The Edward Lear Limerick Generator

[agladysh]

We take a limerick by Edward Lear, There was an Old Person of Chili:

There was an Old Person of Chili,
Whose conduct was painful and silly,
He sat on the stairs,
Eating apples and pears,
That imprudent Old Person of Chili.

...and see what can it become with some judicious application of a dictionary-based poetry generator:

There was a Surveyor of Boyd,
Whose conduct was wary and void,
He sat on the nylons,
Eating brains and neutrons,
That unhelpful Surveyor of Boyd

Full output: 43 241 words, 54 048 words

Source code: https://github.com/RussDragon/limericgen/

[hugovk]

Nice! Do you think you can generate 50k+ words before midnight UTC?

[agladysh]

No problem! Not sure why I thought the goal was 40k+ words.

[agladysh]

@hugovk Done

[greg-kennedy]

This generator would make a good Twitter bot!