Whether you choose the fictional Gotham of Batman or the real village of Gotham in Nottinghamshire is entirely up to you.

The major difference between your Gotham and ours is that yours had wise men acting like fools.

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I'm thinking this one makes Trinidad seem like a piece of cake.

How many have you so far? I'll confess I'm struggling to find anything close to a rhyme.

Well, if I don't get some entries soon, I'll be declaring the one I have as the winner.

Would you all like me to choose a new place or just accept near rhymes? I admit it's harder than I first thought it would be. I could only come up with "trick" limericks myself.

The Batman fighth crime down in Gotham
Catcheth villainth ath he cometh acroth 'em
Itth a little know fact
When he thtarted thith act
At firtht he wath called "The Oppothum".

I think this one is just too hard so let's allow "Gotham City" and "Gotham Town" as variants (depending on which Gotham you mean) and you only need to rhyme 'City' or "Town".

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I'm thinking this one makes Trinidad seem like a piece of cake.

I agree, Greg!

I'll write one tonight, but I am 100% sure that Greg won't agree with my rhymes.

Well now I've opened it up a bit with Gotham City or Gotham Town...

At the moment you have a fifty percent chance of winning.

On a quest three wisemen together had,
An adventure to voyage to Trinidad
They departed from Gotham
The trip there was awe-thome
But returned missing all of their Go-ninads

Okay, not great, but had to share anyway. I mean we had to transition from Trinidad to Gotham amyway.

My post above was a ruse to throw people off. I had submitted one under the original terms on the 9th. Since it's no longer valid, here it is:

Once on my way into Gotham,
To visit my chum, Higgenbotham,
I espied Quentin Crisp
As he spoke with a lisp,
It'th hard finding rhymeth for "opothum."

Now you know where Bob got ""opothum!"

The one I submitted was also on the older terms for "Gotham". If that is no longer valid, I'll retract it. I don't know that it was all that good anyway.

Now I have to think again, and it makes my head hurt! AAAAARRRGGGHHHHHH!!!!

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I think this one is just too hard so let's allow "Gotham City" and "Gotham Town" as variants (depending on which Gotham you mean) and you only need to rhyme 'City' or "Town".

My reading of this is that Gotham is still allowed, so no need to think again.

I guess I should have stuck with my original; I'm having NO luck writing a new one!

Geoff, anything goes here so no worries. This is not OEDILF. Our goal is to have fun - certainly not perfection.

Mr Hale,
How are the entries coming? Have you gotten any more?

Just curious. Haven't heard from you for a few days.

Yeah - we're getting impatient (looking for the impatient emoticon...)

At the moment I only have five - six if Geoff wants to reinstate his withdrawn one. I'd like a few more... don't forget I'm accepting Gotham City and Gotham Town too.

I'm open to however you want to handle it. It is just a fun game, after-all, and I don't see strict rules needing to apply. I like the entrants being random, but I would not have a problem if Geoff wanted his entered into the contest. I doubt it would sway votes even if every knows who did it.

It might help if the regular players were to PM you if they have given up on writing a (or "another" as the case may be) limerick or if they still have one coming.

I am probably not going to write anything else, but if I do, I'll get it to you.

tom

I know I'm not going to write any more - I am fine with 5 or 6. Heck, that gives me more of a chance of winning.

You've got every 'rhyme' I could come up with

I know. I had already decided on one of my rhymes before someone used it here. I went with it anyway, but it looks like I copied someone else. That's okay, though, because mine is not a winner. It's not that I didn't try; it's just that I couldn't....

Having some computer issues - may be a few days before I get back to this. Sorry about the delay.

No problem. Perhaps it will bring a few more.

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I had already decided on one of my rhymes before someone used it here.

In an attempt to prevent that happening again (or the opposite), how about introducing a rule that no-one should post any limericks in the open thread until after the winner is declared?

Great idea, arnie! Particularly with hard-to-rhyme words, it can be tough when all the good rhymes are taken in the discussion about the word. Let's wait until after the vote before posting any limericks.

I would hope that no one will use the fact that you used the same rhyme someone else posted, against you in their vote. But I certainly see why you would want to request that no one post related limericks until the vote.

Last call for Gotham.

Limericks will be posted tomorrow

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I would hope that no one will use the fact that you used the same rhyme someone else posted, against you in their vote.

Perhaps they don't even realize it, but I think people do consider that. They like to see a fresh and fun rhyme.