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Re: Finish the Limericks

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 11:58 am
by lgb&dtuba
duckskiff wrote:
Scooby Tuba wrote:"There once was a site named Tubenet"
For tuba players who dressed in fishnet
Now some thought it was strange,

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 12:35 pm
by daktx2
We get the girls who play clarinet.

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 2:07 pm
by windshieldbug
She thinks I don't know where she's been,

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 2:20 pm
by iiipopes
But with the tell tale (tail)

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 2:48 pm
by MikeMason
The bitch is a whore now and then...

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 3:02 pm
by windshieldbug
There once was a tuba in D,

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 3:06 pm
by lgb&dtuba
windshieldbug wrote:There once was a tuba in D,
In fact I think there were three,

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 3:13 pm
by sffz
for awhile they were banished

yo

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 4:17 pm
by Biggs
Perhaps he just stepped out to pee

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 4:26 pm
by windshieldbug
Piston or rotor, raw, lacquered or plated

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 4:45 pm
by Steve Inman
And every one is underrated!

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 4:47 pm
by 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,

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 4:48 pm
by Steve Inman
There once was a tubist from Norway,

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 4:48 pm
by lgb&dtuba
There once was a mute like a bucket.

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 4:48 pm
by windshieldbug
Steve Inman wrote:There once was a tubist from Norway,
Who played on his head in a doorway

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 4:51 pm
by Steve Inman
lgb&dtuba wrote:There once was a mute like a bucket.
It was built on the Isle of Nantucket.

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 4:55 pm
by windshieldbug
Steve Inman wrote:
lgb&dtuba wrote:There once was a mute like a bucket.
It was built on the Isle of Nantucket.
It started two verses

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 5:04 pm
by windshieldbug
Greg wrote:
windshieldbug wrote:
Steve Inman wrote: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... "

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 6:45 pm
by windshieldbug
There once was a danged lim'rick writer

Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 6:57 pm
by iiipopes
windshieldbug wrote:
Greg wrote:
windshieldbug wrote: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.