BECOME THE POET LAUREATE OF BRIDGE

      Enter our St Patrick's Day bridge-related limerick contest at the Spring NABC's in Reno. Winners will be announced and prizes awarded, following the evening session on March 17.

      A limerick is a humorous verse of five anapestic (whatever that means) lines in which the first and second lines rhyme with the fifth – and the third line rhymes with the fourth. This is a family event, so discretion is advised. Here is a sample:

There was a young squirt named Boyd

Who loved to pysche on a void. .

           When his pysche went beserk,

           Said partner, “You're a jerk!”

But opponents were both overjoyed.

-from an old bridge book

Early entries are welcome and encouraged. E-mail them to dist20@aol.com. Put “Limerick” in the subject line.

Top entries will be posted at the playing site and read aloud by our local leprechaun.