Two sparrows were frolicking in a footbath
Thinking that it was their own private birdbath.
Along came a peregrine,
A bird of prey, decidedly keen -
Who turned the scene in a bloodbath.

When I was looking for rhymes with bath I came upon “Bundesrath” in a rhyming dictionary. There are two things wrong with that listing. For one, the normal spelling is “Bundesrat”, writing “Rat” like “Rath” is very ancient and predates the German second chamber (aka “Bundesrat”) by something like 150 years. But the th would never be pronounced anyway. So here goes my second limerick:

A journalist reporting from Bath
talked extensively about the Bundesrath.
My teutonic feelings were stirred!
How could he pronounce this word
With a th? That’s clearly the sign of sociopath.

Laughing Along with a Limerick: Bath

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