Finish the Limericks

[lgb&dtuba]

"There once was a site named Tubenet"

For tuba players who dressed in fishnet

Now some thought it was strange,

[daktx2]

We get the girls who play clarinet.

[windshieldbug]

She thinks I don't know where she's been,

[iiipopes]

But with the tell tale (tail)

[MikeMason]

The bitch is a whore now and then...

[windshieldbug]

There once was a tuba in D,

[lgb&dtuba]

There once was a tuba in D,

In fact I think there were three,

[sffz]

for awhile they were banished

[Biggs]

Perhaps he just stepped out to pee

[windshieldbug]

Piston or rotor, raw, lacquered or plated

[Steve Inman]

And every one is underrated!

[Steve Inman]

Point of protocol (not the start of the next one):

Could we agree to quote the lines from above? (makes reading the progressing poem so much easier).

[edit -- add:]
PLUS (as you will see below), if we get ideas coming fast and furious, so that we get our lines out of sync from different poems, this will easily fix the problem.

Cheers,

[Steve Inman]

There once was a tubist from Norway,

[lgb&dtuba]

There once was a mute like a bucket.

[windshieldbug]

There once was a tubist from Norway,

Who played on his head in a doorway

[Steve Inman]

There once was a mute like a bucket.

It was built on the Isle of Nantucket.

[windshieldbug]

There once was a mute like a bucket.

It was built on the Isle of Nantucket.

It started two verses

[windshieldbug]

It was built on the Isle of Nantucket.

It started two verses

having to do with tuba players driving hearses.

So the auther just said, "Aw, fu-zz, let's be original and NOT end a limerick with a rhyme... "

[windshieldbug]

There once was a danged lim'rick writer

[iiipopes]

It started two verses

having to do with tuba players driving hearses.

So the auther just said, "Aw, fu-zz, let's be original and NOT end a limerick with a rhyme... "

Guys, it doesn't take much to make the style.
Edited:

There once was a mute like a bucket
Built on the Isle of Nantucket
It started two verses
But the sound was all mushes
And in the end the builder said F_____________

This contains all the elements of a true limerick.

1) It has the appropriate meter for the five lines
2) It starts in the usual manner, "There once..." or something similar
3) It is its own contained complete story, with the last line tying everything together, and most importantly,
3) If actually recited unedited, it would get censored.

Back in grad school, a friend of mine of Irish descent had an ancient book of limericks that was about three inches thick. The preface went as follows, and keep in mind all aspects of traditional Irish society (southern) as you read this:

There are limericks you may tell in the presence of women and clergy.
Then there are limericks you may tell in the presence of clergy.
And then, there are limericks.

Now, go forth and rhyme.