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The Obligatory Limericks Game Reincarnated
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And so it begins....
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Rosie
Just why you're so fat
Marc
So lazy and a brat
Botherer
And if I can in that indulge?
I know it's not Betjemen but I was seriously wondering where this was going...
Chalky
Come friendly bombs
and
fall on Slough!
- [Botherererer] This is :)
Software
But not on Maidenhead - for now
Rosie
'Cos it is so pretty
Phil
Compared with White City
-
refusing to use the obvious rhyme
penelope
Does poetic licence allow?
Rosie
There was a young chap from Nuneaton
Phil
Whose great-grandma was Mrs Beeton
irach
And, what is more
Quendalon
Went on a grand tour
- likewise refusing the obvious rhyme
Raak
Where she met a great bear and was eaten.
Juxtapose
I just had a strange kind of tea
[Raak] Ha ha
Rosie
Three dear old ladies and me
Software
We all shared a scone
Pronunciation Alert!!
Phil
As we had but the one
...which rhymes perfectly in my household
irach
No arsenic or old lace I see
Tuj
A paste made of tuna and eggs
Phil
Is perfect for waxing the legs
irach
Its H2S and amines
Rosie
Applied every day means
Software
You'll enjoy totally hairless square pegs
blamelewis
Oi you! Yes you - bloke on the left!
irach
Need ya - not yer brains, just your heft
Botherer
I've a thing here you'll see
FGZstar
That's much bigger than me
Rosie
And my toe's being crushed. That's why I effed.
Tuj
A man of the Scottish persuasion
irach
Imbibed haggis at every occcasion
Raak
Its earthy bouquet
[irach] Imbibed? Haggis?
Quendalon
And appearance risqué
Software
When liquidized is quite amazin'
[irach] Correcting the logic ;o)
Tuj
I've got this idea in my head
Phil
I'm lying awake in my bed
Kim
I'm turning it over
Quendalon
And over and over
Rosie
That insomnia's fatal, it's said.
blamelewis
Sleep came like a reluctant gift
Botherer
As I entered a temporal rift
Software
I started to dream
Marc
We were a good team
Darren
Me and my time-travelling lift
CdM
I finished this poem tomorrow
Phil
In a Tardis the Doc let me borrow
Rosie
Inside it's so spacious
Software
Not to say ostentatious
Marc
But it brought me back here to my sorrow...
Marc
You travel in time in your dreams
Botherer
And it's all so confusing, it seems
irach
And Freud made it worse/b>
Software
Which is really perverse
Quendalon
Seeing Sigmund boff 'midst the timestreams
Kim
There was a young lady from Tring
Raak
Whose bell no-one ventured to ring
Marc
Until Uncle Andy
irach
Found a French tickler handy
Software
To do wonderful things to her thing
Coat ...
Rosie
This lady from Tring was no slouch
irach
To this Uncle Andy will vouch
Software
As he took her back home
Chasty
In the bath - watch that foam !
Botherer
She accepted and never said "Ouch!"
Juxtapose
I once met the purest of maids
Software
During one of the drug squad's house raids
irach
Her stuff was so pure
Rosie
And she so demure
nyet
"Coochie-Coo" she piddled on my suedes
Software
The girl with the dishevelled hair
Rosie
And the quite unfeasibly large pair
irach
Posed nude for a mag
Phil
Which makes her a slag
penelope
And made quite a star of the chair
let's move it along...
Rosie
I looked in the mirror and thought
Raak
"This wig that I recently bought
unfinished quote alert
Software
seems to make me look odd
Kim
Like a cross between God
irach
And an unkempt old dishevelled sot"
Juxtapose
I just won a medal of gold
Software
For an act that was truly quite bold
Raak
At Tiananmen Square
Irouléguy
I wore, for a dare,
Rosie
Some brogues bought in Stow-on-the-Wold.
Uncle Korky
The inclement weather today
Software
Wind, rain and heavy cloud - grey
Marc
If you're wise - stay inside
penelope
Where your shoes can be dried
penelope
But don't throw the beach towel away
A bit of an emergency finish... with optimism for more sunshine, geddit?
Rosie
I should never have meddled with gold
Software
This alchemy stuff's oversold
Raak
These mercury fumes
irach
And sulphurous spumes
Marc
Made me bald and my face looking old
Knobbly
The wrinkles and lines on my face
Software
Keep my rugged good looks in their place
Rosie
These fine indentations
Raak
Give gals palpitations
CdM
And that's why they shun my embrace
Simons Mith
A wizard, a sage and a witch
Darren
All gathered to summon a lich
Phil
It paused at the gate
irach
Where its skeletal state
Marc
Was so bad that it fell in the ditch
Marc
September - so nice warm and dry,
Software
Now rain doth pour from the sky
CdM
And now -- Christ! it's snowing!
Rosie
The climate is going
..........
Marc#2
...awry - now it's time kiss this summer goodbye!
Kim
....and scansion with it, I see.
irach
A tropical hurricane, Ike
Software
Has winds faster than I ride a bike
Rosie
Except when pursued
Bigsmith
By a bloke in the nude
Juxtapose
Who thinks that I'm Natalie Pike
Rosie
You cannot beat sausage and mash
(Kim) McGonagall lives!
Software
It's the best you can get for your cash
irach
Whereas chips and fish
Raak
Is a very fine dish
Marc
When served on the front page of Flash
Software
While tuning the new Cern collider
Phil
I got shitfaced on Diamond White cider
CdM
It had a strange charm
Rosie
So I chanced my arm
Kim
And stuck two empty bottles inside ‘er
Coyote
Last night I had a 'big bang'
Raak
When I threw my brand new boomerang
irach
As it hurtled back
penelope
Through the starry ink-black
Software
It hit my head with a clang
Fed up with this one sitting here, now quickly moving on ...
Rosie
The things that one keeps in the loft
irach
Are oft fluffy and cuddly and soft
Software
So set a mouse trap
CdM
Among all that house crap
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