In Popular Culture
On the weekly NPR news quiz program "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!", there is a segment called the "Listener Limerick Challenge" in which news-related limericks are read. The final word or phrase is left off for the contestant to guess.
Read more about this topic: Limerick (poetry)
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