Here's a new thread for the revised game. Still awaiting Wordmatic's contribution. And if there are any others who want to give it a try, send me a PM soonest.

I guess when I’m not too much older
My wife and I shall move to Boulder.
Not because it is nice
But because of the price
Of the condo some salesman sold her.

Can you top this?

Did you get mine?

BobHale, Kalleh, Richard and Stanley are in. Still no word from Wordmatic.

I'll jiggle her elbow, proof.

Consider me jiggled. You have it now!

Wordmatic

Nice jiggle.

Sorry to take so long but for some reason I couldn't cut-and-paste until I reinstalled a program.

KALLEH
My girl hates to ski so I told her,
“There’s simply no city liike Boulder.
Traversing those hill
Tremendously thrills!”
(I neglected to say nothing’s colder!)

STANLEY
When starting my lim’rick of Hongwon,
I realized this would be a long one.
It’s just that sometimes
I think I have rhymes,
When really I have, all along, none.

What?! The new game is for Boulder?!
The temperature here just got colder.
This is the same!
When I play this game
I feel myself getting older.

RICHARD ENGLISH
I met this real cracker in Boulder
Great body and eyes that could smoulder.
We flirted a while
Then she said with a smile,
“You’re nice -- like my dad -- only older.”

BOBHALE
Before I get very much older,
Said a well-travelled fellow from Boulder
I’ll return to Hongwon
Where a scoundrel named Ron
Stole my girl, to have ‘er and hold ‘er.

WORDMATIC
We “couch spuds” should just forget Boulder,
Which is all about fitness and cold, dear;
Though I’d go the BIFF
And a CSR whiff,
A cliff hike’d just me feel older.

If you spot any typos, it's my fault since I had to copy all these limericks by hand, thanks to what I think was a coorupted file in Pagemaker.

It was hard to decide which was best. Stanley used both places in two lims; Kalleh's L3/4 were awe-inspiring; Wordmatic placed two admirable links in hers; BobHale managed to get both places in his lim; and Richard contributed the most entertaining L5.

And his great L5 wins for Richard, who coincidentally is in the Rockies even as we mull this event over.

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Well thanks you. I suppose there must be many of us of more mature years who have had this kind of frustrating experience.

And, as Proofreader has mentioned, I am presently in the Rockies right now, on the Canadia side. And I am staying in the ex-goldmining town of Hedley.

Which must therefore be my choice of destination. Pronounced as it looks.

Since it's an easy rhyme, I will be judging the submissions on the basis of their relevance to the destination and its history, with further marks allocated for especially scurillous relevance. As one would expect, there were plenty of people offering all sorts of dubious services to the well-paid male miners...

Congrats, Richard!

Nice one, Richard - superb poem! Fortunately I've never had that problem myself: at my age I'd be pretty worried if I had.

I like the link in Wordmatic's, though - my initials are CSR and before now I've been bored and looked them up in an anagram dictionary out of curiosity, but never found the Culinary School of the Rockies. Like it!

Are we starting a new Hedley threadley?

Mine are on the way to BC.

Proofreader's submission received - and very good, too.

I have started a new thread.