If we've got to the point where Spike posts that, then the dead are walking the earth and we have greater worries than scansion.

True. :/

Is it just me who uses the apostrophe there?

[Pen] Surely it should be 'Hallow'e'en'

Missing S & missing V? Perhaps. But it's deffo not the way Hallmark spell it.

[Pen] I was starting from 'All Hallows Eve' but then had to account for the final 'n' so I've taken Halloween to be an abbreviated form of 'All Hallows Eventide'.

[penelope] You've missed the apostrophe from penelop'

[Phil] I've missed a lot of things in my time. *sigh*

I'd be grateful for more movers and shakers in the limericks game please - to set good examples of rhyming and scansion to those perhaps less accustomed to the sound and feel of a good limerick, and perhaps also to show Marc that there are other subjects apart from sex to be limericked, and repeated references tend to make people drift away from the game.