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Old Mar 4th, 2006, 09:47 PM
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Limericks (For your mild amusement)

Come on everbody, let me see what you've got. Post the craziest limericks you've heard OR if you're up to it make one on the spot just to see what you can come up with.

For those of you who don't know what a limerick is (*gasp* ) Let me explain.

A limerick is a type of poem with a simple set of rules for formation. It consists of five lines total. Lines 1, 2, and 5 have three beats (roughly 7 or 8 syllables) and all rhyme. Lines 3 and 4 have two beats (roughly 5 or 6 syllables) and rhyme with eatchother. Thus the rhyming format is aabba.
So...
Line 1) 3 beats, Rhyme A
Line 2) 3 beats, Rhyme A
Line 3) 2 beats, Rhyme B
Line 4) 2 beats, Rhyme B
Line 5) 3 beats, Rhyme A

Example:
"The limerick packs laughs anatomical
Into space that is quite economical.
But the good ones I've seen
So seldom are clean
And the clean ones so seldom are comical."
-Vyvyan Holland
And in that last example, I've told you the last bit if info about the Limerick....They are usually meant to be FUNNY :-D. So show me what you've got

Edit: Typos...
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Old Mar 4th, 2006, 10:23 PM
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What a funny old bird is the pelican.
His beak can hold more than his belly can.
Right there in his beak,
He holds food for a week,
But I'm darned if I know the Hell he can.


There was a young fellow named Dwight
Whose speed was much faster than light.
He went out one day,
In a similar way,
And returned on the previous night.


There was a young lady from Melbourne
Who had a remarkable kidney.
When they said "Your adress
Makes this limerick a mess"
She replied "But I once lived in Sydney!"


There is a young man from Peru
Whose limericks end at line two.


There was young man from Geebung
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Old Mar 4th, 2006, 10:28 PM
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I'm glad you cut that last one short.
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There once was a man from Nantucket
Whose...

Wait, I probably shouldn't use that one here.

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Old Mar 4th, 2006, 10:33 PM
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Ok, totally off the cuff...no planning at all...

I stare at my computer screen
the lime looks like a dream
I saw Thanatos post
not meaning to boast
but me limerics make people cream

Ok, One more time...

(Go post count go!)

DnD online is so great
I am sure I am here due to fate
Then I saw livo's hips
Did some backflips
Hey Livo wanna go on a date
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Old Mar 4th, 2006, 10:35 PM
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Digo, please give that some work.
I don't mean to sound like a jerk
But as limericks go,
I'll have to say "no",
'cause it didn't include the word "ferk".

EDIT: That was in response to the first one, not the second. Y'know, 'cause we then get all sorts of problems.

Oh, and please, give 'em some thought. Otherwise we end up with a back-and-forth that really isn't all that funny, and just gets annoying. Who else was in arin12's game with me?

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I remember doing these in Elementary School.. fun stuff...

T'was a tale of a member new,
Who just didn't know what to do.
So he spammed in a thread,
We wished he were dead,
Now Mr. T pities the foo'
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Old Mar 4th, 2006, 10:43 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ticattack
Digo, please give that some work.
I don't mean to sound like a jerk
But as limericks go,
I'll have to say "no",
'cause it didn't include the word "ferk".
[begin thought]

ticattack may just be right
me limericks are just not that tight
To use the word ferk
It's just to much werk
So on tic I cast the spell smite

[/thought]
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Wohoo! Limerick fight!
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We should have David Bowie judge.

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Old Mar 4th, 2006, 10:52 PM
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We should have David Bowie judge.
No... there's only one way to settle a this Limerick fight... a fight... to the death....

I don't have a Limerick to add to the thread, but this reminds me of a time I wrote a Tanka for a science project... I'll post it if I can find/remember it. It was weird.
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Old Mar 4th, 2006, 10:58 PM
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Digo, I don't want to wage war.
You see, I have done so before.
It gets out of hand,
And just becomes bland,
And then it's no fun anymore.

Of course, if you want me to fight
I'll do it, but be warned, I bite.
My words tend to sting
And I hold back nothing
So don't expect my humour to be light.

So, Mister Digo, what say ye?
Are you up for a bout, or ain't ye?
If so, choose your blade,
The stage has been laid,
Or else you can run away from me.
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Old Mar 4th, 2006, 11:26 PM
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Thus, Digorig, the challenge is made,
And I ask, art thou afraid?
For ticattack, who's bark,
Makes your chances look stark,
That his bite in comparison will fade.
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Old Mar 5th, 2006, 12:07 AM
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So the gauntlet has been thrown
alas, the tic is alone
no one to aid
his rhymes do fade
perhaps I'll throw him a bone

from this war I shall not hide
hey tic, come along for the ride
it will be fun
though you are done
I shall not even spare your pride

The weapon I choose is the word
it is mightier than the sword
when all has been said
tic will lie dead
and on his big head is a turd

So run now, tic, if you can
lest I best you as I am the man
you look like a duck
your rymes they do suck
you have lost, even over a LAN
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ow. burn.
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