The Limerick game

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: Nigel Parsons
Date: 06 Aug 06 - 10:33 AM

"A visiting poster, called Guest....

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: 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: The Sandman
Date: 06 Aug 06 - 09:41 AM

was a mudcatter called johnny the forge

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: Georgiansilver
Date: 05 Aug 06 - 05:56 PM

No doubt given by some supine deity,

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: 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 - 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 - 12:55 PM

so he tried spiking his milk

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: 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: The Sandman
Date: 04 Aug 06 - 04:37 PM

w c fields hated baby leroy

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: Micca
Date: 04 Aug 06 - 09:47 AM

on the barmaids titties

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: Paul Burke
Date: 04 Aug 06 - 05:34 AM

Whose life was completely misspent

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: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 04 Aug 06 - 05:29 AM

But I might spend it all in the bar.

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: Georgiansilver
Date: 04 Aug 06 - 01:20 AM

With strings twice as many,

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: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 03 Aug 06 - 11:48 PM

Said a man with a twelve-string guitar:

--- Joe Fineman    [e-mail]

||: Insurance, like its moral opposite gambling, stinks of the continual temptation and presumption of fraud. :||

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: 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 - 08:03 PM

Was renowned for holding his liquor.

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: The Sandman
Date: 03 Aug 06 - 07:20 PM

so he drowned himsel in the liffey

Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 03 Aug 06 - 05:39 PM

From a prospective batch

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: The Barden of England
Date: 03 Aug 06 - 03:24 PM

Should be described as a 'thickie'

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: DMcG
Date: 03 Aug 06 - 11:44 AM

And took blackmail photos for files

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: GUEST,playful
Date: 03 Aug 06 - 11:23 AM

He recycled ditties

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: Dave the Gnome
Date: 03 Aug 06 - 10:45 AM

A fine folk singer called Miles...


:D

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: 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 - 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: 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: The Sandman
Date: 03 Aug 06 - 08:05 AM

when we howl at the moon

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: Georgiansilver
Date: 03 Aug 06 - 02:53 AM

Whether fine or a dark dreary day,

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    [e-mail]

||: With that huge brain, most of us can't even wiggle our ears. :||

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: Nigel Parsons
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 08:34 PM

But then, who's keeping score?

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: The Barden of England
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 05:12 PM

Who whistles 'Good laudie miss Claudie'