Lime Ricky

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. :)

Thank you, Sharkicicles. Yes, the meta is pretty easy to figure out, but I'm hoping that folks will have fun completing the poem.

Thank you, Berto!

Hey, that's very good, Darth! Maybe you and I can team up on a future poetic meta sometime!

Thanks, woozy. I figured the poetry lovers would be familiar with Lear, and I love him because of his convenient 4-letter name!

Ha ha! Thanks for sharing that appropriate poem, Wendy! "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" is one of his most-famous poems, right?

Thanks, Alan. I actually had to Google him a couple of times myself. :)

Thanks, woozy. I thought it added to the "nonsensicalness". :)

Thank you, imontoo!

Glad you enjoyed it, Carolyn.

Ha! Very good, Jay. And of course, the Lime, when combined with Ricky, forms the verse form popularized by Lear - the "limerick". :)

Now THAT would make an excellent meta answer, DIS!

Thank you, Matthew. Yes, you found the right "theme" connection. Don't feel bad - I also had to read up on Mr. Lear.

Thanks for sticking with it, lbray53!

(I wish Crosshare had its own "like" option on comments, but I just have to give this a)

Thanks, Zimodo!

Thanks, Qmark. Glad you enjoyed the puzzle and the title.

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.

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 ).

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!

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.