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The Obligatory Limericks Game Reincarnated
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And so it begins....
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Pablo
With twenty-five cards? You for real?
Superman
With no aces or kings
penelope
We've no arrows nor slings
Rosie
But fortune outrageous, I feel.
Pablo
So, now the New Year's under way
and no naval types try to tell me it's "weigh" please...
Stevie
And I've
es
caped the vile Opus Dei
If we are talking the Warring States period of China, it could be "under Wei"
Marc
So our future is bright
Raak
To pursue the good fight
Rosie
To bury Theresa May.
Dujon
There are Tories and Whigs at my door
Seeing as we are going political
Marc
In big herds never seen heretofore
Rosie
For
Tandridge
foments
chance'd be a fine thing
Superman
'Midst back bench laments
Pablo
While we blankly ask "What's it all
for
?"
Rosie
In Bangalore there's someone called George
Raak
Who went to the Marble Rocks Gorge
Pablo
Where he laid out his tea
Kim
At a quarter past three
Dujon
With Messner, Mutschlechner and Dorje.
Juxtapose
There once was a thinker named Kant
Superman
Who encountered a large ele
phant
Rosie
Which viewed him suspiciously
KagomeShuko
Then charged him quite viciously
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That vicious and viscous won't get me again like it did at my 8th grade spelling bee!
Stevie
Hence
Africa: A Mad Kant 'Phant Rant
.
CdM
When I was a child in 8th grade
KagomeShuko
My one wish was to see a parade
Pablo
Where the Grenadier Guards
Kim
Would light their
petards
Rosie
And put Manneken Pis in the shade.
Dujon
He made once a shocking mistake
Rosie
Confusing the clutch with the brake
Software
The resulting collision
Marc
Caused a minor division
Anna
Of his spine which then gave him a backache.
Rosie
When the moon goes into eclipse
Dujon
As it orbits its usual elipse
Raak
Its super blue blood
Pablo
Turns the colour of mud
Marc
The same colour as Aunt Hilda's lips...
Marc
Her lips filled with Botox were blue
Dujon
Like those of my other aunt, Sue
Pablo
And her daughter, young Shelley,
Stevie
(Who's been on the telly)
Bismarck
Got the same effect from a tattoo.
Raak
It will soon be St Valentine's Day
Marc
And every chaste maiden cries HOORAY!
Dujon
But a bunch of dead roses
penelope
Shoved under their noses
Software
Won't take their chasteness away
Kim
[Software]: "chase", surely?
Juxtapose
I once, in the season of Lent,
Superman
Spent thirty-nine days in a tent:
penelope
Eating corned beef and beans
Pablo
With a helping of greens
Raak
And sat with my bum to the vent.
penelope
On the last day of Lent I gave in
Pablo
I was getting quite dangerously thin
Raak
So I binged on ice cream
Stevie
"Wild thinged" the whole team
Software
Then threw up in the bin
LimCopper
And then threw it all up in the bin.
Pablo
Could today be the first day of Spring?
Juxtapose
We'll know just by checking one thing:
Raak
Has the groundhog appeared?
Marc
If he has he is weird!
Software
If not his hook he can sling
penelope
There's never much snow on the ground
Pablo
At least, not where I'm to be found
Raak
In far Timbuctu
Software
Where I sit on the loo
Rosie
Performing while folks gather round.
blamelewis
I once met a chap in Tibet
Superman
Who flew around on a car
pet
Marc
Levitation you know
Raak
Is a nodding dog's show
(I'm taking a car
pet
to be a small stuffed animal sitting on the parcel shelf.
Pablo
Well, just how kitsch can you get?
Stevie
There was a young man from Goonhilly
Family Show
declared.
Superman
Who did something ever so silly
blamelewis
At old Jodrell Bank
Careful now...
Simons Mith
Well, I gotta be frank
Juxtapose
He lip-synced to Milli Vanilli
Stevie
Well done! Everyone pick up their Whitehouse Awards at the door
.
Stevie
'Tis true that there's snow on the roof
Pablo
And it's bleedin' cold aht, that's the troof
Eastenders
variation invoked
blamelewis
So if that mahfy cahhh
Rosie
Wiv an arse like a saa
Kim
Shouts "brass monkeys", well, she's just uncouth.
Stevie
It's snowing again. What a thrill
Bismarck
To go jingle my bells with a will
Pablo
As I ride on my sleigh
Marc
As I did Christmas day
Santa
Now it's over - please hand me that pill...
Stevie
Left hand down a bit. All stop. REVERSE!
Software
Navigation? Well this is perverse!
blamelewis
Is the blindfold essential?
Rosie
It tests your potential
Marc
Of posting your lines in free verse...
Pablo
Good grief, is the sun coming out?
Software
It's not - so shudda your mouth!
Raak
This wintery spring
Marc
When the birds ceased to sing
Juxtapose
Has put 'Global Warming' in doubt
(the author would like to acknowledge that weather is not the same as climate)
Superman
In Downing Street there's this old girl
Raak
Whose life is a dizzying whirl
Marc
With her mates Don and Boris
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Stevie
Dancing
the
Brexit Morris
Pablo
But the sight will just make you hurl
Stevie
Lord Buckethead, now. There's a fellow
Pablo
He
seems
to be quite sane and mellow
Raak
But his good friend Lord Sutch
Marc
Was a little too much
Penelope
He wouldn’t just scream, he would bellow.
KagomeShuko
The news of today is insane
Juxtapose
Some doctor transplanted his brain
Rosie
Leaving him dead
penelope
Wi' nowt in his head
Stevie
Is it time for elections again?
Stevie
Have ye seen the white whale that I seek?
Raak
I heard it wis here just last week
Simons Mith
It usually lurks
blamelewis
By the old plankton works
Rosie
Which made ten tons a day at its peak.
Stevie
I like that one. Crisps all round.
blamelewis
[Stevie] Thanks!
crunch
Mmm. Plankton.
I fear I must write in complaint.
KagomeShuko
That they're calling Churchill a saint.
Rosie
'Cos everyone knows
Pablo
From his head to his toes
Stevie
The complaint re: this "saint" is:- He ain't!
Juxtapose
In Limerick once lived a lad
Knobbly
Whose personal hygiene was bad
Stevie
'Twas said that his stench
Rosie
Could be sensed by the French
blamelewis
And drove all within twenty feet mad.
Pablo
I asked a French mate about that
Stevie
He sucked on his teeth and then spat
Rosie
"Ça me fait chier"
Bismarck
"De sentir ses pieds"
Marc
And that was the end of our chat.
Marc
Body language is hard to ignore
Raak
Like the way that you just slammed the door
blamelewis
I get the impression
Stevie
You've succumbed to depression
Software
And don't give a toss anymore
Stevie
Nice one everyone. Crisps all round.
Pablo
I spread joy as much as I can
Stevie
(It's easy in my ice cream van)
blamelewis
The power of a flake
Superman
Or sprinkles will make
KagomeShuko
You feel much more like a man
Marc
I am sure that it was a mistake
Raak
To serve ice-cream on top of a steak
Juxtapose
My meat à la mode
Pablo
And the juices which flowed
Bismarck
Proved my Michelin star was a fake.
Stevie
May the fourth be with you and your clan
Rosie
Today's May the fifth; change of plan
KagomeShuko
But we'll still catch a ride
Pablo
On the outgoing tide
Marc
Sailing fourth in a black garbage can...
Marc
My Yacht "Miss 4 Sail" is for sale,
Pablo
She's a great little boat for a male
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