The Limerick game

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: 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: 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 - 02:29 PM

His name it was Shambles,
Whose incessant rambles

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: *daylia*
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 12:07 PM

He delighted in decomposition.

Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: DMcG
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 11:42 AM

He was never averse

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: Nigel Parsons
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 11:33 AM

A gentleman, namely Joe Offer....

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: *daylia*
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 11:07 AM

Mike -- LOL! (re the leg of ham!)

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: 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: Georgiansilver
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 11:00 AM

A lady I know, a mudcatter

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: *daylia*
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 10:56 AM

Oops, you're right Bill. The 'd' did it in.

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: Nigel Parsons
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 10:54 AM

So to finish this rhyme we are damn'd

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: *daylia*
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 10:50 AM

The doc said "It's full

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 - 10:28 AM

A cranky young Catter named Hammond
Wanted his brain cells examined

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 - 10:23 AM

throwing rotten tomatoes at tourists.

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: DMcG
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 09:50 AM

Take care with the scansion

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: JennyO
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 09:06 AM

Re- start

When writing a limerick for purists,

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: 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 - 08:34 AM

Whose 'limerickal' talents were manyO

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: 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: GUEST,Tinker
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 08:21 AM

Complain all this thread is just pap!

Tinker

Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: JennyO
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 08:20 AM

Or catterel or froggerel

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: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 07:56 AM

Let's have none of your doggerel.

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: Georgiansilver
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 07:08 AM

Now Limericks can sometimes be crap

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: 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: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 05:52 AM

And those round him saw how he was built

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: 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: Georgiansilver
Date: 30 Jul 06 - 03:37 AM

whilst in total immersion

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: Bert
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 09:22 PM

and found a cow chewing the cud

Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 09:07 PM

A catfish went looking for mud

--- Joe Fineman    [e-mail]

||: Solid-state physics is the physics of dirt effects. :||

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
Date: 29 Jul 06 - 07:25 PM

It could have been worse