Wow, what a prime crop to select from! Thanks for the chuckles everyone! I think #7 is a true classic, so it got my vote. But I just as easily could have voted for several others-- & I shamelessly giggled at all 3 of mine!
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Very difficult choice, so many good ones, but I eventually plonked for No. 4, primarily because I tried so hard to work the word "heir" into one of mine and couldn't make it work. I was actually trying to get both heir and air into it, and also tried to work Lake Eyre in South Australia into it (where Donald Campbell used to go to set land speed records when I was a kid).
PS: The Wordcraft dictionary didn't think that "plonked" was a word, but I didn't think that was Aussie slang but perhaps it is?
And while w're at it - go back fifteen months and see how far ahead of the times we are!
Are "we" ahead of the times because we played a limerick game based on Leicester 15 months ago, or are "you" Americans so far ahead of the Poms because "your" Leicester did it 1st. "We" do come from different parts of the world you know. But don't get me started on how many different countries are allowed to compete in your "World Series Baseball".
Well normally we don't discuss that until a winner has been declared and at this stage I am assuming that Kalleh is waiting in the hope that an 8th person will cast a vote that breaks the 2-each tie that presently exists, so that Shu doesn't have to make a casting Vote.
Sorry, I have been a bit out of commission because our daughter had a baby - Our first grandchild! So exciting. I have been desperately trying to complete this double dactyl because her name (the baby's) is a double dactyl. Check in Community for that.
In the meantime, it looks like we have a tie with #1 and #7 - Can anyone break the tie? If not, I'll weigh in. Here are the authors: #1 - Greg #2 - Proof #3 - Greg #4 - Bethree #5 - Greg #6 - Kalleh #7 - Bob #8 - Geoff #9 - Geoff #10 - Hab #11 - Bethree #12 - Bethree
As one of the people in the tie-break may I suggest that you give it to Greg as I voted for him but he didn't vote for me. (The boys will be round later to have a quiet word, Greg.)
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
Well that's very sporting of you Bob. I have had a fairly nomadic existence of late, after my wife of 38 years kicked me out, but I seem to be fairly settled now, and I was thinking if I got the nod, I might use the Melbourne suburb of my new location as the basis of the next game, but a bit reluctant now, because then your "boys" would have a much better chance of tracking me down.
It is really weird how the voting in this game goes - I thought I had written 2 pretty good "blue" limericks (which often win this game) and thought the one about the girlfriend insisting the boyfriend shave his balls first, would garner the vote of every female playing the game, and go close to winning. But neither of them pulled a single vote, and yet the one I chucked in for just a bit of a laugh that was totally clean, pulled 2 votes.
It is really weird how the voting in this game goes - I thought I had written 2 pretty good "blue" limericks (which often win this game) and thought the one about the girlfriend insisting the boyfriend shave his balls first, would garner the vote of every female playing the game, and go close to winning. But neither of them pulled a single vote, and yet the one I chucked in for just a bit of a laugh that was totally clean, pulled 2 votes.
I know that feeling. Quite a few years ago now, I came second in a poetry competition that meant my work was prominently displayed for a month on public transport. I'd entered four poems. Three of them I'd worked hard on, carefully crafted and considered among my best short pieces. The fourth I dashed off in five minutes because the competition rules said I could enter up to four. I think you can guess which was the prize-winner.
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
I wonder why this is. I feel the same way. Often I will write a limerick that I think will sweep up all the votes, when in reality it gets nada. Yet, other times, I am surprised about winning. Go figure.
For the record, I didn't vote this time so of the 7 votes, at least 1 was a non-limerick writer. Whoever that was, Thank You!
We're waiting, Gregory... The limerick juices are flowing. Heck, I was getting so anxious to write a limerick that I wrote one on Trump in another thread.
Sorry I have been somewhat preoccupied writing, learning by heart, and finally delivery a very important piece of poetry, at an Engagement Party I went to tonight (well I've just come home from it at 3:22 am in the morning).
I met a guy in 1990 who immediately became my best mate. He passed away in 1998, but I was there with him when he got chatted up by a girl in 1993 and they married 6 months later. They had a daughter in 1995, same year my daughter was born, and 3 years later he died "triumphantly" the day after his 40th birthday. Triumphant because people with the lifetime disease he had are not expected to live beyond 20. So it was his daughter, Catherine, who got engaged and her Mum asked me to write a message to her and her husband to be, Oliver, from Catherine's late father, Peter. We met by the way because of our love of rhyming verse. So I wrote a piece in the 1st person as a direct message from him to them and got it framed as my gift to them. There wasn't a dry eye in the house. I can share it with you if you like, it is only 7 4-line verses long? Will post a new game within a day or two.
Not to intrude, but my bluffing game could use some more definitions. I'd like to post it Monday after my bi-weekly tub bath (which I share with two cats and a dog).
Very good question? Don't know, seems like it should be once every 2 weeks, but why would we need the word when we've got "fortnightly", so maybe it is twice a week?
I've decided that your heavies, probably don't think it's worth the expense of return trip to Aus, to pay me a visit, so the next game will be where I now live, which is the Melbourne suburb of Murrumbeena
