The Big and Little Nickel Contest!

Okay.... Up for grabs are two Canadian 1951 nickels, one Big and one regular size.




Anyone can play along.

All you have to do is make up a limerick that has a reference to coins or money in general.

Then we'll have a vote and the one with the most votes wins.

Here's a real lame one that I came up with:

There once was a man named Rickles
who'd insult you for the price of two nickels
But if you gave him a dollar
he would hoot and he'd holler
and instead of insults, he'd give you two tickles.

I'm sure you can do much better than what I did.

Contest entries must be submitted by Friday March 18th at 6pm (my time). Post them in this thread.

Voting will take place until Sunday March 20th 6pm (my time). The winner will be declared shortly after that.

Good luck and have fun with it!

 

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well im not very creative, but ill see if i can come up with something

 

No stress! Just have fun with it. I whipped up mine in a couple of minutes. You've got a week to play around with it.

 

okie dokie

 

Just a bump for the after-school/after-work gang.

 

Just want you to know I'm thinking...

 

$ $ $ Hiphop and you don't stop $ $ $


Here's one from Money Making Manhattan
Where there's so much bull-talkin' smells like something you may've just sat-in.
Be it Players strutting with too much bling,
Or Traders flipping over every undervalued thing,
Streets'll nickel-n-dime precious lil'so-sos, running back to their bullion bastion.


:T$:

 

I havent a clue what to do
As I hope neither would you
But if Im the winner, I'll buy you all dinner
But that's only if you say my poem is not poo

 

Limerick structure to help inspire others to write their own

A limerick is a five-line poem written with one couplet and one triplet. If a couplet is a two-line rhymed poem, then a triplet would be a three-line rhymed poem. The rhyme pattern is a a b b a with lines 1, 2 and 5 containing 3 beats and rhyming, and lines 3 and 4 having two beats and rhyming.

 

There once a golden gal named Stella,
At $4 dollars, she was a big hit with the fellas,
With long flowing hair or coiled in a bun,
Congress got some, the public got none,
Wish I had one hidden in my cella

that's the best I can do....does this meet the requirement of a limerick?

 

There once was a coin man named Pickel
Who didn't want to spend a nickel
He found it in a roll
But he gave it to Cole
And this is our story of our nickel

Can we submit more than one?

 

There was a story about a man who died when he bent
Who was greedy and never lent
Found a lottery ticket on the floor
As his eyes glow bright hearing the money soar
This is the reason why you should always give your two cents

 

We'll stay with just one entry.....Makes it easier for voting. But keep it. I may do this again if this is popular.

 

Follow what Krispy stated about the limerick structure. Go ahead and revise yours if you want.

"A limerick is a five-line poem written with one couplet and one triplet. If a couplet is a two-line rhymed poem, then a triplet would be a three-line rhymed poem. The rhyme pattern is a a b b a with lines 1, 2 and 5 containing 3 beats and rhyming, and lines 3 and 4 having two beats and rhyming. "

 

Even with the structure, they are still tricky to work out skillfully. Mine fails in beats.

 

I once got this published in a poem book:
I Like Coins
By Alex C.

I like coins, let’s start with the penny,
They’re really quite common ‘cause
they make so many.

Next we have the nickel, which no
one cares to see,
That the nickel has a nickel percent
of about 23.

Then we have the dime,
depicting F.D.R,
Which no one knows that it’s
lasted so far.

After that we’ve got the quarter,
with Washington’s head,
Every year the back design’s
changed again and again.

Then we’ve got the half dollar, with
President Kennedy,
Who was put on this coin the year
After 1963.

Lastly, there’s the dollar coin,
With S.B. Anthony,
Or Sacagawea, or really any President,
You see.

So now you know why I like coins,
And I’m not afraid to say, that
Some coins that you find are worth far
More than they say.

 

Nice poem, Alex! :thumb:

Now, try doing a limerick for the contest.:smile

 

There once was a lonely old mime,
Who wanted to collect every dime.
One day, looking through rolls, what did he see?
None other than a 1916-D!
It was a beauty, clean of grime.

I know, it's a non sequitur, but it's all I could come up with

 

I took a long time to find the correct beat amount for me

 

There once was a man from Carson City
Lately his luck had been quite sh@##*
But for a bright shiny dollar
He bought a beer then he hollered
Turns out my life aint such a pity!