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The Obligatory Limericks Game
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When the Crescenters arrive at Rab...
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Sir Henry
The rest in a great pile of . . . "what's brown and sounds like a bell"
The Wichita Lineman
Puckoon
Douglas Adams wrote "The Salmon of Doubt"
Sir Henry
Working title
"Faith Haddock Without"
Projoy
But the draft wasn't finished
Kim
Adams' strength was diminished
Darren
The light of his life flickered out.
Sir Henry
Tim Berners-Lee said of the web
Darren
"It makes me look less of a pleb."
Projoy
"For I now wear flash suits"
Rosie
"Gone are those zoots"
penelope
"Don't you think I resemble a deb?"
That's enough of that!
As he jumped from the wardrobe, he said:
Darren
"I am wearing my pants on my head."
Sir Henry
"and my socks on my thumb"
Projoy
Which has made them go numb
ZK
"And smell oddly like garlic bread"
In the middle of writing an ode
Rosie
to the hard men who dig up the road
Hugh Jampton
I spied a strange man
Raak
Making tea in a can
Software
While his body was painted with woad.
Kim
While attending a conference in Ghent
Projoy
I found that my briefcase was bent
Raak
Its titanium hinge
AXI
Had developed a fringe
Software
Of no use to a business-like gent
Rosie
The good folk of Buckfastleigh, Devon
ZK
All retire to bed around seven
AXI
For they get up at eleven
(oops this is going to be an all lines rhyme limerick)
Sir Henry
Read a book by Nye Bevan
Hugh Jampton
and pray that they go to heaven
Tuj
When standing alone in the dark
penelope
I disrobed, to my vest, for a lark.
Knobbly
I re-dressed in a hurry
Count Jim ‘Thighs’ Moriarty
when a truck load of slurry
Darren
Escaped (stained my shirt with a mark).
Tuj
The trouble with loaning out bees
Lootenant Hern-Hern
is thay always come back with strained knees
Hern
Knobbly
Quite why this is so
Raak
I really don't know
Projoy
But a physicist might for some fees
(according to Physics, a bumblebee can't fly).
A stalactite falls from the roof
Snodgrass
Wooky Hole provides us with proof
quite splendid caves there, well worth a visit
Raak
That if no-one is there
Lootenant Hern-Hern
does anyone care?
-
Who gives a Hern
Simons Mith
Or are we completely aloof?
nights
There once was a student in Leeds
Software
Whose ambition was spreading his seeds
Sir Henry
So of he went clubbing
AXI
while elm seeds dropping
Breadmaster
And satisfied
all
of his needs.
Sir Henry
"MY GOD" said her lady in waiting
penelope
"Her Ladyship's gorn out nude skating!"
Software
"If she slips on her front"
Darren
"She may bear the brunt"
Major Dennis Bloodnok, Military Idiot, Coward & Bar
Of two Green Carpet Moths mating
The Wichita Lineman
It's about time I started a round
I'm getting fed-up just drawing lines for other people.
Rosie
"Frère Jacques" will do - nice sound.
Raak
"Sur le pont d'Avignon"
Kim
Si vous dirai-je mamman
Software
Tut, tut. Our French is not good, I'll be bound!
Software
nights
There once was a frozen lake
[previous limerick] it's not bad, and I'd know. I see bad French all the time - generally in my own notes. sigh.
AXI
Whose ice would many a maid take
Projoy
The maids were not found
(not aimed at anyone in particular, but players unsure of the best rhythm for a limerick might find
this
useful. (Rhymes are, luckily, more intuitive).
Projoy
Actually,
this page
is a bit more user-friendly.
Darren
Above the cold ground
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