEOW in a row I don't get?" But then I reread the clue for 20D in conjunction with the last line of the limerick, and then I knew what to do. Had no idea who Edward Lear is though, but I enjoyed reading the Wikipedia entry on him. Thanks for the puzzle, Rick!
                        • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-10-16T18:11:01.578Z
                          Thank you, Matthew. Yes, you found the right "theme" connection. Don't feel bad - I also had to read up on Mr. Lear.
                        • DIS 🤓2:30:46 · 2024-10-16T16:51:07.133Z
                          Great -- and very runcible!
                          • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-10-16T18:07:59.711Z
                            Now THAT would make an excellent meta answer, DIS!
                          • Bird Lives 5s · 2024-10-16T15:45:19.186Z
                            In solving I had a good time
                            Finding crossers and reading the rhyme.
                            The title’s more tricky —
                            The constructor is Ricky,
                            But I still haven’t figured out "Lime."
                            • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-10-16T18:05:35.041Z
                              Ha! Very good, Jay. And of course, the Lime, when combined with Ricky, forms the verse form popularized by Lear - the "limerick". :)
                              • Bird Lives 5s · 2024-10-16T21:27:03.287Z
                                Oh, right. But as I recall, his weren't very good., with the last line repeating the first rather than being a punch line.
                            • Zimodo 🤓18:19 · 2024-10-16T18:37:39.644Z
                              very nice
                              • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-10-16T19:39:40.111Z
                                Thanks, Zimodo!
                              • lbray53 2s · 2024-10-16T18:34:45.778Z
                                I started out on a roll.
                                But then found a rabbit hole.
                                For sadly, it seems,
                                I had the wrong themes.
                                But made it at last to the goal!
                                • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-10-16T19:39:18.968Z
                                  Thanks for sticking with it, lbray53!
                                  • Darth 🤓10:48 · 2024-10-16T22:51:41.831Z
                                    👍(I wish Crosshare had its own "like" option on comments, but I just have to give this a👍)
                                  • Dave C 4s · 2024-10-16T23:49:19.415Z
                                    The poem was fun and the answer was straight-forward. I had never heard of Mr. Lear.
                                    • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-10-17T01:16:56.197Z
                                      Thanks, Dave. I also wasn't familiar with Lear, but I wanted to have a limerick in one of my metas, and he's considered the "father of the limerick form of poetry". One of his most famous works was "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat", so it was a natural fit for MEOW. 😁
                                    • KayW 🤓7:07 · 2024-10-17T01:57:22.412Z
                                      Hah! I got the letters but the only LEAR I could think of was Shakespeare's KING. Not exactly a barrel of laughs, him. Then I thought of Norman LEAR. That didn't seem much more apt but I thought I'd try. AFTER finding out it was correct I looked up Edward. I have heard the Owl and the PussyCat but no had idea who wrote it.
                                      Very clever, as always!! And LOVE that you worked a helpful and witty limerick (ooh!!!! NOW I see what you did there!!! NICE!!!) into the clues.
                                      • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-10-17T12:34:08.443Z
                                        Thanks, Kay. I figured folks would be more familiar with King Lear and at one point considered making the prompt "... a tragic father or a nonsensical "father" (since Edward Lear is considered the "father of the limerick"), but in the end decided to keep it simple and give solvers an opportunity to learn something new (like I did 😄).
                                      • Qmark 3s · 2024-10-16T22:41:53.435Z
                                        Very fun meta, Cap'n Rick...and loved the title.
                                        • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-10-17T12:26:26.560Z
                                          Thanks, Qmark. Glad you enjoyed the puzzle and the title.
                                        • michaelm 🤓7:40 · 2024-10-19T18:38:25.163Z
                                          Irish more folks thought like you, Cap'n. Bear, Eyre, it's rhyme time in metaville. What a strong week (make sense?), literary-ly speaking. Thanks!
                                          • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-10-19T20:51:50.952Z
                                            Thanks, Mike! Glad you enjoyed the puzzles. MatthewL just told me that Edward Lear was one of the answers on Jeopardy this week. How about that!
                                          • Meta World Peace 7s · 2024-10-22T01:28:11.256Z
                                            POE giving poetry a try flows as naturally as your meta puzzles, Capn! Bonus midweek rhyme time? Sublime
                                            • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-10-22T02:40:52.513Z
                                              Ha ha! Thanks, Meta! Yeah, I'm filling in on this week's MEOW - the forum where anything goes, including "nonsensical" puzzles like this one. 😄
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                                              "There once was a constructor from ___" (Start of poem)
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                                              He wrote "To a Skylark" and "Adonais"
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                                              Stimulate
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                                              Sicken
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                                              "Whose metas folks sometimes got ___" (Part 2 of poem)
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                                              Coerce
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                                              Genetic material
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                                              No longer working: Abbr.
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                                              "___ was saying..."
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                                              "Me too"
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                                              Cole ___ (footwear brand)
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                                              Submerged
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                                              Bone: Prefix
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                                              Karaoke need, briefly
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                                              Author of "The Raven" and "The Bells"
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                                              Humorist Ogden who wrote "The Lama" and "The Octopus"
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                                              Unexpected victories
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                                              School org.
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                                              Umpire's call
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                                              "Just look for the themers he's ___" (End of poem)
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                                              Allow
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                                              Nutritional fig.
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                                              Baby's bodysuit
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                                              Legendary loch
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                                              Brooks or Blanc
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                                              Norway's capital
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                                              Egyptian cross
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                                              Office-inappropriate, briefly
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                                              Assn.
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                                              Actresses Charlotte and Issa
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                                              Pentagon grp.
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                                              Rhode Island's state tree
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                                              "But you can ___" (Part 3 of poem)
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                                              John Wayne classic
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                                              French star
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                                              "Nature" essayist who was Thoreau's mentor
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                                              "'Cause this one's ___" (Part 4 of poem)
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                                              Loses one's hair
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                                              University of Maine town
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                                              "What a pity!"
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                                              Egyptian boy king with a famous tomb
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                                              Egyptian god of the dead
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                                              Hawaiian goose
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                                              Patriotic men's org.
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                                              Philosophy, history, poetry, etc.
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                                              Ballpark figs.
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                                              "The Chronicles of Narnia" author who also published "Spirits in Bondage"
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                                              UFO crew
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                                              Thus far
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                                              Zilch
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                                              Aah's partner
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                                              "Grecian Urn" and "Nightingale" odist
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                                              Leaving the amateur ranks
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                                              "Just a Song Before I Go" band, briefly
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                                              Marilyn's birth name
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                                              "The Age of Anxiety" author W. H. ___
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                                              Corn supporter
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                                              Serpentine sound
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                                              Female moose
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                                              Be defeated by
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                                              Stray from the script
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                                              "Bear" from Down Under
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                                              Threw in
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                                              Tatters
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                                              Scrooge, for short
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                                              GPS suggestion
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                                              "Well... uhh..."
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                                              "With all ___ respect..."
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                                              Vietnam Veterans Memorial architect Maya
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                                              Figured out
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