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The Obligatory Limericks Game Reincarnated
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And so it begins....
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Marc
Of hand-woven pink gabardine
Marc
The Clan of MacLean-Cameron
Dujon
Was once a great power that's now gone
Simons Mith
All the blood that was spilt
Phil
Down the front of my kilt
Software
Leaves my dry-cleaner feeling forlorn
Rosie
I stood on the platform at Crewe
irach
As I wondered just what I would do
Raak
If my train was delayed
Software
Would that fact be displayed?
Bigsmith
And would there be time for the loo?
Simons Mith
When you surf on the roof of a train
Software
You need the bumps fell in your brain
Rosie
Don't touch the live wire
(Softers) Wossat mean, den?
Darren
Or you might catch on fire
I think he meant "felt on"
Marc
And with angels you'll sing the refrain
Simons Mith
If you surf on the roof of the tube
Raak
You should rub yourself over with lube
Marc
Keep a profile that’s low
Rosie
Pray you don't need the po
Darren
Or you might be seen as a n00b
Rosie
If you surf on the mighty ocean
irach
Dab on lots of sun-tanning lotion
Marc
Keep a profile that's high
Simons Mith
– Imitate Captain Bligh!
Software
Completely devoid of emotion
penelope
The chocolate chicken is here!
Rosie
Because it's that time of the year
irach
So I'll be a feaster
Phil
A
cioccolatista
,
Software
So I'll crush it to bits, never fear!
Juxtapose
The problem with watching ballet
Limerick challenge: no "gay".
Simons Mith
As I once heard Nureyev say
Easy, so far
irach
"Those padded dance belts
Darren
Do leave me with welts
Raak
In places I really can't say."
Simons Mith
I've chosen to learn how to box
irach
Replacing those gloves with two socks
Marc
Though the gloves on my feet
...kickboxing...?
Software
Do look very neat
penelope
They don't help when throwing out knocks
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
irach
He'll feed you green cheese
Phil
Swap over your knees,
Software
Then he'll seal you in a cocoon
CdM
It is much like a cloud that I wander
Software
My time and my effort I squander
Tuj
But I do have one goal
Rosie
To bring joy to my soul
Marc
By watching the free wild blue yonder
Simons Mith
Those magnificent men who all fly
Software
Weird flying machines in the sky
Darren
Sometimes they go up
Marc
With a huge champagne cup
Rosie
"Bollocks to RyanAir", they cry.
Simons Mith
I've invented a falling machine!
irach
It's gravity driven and green
Marc
You just start it like this
Knobbly
If you blink you will miss
N.B. unfinished sentence
Software
It's operation so swift and serene
Simons Mith
I'll admit that the landing is rough
irach
More so if you're landing on tuff
Marc
Then you'll bounce up again
Simons Mith
In consid'rable pain
Software
And out you will go with a snuff
Rosie
One day on the M25
irach
I was glad to have emerged alive
Marc
Though I killed 23
penelope
The parking was free
Sierra Mike
I really
must
learn how to drive.
Simons Mith
A tool every gardener needs
Software
Is one to eliminate weeds
Rosie
This novel invention
Juxtapose
will garner attention
Bigsmith
From Sturminster Newton to Leeds
Juxtapose
I once knew a young chiro
prac
tor
Marc
Who worked patients back with his tractor
Rosie
Although efficacious
Raak
His bills were mendacious
Software
With most patients sustaining a fracture
Simons Mith
If you're set on becoming a quack
Rosie
It helps to acquire the knack
irach
Of dispensing green pills
Marc
And then issue great bills
Software
Then slip out the door at the back
Rosie
The things that I keep in my shed
irach
Are
not
what I'd want in my bed
Juxtapose
The difference, you see,
Software
Is the rake next to me
Marc
That I swapped for the bitch that I wed
Marc
The reasons for not being here
Software
Is so abundantly clear
Rosie
My hard disc has crashed
(Softers)
Is = Are?
Raak
My graphics card's trashed
penelope
And my keyboard is covered in beer
Rosie
The reasons for being here are many
(pen)
Pimm's
I would have believed.
Marc
To critizize speling and meter, any?
Software
But our true
raison d'être
Raak
Of which we are
les maîtres
irach
Is that we are all rather zany
Software
Let's drink to the flamboyant Floyd
irach
Who'll now fill the bow-tied chef void?
Marc
With a glass of champagne,
Chasty
You'll remove any pain,
Audience
And remember a man we enjoyed
Marc
One night at a bar in Bordeaux
Simons Mith
Through a rosy wine-induced glow
irach
i got very cozy
Raak
With M. Sarkozy
Juxtapose
And woke up in charge of Renault
irach
One day on the wharf in Mumbai
Simons Mith
I encountered a Latvian spy
Software
He was armed with a gun
the last one was excellent, BTW
Phil
So I started to run
Marc
And got decked at the docks, then good-bye!
Software
The Irish have voted with "yes"
penelope
To convert all their taps to Guin
ness
Rosie
So, taking a bath
nights
Will be more of a laugh
irach
Than a matter of hygiene and finesse
Marc
The things that she did with her tongue
Juxtapose
To the snippet of Schubert she sung
Darren
Involved much saliva
Rosie
This pretty muff diver
penelope
Until the last note, which still stung
[Rosie] I think you'll find it's spelled 'diva' ;o)
irach
The things that he does with his pole
Phil
Would even surprise Old King Cole
Software
'Cos with it he'd fiddle
Raak
And play paradiddle
Kim
On anything sporting a hole
Juxtapose
The things he can do with his mind
Software
If acted would make him go blind
Marc
And he thinks he's a hero
Darren
Acts like Emperor Nero
Rosie
Who was not always very refined.
irach
A toothless old hag from Tbilisi
Rosie
Ran a chip shop whose products were greasy
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