Subject: The Limerick game From: Bert Date: 29 Jul 06 - 03:04 PM Seeing as my Fee, Fie, Fo, Fum, song challenge didn't work let's back up a bit and play the game that originally gave me the idea. The Limerick game. One person writes the first line and passes it on to the next person who writes the next line. Here goes. There was a young man from Orilla (your turn - one line per message please) |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: michaelr Date: 29 Jul 06 - 03:07 PM He wasn't as big as Godzilla |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: John MacKenzie Date: 29 Jul 06 - 03:10 PM While dancing with Chongo G |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: DMcG Date: 29 Jul 06 - 03:12 PM They talked about 'Congo' |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Bev and Jerry Date: 29 Jul 06 - 03:40 PM And also Prince Charles and Camilla Bev and Jerry |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Nigel Parsons Date: 29 Jul 06 - 04:33 PM Re-start, On the Mudcat, a fella named Bert ... |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: michaelr Date: 29 Jul 06 - 05:06 PM Has posted a Limerick Alert |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: John MacKenzie Date: 29 Jul 06 - 05:09 PM It should be in BS But never the less |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 29 Jul 06 - 05:54 PM Being in music really wont hurt |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 29 Jul 06 - 06:11 PM William Mcgonigle once wrote in dismay |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 29 Jul 06 - 06:46 PM as he went for a stroll by the silvery tay |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 29 Jul 06 - 07:06 PM A limerick in Norse |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST Date: 29 Jul 06 - 07:25 PM It could have been worse |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 29 Jul 06 - 07:46 PM It could've been in Welsh man eh? |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 29 Jul 06 - 09:07 PM A catfish went looking for mud --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Solid-state physics is the physics of dirt effects. :|| |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Bert Date: 29 Jul 06 - 09:22 PM and found a cow chewing the cud |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Bill D Date: 29 Jul 06 - 10:43 PM He sang it a version |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 30 Jul 06 - 03:37 AM whilst in total immersion |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: John MacKenzie Date: 30 Jul 06 - 04:14 AM And he did it all while in the nud[e] |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: David C. Carter Date: 30 Jul 06 - 05:30 AM A Scotsman once lost his kilt |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST, Topsie Date: 30 Jul 06 - 05:52 AM And those round him saw how he was built |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: John MacKenzie Date: 30 Jul 06 - 06:55 AM He said "Och it's gruesome" Dae ye fancy a twosome? |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: John MacKenzie Date: 30 Jul 06 - 06:56 AM We'll dae it oan tap o' the quilt. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 30 Jul 06 - 07:08 AM Now Limericks can sometimes be crap |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST Date: 30 Jul 06 - 07:43 AM So let's not fall into that trap |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: John MacKenzie Date: 30 Jul 06 - 07:56 AM Let's have none of your doggerel. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Nigel Parsons Date: 30 Jul 06 - 08:19 AM Or some BC logger'll |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: JennyO Date: 30 Jul 06 - 08:20 AM Or catterel or froggerel |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST,Tinker Date: 30 Jul 06 - 08:21 AM Complain all this thread is just pap! Tinker |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Nigel Parsons Date: 30 Jul 06 - 08:23 AM JennyO: For purists, a Limerick must only be 5 lines with a very precise rhyme scheme. We've already lost the standard scansion in some of the above. CHEERS Nigel |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Nigel Parsons Date: 30 Jul 06 - 08:24 AM Re-start A 'feisty young 'catter nammed JennyO! |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: JennyO Date: 30 Jul 06 - 08:34 AM Whose 'limerickal' talents were manyO |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Dave the Gnome Date: 30 Jul 06 - 08:54 AM Her extra line though 'twas quite divine |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: JennyO Date: 30 Jul 06 - 08:57 AM Was too late - "We crossposted", said JennyO. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: JennyO Date: 30 Jul 06 - 09:06 AM Re- start When writing a limerick for purists, |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: John MacKenzie Date: 30 Jul 06 - 09:44 AM Adopt all the prudence of jurists |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: DMcG Date: 30 Jul 06 - 09:50 AM Take care with the scansion |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Bill D Date: 30 Jul 06 - 10:18 AM As you sit in your mansion |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: *daylia* Date: 30 Jul 06 - 10:23 AM throwing rotten tomatoes at tourists. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: JennyO Date: 30 Jul 06 - 10:25 AM Or else you can break all the rules and say anything you feel like saying cos the only word you can think of for the end of the last line is 'tourists' and it doesn't have anything to do with the subject and someone else just said it anyway... OOPS ;-) By the way, thanks for calling me 'young', Nigel. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: *daylia* Date: 30 Jul 06 - 10:28 AM A cranky young Catter named Hammond Wanted his brain cells examined |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: *daylia* Date: 30 Jul 06 - 10:50 AM Popped open his skull |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: *daylia* Date: 30 Jul 06 - 10:50 AM The doc said "It's full |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Bill D Date: 30 Jul 06 - 10:51 AM (I can see a problem with the last line already...'famined'??) |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Nigel Parsons Date: 30 Jul 06 - 10:54 AM So to finish this rhyme we are damn'd |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: *daylia* Date: 30 Jul 06 - 10:55 AM but your brain cells are dying of famine". |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: *daylia* Date: 30 Jul 06 - 10:56 AM Oops, you're right Bill. The 'd' did it in. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 30 Jul 06 - 10:58 AM What an odd place to keep legs of ham in. Let's try something else. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 30 Jul 06 - 11:00 AM A lady I know, a mudcatter |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Nigel Parsons Date: 30 Jul 06 - 11:00 AM Was really as mad as a hatter I thought I might boast Of the fiftieth post |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Nigel Parsons Date: 30 Jul 06 - 11:01 AM And then I thought, "Well, does it matter?" |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: *daylia* Date: 30 Jul 06 - 11:07 AM Mike -- LOL! (re the leg of ham!) |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: *daylia* Date: 30 Jul 06 - 11:32 AM There once was a fine folk musician who wanted to wed a mortician |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Nigel Parsons Date: 30 Jul 06 - 11:33 AM A gentleman, namely Joe Offer.... |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Nigel Parsons Date: 30 Jul 06 - 11:34 AM Sorry, cross posted, Let's continue from Daylia's To rehearse in a hearse |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: DMcG Date: 30 Jul 06 - 11:42 AM He was never averse |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: *daylia* Date: 30 Jul 06 - 12:07 PM He delighted in decomposition. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: *daylia* Date: 30 Jul 06 - 12:10 PM K, now for Nigel's -- A gentleman -- namely, Joe Offer Fell under the spell of a scoffer |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Nigel Parsons Date: 30 Jul 06 - 02:29 PM His name it was Shambles, Whose incessant rambles |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: John MacKenzie Date: 30 Jul 06 - 02:35 PM Got rougher and rougher and rougher |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Nigel Parsons Date: 30 Jul 06 - 02:51 PM John, I know 'ough' is pronounced that way in 'tough' but I think you're pushing it a bit. That is a purely visual rhyme CHEERS Nigel OR: A gentleman -- namely, Joe Offer Fell under the spell of a scoffer His name it was Shambles, Whose incessant rambles Were the best that he had to profer |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Nigel Parsons Date: 30 Jul 06 - 02:52 PM Sorry, not in 'tough' but in 'cough' Mea Culpa Slapped wrist!! Nigel |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: katlaughing Date: 30 Jul 06 - 05:05 PM New one: "It's hotter than blazes," she told him |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: John MacKenzie Date: 30 Jul 06 - 05:28 PM When she put her hand down to hold him |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: katlaughing Date: 30 Jul 06 - 05:33 PM (rhyming using the same word, Giok?:-) |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 30 Jul 06 - 05:36 PM and not a good place to be cold in. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 30 Jul 06 - 05:38 PM so she lifted his kilt |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: John MacKenzie Date: 30 Jul 06 - 05:43 PM As it started to tilt |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: *daylia* Date: 30 Jul 06 - 05:45 PM A cloud fell from the sky to enfold 'em. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 30 Jul 06 - 05:50 PM William mcgonigle and cumberland clark. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 30 Jul 06 - 05:54 PM went to donegal in a donkey and cart |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST,Girl Friday without cookie Date: 30 Jul 06 - 06:26 PM It took several days to traverse the highways |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Bert Date: 30 Jul 06 - 06:48 PM and the donkey did nothing but fart. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: katlaughing Date: 30 Jul 06 - 07:21 PM Sailor Bill and his girl, Lil |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 30 Jul 06 - 09:12 PM Nigel: There is some precedent for limericks with extra lines -- a venerable one being the cats from Kilkenny. Then, of course, there was the lamentable whore from Alaska. --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. :|| |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: katlaughing Date: 30 Jul 06 - 10:02 PM Floated about in a pool of water |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Dave the Gnome Date: 31 Jul 06 - 06:33 AM the said that this rhyme although quite fine Doesn't scan like a Limmerick but ought ta' |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Dave the Gnome Date: 31 Jul 06 - 07:26 AM Start again if you want a REAL challenge:-) Ond old gnome who's hat was bright orange |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Dave the Gnome Date: 31 Jul 06 - 07:27 AM (Whoops - Ond = One of course. Nothing to do with the rhyme though!_ |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 31 Jul 06 - 08:34 AM sat on a toadstool eating a lozenge |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 31 Jul 06 - 08:35 AM he coughed up a frog |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: JennyO Date: 31 Jul 06 - 09:13 AM and jumped in the bog |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: *daylia* Date: 31 Jul 06 - 10:11 AM And scoured his skin with a sea sponge. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: *daylia* Date: 31 Jul 06 - 10:13 AM (hope you like that better than yesterday's, Jenny! :-) Here's a new one: The sight of a dangling sandal Is too much for some guys to handle |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: John MacKenzie Date: 31 Jul 06 - 10:14 AM While drinking a glass of Glenmorangie |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: *daylia* Date: 31 Jul 06 - 10:15 AM The sight of a dangling sandal Is too much for some guys to handle While drinking a glass of Glenmorangie, the lass |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Dave the Gnome Date: 31 Jul 06 - 10:21 AM Chose not to get into a scandal |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Dave the Gnome Date: 31 Jul 06 - 10:22 AM I'll see if I can stretch your poetic licences to the extreme:-) (start) On the mudcat, once a month |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: *daylia* Date: 31 Jul 06 - 10:25 AM When working on limericks, the timing Is just as important as rhyming |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: *daylia* Date: 31 Jul 06 - 10:26 AM Oops, sorry Dave! |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: *daylia* Date: 31 Jul 06 - 10:34 AM On the Mudcat, once a month All GUESTS must walk a labyrinth Twisting, turning |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: John MacKenzie Date: 31 Jul 06 - 11:28 AM This is going well isn't it? |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: *daylia* Date: 31 Jul 06 - 11:33 AM Giok, you're in the wrong time signature. Try 6/8? LIke this ... da DA-da-da DA-da-da Da-da (rest REST) da Da-da-da DA-da-da Da-da (rest REST) da Da-da-da DA (rest) da Da-da-da DA (rest) da Da-da-da DA-da-da DA-da (rest REST). Dere. All Done! :-) |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 31 Jul 06 - 11:35 AM one old gnome who wore a dutch cap |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 31 Jul 06 - 11:37 AM said this thread was not just crap |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 31 Jul 06 - 11:38 AM but more,fun with words |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: *daylia* Date: 31 Jul 06 - 11:44 AM Oops, the one I started is in 6/8. Dave's is 4/4 ... DA-da da-da Da-da da da DA-da da-da Da-da da DA-da Da-da DA-da Da-da DA-da da-da Da-da da (rest) (I need a lollipop now ....) |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Dave the Gnome Date: 31 Jul 06 - 11:47 AM helps pull me some birds |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: *daylia* Date: 31 Jul 06 - 11:54 AM One old gnome who wore a dutch cap Said this thread was not just crap but more, fun with words helps pull me some birds And lure them all into my trap. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: *daylia* Date: 31 Jul 06 - 11:56 AM It's not really much of a wonder This thread made it up to 100 |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: *daylia* Date: 31 Jul 06 - 12:08 PM What a thrill! What a grin! |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: *daylia* Date: 31 Jul 06 - 12:08 PM For our poets within |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: *daylia* Date: 31 Jul 06 - 12:10 PM So forgive them the odd little blunder. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: John MacKenzie Date: 31 Jul 06 - 01:45 PM Daylia I'm quite well aware of the rhyme scheme of a limerick, I'm also capable of reading what's been posted previously before I launch in with my contribution! G. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 31 Jul 06 - 02:06 PM There was singer from Ballydehob |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 31 Jul 06 - 02:07 PM sorry thishould be. there was a singer from Ballydehob |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: catspaw49 Date: 31 Jul 06 - 02:08 PM Whose one ball was a tiny little blob |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: *daylia* Date: 31 Jul 06 - 02:11 PM Geeez ... I posted those da-da's for fun! Didn't mean to offend anyone. I do really read you; where did I mislead you? Breathe easy - I'll leave you. All done! |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Nigel Parsons Date: 31 Jul 06 - 02:26 PM *Daylia* that one you posted at 31 Jul 06 - 11:33 AM is almost perfect. The scansion & meter are spot-on. Unfortunately the rhyme scheme should be AABBA, not AAAAA CHEERS Nigel |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Dave the Gnome Date: 31 Jul 06 - 02:47 PM No one took me up on my rhyme for moth then? Apart from daylias brave attempt with Labyrinth (ronth?) Continuing from 'spaw - we knew in this verse it would soon be perverse |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Dave the Gnome Date: 31 Jul 06 - 02:48 PM moth = month. Whatcher expect from a Gnome? Shakespeare? |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Dave the Gnome Date: 31 Jul 06 - 02:51 PM as soon as we heard 'spaws gob :D (tG) |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST,Judge Date: 31 Jul 06 - 03:32 PM They used play a lot of handball, hurling & penny-up-the-wall in Limerick when I went there as a child! |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 31 Jul 06 - 03:54 PM There once was a gnome called WILLY Whose odes were funny yet silly |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 31 Jul 06 - 03:56 PM hed recite them while dancing |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 31 Jul 06 - 03:57 PM from WORTHING TO LANCING |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 31 Jul 06 - 03:59 PM But he went off to school, sat on a toadstool |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 31 Jul 06 - 03:59 PM While shouting this roads very hilly |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 31 Jul 06 - 04:03 PM hers the first two lines to theballydehob one again There once was a singer from Ballydehob who sang with false teeth in the top of his gob |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 31 Jul 06 - 04:05 PM But his teeth fell away, One fine sunny day |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 31 Jul 06 - 04:06 PM and ne neg ennde gordodorbob |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: John MacKenzie Date: 31 Jul 06 - 05:09 PM I said it was going well! |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 31 Jul 06 - 05:28 PM The owl and the pussycat stayed on dry land |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Bev and Jerry Date: 31 Jul 06 - 05:49 PM Enjoying their Chateaubriand Bevand Jerry |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 31 Jul 06 - 05:55 PM Said owly to cat lets drink a health with this chat |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Bev and Jerry Date: 31 Jul 06 - 06:03 PM And not share the drink with the band Bev and Jerry |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 31 Jul 06 - 06:09 PM Before we play games in the sand. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 31 Jul 06 - 06:10 PM yes sorry bev and jerry yours is better |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 31 Jul 06 - 06:16 PM there was an old fellow from wymondham[pronounced windham] |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 31 Jul 06 - 06:31 PM who liked to dressup in black gingham |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Nigel Parsons Date: 31 Jul 06 - 06:54 PM And his frequent forays Into whalebone stays... |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: John MacKenzie Date: 31 Jul 06 - 06:56 PM Meant in falsetto tones he could sing 'em |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Bert Date: 31 Jul 06 - 07:05 PM LOL guys. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 31 Jul 06 - 09:04 PM Let's put "Ballydehob" in a line that scans as a limerick line: A young sailor from Ballydehob * By chance I once actually wrote a song containing that name. It began: As I rode out from Ballydehob, I said, "For all that the grass is green, Being a psychic's a hell of a job -- You daren't say half of the things you've seen, And the rest is scarcely worth the bob That pays my fare to Skibbereen." --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: When you have taken a wrong turn, a step backward is a step in the right direction. :|| |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 01 Aug 06 - 02:30 AM Decided hed take a good job. I am from ballydehob./ |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 01 Aug 06 - 05:02 AM so he shipped on a whaler |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 01 Aug 06 - 06:51 AM and was sadly a failure |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST Date: 01 Aug 06 - 06:53 AM Despite wind, storm or gale or |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 01 Aug 06 - 11:49 AM A A sailor from wogga wogga Was on a ship in the dogger |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 01 Aug 06 - 02:12 PM At the first light he reached German Bight |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 01 Aug 06 - 02:21 PM for the ship he sailed was a dogger. a dogger is a two masted dutch fishing vessel, apart from a fishing area, so its two different words, so its excusable to use it twice, it even has a third meaning , but thats secret. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Nigel Parsons Date: 01 Aug 06 - 03:17 PM Cap. Birdseye was writing a rhyme As a way just of passing the time. He used the word 'Dogger' And rhymed it with 'Dogger' Which I feel is a poetic crime. Impeach Captain Birdseye. Rescind his poetic license! CHEERS Nigel |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Bert Date: 01 Aug 06 - 04:17 PM Poetically it is called an identity. It works sometimes. This land is your land this land is my land... |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 01 Aug 06 - 05:04 PM There was a young vicar from Salisbury, Whose manner was quite halisbury scalisbury. He would walk around Hampshire, Without any pampshire. Till the Bishop insisted he walisbury. Make sense to anyone? |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Micca Date: 01 Aug 06 - 05:24 PM sure does if you get that Salisbury = Sarum and Hampshire is shortened to Hants |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 01 Aug 06 - 05:43 PM Congrats Micca...quick work. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 01 Aug 06 - 06:04 PM Well great to be back im taking a bit of flak on the efdss competitions so your sanity is appreciated. how about. there was a member of efdss. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Micca Date: 01 Aug 06 - 07:41 PM who wanted, at folk, to be a sucess |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Micca Date: 01 Aug 06 - 07:42 PM He wrote a new song 99 verses long |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Micca Date: 01 Aug 06 - 07:45 PM about Dick Turpin and his horse Black Bess |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Micca Date: 01 Aug 06 - 07:46 PM assuming efdss is being pronounced "efdess" |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 02 Aug 06 - 03:48 AM We won't stand for anything less, |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 02 Aug 06 - 03:49 AM So pronounce mit correctly, Or I tell you directly, |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST Date: 02 Aug 06 - 07:07 AM |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST,CORRUPTED COUPLETS Date: 02 Aug 06 - 07:12 AM THERE WAS A YOUNG GIRL FROM DUNDEE,WHO GOT STUNG ON THE BUTT BY A WASP, WHEN ASKED IF IT HURTS SHE SAID NO NOT AT ALL, HE CAN TRY IT AGAIN IF HE LIKES.................any one into more lateral limericks? |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 02 Aug 06 - 12:26 PM The whole thing will be in a mess. OR The whole thing is thwarted by GUEST! |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 02 Aug 06 - 02:11 PM there was a mudcatter called Shambles |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 02 Aug 06 - 02:51 PM Who did not believe in pre-ambles, |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 02 Aug 06 - 03:04 PM To get over his point, Himself he'll anoint |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 02 Aug 06 - 03:04 PM it was straight to the point |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Micca Date: 02 Aug 06 - 04:17 PM and he never ate Pie made from 'Umbles |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 02 Aug 06 - 04:25 PM i once knew the nawab of pataudi |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Barden of England Date: 02 Aug 06 - 05:12 PM Who whistles 'Good laudie miss Claudie' |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 02 Aug 06 - 06:54 PM whilst taking tiffen at four |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Nigel Parsons Date: 02 Aug 06 - 08:34 PM But then, who's keeping score? |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST Date: 02 Aug 06 - 09:18 PM His balti was hot but ne'er bawdy. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 02 Aug 06 - 09:37 PM When we sing in the U.S. of A., --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: With that huge brain, most of us can't even wiggle our ears. :|| |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 03 Aug 06 - 02:53 AM Whether fine or a dark dreary day, |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 03 Aug 06 - 03:15 AM lets hope were in tune |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 03 Aug 06 - 08:05 AM when we howl at the moon |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Barden of England Date: 03 Aug 06 - 08:21 AM And the men come to take us away |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Bentley Date: 03 Aug 06 - 09:08 AM In my book,limericks should be a bawdy 5 line verse. I.E. There was a young man from Bangkok, Who got his tool caught in a rock,He pulled it to hard And stretched it a yard, Now the women hang round in a flock. There was a young lass from Devizes, Whose boobs were of two different sizes, One was so small 'twas no good at all, The other won twenty first prizes. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST,playful Date: 03 Aug 06 - 09:23 AM I thought this thread was for the spontaneous, joint composition of new limericks, not just adding the ones we already know, like previous limerick threads. No, they don't have to be bawdy, but they should be amusing, which generally involves an element of surprise. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Bentley Date: 03 Aug 06 - 10:38 AM Not a limerick I know, but Shakespeare was a man of wit And on his shirt he had some shirt buttons As he was walking past St Pauls A woman grabbed him by the collar Oh Shakespeare,you're a man of luck, Come with me and have a cup of tea. May be a tanner,maybe a bob It all depends on the size of your teacup. That's not rude is it? |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Dave the Gnome Date: 03 Aug 06 - 10:45 AM A fine folk singer called Miles... :D |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: DMcG Date: 03 Aug 06 - 11:01 AM Was known for his cunning and wiles |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST,playful Date: 03 Aug 06 - 11:23 AM He recycled ditties |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Dave the Gnome Date: 03 Aug 06 - 11:35 AM In all the main cities |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: DMcG Date: 03 Aug 06 - 11:44 AM And took blackmail photos for files |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 03 Aug 06 - 12:23 PM a match maker called tricky mick dicky |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Barden of England Date: 03 Aug 06 - 03:24 PM Should be described as a 'thickie' |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 03 Aug 06 - 05:15 PM He could not make a match |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 03 Aug 06 - 05:39 PM From a prospective batch |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 03 Aug 06 - 07:20 PM so he drowned himsel in the liffey |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Lanfranc Date: 03 Aug 06 - 07:54 PM An ageing Mudcatter named Micca |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Bert Date: 03 Aug 06 - 08:03 PM Was renowned for holding his liquor. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Lanfranc Date: 03 Aug 06 - 08:10 PM When a lady named Khatt Said "Enough of that" |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Bert Date: 03 Aug 06 - 08:12 PM So he downed his liquor much quicker. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 03 Aug 06 - 11:48 PM Said a man with a twelve-string guitar: --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Insurance, like its moral opposite gambling, stinks of the continual temptation and presumption of fraud. :|| |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Bert Date: 04 Aug 06 - 01:04 AM With practice I'll really go far |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 04 Aug 06 - 01:20 AM With strings twice as many, |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Dave the Gnome Date: 04 Aug 06 - 04:35 AM to earn a pretty penny |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST, Topsie Date: 04 Aug 06 - 05:29 AM But I might spend it all in the bar. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST Date: 04 Aug 06 - 05:30 AM There was a mudcatter in Kent |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Paul Burke Date: 04 Aug 06 - 05:34 AM Whose life was completely misspent |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 04 Aug 06 - 08:38 AM he wrote little ditties |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Micca Date: 04 Aug 06 - 09:47 AM on the barmaids titties |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: DMcG Date: 04 Aug 06 - 10:56 AM In Yorkshire, and Norfolk and Gwent. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 04 Aug 06 - 04:37 PM w c fields hated baby leroy |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Bill D Date: 04 Aug 06 - 05:28 PM *pedant alert* (I'd play this game, but I cannot abide slipping in extra syllables) A careless old gasman named Peter, With a match poked around a gas heater. Touched a leak with his light, And rose out of sight. And as anyone who knows much about the classic rules of limericks can tell you, he also ruined the meter! *end pedant alert* |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 04 Aug 06 - 07:22 PM Though he seemed quite a nice little boy |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 05 Aug 06 - 12:55 PM so he tried spiking his milk |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Nigel Parsons Date: 05 Aug 06 - 01:00 PM The question, for clergy & Laity Was how to encourage some gaity. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 05 Aug 06 - 02:43 PM for he heard that his ilk. liked to mix with the high hoy poloy |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Nigel Parsons Date: 05 Aug 06 - 04:27 PM Those two lines are pure spontenaity |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 05 Aug 06 - 05:56 PM No doubt given by some supine deity, |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 06 Aug 06 - 07:49 AM the patron saint of england st george. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 06 Aug 06 - 09:41 AM was a mudcatter called johnny the forge |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST,GS Date: 06 Aug 06 - 09:45 AM His music was loud As he played to the crowd |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST,GS Date: 06 Aug 06 - 09:46 AM Then slayed dragons down near Cheddar Gorge |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Nigel Parsons Date: 06 Aug 06 - 10:33 AM "A visiting poster, called Guest.... |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Jeri Date: 06 Aug 06 - 10:37 AM Queried what others thought best... |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 06 Aug 06 - 10:40 AM Which could only prove To be not a good move |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: JennyO Date: 06 Aug 06 - 10:49 AM Because others might think him a pest. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 06 Aug 06 - 05:35 PM When all the threads are in Shambles |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 06 Aug 06 - 05:36 PM Aye wunce new ann eckspurt inn spellling |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Jeri Date: 06 Aug 06 - 06:09 PM Whoo won daye, hizze pees wuz a-shelling |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 06 Aug 06 - 06:30 PM Hees spelin wuz tested, Heez peez wuz dyjested |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 06 Aug 06 - 09:25 PM We exclaim, "Throw us into the brambles!" --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Before you do anything, you have to do something else, usually piss. :|| |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: JennyO Date: 06 Aug 06 - 10:33 PM Orle ther deetales aye wille knot bee telinge. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: JennyO Date: 06 Aug 06 - 10:40 PM Now for the Shambles one... When all the threads are in Shambles We exclaim, "Throw us into the brambles!" Cos when he is enthusing They get quite confusing Like an egg, all mixed up, when it scrambles! |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 07 Aug 06 - 05:38 AM Brilliant jenny o |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 07 Aug 06 - 06:48 AM A teacher liked to correct, punctuation. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Micca Date: 07 Aug 06 - 08:02 AM He proclaimed,"It's the shame of the nation" |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST Date: 07 Aug 06 - 08:08 AM Of commas, not any apostraphes, too many |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: JennyO Date: 07 Aug 06 - 09:21 AM and no capital's. and full stop's everywhere and. no rhyme or metre in the, poetry either |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST Date: 07 Aug 06 - 09:50 AM A festival steward down south |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 07 Aug 06 - 10:40 AM Was looking quite down in the mouth |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Dave the Gnome Date: 07 Aug 06 - 11:03 AM He said, "At this rate" |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 07 Aug 06 - 11:16 AM We won't make the date |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Micca Date: 07 Aug 06 - 02:39 PM and the public are really uncouth |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Dave the Gnome Date: 07 Aug 06 - 03:15 PM South, mouth and couth. Micca, how could you? :-) A young girl once started to cough And decided to leave the borough She said such a sound is certain to wound But if I leave hear, where can I go though? Sorry for making up a whole one - couldn't resist it. :D (tG) |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 07 Aug 06 - 03:19 PM on mudcat beware of impostors |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 07 Aug 06 - 05:46 PM In case they pretend to be cats paws |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 07 Aug 06 - 06:46 PM They'll have such a ball, when they mislead you all, |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 08 Aug 06 - 05:02 AM Their appearance becomes lost to us |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 08 Aug 06 - 10:00 AM The rector of stiffkey was fond of lions. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 08 Aug 06 - 11:05 AM He used to dress them with 'tie-ons' |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Micca Date: 08 Aug 06 - 11:09 AM this pathetic delusion just lead to confusion |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Micca Date: 08 Aug 06 - 11:13 AM with the wrong number of feet in the scansions |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 08 Aug 06 - 01:31 PM it was said womens asses are bigger |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 08 Aug 06 - 03:38 PM than donkeys , when they,re,tied to a ligger. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Micca Date: 08 Aug 06 - 04:11 PM if they ask with a hiss does it look big in this |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Dave the Gnome Date: 08 Aug 06 - 04:31 PM Say nowt that would insult her figure |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 08 Aug 06 - 04:36 PM you reply dear it suits your figure |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 08 Aug 06 - 04:37 PM sorry DAVE great minds think alike/ |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 08 Aug 06 - 04:39 PM a folklorist called flat |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Dave the Gnome Date: 08 Aug 06 - 05:08 PM Was a bit of a plonker (Sorry - can't think of as rhyme) |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 08 Aug 06 - 09:41 PM Let me emend the meter before adding a line. A famous folklorist named Flatt Was a bit of a plonker -- but that Should scarcely surprise us:... --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Worse is one kind of different. :|| |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 09 Aug 06 - 03:44 AM A famous folklorist called Flatt Was really a bit of a pratt, His views were extremist |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 09 Aug 06 - 09:00 AM and so were his remits |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 09 Aug 06 - 12:15 PM don't rhyme but who cares about that? |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: webfolk Date: 09 Aug 06 - 12:18 PM The limerick packs laughs anatomical Into a space which is quite economical But the good ones I've seen So seldom are clean And the clean one's so seldom are comical Geoff |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 09 Aug 06 - 08:42 PM Now, equally famous was Scruggs -- --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Beside myself is too close for comfort. :|| |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST, Topsie Date: 10 Aug 06 - 05:34 AM Whose hobby was studying bugs |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Micca Date: 10 Aug 06 - 09:00 AM He'd pluck on his banjo and watch them fandango |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Dave the Gnome Date: 10 Aug 06 - 09:06 AM While keeping his lettuce from slugs |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 10 Aug 06 - 10:45 AM did you ever hear tell of sweet betsy from cheam |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Micca Date: 10 Aug 06 - 12:34 PM The subject of many a young mans wet dream |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 10 Aug 06 - 02:03 PM She'd appear in his dream, wearing only whipped cream, |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Nigel Parsons Date: 10 Aug 06 - 07:01 PM Butt was slightly too broad in the beam! |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 10 Aug 06 - 09:21 PM There was once a professor named Child, --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Applause makes a good time to fart. :|| |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: JennyO Date: 10 Aug 06 - 10:37 PM Who let down his hair and went wild, |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:11 AM They thought what he taught, was fraught and meant nought, |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Dave the Gnome Date: 11 Aug 06 - 06:27 AM Until some copyrights he filed |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 11 Aug 06 - 07:37 AM to play hurling you need a sliobhtar but in norfolk they use a kipper |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 11 Aug 06 - 10:32 AM if one loses ones ball |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST Date: 11 Aug 06 - 11:43 AM or allows it to fall |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 11 Aug 06 - 12:53 PM your forfeit is ten pints of bitter |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Dave the Gnome Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:38 PM A typist, both young and petite |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Nigel Parsons Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:58 PM Could type line both concise and neat |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Nigel Parsons Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:59 PM But she found 'twas a given, She'd run out of ribbon |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 11 Aug 06 - 05:20 PM So she failed to become the elite. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 11 Aug 06 - 05:21 PM As I sat down one day on the grass, |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: skipy Date: 11 Aug 06 - 05:23 PM I felt a damp patch on my arse |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 11 Aug 06 - 05:29 PM my dog called patch |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 12 Aug 06 - 03:46 AM was trying to catch |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 12 Aug 06 - 03:51 AM a bee that had stung my kyber pass |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 12 Aug 06 - 04:44 AM I had been to tea with my granny, |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: DMcG Date: 12 Aug 06 - 05:47 AM Who regaled me with tales of her nanny |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST Date: 12 Aug 06 - 06:19 AM But a goat or a nurse? |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST,GUEST01 Date: 12 Aug 06 - 06:40 AM Who Done Nothing But Curse |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 12 Aug 06 - 07:12 AM And dress as a man she's a tranny |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 12 Aug 06 - 07:55 AM i once knew a singer called dan who always would fart when he sang |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Micca Date: 12 Aug 06 - 08:22 AM his farts were staccato a Bass obbligato |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Micca Date: 12 Aug 06 - 08:23 AM to songs that were all Sturm und Drang |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 12 Aug 06 - 09:43 AM A Folk singer living in Hull, |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: DMcG Date: 12 Aug 06 - 09:54 AM Had a diary that rarely was full. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 12 Aug 06 - 10:25 AM so he changed his sex |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Dave the Gnome Date: 12 Aug 06 - 10:32 AM along with his kex |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 12 Aug 06 - 03:32 PM and sang songs like little white bull |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 12 Aug 06 - 03:48 PM A lady at Blitherscrum said |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 12 Aug 06 - 05:41 PM she,d like to play marbles in bed |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: DMcG Date: 12 Aug 06 - 06:00 PM Lord Elgin cried: Why? |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 13 Aug 06 - 05:13 AM id rather solve pye |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST Date: 13 Aug 06 - 05:41 AM And spend my weekends in the shed. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 13 Aug 06 - 07:32 AM I was talking with someone from here, |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: DMcG Date: 13 Aug 06 - 07:37 AM Extolling the famed Chanticleer |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 13 Aug 06 - 08:50 AM But it's not what I'm used t' Such talk of a rooster |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: DMcG Date: 13 Aug 06 - 08:53 AM So I went for a booster - a beer. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 13 Aug 06 - 09:09 AM I needed a boost..a good ale, |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 13 Aug 06 - 01:53 PM watneys red was tried but it failed |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 13 Aug 06 - 03:15 PM With John Smiths on my list, |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 13 Aug 06 - 03:31 PM I was soon Brahms and List |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: JennyO Date: 13 Aug 06 - 04:32 PM And folks (hic), that's the end of my tale! |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 13 Aug 06 - 04:34 PM I am sure I'll go boozing again, |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 14 Aug 06 - 03:32 AM Be it snow, wind, sun or rain |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 14 Aug 06 - 08:30 AM but I wont smoke dope |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Barden of England Date: 14 Aug 06 - 08:35 AM Nor will I elope |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 14 Aug 06 - 01:15 PM Till I've drunk my real ale that's plain Next one.... When I've drunk my real ale I'll know, |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 14 Aug 06 - 01:21 PM That to England you have to go. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 14 Aug 06 - 03:16 PM To taste of the best, Forget all the rest |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 14 Aug 06 - 04:30 PM And end up onnnn thetheetheee floor Oh Oh Oh. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 14 Aug 06 - 04:49 PM how was the limerick started |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 14 Aug 06 - 05:56 PM Quite easy when someone farted, |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 14 Aug 06 - 05:56 PM It came as a rhyme, in quick double time, |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 14 Aug 06 - 10:29 PM Then he made a bad pun and departed. --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Journalists and lexicographers have the professional duty of recording a great deal of foolishness. :|| |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 15 Aug 06 - 05:07 AM there was a man from great snoring |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: webfolk Date: 15 Aug 06 - 06:08 AM whose wife was prone to whoring |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 15 Aug 06 - 08:07 AM so he sent her to lesbos |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: webfolk Date: 15 Aug 06 - 08:25 AM instead of Tescos |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 15 Aug 06 - 09:35 AM shes living in sin with noreen |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 15 Aug 06 - 11:54 AM By the roadside in Blitherscrum town, |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 15 Aug 06 - 03:17 PM sits a gnome with a permanent frown |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 15 Aug 06 - 03:45 PM Fishing rod in his hand, |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 15 Aug 06 - 05:11 PM He thinks 'Isn't it grand', |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 15 Aug 06 - 06:10 PM to be home reading watership down |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 15 Aug 06 - 06:26 PM Now I know that I must 'rabbit on' |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 15 Aug 06 - 11:24 PM When you post on the Mudcat, it seems, --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Experience is the worst teacher. It gives the test first and the instruction afterward. :|| |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Nigel Parsons Date: 16 Aug 06 - 01:24 PM That you tread on some other folks' dreams; |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: The Sandman Date: 16 Aug 06 - 06:03 PM but it helps to get rid of some steam |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 22 May 11 - 09:51 AM Well, since the Rapture was a bust (except for Little Hawk's dog), and we're not going to have the opportunity to escape boredom by enduring five months of Tribulation, I thought it might be time for a diversion of a different sort. So, I've refreshed this old thread. Just so you won't have to go to the first post to read the "rules", here they are: One person writes the first line of a limerick and passes it on to the next person who writes the next line. Pretty simple, isn't it? To start things out... A Mudcatter named Rapparee... |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Micca Date: 22 May 11 - 02:35 PM Who liked to use freshly starched Napery |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Joe_F Date: 22 May 11 - 05:47 PM The preceding two contributers seem to differ on how to stress "Rapparee". Let's try it both ways: A Mudcatter name Rapparee Once invited a lady for tea. A fussy Mudcatter named Rapparee, Who liked to use freshly starched napery, Complained to his butler, |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Micca Date: 22 May 11 - 06:58 PM Of the need for a Cutler |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: autolycus Date: 23 May 11 - 06:17 AM 5. Ivor p.s. Just a thought, to number lines. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Micca Date: 23 May 11 - 10:53 AM 5 as his knife was a blunt as a housemaids knee |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: autolycus Date: 23 May 11 - 12:39 PM Reminds me of 1. There was a young man of Japan 2. Who limericks never will scan 3. It seems that they tend 4. To come to an end 5. Quite suddenly! Ivor |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Mysha Date: 23 May 11 - 09:31 PM (As well as without final rhyme, apparently) Hi, Taking the other branch: A Mudcatter named Rapparee Once invited a lady for tea. He sang of Suzanne Bye Mysha |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Joe_F Date: 24 May 11 - 04:01 PM And her wish for a man |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Mysha Date: 27 Jul 16 - 08:23 PM Hi, A Mudcatter named Rapparee Once invited a lady for tea. He sang of Suzanne And her wish for a man But the lady expected quick repartee Bye, Mysha |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Rapparee Date: 27 Jul 16 - 09:57 PM A Mudcatter named Rapparee Invited a lady for tea. Tho' she swooned in his arms, And exposed all her charms, He said, "Please take your hand off my knee." |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Joe_F Date: 28 Jul 16 - 06:24 PM Aha! An informed answer to the stress question at last. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Mrrzy Date: 28 Jul 16 - 07:52 PM New one: An imposing young person of Leeds |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Rapparee Date: 28 Jul 16 - 08:18 PM An imposing young person of Leeds Had an imposing catalog of needs |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Joe_F Date: 29 Jul 16 - 05:50 PM Rapparee: Does not scan. But if you are American, you are excused. An imposing young person of Leeds Remarked once, while telling his beads, |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Thompson Date: 29 Jul 16 - 06:14 PM "Je sens que je suis |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Thompson Date: 29 Jul 16 - 06:19 PM "From my neck to my knee… |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Thompson Date: 29 Jul 16 - 06:32 PM "A man of my word, not my deeds." |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 30 Jul 16 - 09:00 AM On Mudcat there are intellectual, With rhyme and rhythm ineffectual. But with some hard work, And with never a shirk, Their Limericks could be somewhat sexual. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Georgiansilver Date: 30 Jul 16 - 09:01 AM There was a young lady from the Azores, |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: DMcG Date: 30 Jul 16 - 10:55 AM Whose kneecaps were covered in sores. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Kenny B (inactive) Date: 30 Jul 16 - 12:41 PM Even dogs in the street? |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Nigel Parsons Date: 30 Jul 16 - 02:36 PM From: autolycus - PM Date: 23 May 11 - 12:39 PM Reminds me of 1. There was a young man of Japan 2. Who limericks never will scan 3. It seems that they tend 4. To come to an end 5. Quite suddenly! Ivor There was a young man from Japan, Whose limericks never would scan. When told this was so, He replied, "yes, I know" But I always try to get as many words in the last line as ever I possible can. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Nigel Parsons Date: 30 Jul 16 - 02:38 PM To recap (kneecap?) A young lady from the Azores, Whose kneecaps were covered in sores. Said "I think my affliction" . . . |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: DMcG Date: 30 Jul 16 - 03:02 PM Comes from my addiction To vinyl and similar floors. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: DMcG Date: 30 Jul 16 - 03:23 PM When Guest found his posting was blocked, |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Nigel Parsons Date: 30 Jul 16 - 05:50 PM My goodness, how he was mocked. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Steve Shaw Date: 30 Jul 16 - 07:16 PM Maybe someone can have a go at that young lady from the Azores to get at least the first line to scan... |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Rapparee Date: 30 Jul 16 - 10:03 PM It's anapestic dimeter*. A young LADY from the AZORES *Not to be confused with Demeter. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: Joe_F Date: 30 Jul 16 - 11:04 PM Alas, that rhyme was used, rather emetically, a long time ago. It continued: But in her interstices She had a far worse disease That -- well, never mind. The required pronunciation of "interstices", tho common, is wrong. |
Subject: RE: The Limerick game From: DMcG Date: 31 Jul 16 - 02:56 AM I see earlier the limericks centred on well known members. Hope this silly one doesn't offend, Steve. (I am not sure if the Latin actually rhymes but can be forced to if need be!) A botanical expert named Shaw With species and genus could bore: Phalaenopsis mariae, Digitalis dubia, Till you fell in a faint to the floor. |
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