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The Obligatory Limericks Game Reincarnated
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And so it begins....
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Marc
They're rubbing - my Crocodile shoes,
Software
It's jarring - my singing the blues
irach
My pain's the refrain
Darren
These shoes are my bane
Juxtapose
Their
scales yield
mine
awful reviews
irach
My big toe is throbbing with gout
Raak
But I shan't take the easy way out
Simons Mith
Instead I shall hop
penelope
To the cutlery shop
Marc
Carve my shoe to a nice bulging-out
Marc
Poor Darling, I’ll buy you a pint
Anna
They're costly - the taxes are gi'ant
Software
I'll make it real ale
of course
penelope
Cos you're looking so pale
Rosie
And all on expenses; please sign 't.
Marc
"My lines are so close to perfection,"
Well, not mine - yours!
Software
No-one can raise an objection
Rosie
The words, they just flow
Raak
Like the times when I "go"
Juxtapose
My stream never needs a correction
apologies all around...
Darren
[Juxtapose] Why apologise? It's much cleaner than the line which popped into my head. (Which is why I didn't play it!)
Rosie
(Darren) Agreed. It's Raak who's the dirty bugger.
Rosie
There was a young lad from Belgrade
trad.
irach
Who wished to get Tinker Bell laid
Software
His fairy-like dream
Chalky
Made Peter Pan scream
blamelewis
for it wasn't his
croc
he displayed.
Software
A pudding fell out of the sky
Raak
And before I could say, "Goodness! Why--"
irach
This "manna from heaven"
penelope
"Is four pounds forty seven!"
Marc
That is cheap for an airborne cow pie!
Juxtapose
A man from the planet of Mars
Rosie
Kept carbon dioxide in jars
irach
Its greenhouse effects
Raak
Encouraged safe sects
Simons Mith
So it's highly endorsed by the stars
irach
An image from telescope Hubble
Darren
Depicted a great cosmic bubble
Software
At the edge of known space
Raak
Which resembles the face
Rosie
Of old Patrick Moore, but with stubble.
Software
While sunning myself on the beach
Simons Mith
I noticed a very fine Peach
Raak
I stroked its soft skin
Simons Mith
[Raak]
Her
soft skin, I was hoping.
Rosie
Surely no sin
Chasty
Then licked off its sweet juicy leach ...
Marc
This beach once was filled with white sand
CdM
But things have not gone as we planned
Rosie
For, as you can see
Software
It's filled with debris
Sierra Mike
Teen beach parties should really be banned
Rosie
It says on the side of this tin
Software
BEWARE: there's traces of nuts within
irach
You could break out in hives
Marc
When the doctor arrives,
Darren
He'll throw the whole lot in the bin.
Juxtapose
I once met a maid from Regina
Limerick challenge: clean
Rosie
Who cherished her old Morris Minor
Will that do, Juxt?
irach
She kept it so clean
Darren
It dazzled the Queen
irach
Whose Bentleys are not any finer
...
[Juxtapose] There...clean as a whistle...
Marc
True Lim'ricks are not to be clean,
penelope
It's tempting to show the obscene
Raak
They must also be witty
BTW, Radio 3 is currently having a competition to compose serious limericks. Maybe we could try one here?
Rosie
Coherent, not bitty
Software
And polished right up to a sheen
Raak
Not only by bread doth man live
Going for a serious limerick. Titter ye not!
irach
Not so much to receive as to give
Rosie
Which lifteth the soul
Software
For those on the dole
penelope
Or those with pock
ets
like a sieve.
Maybe I should apologise...
Rosie
There was a young man from Peru
(pen) No, no, not at all. Pretty good for a Dutch speaker.
Knobbly
Who bought a bright pink cockatoo
Simons Mith
With very long legs
irach
That laid polka dot eggs
Marc
While waving the tail - oh so blue
The parrots of course!
Software
There's thunder and lightning about
CdM
Don't panic. There's no need to shout.
Guido Fawkes
I heard you first time
irach
There's no reason or rhyme
Marc
It’s Thor who have just found his stout
Rosie
My uncle, who lives in Cleckheaton
irach
At snooker, has never been beaten
Darren
His all-out attack
Software
By using the black
Marc
And pot it with super cue treatin’
Marc
The balls that were hit with his cue
Rosie
Followed a path that was true
All right, doesn't quite rhyme.
Juxtapose
His peerless precision
it does in America, Rosie
Raak
Was met with derision
Mac
But from the crowd there came a very loud "BOO"!
Scansion Police
*Ahem*, I think, Mr Mac, we'll just draw a line under this one and call it a warning....
irach
My auntie, who lives in Llangollen
Marc
Complained over legs that were swollen
Software
Her acute phlebitis
Raak
Makes her dance like St. Vitus
CdM
O! How the mighty are follen
No rhymes at all in that one
:-)
Marc
In a nice little village in Kent
Software
The priest found his coffers were spent
Raak
So he held a church fête
irach
Where his needs were all met
Phil
By a choirboy behind the beer tent
Hidden text
Not my greatest scansion, but if French pronunciation is fine, then so is American stress.
Rosie
The good folk of Dwygyfylchi
Rosie
While pond'ring the nature of time
Phil
I found myself covered in slime
Software
This temporal gunk
Marc
Was spread out but shrunk
Anna
So I choked but performed a great mime
CdM
Two words; the first rhymes with 'bee'
Marc
Said the flea with a brie on his knee
irach
The debris on the brie
Phil
Would be tea for the flea
Juxtapose
But gives heebee-jeebies to me
Kim
"But what is the word?", asked the flea
irach
To a bee that just wanted to be
Rosie
Just known for spelling
penelope
So he wasn't telling
Marc
The number of words, was it three?
Kim
"The first word", the flea announced brightly
Phil
"Is one that is used almost nightly."
Marc
Like 'barhop' or 'beer'
Software
And 'gay' but not 'queer'
Audience
Then the flea hopped away quite politely
Juxtapose
When swimming, remember this tip
irach
First give your big toe a quick dip
Rosie
And if the water is wet
Marc
And that it will be I bet
Software
Down to your trunks you can strip
Marc
Good morning, we sail with the tide
Software
As Captain, I can make you a bride
Rosie
So make one for me
Robin
Or perhaps two or three
penelope
And a groom, but please keep him aside
Rosie
Beware the man in the moon
Raak
He will gouge out your eyes with a spoon
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