Frank Barber's Limericks: Frank Barber's Limericks

By: Frank Barber

I am glad to have the opportunity to publish this book so that the public can read the limericks that I have written during the course of my life. The problem however is that I don't believe the public would get anything intelligible out of just sitting down and reading them one after another. Most of the limericks would not make much sense to the members of the public unless I was sitting at their elbow and explaining the background information that went along with the limerick.(For example, a lot of the limericks have to do with Kate Huffman, and they deal with the fact that Kate and her husband live in a huge mansion located in the far eastern part of Scottsdale where they often throw huge parties, and they also have to do with the fact Kate raises chickens on their acreage, and some of their neighbors raise camels and others raise llamas. A lot of the limericks about Kate do not themselves explain all these facts. They just use the words "chickens", "parties", "camels", "llamas", etc., etc, without any further explanation. As I say, such limericks would not make much sense to the members of the public, unless somebody like me was sitting at their elbow and explaining the background information.)The objective of the current book is to provide a publication that not only quotes and reorganizes all 45 limericks but also provides the background material that is necessary for understanding each of the limericks. Producing such a book allows me to reorganize and quote the limericks but also to editorialize and to provide the necessary background material. A unique piece of initial information concerns the limerick set out in Chapter 1. It is named "A Barrington Limerick". It is unique in that it was written while my family and I still lived back in Barrington, Illinois - long before we ever thought about moving to Arizona. It is pretty-much self-explanatory. Our next door neighbors in Barrington were a man named Laurie and his wife, and we all lived on the edge of a golf course in Barrington.After this limerick, I never wrote another limerick until 20-some years later when we had moved to Arizona and I was working in the Law Department of the Dial Corporation, at about the time that Kate Huffman joined the Law Department.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1515182037
• ISBN13: 9781515182030
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"