Since it's impossible to vote anonymously in Geoff's game, I've decided to help him out by posting this one for him. Cast your votes upon the water.<BR><BR>EDITED BY arnie to (hopefully) correct the problems earlier. <BR><BR>NOTE THE POLL HAS BEEN RESET SO IF YOU VOTED EARLIER YOU'LL HAVE TO VOTE AGAIN1 Heard tell of a Seymour from Seymour<BR> Whose landlady wanted to be more<BR> To Seymour than chopped liver,<BR> So she'd strip, all aquiver--<BR> But to see more made Seymour want to flee more!<BR><BR>2 There once was a fellow of Seymour<BR> Who wanted his manhood to be more<BR> He sent for some potions<BR> Some ointments and lotions.<BR> Effective? They just made him pee more.<BR><BR>3 My grandpa named Seymour from Seymour<BR>Got glasses to see more and be more<BR>Attentive to driving;<BR>He's always conniving<BR>To flee from the "home" to be free more.<BR><BR>4 I thought to the trip there would be more<BR> And she'd pay attention to me more,<BR> But a week in her town<BR> Left me with a frown,<BR> And wanting to see less of Seymour!<BR><BR>5 My 80-old cousin from Seymour<BR> With Alzheimer's just couldn't be more<BR> Confused and befuddled,<BR> Cous Seymour's all muddled,<BR> "I'm Seymour from Seymour!" And he roar!<BR><BR>6 When I moved to Chicago from Seymour,<BR> I thought, "Which local team should I be for?<BR> The Cubs and the Sox<BR> Are such miserable flops.<BR> You despise them? I couldn't agree more."<BR><BR>7 There once was a fellow from Seymour,<BR> A Hoosier, who just couldn't be more<BR> Sexy and handsome;<BR> I'd pay a big ransom<BR> To be with my darling, Mi Amour.<BR><BR>8 There's a window we peek in in Seymour<BR> In the hope a young lady will free more<BR> Of the goods God endowed<BR> And which pleases the crowd<BR> Of admirers, climbing her tree more.OneTwoThreeFourFiveSixSevenEight

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Well, heck. You forgot my favorite of the three I wrote. So here it is:

My grandpa named Seymour from Seymour
Got glasses to see more and be more
Attentive to driving;
He's always conniving
To flee from the "home" to be free more.

I think the poll needs an edit - Kalleh's limerick is missing and 3 and 4 are the same

I just copied what Geoff had in the other thread. He'll have to edit that thread so I can do it again.

You can do it without waiting for Geoff, just replace No. 4 (a repeat of 3) and put Kalleh's one in its stead.

While you are at it I reckon the word "year" is missing from "80-old" in Limerick 5.

Sorry folks. I'm just too damned addle-pated to use this fancy technology.

I don't have the originals. Geoff must re-do the post and I'll copy it as he edit it.

I've done it. There was one vote showing when I edited the poll, so whoever that was will have to vote again as the poll was reset.

Thank you, arnie, for covering my idiocy.

Geoff, mine being missing was my fault and not yours. I am sorry about that. I had sent Geoff three different limericks in three different places, thus creating confusion. I usually only send one limerick for these games so I was new at that.

I scrolled past Kalleh's comment and addition, so I wasn't aware it was possible for me to change the poll. Thanks to Arnie for straightening it out.

Well, if I'm ever in a position to have to use a poll, I'll just let Audrey II eat me. (You have to have seen "Little Shop of Horrors" to understand)

How's about a few more votes? Let's give this one a run for its money.

It looks like #2 has won. Congratulations!

Geoff, can you tell us who wrote these? I know mine were 3, 5 and 7, and Shu wrote my personal favorite, which was #6.

What about the rest? Who won? Can we get on to the next game?

Mine was one of the zero votes getters in No. 4. Something tells me that No. 2 is the work of Proofreader or Bob Hale, both tending towards the blue side, and always with perfect rhyme and meter, and never failing to make you smile.

#1 was bethree5's
#2 was Bob's
#8 was Proofreader's

So, Bob, you're up next!

I'll let him know by email. I don't think he's able to check WC every day.

Very well. Good going, Bob!

I just learned, thanks to the tornado reports on the TV, that there's a town called Oolitic here in Indiana. Had I known, I would have chosen it instead of Seymour. "Eggrock" is a strange name for a town, but it's named for the oolitic limestone quarry nearby. It's where the stone for the Empire State Building in New York came from.

I hope there weren't any tornadoes near you, Geoff. Apparently there were 37 in the midwest today.

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it's named for the oolitic limestone quarry nearby. It's where the stone for the Empire State Building in New York came from.

Cross-threading, the Isle of Portland is also well-known for oolitic limestone. It provided the stone for the UN building in New York, among other famous buildings, such as St Paul's Cathedral in London.