The Limerick game

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    [e-mail]

||: 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    [e-mail]

||: 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    [e-mail]

||: 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    [e-mail]

||: 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    [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: 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    [e-mail]

||: 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    [e-mail]

||: 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    [e-mail]

||: 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    [e-mail]

||: 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    [e-mail]

||: 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    [e-mail]

||: 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.