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The Obligatory Limericks Game
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When the Crescenters arrive at Rab...
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plump
..a hanky and socks
blamelewis
...some ears just like Spocks,
Zooological Keeper
And a bottle of
ro
sé Blue Nun.
CdM
Why, Grandma, it's
just
what I wanted!
Tuj
Is what I
would
have said - but I grunted
Rosie
'Twas all I could manage
Darren
On that day in Swanage
(it doesn't rhyme, I know)
plump
After a kiss from my old transvestite aunt Ted
Tina
The sexton said to the vicar
ZK
(Who reacted with naught but a flicker)
Chalky
"Which way do you lean ..
[UNfinished quote alert]
Software
because you see I'm quite keen
careful, now...
Wol
To make your silk vestments look slicker.
ZK
Twas the night before Christmas, it's said,
Kim
While all the good folk were a'bed,
Software
That Santa's wee elves
Fridge
make friendly spells
Zooological Keeper
for sugarplums and gingerbread.
(ignoring Fridge's blatant mixing of tenses)
spliggo
Sesquipedalianism
Software
essentially, verbosity driven
Tuj
Makes people, in herds
integer
(Whose brains are like bird's)
Raak
Feel their corpus callosum is riven.
ZK
I saw David Beckham last week
snorgle
I gave his left butt cheek a tweak
Uncle Korky
It came off in my hand
spliggo
which was not what I'd planned
Software
so next week I'm in front of the beak.
One wonders what Victoria would say - if she actually realized, that is.
Chalky
One has to be cruel to be kind
... sigh
blamelewis
So here is a piece of my mind
Tina
I'm sick of your moods,
Rosie
and your Chopin Preludes
Dujon
Hence I'll play by myself and go blind
...
I'm leaving
Kim
Cette sauce d'haute qualité
Rosie
qui contient d'la merde rechauffée
snorgle
est un petit peu drolle
Software
nous sommes a l'ecole?
ZK
Bien sur - comme vous avez gouté!
ZK
Vous avez le Knockwurst chez vous?
Toby
Aber nein doch, das geb' ich nicht zu
ZK
Mais, ce grand saucisson?
ZK
*no "?" intended*
Rosie
dont l'odeur est si bon
Your Mother
Damnit teach me to spend a long time reading before posting...
st dogmael
Das ist Bratwurst nicht Knockwurst, (qui pue !)
Software
What's wrong with plain English I ask?
Rosie
Mon Dieu! Nous sommes taken to task.
Breadmaster
Mais j'ai peur that I'm stuck
Kim
Und Ich hab nicht mehr luck
Toby
Et je veux's Nächstenmal we speak Basque.
Toby
- oh, sorry
ZK
Last night as I went off to bed
Tina
, a polka dot scarf on my head,
plump
I tripped on a stair
ZK
Landing on Tony Blair
Breadmaster
Now I'm in Belmarsh until I am dead!
ZK
The trouble with children today
snorgle
Is they don't kneel down and pray
Toby
When asking permission
Rosie
to indulge in coition
plump
They say "No, you big perv, go away"
Zooological Keeper
When the Crescenters arrive at rab,
penelope
They find it all dreary and drab
poetic licence. Not true, rab sweetie.
LotUS
With colours insipid
- second application for poetic license
Rosie
Walls all strippéd
-
can it really be this bad?
Raak
But I'm joking -- it's really ab fab!
Tina
I know all the secrets of love
Rosie
When to wriggle, when to roll, when to shove.
Angus Prune
But this illness, I fear
snorgle
Was brought on by beer
Software
so I'm flacid and won't fit like a glove
Good News
My fingers are feeling quite sore
Make of it what you will...
ZK
For I got them trapped in the door
Rosie
It could have been worse
ZK
For I got the nurse
Dujon
To kiss them and wrap them - and more!
ZK
I once knew a man from Northants
plump
who cooked a stew made of old pants
Software
with dumplings like lead
ZK
And an old cabbage head
Rosie
all garnished with microwaved ants.
ZK
One day I'll stop starting the rhyme
Software
start stopping - now is the time
LotUS
When future and past
ZK
Turn to present, at last
Toby
Was and will be starstopting sublime.
endliner
Kim
It's been a stop/start kind of day
ZARBENIA
Iv'e been casting my glances away
Tina
, The kind where there's simply no way
Tina
oops simulpost. Ignore mine.
ZARBENIA
Too late, It's been captured online
Unbiased umpire
On balance, we'll go with Zarbenia
It's been a stop/start kind of day
I've been casting my glances away
Software
where shall I go?
ZK
'Cos I simply don't know
Angus Prune
How to finish this in a clever way
Poisoned Pigeon
The trouble with being so clever
Breadmaster
Is you can't keep your thoughts all together
Toby
They prance and cavort
ZK
Way odd in an of sort
Chalky
Thus scuppering scansion endeavour
[ZK - what
were
you thinking of?] :-)
Raak
The trouble with aardvarks is this:
ZK
(Trust me, I'm not taking the piss)
[Chalky - the 2nd line of the limerick, naturally :)]
Chalky
Alphabetically
Rosie
they're tops, if trickily
Do I read you right, Chalks?
Tina
served under hot melted Swiss.
Breadmaster
My belt hardly fits round my waist!
Angus Prune
All due to a turkey's great taste
Poisoned Pigeon
The magic of 'tatoes
Rosie
Purchased from Waitrose
Best I could do. (PP) "Taters" would have been easier.
plump
And eaten with indecent haste
Kim
In the post-Christmas, pre-New Year gap
[Rosie] I thought of "And - yikes! - up my weight goes" for the 4th line above, but decided against it.
Rosie
The TV has rather less pap.
(Kim) No worse than mine! I tried to think of the chemical name for various sugars, eg lactose, fructose, sucrose etc but the neurons had congealed. Alas!
Breadmaster
Though there's no more
The Office
Raak
The ISIHAC sophis-
(-try, -ticated, -m, etc.)
Chalky
-ticates will say 'bah' to the crap.
widey
There once was a girl called Sally
Dujon
A 'bush baby' born in the mallee
Rosie
Her chief claim to fame
Wossa "mallee", Duj?
Angus Prune
Was a deep source of shame
Toby
For the dark deed she'd done in the alley.
Valentin
There once was a playwright called Will
snorgle
Who said that he'd had his fill
unfinished sentence alert..
Widey
So with a groan and a sigh
Angus Prune
And a tear in the eye
Rosie
Declared "Not to be!". (Slave to the quill).
Stony ground, snorgle. :-(
Toby
With due apprehension and dread
Dujon
I approached the dark land of the dead
Widey
with a pencil full of lead
CdM
From the gloom and the drear
[Widey] Sorry, but given your unorthodox rhyme and non-existent scansion, I thought this limerick deserved better.
Raak
There came to my ear
Chalky
'Ace of Spades'
from the band
Motörhead.
Chalky
And now I'll begin a new ditty
Toby
And though it be brief, 'tis not pretty
Breadmaster
For the tale's one of woe
Poisoned Pigeon
As these ditties go
Rosie
'cos I support Birmingham City.
widey
It was in Scotland I seem to remember
LotUS
That I had begun to dismember
rab
A turtle called Pete
Rosie
I needed to eat
penelope
Since breakfast was served last September
plump
As the Old Year came to an end
Angus Prune
And my brain cells all went round the bend
Poisoned Pigeon
I said "Happy Hogmanay!"
Valentin
And saw out the day
snorgle
Passed out, on the floor, with a friend
Rosie
It's still not New Year in Caracas
(as I write)
penelope
And the natives are causing a fracas
pronunciation wild...
Breadmaster
For they love Hogmanay
LotUS
But would get blown away
Toby
If they used fireworks as maracas
Kim
Among my new year's resolutions
Chalky
I shall try to refine my ablutions
Dujon
I shall shave every day
Sorry, Chalky - nowt personal!
Toby
For it's
so
distingué
Rosie
'mongst those whom "I'mSorryIHaven'tAClue" shuns.
Thos
I once had a donkey to lunch
Toby
With a sigh he started to munch
momus
"oh, this lettuce is limp"
momus
"oh, this lettuce is limp"
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