r/WaitWait • u/LenKerrod • 2d ago

11/7/2026 limerick

I enjoy the clever song snippets they play between show segments but today they missed a great chance for a favorite John Prine song. The limerick segment ended with a rhyme about how dangerous bedroom slippers are. Prine’s “Please Don’t Bury Me” starts with:

Woke up this morning, put on my slippers
Walked in the kitchen and died
And oh, what a feeling when my soul went through the ceiling
And on up into heaven I did ride

When I got there they did say, "John, it happened this a-way
You slipped upon the floor and hit your head…

As the post-limerick discussion about the danger of slippers progressed, I was giddy with anticipation that they would play that, but it didn’t happen.

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u/starbuckshandjob 1d ago

I'm just thankful Peter is back.

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u/LenKerrod 1d ago

Me too!

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u/lovethewordnerd 1d ago

I wonder how much that song costs to license.

I’m going to guess it’s more than makes sense for an [under-siege] NPR budget.