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The Limerick game

29 Jul 06 - 03:04 PM (#1796335)
Subject: The Limerick game
From: Bert

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)

29 Jul 06 - 03:07 PM (#1796340)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: michaelr

He wasn't as big as Godzilla

29 Jul 06 - 03:10 PM (#1796343)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: John MacKenzie

While dancing with Chongo

G

29 Jul 06 - 03:12 PM (#1796345)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: DMcG

They talked about 'Congo'

29 Jul 06 - 03:40 PM (#1796364)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Bev and Jerry

And also Prince Charles and Camilla

Bev and Jerry

29 Jul 06 - 04:33 PM (#1796396)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Nigel Parsons

Re-start,

On the Mudcat, a fella named Bert ...

29 Jul 06 - 05:06 PM (#1796424)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: michaelr

Has posted a Limerick Alert

29 Jul 06 - 05:09 PM (#1796429)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: John MacKenzie

It should be in BS
But never the less

29 Jul 06 - 05:54 PM (#1796468)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

Being in music really wont hurt

29 Jul 06 - 06:11 PM (#1796483)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

William Mcgonigle once wrote in dismay

29 Jul 06 - 06:46 PM (#1796507)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

as he went for a stroll by the silvery tay

29 Jul 06 - 07:06 PM (#1796518)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

A limerick in Norse

29 Jul 06 - 07:25 PM (#1796523)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST

It could have been worse

29 Jul 06 - 07:46 PM (#1796535)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

It could've been in Welsh man eh?

29 Jul 06 - 09:07 PM (#1796550)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST,Joe_F

A catfish went looking for mud

--- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net

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

29 Jul 06 - 09:22 PM (#1796555)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Bert

and found a cow chewing the cud

29 Jul 06 - 10:43 PM (#1796585)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Bill D

He sang it a version

30 Jul 06 - 03:37 AM (#1796673)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

whilst in total immersion

30 Jul 06 - 04:14 AM (#1796682)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: John MacKenzie

And he did it all while in the nud[e]

30 Jul 06 - 05:30 AM (#1796711)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: David C. Carter

A Scotsman once lost his kilt

30 Jul 06 - 05:52 AM (#1796721)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST, Topsie

And those round him saw how he was built

30 Jul 06 - 06:55 AM (#1796744)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: John MacKenzie

He said "Och it's gruesome"
Dae ye fancy a twosome?

30 Jul 06 - 06:56 AM (#1796745)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: John MacKenzie

We'll dae it oan tap o' the quilt.

30 Jul 06 - 07:08 AM (#1796753)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

Now Limericks can sometimes be crap

30 Jul 06 - 07:43 AM (#1796765)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST

So let's not fall into that trap

30 Jul 06 - 07:56 AM (#1796767)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: John MacKenzie

Let's have none of your doggerel.

30 Jul 06 - 08:19 AM (#1796777)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Nigel Parsons

Or some BC logger'll

30 Jul 06 - 08:20 AM (#1796778)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: JennyO

Or catterel or froggerel

30 Jul 06 - 08:21 AM (#1796780)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST,Tinker

Complain all this thread is just pap!

Tinker

30 Jul 06 - 08:23 AM (#1796782)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Nigel Parsons

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

30 Jul 06 - 08:24 AM (#1796783)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Nigel Parsons

Re-start

A 'feisty young 'catter nammed JennyO!

30 Jul 06 - 08:34 AM (#1796788)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: JennyO

Whose 'limerickal' talents were manyO

30 Jul 06 - 08:54 AM (#1796797)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Dave the Gnome

Her extra line
though 'twas quite divine

30 Jul 06 - 08:57 AM (#1796799)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: JennyO

Was too late - "We crossposted", said JennyO.

30 Jul 06 - 09:06 AM (#1796804)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: JennyO

Re- start

When writing a limerick for purists,

30 Jul 06 - 09:44 AM (#1796836)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: John MacKenzie

Adopt all the prudence of jurists

30 Jul 06 - 09:50 AM (#1796841)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: DMcG

Take care with the scansion

30 Jul 06 - 10:18 AM (#1796857)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Bill D

As you sit in your mansion

30 Jul 06 - 10:23 AM (#1796860)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: *daylia*

throwing rotten tomatoes at tourists.

30 Jul 06 - 10:25 AM (#1796863)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: JennyO

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.

30 Jul 06 - 10:28 AM (#1796865)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: *daylia*

A cranky young Catter named Hammond
Wanted his brain cells examined

30 Jul 06 - 10:50 AM (#1796881)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: *daylia*

Popped open his skull

30 Jul 06 - 10:50 AM (#1796882)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: *daylia*

The doc said "It's full

30 Jul 06 - 10:51 AM (#1796885)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Bill D

(I can see a problem with the last line already...'famined'??)

30 Jul 06 - 10:54 AM (#1796886)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Nigel Parsons

So to finish this rhyme we are damn'd

30 Jul 06 - 10:55 AM (#1796887)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: *daylia*

but your brain cells are dying of famine".

30 Jul 06 - 10:56 AM (#1796889)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: *daylia*

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

30 Jul 06 - 10:58 AM (#1796893)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

What an odd place to keep legs of ham in.

Let's try something else.

30 Jul 06 - 11:00 AM (#1796897)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

A lady I know, a mudcatter

30 Jul 06 - 11:00 AM (#1796899)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Nigel Parsons

Was really as mad as a hatter
I thought I might boast
Of the fiftieth post

30 Jul 06 - 11:01 AM (#1796900)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Nigel Parsons

And then I thought, "Well, does it matter?"

30 Jul 06 - 11:07 AM (#1796911)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: *daylia*

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

30 Jul 06 - 11:32 AM (#1796931)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: *daylia*

There once was a fine folk musician
who wanted to wed a mortician

30 Jul 06 - 11:33 AM (#1796932)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Nigel Parsons

A gentleman, namely Joe Offer....

30 Jul 06 - 11:34 AM (#1796933)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Nigel Parsons

Sorry, cross posted, Let's continue from Daylia's

To rehearse in a hearse

30 Jul 06 - 11:42 AM (#1796938)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: DMcG

He was never averse

30 Jul 06 - 12:07 PM (#1796955)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: *daylia*

He delighted in decomposition.

30 Jul 06 - 12:10 PM (#1796956)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: *daylia*

K, now for Nigel's --

A gentleman -- namely, Joe Offer
Fell under the spell of a scoffer

30 Jul 06 - 02:29 PM (#1797056)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Nigel Parsons

His name it was Shambles,
Whose incessant rambles

30 Jul 06 - 02:35 PM (#1797061)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: John MacKenzie

Got rougher and rougher and rougher

30 Jul 06 - 02:51 PM (#1797071)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Nigel Parsons

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

30 Jul 06 - 02:52 PM (#1797074)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Nigel Parsons

Sorry, not in 'tough' but in 'cough'

Mea Culpa
Slapped wrist!!

Nigel

30 Jul 06 - 05:05 PM (#1797159)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: katlaughing

New one:

"It's hotter than blazes," she told him

30 Jul 06 - 05:28 PM (#1797184)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: John MacKenzie

When she put her hand down to hold him

30 Jul 06 - 05:33 PM (#1797189)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: katlaughing

(rhyming using the same word, Giok?:-)

30 Jul 06 - 05:36 PM (#1797194)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

and not a good place to be cold in.

30 Jul 06 - 05:38 PM (#1797196)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

so she lifted his kilt

30 Jul 06 - 05:43 PM (#1797202)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: John MacKenzie

As it started to tilt

30 Jul 06 - 05:45 PM (#1797203)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: *daylia*

A cloud fell from the sky to enfold 'em.

30 Jul 06 - 05:50 PM (#1797207)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

William mcgonigle and cumberland clark.

30 Jul 06 - 05:54 PM (#1797211)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

went to donegal in a donkey and cart

30 Jul 06 - 06:26 PM (#1797228)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST,Girl Friday without cookie

It took several days to traverse the highways

30 Jul 06 - 06:48 PM (#1797239)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Bert

and the donkey did nothing but fart.

30 Jul 06 - 07:21 PM (#1797264)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: katlaughing

Sailor Bill and his girl, Lil

30 Jul 06 - 09:12 PM (#1797324)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST,Joe_F

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. :||

30 Jul 06 - 10:02 PM (#1797343)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: katlaughing

Floated about in a pool of water

31 Jul 06 - 06:33 AM (#1797502)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Dave the Gnome

the said that this rhyme
although quite fine
Doesn't scan like a Limmerick but ought ta'

31 Jul 06 - 07:26 AM (#1797521)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Dave the Gnome

Start again if you want a REAL challenge:-)

Ond old gnome who's hat was bright orange

31 Jul 06 - 07:27 AM (#1797524)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Dave the Gnome

(Whoops - Ond = One of course. Nothing to do with the rhyme though!_

31 Jul 06 - 08:34 AM (#1797592)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

sat on a toadstool eating a lozenge

31 Jul 06 - 08:35 AM (#1797593)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

he coughed up a frog

31 Jul 06 - 09:13 AM (#1797618)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: JennyO

and jumped in the bog

31 Jul 06 - 10:11 AM (#1797668)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: *daylia*

And scoured his skin with a sea sponge.

31 Jul 06 - 10:13 AM (#1797673)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: *daylia*

(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

31 Jul 06 - 10:14 AM (#1797674)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: John MacKenzie

While drinking a glass of Glenmorangie

31 Jul 06 - 10:15 AM (#1797677)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: *daylia*

The sight of a dangling sandal
Is too much for some guys to handle
While drinking a glass
of Glenmorangie, the lass

31 Jul 06 - 10:21 AM (#1797681)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Dave the Gnome

Chose not to get into a scandal

31 Jul 06 - 10:22 AM (#1797683)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Dave the Gnome

I'll see if I can stretch your poetic licences to the extreme:-)

(start)

On the mudcat, once a month

31 Jul 06 - 10:25 AM (#1797685)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: *daylia*

When working on limericks, the timing
Is just as important as rhyming

31 Jul 06 - 10:26 AM (#1797687)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: *daylia*

Oops, sorry Dave!

31 Jul 06 - 10:34 AM (#1797702)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: *daylia*

On the Mudcat, once a month
All GUESTS must walk a labyrinth
Twisting, turning

31 Jul 06 - 11:28 AM (#1797748)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: John MacKenzie

This is going well isn't it?

31 Jul 06 - 11:33 AM (#1797752)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: *daylia*

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!

:-)

31 Jul 06 - 11:35 AM (#1797754)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

one old gnome who wore a dutch cap

31 Jul 06 - 11:37 AM (#1797758)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

said this thread was not just crap

31 Jul 06 - 11:38 AM (#1797761)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

but more,fun with words

31 Jul 06 - 11:44 AM (#1797766)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: *daylia*

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 ....)

31 Jul 06 - 11:47 AM (#1797769)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Dave the Gnome

helps pull me some birds

31 Jul 06 - 11:54 AM (#1797778)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: *daylia*

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.

31 Jul 06 - 11:56 AM (#1797780)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: *daylia*

It's not really much of a wonder
This thread made it up to 100

31 Jul 06 - 12:08 PM (#1797791)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: *daylia*

What a thrill! What a grin!

31 Jul 06 - 12:08 PM (#1797792)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: *daylia*

For our poets within

31 Jul 06 - 12:10 PM (#1797794)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: *daylia*

So forgive them the odd little blunder.

31 Jul 06 - 01:45 PM (#1797903)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: John MacKenzie

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.

31 Jul 06 - 02:06 PM (#1797933)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

There was singer from Ballydehob

31 Jul 06 - 02:07 PM (#1797936)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

sorry thishould be. there was a singer from Ballydehob

31 Jul 06 - 02:08 PM (#1797937)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: catspaw49

Whose one ball was a tiny little blob

31 Jul 06 - 02:11 PM (#1797941)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: *daylia*

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!

31 Jul 06 - 02:26 PM (#1797957)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Nigel Parsons

*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

31 Jul 06 - 02:47 PM (#1797989)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Dave the Gnome

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

31 Jul 06 - 02:48 PM (#1797991)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Dave the Gnome

moth = month. Whatcher expect from a Gnome? Shakespeare?

31 Jul 06 - 02:51 PM (#1797992)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Dave the Gnome

as soon as we heard 'spaws gob

:D (tG)

31 Jul 06 - 03:32 PM (#1798030)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST,Judge

They used play a lot of handball, hurling & penny-up-the-wall in Limerick when I went there as a child!

31 Jul 06 - 03:54 PM (#1798051)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

There once was a gnome called WILLY
Whose odes were funny yet silly

31 Jul 06 - 03:56 PM (#1798054)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

hed recite them while dancing

31 Jul 06 - 03:57 PM (#1798061)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

from WORTHING TO LANCING

31 Jul 06 - 03:59 PM (#1798065)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

But he went off to school,
sat on a toadstool

31 Jul 06 - 03:59 PM (#1798066)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

While shouting this roads very hilly

31 Jul 06 - 04:03 PM (#1798070)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

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

31 Jul 06 - 04:05 PM (#1798075)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

But his teeth fell away,
One fine sunny day

31 Jul 06 - 04:06 PM (#1798077)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

and ne neg ennde gordodorbob

31 Jul 06 - 05:09 PM (#1798141)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: John MacKenzie

I said it was going well!

31 Jul 06 - 05:28 PM (#1798167)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

The owl and the pussycat stayed on dry land

31 Jul 06 - 05:49 PM (#1798191)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Bev and Jerry

Enjoying their Chateaubriand

Bevand Jerry

31 Jul 06 - 05:55 PM (#1798199)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

Said owly to cat lets drink a health with this chat

31 Jul 06 - 06:03 PM (#1798207)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Bev and Jerry

And not share the drink with the band

Bev and Jerry

31 Jul 06 - 06:09 PM (#1798210)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

Before we play games in the sand.

31 Jul 06 - 06:10 PM (#1798212)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

yes sorry bev and jerry yours is better

31 Jul 06 - 06:16 PM (#1798217)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

there was an old fellow from wymondham[pronounced windham]

31 Jul 06 - 06:31 PM (#1798228)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

who liked to dressup in black gingham

31 Jul 06 - 06:54 PM (#1798247)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Nigel Parsons

And his frequent forays
Into whalebone stays...

31 Jul 06 - 06:56 PM (#1798249)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: John MacKenzie

Meant in falsetto tones he could sing 'em

31 Jul 06 - 07:05 PM (#1798256)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Bert

LOL guys.

31 Jul 06 - 09:04 PM (#1798323)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST,Joe_F

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. :||

01 Aug 06 - 02:30 AM (#1798456)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

Decided hed take a good job.

I am from ballydehob./

01 Aug 06 - 05:02 AM (#1798512)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

so he shipped on a whaler

01 Aug 06 - 06:51 AM (#1798556)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

and was sadly a failure

01 Aug 06 - 06:53 AM (#1798558)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST

Despite wind, storm or gale or

01 Aug 06 - 11:49 AM (#1798857)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

A
A sailor from wogga wogga
Was on a ship in the dogger

01 Aug 06 - 02:12 PM (#1799014)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

At the first light he reached German Bight

01 Aug 06 - 02:21 PM (#1799026)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

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.

01 Aug 06 - 03:17 PM (#1799072)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Nigel Parsons

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

01 Aug 06 - 04:17 PM (#1799131)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Bert

Poetically it is called an identity. It works sometimes.

This land is your land
this land is my land...

01 Aug 06 - 05:04 PM (#1799178)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

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?

01 Aug 06 - 05:24 PM (#1799205)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Micca

sure does if you get that Salisbury = Sarum and Hampshire is shortened to Hants

01 Aug 06 - 05:43 PM (#1799229)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

Congrats Micca...quick work.

01 Aug 06 - 06:04 PM (#1799242)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

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.

01 Aug 06 - 07:41 PM (#1799328)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Micca

who wanted, at folk, to be a sucess

01 Aug 06 - 07:42 PM (#1799331)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Micca

He wrote a new song
99 verses long

01 Aug 06 - 07:45 PM (#1799333)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Micca

about Dick Turpin and his horse Black Bess

01 Aug 06 - 07:46 PM (#1799335)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Micca

assuming efdss is being pronounced "efdess"

02 Aug 06 - 03:48 AM (#1799572)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

We won't stand for anything less,

02 Aug 06 - 03:49 AM (#1799574)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

So pronounce mit correctly,
Or I tell you directly,

02 Aug 06 - 07:07 AM (#1799666)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST

02 Aug 06 - 07:12 AM (#1799670)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST,CORRUPTED COUPLETS

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?

02 Aug 06 - 12:26 PM (#1799855)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

The whole thing will be in a mess.

OR The whole thing is thwarted by GUEST!

02 Aug 06 - 02:11 PM (#1799929)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

there was a mudcatter called Shambles

02 Aug 06 - 02:51 PM (#1799951)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

Who did not believe in pre-ambles,

02 Aug 06 - 03:04 PM (#1799969)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

To get over his point,
Himself he'll anoint

02 Aug 06 - 03:04 PM (#1799970)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

it was straight to the point

02 Aug 06 - 04:17 PM (#1800005)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Micca

and he never ate Pie made from 'Umbles

02 Aug 06 - 04:25 PM (#1800015)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

i once knew the nawab of pataudi

02 Aug 06 - 05:12 PM (#1800045)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Barden of England

Who whistles 'Good laudie miss Claudie'

02 Aug 06 - 06:54 PM (#1800112)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

whilst taking tiffen at four

02 Aug 06 - 08:34 PM (#1800175)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Nigel Parsons

But then, who's keeping score?

02 Aug 06 - 09:18 PM (#1800199)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST

His balti was hot but ne'er bawdy.

02 Aug 06 - 09:37 PM (#1800209)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST,Joe_F

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. :||

03 Aug 06 - 02:53 AM (#1800295)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

Whether fine or a dark dreary day,

03 Aug 06 - 03:15 AM (#1800302)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

lets hope were in tune

03 Aug 06 - 08:05 AM (#1800435)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

when we howl at the moon

03 Aug 06 - 08:21 AM (#1800444)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Barden of England

And the men come to take us away

03 Aug 06 - 09:08 AM (#1800462)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Bentley

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.

03 Aug 06 - 09:23 AM (#1800473)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST,playful

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.

03 Aug 06 - 10:38 AM (#1800541)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Bentley

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?

03 Aug 06 - 10:45 AM (#1800547)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Dave the Gnome

A fine folk singer called Miles...

:D

03 Aug 06 - 11:01 AM (#1800568)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: DMcG

Was known for his cunning and wiles

03 Aug 06 - 11:23 AM (#1800586)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST,playful

He recycled ditties

03 Aug 06 - 11:35 AM (#1800598)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Dave the Gnome

In all the main cities

03 Aug 06 - 11:44 AM (#1800601)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: DMcG

And took blackmail photos for files

03 Aug 06 - 12:23 PM (#1800636)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

a match maker called tricky mick dicky

03 Aug 06 - 03:24 PM (#1800760)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Barden of England

Should be described as a 'thickie'

03 Aug 06 - 05:15 PM (#1800857)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

He could not make a match

03 Aug 06 - 05:39 PM (#1800882)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

From a prospective batch

03 Aug 06 - 07:20 PM (#1800952)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

so he drowned himsel in the liffey

03 Aug 06 - 07:54 PM (#1800980)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Lanfranc

An ageing Mudcatter named Micca

03 Aug 06 - 08:03 PM (#1800988)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Bert

Was renowned for holding his liquor.

03 Aug 06 - 08:10 PM (#1800994)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Lanfranc

When a lady named Khatt
Said "Enough of that"

03 Aug 06 - 08:12 PM (#1800996)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Bert

So he downed his liquor much quicker.

03 Aug 06 - 11:48 PM (#1801124)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST,Joe_F

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. :||

04 Aug 06 - 01:04 AM (#1801161)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Bert

With practice I'll really go far

04 Aug 06 - 01:20 AM (#1801167)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

With strings twice as many,

04 Aug 06 - 04:35 AM (#1801221)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Dave the Gnome

to earn a pretty penny

04 Aug 06 - 05:29 AM (#1801245)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST, Topsie

But I might spend it all in the bar.

04 Aug 06 - 05:30 AM (#1801247)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST

There was a mudcatter in Kent

04 Aug 06 - 05:34 AM (#1801251)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Paul Burke

Whose life was completely misspent

04 Aug 06 - 08:38 AM (#1801321)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

he wrote little ditties

04 Aug 06 - 09:47 AM (#1801394)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Micca

on the barmaids titties

04 Aug 06 - 10:56 AM (#1801448)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: DMcG

In Yorkshire, and Norfolk and Gwent.

04 Aug 06 - 04:37 PM (#1801711)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

w c fields hated baby leroy

04 Aug 06 - 05:28 PM (#1801752)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Bill D

*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*

04 Aug 06 - 07:22 PM (#1801841)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

Though he seemed quite a nice little boy

05 Aug 06 - 12:55 PM (#1802165)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

so he tried spiking his milk

05 Aug 06 - 01:00 PM (#1802170)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Nigel Parsons

The question, for clergy & Laity
Was how to encourage some gaity.

05 Aug 06 - 02:43 PM (#1802230)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

for he heard that his ilk.
liked to mix with the high hoy poloy

05 Aug 06 - 04:27 PM (#1802305)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Nigel Parsons

Those two lines are pure spontenaity

05 Aug 06 - 05:56 PM (#1802364)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

No doubt given by some supine deity,

06 Aug 06 - 07:49 AM (#1802617)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

the patron saint of england st george.

06 Aug 06 - 09:41 AM (#1802648)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

was a mudcatter called johnny the forge

06 Aug 06 - 09:45 AM (#1802654)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST,GS

His music was loud
As he played to the crowd

06 Aug 06 - 09:46 AM (#1802655)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST,GS

Then slayed dragons down near Cheddar Gorge

06 Aug 06 - 10:33 AM (#1802674)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Nigel Parsons

"A visiting poster, called Guest....

06 Aug 06 - 10:37 AM (#1802677)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Jeri

Queried what others thought best...

06 Aug 06 - 10:40 AM (#1802679)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

Which could only prove
To be not a good move

06 Aug 06 - 10:49 AM (#1802686)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: JennyO

Because others might think him a pest.

06 Aug 06 - 05:35 PM (#1802946)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

When all the threads are in Shambles

06 Aug 06 - 05:36 PM (#1802947)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

Aye wunce new ann eckspurt inn spellling

06 Aug 06 - 06:09 PM (#1802964)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Jeri

Whoo won daye, hizze pees wuz a-shelling

06 Aug 06 - 06:30 PM (#1802972)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

Hees spelin wuz tested,
Heez peez wuz dyjested

06 Aug 06 - 09:25 PM (#1803097)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST,Joe_F

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. :||

06 Aug 06 - 10:33 PM (#1803134)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: JennyO

Orle ther deetales aye wille knot bee telinge.

06 Aug 06 - 10:40 PM (#1803138)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: JennyO

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!

07 Aug 06 - 05:38 AM (#1803290)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

Brilliant jenny o

07 Aug 06 - 06:48 AM (#1803315)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

A teacher liked to correct, punctuation.

07 Aug 06 - 08:02 AM (#1803348)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Micca

He proclaimed,"It's the shame of the nation"

07 Aug 06 - 08:08 AM (#1803357)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST

Of commas, not any
apostraphes, too many

07 Aug 06 - 09:21 AM (#1803408)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: JennyO

and no capital's. and full stop's everywhere and. no rhyme or metre in the, poetry either

07 Aug 06 - 09:50 AM (#1803424)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST

A festival steward down south

07 Aug 06 - 10:40 AM (#1803476)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

Was looking quite down in the mouth

07 Aug 06 - 11:03 AM (#1803496)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Dave the Gnome

He said, "At this rate"

07 Aug 06 - 11:16 AM (#1803506)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

We won't make the date

07 Aug 06 - 02:39 PM (#1803666)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Micca

and the public are really uncouth

07 Aug 06 - 03:15 PM (#1803700)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Dave the Gnome

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)

07 Aug 06 - 03:19 PM (#1803704)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

on mudcat beware of impostors

07 Aug 06 - 05:46 PM (#1803887)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

In case they pretend to be cats paws

07 Aug 06 - 06:46 PM (#1803932)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

They'll have such a ball,
when they mislead you all,

08 Aug 06 - 05:02 AM (#1804198)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

Their appearance becomes lost to us

08 Aug 06 - 10:00 AM (#1804355)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

The rector of stiffkey was fond of lions.

08 Aug 06 - 11:05 AM (#1804402)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

He used to dress them with 'tie-ons'

08 Aug 06 - 11:09 AM (#1804410)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Micca

this pathetic delusion
just lead to confusion

08 Aug 06 - 11:13 AM (#1804415)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Micca

with the wrong number of feet in the scansions

08 Aug 06 - 01:31 PM (#1804561)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

it was said womens asses are bigger

08 Aug 06 - 03:38 PM (#1804661)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

than donkeys , when they,re,tied to a ligger.

08 Aug 06 - 04:11 PM (#1804677)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Micca

if they ask with a hiss
does it look big in this

08 Aug 06 - 04:31 PM (#1804694)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Dave the Gnome

Say nowt that would insult her figure

08 Aug 06 - 04:36 PM (#1804698)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

you reply dear it suits your figure

08 Aug 06 - 04:37 PM (#1804700)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

sorry DAVE great minds think alike/

08 Aug 06 - 04:39 PM (#1804703)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

a folklorist called flat

08 Aug 06 - 05:08 PM (#1804712)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Dave the Gnome

Was a bit of a plonker

(Sorry - can't think of as rhyme)

08 Aug 06 - 09:41 PM (#1804942)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST,Joe_F

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. :||

09 Aug 06 - 03:44 AM (#1805058)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

A famous folklorist called Flatt
Was really a bit of a pratt,
His views were extremist

09 Aug 06 - 09:00 AM (#1805173)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

and so were his remits

09 Aug 06 - 12:15 PM (#1805314)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

don't rhyme but who cares about that?

09 Aug 06 - 12:18 PM (#1805320)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: webfolk

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

09 Aug 06 - 08:42 PM (#1805769)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST,Joe_F

Now, equally famous was Scruggs --

--- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net

||: Beside myself is too close for comfort. :||

10 Aug 06 - 05:34 AM (#1806022)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST, Topsie

Whose hobby was studying bugs

10 Aug 06 - 09:00 AM (#1806123)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Micca

He'd pluck on his banjo
and watch them fandango

10 Aug 06 - 09:06 AM (#1806129)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Dave the Gnome

While keeping his lettuce from slugs

10 Aug 06 - 10:45 AM (#1806241)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

did you ever hear tell of sweet betsy from cheam

10 Aug 06 - 12:34 PM (#1806368)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Micca

The subject of many a young mans wet dream

10 Aug 06 - 02:03 PM (#1806479)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

She'd appear in his dream,
wearing only whipped cream,

10 Aug 06 - 07:01 PM (#1806741)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Nigel Parsons

Butt was slightly too broad in the beam!

10 Aug 06 - 09:21 PM (#1806848)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST,Joe_F

There was once a professor named Child,

--- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net

||: Applause makes a good time to fart. :||

10 Aug 06 - 10:37 PM (#1806878)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: JennyO

Who let down his hair and went wild,

11 Aug 06 - 03:11 AM (#1806993)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

They thought what he taught,
was fraught and meant nought,

11 Aug 06 - 06:27 AM (#1807063)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Dave the Gnome

Until some copyrights he filed

11 Aug 06 - 07:37 AM (#1807100)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

to play hurling you need a sliobhtar
but in norfolk they use a kipper

11 Aug 06 - 10:32 AM (#1807208)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

if one loses ones ball

11 Aug 06 - 11:43 AM (#1807270)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST

or allows it to fall

11 Aug 06 - 12:53 PM (#1807331)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

your forfeit is ten pints of bitter

11 Aug 06 - 03:38 PM (#1807472)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Dave the Gnome

A typist, both young and petite

11 Aug 06 - 03:58 PM (#1807501)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Nigel Parsons

Could type line both concise and neat

11 Aug 06 - 03:59 PM (#1807503)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Nigel Parsons

But she found 'twas a given,
She'd run out of ribbon

11 Aug 06 - 05:20 PM (#1807570)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

So she failed to become the elite.

11 Aug 06 - 05:21 PM (#1807571)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

As I sat down one day on the grass,

11 Aug 06 - 05:23 PM (#1807577)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: skipy

I felt a damp patch on my arse

11 Aug 06 - 05:29 PM (#1807587)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

my dog called patch

12 Aug 06 - 03:46 AM (#1807931)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

was trying to catch

12 Aug 06 - 03:51 AM (#1807935)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

a bee that had stung my kyber pass

12 Aug 06 - 04:44 AM (#1807950)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

I had been to tea with my granny,

12 Aug 06 - 05:47 AM (#1807973)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: DMcG

Who regaled me with tales of her nanny

12 Aug 06 - 06:19 AM (#1807989)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST

But a goat or a nurse?

12 Aug 06 - 06:40 AM (#1808008)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST,GUEST01

Who Done Nothing But Curse

12 Aug 06 - 07:12 AM (#1808024)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

And dress as a man she's a tranny

12 Aug 06 - 07:55 AM (#1808041)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

i once knew a singer called dan
who always would fart when he sang

12 Aug 06 - 08:22 AM (#1808055)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Micca

his farts were staccato
a Bass obbligato

12 Aug 06 - 08:23 AM (#1808057)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Micca

to songs that were all Sturm und Drang

12 Aug 06 - 09:43 AM (#1808073)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

A Folk singer living in Hull,

12 Aug 06 - 09:54 AM (#1808078)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: DMcG

Had a diary that rarely was full.

12 Aug 06 - 10:25 AM (#1808092)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

so he changed his sex

12 Aug 06 - 10:32 AM (#1808095)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Dave the Gnome

along with his kex

12 Aug 06 - 03:32 PM (#1808245)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

and sang songs like little white bull

12 Aug 06 - 03:48 PM (#1808252)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

A lady at Blitherscrum said

12 Aug 06 - 05:41 PM (#1808318)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

she,d like to play marbles in bed

12 Aug 06 - 06:00 PM (#1808334)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: DMcG

Lord Elgin cried: Why?

13 Aug 06 - 05:13 AM (#1808606)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

id rather solve pye

13 Aug 06 - 05:41 AM (#1808617)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST

And spend my weekends in the shed.

13 Aug 06 - 07:32 AM (#1808649)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

I was talking with someone from here,

13 Aug 06 - 07:37 AM (#1808651)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: DMcG

Extolling the famed Chanticleer

13 Aug 06 - 08:50 AM (#1808692)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

But it's not what I'm used t'
Such talk of a rooster

13 Aug 06 - 08:53 AM (#1808694)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: DMcG

So I went for a booster - a beer.

13 Aug 06 - 09:09 AM (#1808705)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

I needed a boost..a good ale,

13 Aug 06 - 01:53 PM (#1808868)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

watneys red was tried but it failed

13 Aug 06 - 03:15 PM (#1808938)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

With John Smiths on my list,

13 Aug 06 - 03:31 PM (#1808955)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

I was soon Brahms and List

13 Aug 06 - 04:32 PM (#1808989)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: JennyO

And folks (hic), that's the end of my tale!

13 Aug 06 - 04:34 PM (#1808993)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

I am sure I'll go boozing again,

14 Aug 06 - 03:32 AM (#1809309)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

Be it snow, wind, sun or rain

14 Aug 06 - 08:30 AM (#1809425)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

but I wont smoke dope

14 Aug 06 - 08:35 AM (#1809427)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Barden of England

Nor will I elope

14 Aug 06 - 01:15 PM (#1809580)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

Till I've drunk my real ale that's plain

Next one....

When I've drunk my real ale I'll know,

14 Aug 06 - 01:21 PM (#1809587)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

That to England you have to go.

14 Aug 06 - 03:16 PM (#1809679)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

To taste of the best,
Forget all the rest

14 Aug 06 - 04:30 PM (#1809751)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

And end up onnnn thetheetheee floor Oh Oh Oh.

14 Aug 06 - 04:49 PM (#1809770)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

how was the limerick started

14 Aug 06 - 05:56 PM (#1809851)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

Quite easy when someone farted,

14 Aug 06 - 05:56 PM (#1809853)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

It came as a rhyme,
in quick double time,

14 Aug 06 - 10:29 PM (#1810008)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST,Joe_F

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. :||

15 Aug 06 - 05:07 AM (#1810152)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

there was a man from great snoring

15 Aug 06 - 06:08 AM (#1810177)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: webfolk

whose wife was prone to whoring

15 Aug 06 - 08:07 AM (#1810264)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

so he sent her to lesbos

15 Aug 06 - 08:25 AM (#1810271)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: webfolk

instead of Tescos

15 Aug 06 - 09:35 AM (#1810307)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

shes living in sin with noreen

15 Aug 06 - 11:54 AM (#1810380)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

By the roadside in Blitherscrum town,

15 Aug 06 - 03:17 PM (#1810500)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

sits a gnome with a permanent frown

15 Aug 06 - 03:45 PM (#1810524)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

Fishing rod in his hand,

15 Aug 06 - 05:11 PM (#1810576)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

He thinks 'Isn't it grand',

15 Aug 06 - 06:10 PM (#1810633)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

to be home reading watership down

15 Aug 06 - 06:26 PM (#1810643)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

Now I know that I must 'rabbit on'

15 Aug 06 - 11:24 PM (#1810813)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: GUEST,Joe_F

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. :||

16 Aug 06 - 01:24 PM (#1811337)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Nigel Parsons

That you tread on some other folks' dreams;

16 Aug 06 - 06:03 PM (#1811605)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: The Sandman

but it helps to get rid of some steam

22 May 11 - 09:51 AM (#3158656)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Bee-dubya-ell

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...

22 May 11 - 02:35 PM (#3158788)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Micca

Who liked to use freshly starched Napery

22 May 11 - 05:47 PM (#3158871)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Joe_F

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,

22 May 11 - 06:58 PM (#3158896)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Micca

Of the need for a Cutler

23 May 11 - 06:17 AM (#3159052)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: autolycus

5.

Ivor

p.s. Just a thought, to number lines.

23 May 11 - 10:53 AM (#3159171)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Micca

5 as his knife was a blunt as a housemaids knee

23 May 11 - 12:39 PM (#3159226)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: autolycus

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

23 May 11 - 09:31 PM (#3159465)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Mysha

(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

24 May 11 - 04:01 PM (#3159918)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Joe_F

And her wish for a man

27 Jul 16 - 08:23 PM (#3802336)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Mysha

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

27 Jul 16 - 09:57 PM (#3802345)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Rapparee

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."

28 Jul 16 - 06:24 PM (#3802484)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Joe_F

Aha! An informed answer to the stress question at last.

28 Jul 16 - 07:52 PM (#3802495)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Mrrzy

New one:

An imposing young person of Leeds

28 Jul 16 - 08:18 PM (#3802500)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Rapparee

An imposing young person of Leeds
Had an imposing catalog of needs

29 Jul 16 - 05:50 PM (#3802657)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Joe_F

Rapparee: Does not scan. But if you are American, you are excused.

An imposing young person of Leeds
Remarked once, while telling his beads,

29 Jul 16 - 06:14 PM (#3802665)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Thompson

"Je sens que je suis

29 Jul 16 - 06:19 PM (#3802667)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Thompson

"From my neck to my knee…

29 Jul 16 - 06:32 PM (#3802670)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Thompson

"A man of my word, not my deeds."

30 Jul 16 - 09:00 AM (#3802730)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

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.

30 Jul 16 - 09:01 AM (#3802731)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Georgiansilver

There was a young lady from the Azores,

30 Jul 16 - 10:55 AM (#3802737)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: DMcG

Whose kneecaps were covered in sores.

30 Jul 16 - 12:41 PM (#3802743)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Kenny B (inactive)

Even dogs in the street?

30 Jul 16 - 02:36 PM (#3802759)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Nigel Parsons

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.

30 Jul 16 - 02:38 PM (#3802760)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Nigel Parsons

To recap (kneecap?)

A young lady from the Azores,
Whose kneecaps were covered in sores.
Said "I think my affliction" . . .

30 Jul 16 - 03:02 PM (#3802762)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: DMcG

Comes from my addiction
To vinyl and similar floors.

30 Jul 16 - 03:23 PM (#3802764)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: DMcG

When Guest found his posting was blocked,

30 Jul 16 - 05:50 PM (#3802789)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Nigel Parsons

My goodness, how he was mocked.

30 Jul 16 - 07:16 PM (#3802796)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Steve Shaw

Maybe someone can have a go at that young lady from the Azores to get at least the first line to scan...

30 Jul 16 - 10:03 PM (#3802809)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Rapparee

It's anapestic dimeter*.

A young LADY from the AZORES

*Not to be confused with Demeter.

30 Jul 16 - 11:04 PM (#3802814)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: Joe_F

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.

31 Jul 16 - 02:56 AM (#3802818)
Subject: RE: The Limerick game
From: DMcG

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.