There's this dick down the Dales dubbed Dalziel.
He puts partner Pete Pascoe through helziel.
In Hilziel's novels' accounts
his name's hard to pronounce,
and, I'll telziel tha as welziel, hard to spelziel.
Poet Poe pens nonsense verse. "...plus phun," puns Uly, "I disburse." Its gamut runs from spam to worse. The matter posted...? Poe's diverse -- most, postcards from his universe, replies to grudges he must nurse. My summary...? Let me be terse: a mitzva, mostly. (Not a curse.)
Friday, February 16, 2018
"There's this dick down the Dales..." About Andy: a Limerick (from AmalgaMates_
(Dalziel, a not uncommon Scottish surname, is pronounced, more or less, Dee-ELL. 'Dick' is slang for detective, and, while Andy is a detective superintendent, he's also a vulgar prick as well. 'The Dales' refers to the Yorkshire Dales, Andy's patch. The author of the Dalziel and Pascoe novels is Reginald Hill (in standard orthography). 'Tha' is thou or you in Scots dialect.)
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