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The Obligatory Limericks Game
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When the Crescenters arrive at Rab...
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Juxtapose
And what's even better,
Falstaff
They fill out a sweater,
Saxon
So long as there's no absentees
Projoy
This caffeine will give me a lift
Rosie
The lead in my head it will shift
Puckoon
but as for my liver...
Darren
It will cry a river
Falstaff
What will spill when my flood gates are rift
Juxtapose
So welcome to 2006
Raak
I shall learn every day some new tricks
Darren
Involving some rope
Projoy
And our new model Pope
Puckoon
and a very large box of matchsticks
Cor strike-a-light guv'nor!
and other such 'Van Dyke cockernee'
Software
Resolutions are most often broken
Darren
In ways which are better not spoken
Raak
Are those such as these:
Raak
Oops, I didn't notice the "are" in the first line, or I imagined a "which", so mine makes no grammatical sense. Try this instead:
One's New Year intention
Rosie
Of modest dimension
Phil
Is less use than a £1 book token
Saxon
This stance is under inspection
Rosie
It seems to need no correction
Darren
But since golf requires
Projoy
Lots of land in the shires
Software
It attracts some rural attention
Kim
I'm off out to hunt for wild boar
penelope
I've got bullets enough to shoot four
Darren
Provided I aim
Rosie
To kill, not to maim
jim
Protestations I'll choose to ignore
irach
I'd say to be fluent in Latin
Darren
You'd choose the right chair to be sat in
Falstaff
Whilst gargling with petrol
Irouléguy
I'm ready to bet you'll
Raak
Achieve a result by
le matin
.
Well, that was really average.
A sailor from far-off Malay
Projoy
Denied that his boyfriend was gay
Rosie
He did, though, admit
Bigsmith
That he managed to fit
Darren
The figurehead in his back way
Chalky
Now THAT was well above average:-)
Breadmaster
My father would often insist
Darren
He could fit, in his mouth, a whole fist
Puckoon
but we said, "We don't care."
Raak
So he showed us with flair
penelope
He put hand to mouth, and he missed
Phil
There was a young lady called Karen
CdM
Who knew a young lady called Sharon
Rosie
The one was delightful
irach
The other, most frightful
Projoy
But both will be punted by Charon
This scotch in my slippers is yummy
Puckoon
The taste is OK, but it smells hummy
Software
The aroma's not peaty
Uncle Korky
But rather quite meaty
penelope
And smells like my feety, says Mummy
Tuj
Have you ever been in a canoe?
Projoy
And if so, do you know what to do...
jim
In an eskimo roll
Raak
You must waggle your pole
Software
And watch out for where the bears poo
Phil
In my hat is some dry Plymouth gin
-
continuing Projoy's theme
Projoy
That enters my head through my skin.
Darren
To drink through osmosis
rab
Halts liver cirrhosis
Raak
Allowing unlimited sin.
Projoy
Bravo! Wit, scansion, clever rhymes! That one had the lot!
It's time to play Beethoven loud!
Raak
Come one and come all, join the crowd!
Darren
The Ninth in D Minor
Juxtapose
For nothing is finer
Software
I'm sure his old mum would be proud
Phil
While reading
The Meaning of Liff
Irouléguy
(As a PDF, not a GIF)
Count Jim ‘Thighs’ Moriarty
my screen it went blank
-
More of a bang really, s'bit of a bugger really...
Rosie
Not surprised, to be frank
Software
As the file was served as a TIFF
irach
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Projoy
We're going to visit, because
Darren
I'm hoping he'll give
Rosie
me reason to live
. . . . sad . . . .
Falstaff
i.e.
repeal the polygyny laws.
...so true....
Juxtapose
A feisty young pilgrim named Scott
Projoy
Was getting on fine, until shot
Darren
In the back, by a gun
Software
By a militant nun
Rosie
Whom he'd made agreeably hot.
Kim
The building site over the road
Projoy
Can be entered by keying the code
irach
"GNISSAPSERT_TON_MI_ON"
Phil
Which should open Gate 1
Falstaff
What drops, squishing you flat as a toad
Marc
One night as she opened her door
rab
She noticed an absence of floor
Software
"Oh, what has become ... "
Hanging quote warning!
Irouléguy
"of my hall - how rum..."
Warning extended
Rosie
"that it looked like this after the war."
...oldie...
(Softers, IrG) Why close the quotes, then?
irach
I heard a loud "Squish" in the hall
Software
But on checking, there was f*ck all
Rosie
It must be my ears
(Softers) Have the courage of your profanity. :-)
Darren
They've been waxy for years
Projoy
And go "squish" till I give them a trawl.
The animals entered in twos
irach
The Ark was more cramped than most zoos
Chalky
Survival became
(.. unfinished sen ..)
Rosie
The name of the game
Marc
Let's see what they found on their cruise
Marc
As Noah had hoisted his sails,
Irouléguy
The elephants lifted their tails
A fair wind ensued
Darren
(Albeit quite rude)
Projoy
And threw Japeth and Shem o'er the rails
blamelewis
'Twas then that the flood did commence
Juxtapose
And swept the menagerie hence
Rosie
Alas, few could swim
irach
So Noah sang out a hymn
penelope
To save all from a damp consequence
Projoy
But it fell on deaf ears, floods increased
Rosie
The rain, though, had long ago ceased
I'm sure there's a hydrological explanation.
irach
Then the crocodile pair
Software
Emerged from their lair
Chalky
To size up the animal feast!
Chalky
Hors d'oeuvre was a Hamster En Croute
Phil
With a garnish of fricasséed newt
Irouléguy
And a cherry coulis
Software
A glass of cat's pee
Rosie
And little dungballs en mazout.
Kim
With years left in prison to serve,
-
Unfinished sentence alert..
Raak
Hussein has lost none of his verve
Projoy
He still sings the blues
Software
Having nothing to loose
Darren
And writes fan mail to Catherine Deneuve
Rosie
Whilst disinfecting the loo
irach
I noticed the pee left by Pooh
Software
'T was all over the seat
Marc
And it covered my feet
Darren
I can't potty train him; can you?
Projoy
I'm gaming with each of your minds
F'staff
By undressing with open blinds
Marc
Exposing my Long-Johns,
Chalky
[I'd put on the wrong ones]
[Marc] thanks a bunch :-)
penelope
And showing my Oxfam shop finds
Projoy
The higher you climb up the pole
irach
The harder to reach your prime goal
Software
Especially when
Kim
The bosses are men
Chalky
, iguanas, or fillies in foal
Chalky
Perfection is hard to achieve
Darren
Yet if I fail, then I must leave
Projoy
, Commit hara-kiri,
Salamander Pudding
The philosophical theory
Raak
That death will, less than failure, aggrieve.
Rosie
Few people are practised at pottery
irach
At the wheel I'm all shaky and tottery
Salamander Pudding
Don't mention the glaze
Darren
I applied in a daze
Projoy
Simul'ed - I had (
And, my God, all those clays!
)
The result at the end is a lottery
Chalky
For seven and fourpence a week
Blob
One could dress quite remarkably chic
Kim
In 1908
Projoy
But I fear that, of late,
Salamander Pudding
You'd be kicked out of any boutique
hemline
Phil
I fear that disorder is rife
Rosie
In the one-time Kingdom of Fife
irach
The serfs in Fife's fiefs
Raak
Are revolting their chiefs
Software
By offering the use of their wife
Kim
There's panic and fear on the streets!
Raak
They resound to the mob's trampling feets!
Salamander Pudding
Setting buildings ablaze
Projoy
And undoing their stays
Rosie
And denouncing the works of John Keats.
SalPud
The looters are seen on the telly
irach
Raiding grocery shelves to steal jelly
Software
Let's enforce martial law
Darren
And give them what for
Rosie
For they have no
casus belli.
Projoy
It's Oat-en the open - those swine
(
un
finished
sentence
career alert)
Botherer
Who escaped from the hog farm are mine!
Waiting for cereal killer reference
Projoy
[Both] I was shooting for a Lib Dem Homo affairs topic there, but no matter :)
Marc
We'll return now to order,
Software
Redefining the border
Phil
Of what's pink and what's pork - so that's fine.
Juxtapose
At dinner there's only one topic
Raak
Should the Liberals choose Lembit Öpik
irach
Should we fear asteroids
Rosie
Shall I take my steroids
Kim
Should we worry 'bout things microscopic?
To be continued....
Software
Charles Kennedy - all is forgiven
Projoy
We know why to drink you were driven.
Darren
Your bright ginger hair
Rosie
The Lib Dems' shape? Pear
jim
It makes your life hardly worth livin'
Rosie
My niece tells me Campbell's a minger
. . . . continuing the theme . . . .
Darren
She says I should give him the finger
Mick Smetaphor
But to play devil's A
Raak
Even dogs have their day
Irouléguy
And give him his due, he's not ginger
Projoy
A description I have of Chris Huhne
SalPud
Mentions a Yellow Baboon
- hope that rhymes???
Darren
As seen from the rear
irach
He inspires great fear
Rosie
That all of a sudden he'll moon.
(SalPud) Well, not really, but I'll go along with it. :-)
irach
Is the moon tonight waxing or waning?
Rosie
No-one can say, 'cos it's raining
Botherer
The raindrops that fall
penelope
Let me see b*gger all
Projoy
Which is why I am loudly profaning.
Rosie
The good folk of Maidenhead, Berks
F'staff
Are known by their conspicuous quirks
Software
'Cos their bland little town
[F'staff] in UK 'Berks' is pronounced 'barks' for your future enlightenment
Marc
We have turned upside down
[Software] what’s UK?
Kim
And moved up to Bromsgrove in Worcs.
Juxtapose
I once hopped a train to Helsinki
[i,R,B,p,P - nice] [Marc - United Kingdom. England et. al.]
Kim
Where I met a strange man (well, I think he...
Botherer
Was strange and quite rude
Software
Using language quite crude
Chalky
Whilst flashing his wee willy winkie)
well - I HAD to close the parentheses somehow, didn't I?
Botherer
A terrible fellow called Lance
Raak
Was never invited to dance
Rosie
His lumbering gait
(penultimate Lim) - Catastrophe in F# for five voices, K627.
irach
And his greasy bald pate
penelope
Forced rebuttals to any advance
Marc
Wolfgang Amadeus once said:
Kim
"I've got this great riff in my head".
Projoy
It's Eine fine riff
Juxtapose
But now Mozart's a stiff
Darren
His music is also quite dead.
irach
Was Wolfgang Amadeus called "Mo"?
Darren
I think his fans all need to know.
Rosie
For they are devout
Projoy
When they hear his "The Trout"
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Yeah, yeah, but what Mozart piece ends with "out"?
Rosie
Which starts on
Sol
but ends on
Doh
.
(Projoy) All trad jazz numbers end with an "out chorus", so-called.
irach
In contrast, the "Trout", Schubert's best
Projoy
Should be witnessed while wearing one's vest
Juxtapose
Not to look dashing,
Software
But rather, just flashing
Darren
The orchestra with your bare breast
Darren
[Rosie] I wasn't aware Mozart was involved with trad jazz.
Tuj
Jim Mozart, that king of trad jazz
irach
And Correa, (that's Chuck and
not
Chaz.)
Software
Don't forget Parker
Salamander Pudding
His music's much darker
Irouléguy
Just the thing for a night on the razz
Projoy
My little imaginary pig
Software
Wears a
syrup-of-fig
Rosie
It's from California
irach
All pink, and named Sonia
Kim
Wow, man, great acid, you dig?
(It's the only logical explanation)
Juxtapose
I once bought a kilo of coke
Software
With it my fire to stoke
Projoy
But the fizz had all gone
Chalky
So I downed it in one
irach
And that's when I started to choke
Kim
A feller named Ludwig van Beet
Chalky
The end of his name did delete
irach
His tune for Elise
Rosie
Can be played with some ease
(Chalky) That doesn't rhyme! I dunno, woman of your calibre.
Projoy
With your heart, with your hands, with your feet
penelope
[Kim] Have you heard Chalky
speak
? She's dreadfully posh, she'd get away with it.
This booklet is missing some pages
Rosie
My interest it no more engages
(pen) Did you mean that for me? :-)
Software
'Cos the bits taken out
Tuj
Were the ones all about
[Rosie] "Beet" "delete", it's quite fine :P
Chalky
The cut in our Directors' wages
*blithely ignores Rosie's irony bypass*
:-)
Botherer
It's such a big shame that the boss
Projoy
Aims never for profit, but loss
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