mc5 - The Obligatory Limericks Game

A mad bomber from -- no, too soon for that I think.

On a stroll in the gardens of Kew [Chalky] Well, I know now, I didn't see the middle two words.

I discovered a cure for the 'flu

Projoy

Once I'd eaten the herb

Rosie

the bugs to disturb

irach

And it cured too my coeliac sprue

Projoy

"Play 'Misty' for me!", bellowed Wendy.

RedSnapper

To her new man - a Turkish effendi

nights

He played not a note

irach

Nor strummed his sarod

Or blew on his brass horn so bendy.

Juxtapose

I know I've been gone for a while

Projoy

And left in a worrying style

penelope

But I've now done my time

nights

And constructed a rhyme

Chalky

To puzzle, bemuse and beguile:

My first letter looks like a tent
My second's a coin oft spent
Then ditto for three
The fourth's a trainee
And my last is the vowel in Lent

[Chalks]*hasn't seen a doctor in months* (dammit, because some of them are actually quite good-looking)

In a fairy tale that I once heard