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The Obligatory Limericks Game
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When the Crescenters arrive at Rab...
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Knobbly
The cause of my facial contusion
Projoy
Is a thin air and plate glass confusion
Rosie
The one is ethereal
Darren
The other's material
Falstaff
And my face, their media for fusion.
rab
A good dump of snow in the morning
Raak
Is a reason to stay in bed yawning
Software
'Cos all the damn schools
Rosie
Will be closed; safety rules
The little buggers might get COLD!
Darren
Must all be obeyed. That's a warning.
Chalky
This comedy mask doesn't fit
Kim
In places it pinches a bit
Projoy
And it's not really funny
irach
To look like a bunny
Darren
Who's crouching and ready to... spit
penelope
Open season on pantomime dames
Projoy
John Inman's been shot down in flames
Darren
Dale Winton's in panic
Chalky
Frank Bruno's just ... manic
Rosie
But don't mess with Botham; he maims.
. . . rather unfair to him, actually, but this has been hanging around for a few days now.
Projoy
This feels just the winter for cricket
irach
I think I'll be keeping the wicket
Software
But bowling on ice
Darren
Is not very nice
Ol' Rum-n-Riot
To penguins; take your ball and stick'et.
Juxtapose
There once was a svelte young brunette
Software
Who was smuggled aboard a corvette
Chalky
The boot was too small
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what's a corvette?
Blob
Though she curled in a ball
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[Chalky] Er, it's a small ship, so unlikely to have a boot really, but we'll pretend we're talking about a Corvette Stingray shall we ? ;-)
Raak
A position she called cul-à-tête
Chalky
My new sailing ship has a boot
:-D
Software
I'm a Corsair so I'll fill it with loot
while on the boat/car bifircation...
Rosie
An act of no Merit
That's my rough little Corsa.
Irouléguy
Like slipping a ferret
penelope
Down a gentleman's
whistle-and-flute
Falstaff
When a bear does his job in the wood
Software
(Proverbially, just as it should)
Raak
The mice in the grass
Dandalf
Start nibbling his arse
Chalky
With hindsight they'd've run if they could.
[a bit dull sorry - anything to get things moving again ...]
Chalky
The cause of this sorry affair
Rosie
So foul that I do not dare
Software
To mention the fact
Falstaff
I have nada for tact
Software
So I'll tell the whole world, I don't care
Kim
I've managed, without interference,
Kim
Ahem
Kim
I've managed, without interference,
Chalky
To alter my husband's appearance
rab
He's now eight feet tall
penelope
But has only one ball
sorrysorrysorry
Chalky
And that needs a sixteen-inch clearance
- oooh - what a monster I've created
Rosie
For those with testicular gigantism
. . . there ought to be a few rhymes, and if not, well, bollocks.
Software
(Barring the mono or double schism)
Mmmm, yes, that could work, subject to the scansion police
Juxtapose
It's wise, I suspect,
throwing caution to the wind...
Chalky
To join the new sect
Raak
Baptised by immersion in...
(No, I can't bring myself to type it.)
Chalky
It takes just a moment to find
[Raak] admirable restraint, sir,
Phil
That an orange tastes better "sans rind";
Raak
But if you chew the pips
Rosie
Take this wisest of tips
Pompous, moi?
Projoy
- just don't take the pith: 'tis unkind.
A river of buttons doth flow
Wymo
To a land where the cuffs dare not go
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I smell realism here...
Rosie
Lest they cover my watch
(Projoy) You're mad. :-)
Software
(An extravagant Swatchâ„¢)
Darren
Where they've all come from, I don't know
Rosie
There was a young chap from Slovakia
Raak
Whose verse, beside ours, was much tackia
Software
His scansion was iffy
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