I'm going to close this thread for a few hours until I can find out what is actually going on here! For it came to pass that I'm rather confused at the moment. - Getting advice backstage.
Meanwhile, please be nice and play outside. If it's raining, please get your wellies and a brolly. Or stay in the house and play a card game.
We will be back soon. Many thanks for your patience.
Thank you, everybody, for your patience.
This fast-flowing thread had become a bit confusing, due to cross-posting and page breaks.
Let's please try the following:
Before you post, please refresh the page you are on. Are you on the last page?
When you write your draft, or post, check that you haven't missed the foot of the page: Is your post still on the same page, or has it moved to the next one? (The page numbers are in little boxes at the top and bottom of every page.)
Especially when you get to a new page, let's quote or copy the lines that have gone before; you can copy text directly from a post by pressing on part of it and highlighting it, then pasting it into your post.
If somebody has posted a few moments before you with the same rhyme/in the same position, you have two choices: either a) you have have 6 minutes to edit your post, and come up with a suitably clever follow-up post; or b)you can delete your line; but then you need to leave at least a single character (people often use . ); or you could also write something like: (deleted)
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.
I hope this will make the game easier to follow, but still fun to play!
Thank you to everyone, especially my friendly fellow Circus Hosts, for their helpful suggestions.
There was an Old Man of t'Abruzzi
Who spent far too long in his Jacuzzi
His wrinkled old skin
Was wearing quite thin -
At last he could right through his foot see.
A happy young woman from Maine
Read the biblical story of Cain
When it came to the bit
Where his bro takes a hit
"Oh, yes!" was her lusty refrain.
A groom while reciting his vows
Alone on a walk in the woods
While smuggling contraband goods
A bold Balkan bandit
Had sneakily planned it
But was ambushed by bears wearing hoods.
An eager Young Man from Newcastle
An eager Young Man from Newcastle
To the gym went to train every muscle
He strained both his knees
And started to wheeze
And found it was all too much hassle.
There was an Old Man in the Bible
There was an Old Man in the Bible
Whose instincts were basic and tribal
In the Lord he trusted
The enemy got busted
Though his Decalogue bordered on libel.
It is written that "Thou shalt not kill"
It is written that "Thou shalt not kill"
So your heart full of evil don't fill
Please don't contemplate murder
But they never heard her
They've just been nicked by the Old Bill
A cheerful Young Person from Norwich
Subsisted entirely on Porridge
Which had the effect
Of causing respect
For his stomach, so proudly engorged.
One morning in Silicon Valley
One morning in Silicon Valley
A brilliant scientist called Sally
Invented an app
For curing the clap
Sought no patent - all too shilly-shally.
A Sally Army officer called Pete
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I'm going to close this thread for a few hours until I can find out what is actually going on here! For it came to pass that I'm rather confused at the moment. - Getting advice backstage.
Meanwhile, please be nice and play outside. If it's raining, please get your wellies and a brolly. Or stay in the house and play a card game.
We will be back soon. Many thanks for your patience.
Wesley J, Circus Host
Thank you, everybody, for your patience.
This fast-flowing thread had become a bit confusing, due to cross-posting and page breaks.
Let's please try the following:
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.
I hope this will make the game easier to follow, but still fun to play!
Thank you to everyone, especially my friendly fellow Circus Hosts, for their helpful suggestions.
Wesley J, Circus Host
The waste we deplore
This you normally do with confetti!
An old man in danger of dying
Called a nurse, who assumed he was lying.
When he asked for a bedpan
Called a nurse, who assumed he was lying.
When he asked for a bedpan
With expression quite deadpan
Who spent far too long in his Jacuzzi
Who spent far too long in his Jacuzzi
His wrinkled old skin
Who spent far too long in his Jacuzzi
His wrinkled old skin
Was wearing quite thin -
At last he could right through his foot see.
Read the biblical story of Cain
When it came to the bit
Read the biblical story of Cain
When it came to the bit
Where his bro takes a hit
A happy young woman from Maine
Read the biblical story of Cain
When it came to the bit
Where his bro takes a hit
"Oh, yes!" was her lusty refrain.
A groom while reciting his vows
Caused of the eyes slightly raised brows
Caused of the eyes slightly raised brows
Instead of ‘I do’
Declining to make her his spouse.
——
Alone on a walk in the woods
While smuggling contraband goods
A bold Balkan bandit
Had sneakily planned it
But was ambushed by bears wearing hoods.
An eager Young Man from Newcastle
To the gym went to train every muscle
To the gym went to train every muscle
He strained both his knees
To the gym went to train every muscle
He strained both his knees
And started to wheeze
And found it was all too much hassle.
There was an Old Man in the Bible
Whose instincts were basic and tribal
In the Lord he trusted
The enemy got busted
Whose instincts were basic and tribal
In the Lord he trusted
The enemy got busted
Though his Decalogue bordered on libel.
It is written that "Thou shalt not kill"
So your heart full of evil don't fill
Please don't contemplate murder
So your heart full of evil don't fill
Please don't contemplate murder
But they never heard her
So your heart full of evil don't fill
Please don't contemplate murder
But they never heard her
They've just been nicked by the Old Bill
Subsisted entirely on Porridge
Subsisted entirely on Porridge
Which had the effect
Subsisted entirely on Porridge
Which had the effect
Of causing respect
Subsisted entirely on Porridge
Which had the effect
Of causing respect
For his stomach, so proudly engorged.
One morning in Silicon Valley
A brilliant scientist called Sally
A brilliant scientist called Sally
Invented an app
A brilliant scientist called Sally
Invented an app
For curing the clap
A brilliant scientist called Sally
Invented an app
For curing the clap
Sought no patent - all too shilly-shally.
A Sally Army officer called Pete