a tidbit for snowgrouse

[capri0mni]

In a reply to a recent post, snowgrouse requested a filk about the Doctor's spectacles (the things he wears on his face, not the mad antics he engages in to make a spectacle of himself).

I haven't got the whole song, yet, but I have an idea. I was thinking of writing a riff on the American saying: "Boys don't make passes at girls who wear glasses." And while I don't know what the heck I'll say about the Doctor's specs, in the verses, I think the chorus came to me this morning:

Oh, there once was a Timelord from Gally
Who drew squees from both Mary and Sally
But they both liked it best
When he put on his specs.
Oh, that wonderful Timelord from Gally.

Comments

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

HEE! It sounds like a limerick:)...

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Technically, it is a limerick.

Then again, there is a theory that we get the word "limerick" from a Victorian parlor game of making up nonsense verses to a song. But, as the editors of The American Heritage Dictionary wrote, (in the Word History for "limerick"):

There once was a verse form named limerick
No one can acount for the name of it.
Some think from a game,
Or from poets it came.
If you know, please come up to Limerick.

(I love the editors of the AHD)