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  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    edited June 2022

    It this heat, you may not wear a sweater
    In fact, when perspiring there's better
  • NenyaNenya All Saints Host, Ecclesiantics & MW Host
    It this heat, you may not wear a sweater
    In fact, when perspiring there's better
    Ways to keep cool
    Like a plunge in the pool

  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host
    In this heat, you may not wear a sweater
    In fact, when perspiring there's better
    Ways to keep cool
    Like a plunge in the pool
    Or composing a cold-hearted letter.
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    Clever ending, @BroJames


  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    stetson wrote: »
    Clever ending, @BroJames
    [...]

    Indeed!
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host

    A Limerick once cleverely ended
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    A Limerick once cleverely ended
    Without the rhyme too much bended.
    Bended, you ask
    And then take me to task
    For quite rightly you're rather offended!
  • :lol:

    Down to earth again...

    There was an Old Man with a Wife
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host
    edited June 2022
    There was an Old Man with a Wife
    Who’d accomp’nied his songs on the wife
    But when his voice broke
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    [Sorry, @BroJames, but what does "accompanied his songs on the wife" mean?]


  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host
    Oops. Autocorrect

    There was an Old Man with a Wife
    Who’d accomp’nied his songs on the fife
    But when his voice broke
  • There was an Old Man with a Wife
    Who’d accomp’nied his songs on the fife
    But when his voice broke
    And he started to choke
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    There was an Old Man with a Wife
    Who’d accomp’nied his songs on the fife
    But when his voice broke
    And he started to choke
    She hoped it would finish his life.

  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    Last night, I broke out in a rash
  • Last night, I broke out in a rash
    From being chastised with a lash
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    Last night, I broke out in a rash
    From being chastised with a lash
    But what was my crime?

  • Last night, I broke out in a rash
    From being chastised with a lash
    But what was my crime?
    I'd had a good time
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    Last night, I broke out in a rash
    From being chastised with a lash
    But what was my crime?
    I'd had a good time
    Trading pats on the bottom for cash.



  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    Said Albert: "E equals MC
    And I'll throw in a 'squared' just for free"

    [You can continue it as a quote, or switch back to the third-person.]
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host
    Said Albert: "E equals MC
    And I'll throw in a 'squared' just for free”
    You know this is true
    When you look at the view
    In the midst of a near-light-speed spree.
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    edited June 2022

    Said Darwin, while stuck on the Beagle:
  • NenyaNenya All Saints Host, Ecclesiantics & MW Host
    Said Darwin, while stuck on the Beagle:
    "Is that albatross, kite, or sea eagle?"

  • jrwjrw Shipmate
    Said Darwin, while stuck on the Beagle:
    "Is that albatross, kite, or sea eagle?"
    A policeman appeared
    With a really long beard
    Said, "Dunno, but your ship is illegal.

  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    Albatross, famous theme from The Python
    Is rather unlike any syphon.
    But the fish-slapping dance
    Is another nice stance
    By Python, and writ' with a hyphen.
  • A Hedgehog y-clept* Spiny Norman

    (*old fashioned word for named)
  • I'm inspired (?) to continue with Line 2:

    A Hedgehog y-clept Spiny Norman
    Turned down a good job as a Doorman

  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    edited June 2022
    A Hedgehog y-clept Spiny Norman
    Turned down a good job as a Doorman
    So the Brothers Piranha

  • A Hedgehog y-clept Spiny Norman
    Turned down a good job as a Doorman
    So the Brothers Piranha
    (Doug disguised as a Banana)
  • jrwjrw Shipmate
    A Hedgehog y-clept Spiny Norman
    Turned down a good job as a Doorman
    So the Brothers Piranha
    (Doug disguised as a Banana)
    Said, "You'd get paid as much as a foreman.

  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    A fireman once on an old loco
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    @Wesley J

    Is "loco" short for "locomotive"?
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    A fireman once on an old loco
    Was listening to a track by Toto
    The African rain
    Quite excited his brain
    Hence the beatific smile in his photo.
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    stetson wrote: »
    @Wesley J

    Is "loco" short for "locomotive"?
    Yep. But it doesn't really matter, as long as there's a fun follow-up, so it's all fine. :)
  • SpikeSpike Ecclesiantics & MW Host, Admin Emeritus
    There once was a man
    From Cork who got limericks
    And Haikus confused
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    Wesley J wrote: »
    stetson wrote: »
    @Wesley J

    Is "loco" short for "locomotive"?
    Yep. But it doesn't really matter, as long as there's a fun follow-up, so it's all fine. :)

    Particularly the second line, which is also clever.
  • SpikeSpike Ecclesiantics & MW Host, Admin Emeritus
    A little green spaceman from Mars
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    {Gentle Hostly Reminder]

    Could everyone, please, indicate when their Limerick is finished, so we could then all move on to the next one? See my suggestion of 26 April 2022, here.

    Extract:
    Wesley J wrote: »
    Hostly note no 2:
    • At the end of each Limerick, please post a clear visual sign, so that people know it ist the last line. Suggestion: see this here:
      or a similar thing. You get this wobbly line by using 5 times the minus (or hyphen) sign on your keyboard, i.e. - - - - - without spaces.

    Could we please ask everyone to take this to heart? No more confusion, please, if possible. It would help.

    Thank you muchly.

    Wesley J, Circus Host
    [/Gentle Hostly Reminder]

    ... So we have:
    A little green spaceman from Mars
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    A little green spaceman from Mars
    Was quite fond of deep-fried Mars bars
  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    edited June 2022
    A little green spaceman from Mars
    Took to hanging around dodgy bars.
    A toper from Ealing
    Exclaimed with much feeling
    "I must've had too many jars".

    ________________

    A red-nosed old toper from Ealing

  • SpikeSpike Ecclesiantics & MW Host, Admin Emeritus
    A red-nosed old toper from Ealing
    Could majestically pee on the ceiling
  • A red-nosed old toper from Ealing
    Could majestically pee on the ceiling
    The plaster objected
    And urine rejected
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    A red-nosed old toper from Ealing
    Could majestically pee on the ceiling
    The plaster objected
    And urine rejected
    So his face got that splashy hot feeling.

  • :lol: I was hoping for that sort of last line...

    There was an Old Man on a Horse
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    There was an Old Man on a Horse
    Who galloped ahead with some force
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    There was an Old Man on a Horse
    Who galloped ahead with some force
    But then came a mare

  • jrwjrw Shipmate
    There was an Old Man on a Horse
    Who galloped ahead with some force
    But then came a mare
    Whose rider was bare
    Eating fish and chips smothered with sauce

  • MiffyMiffy Shipmate
    Watching Glasto on BBC Sounds
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    Watching Glasto on BBC Sounds
    I saw hipsters all making the rounds



  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    edited June 2022
    Watching Glasto on BBC Sounds
    I saw hipsters all making the rounds
    They stared at Sir Paul
    Whom they knew not at all
    But he still earned a whole lotta pounds.
  • SpikeSpike Ecclesiantics & MW Host, Admin Emeritus
    The beginning of Wimbledon fortnight
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