Make your picks

Question:
One
The people who live in Cape Cod
Have accents they think are so “mod”:
It’s “idear,” not “...dea;”
Yet “fellar would be a
Way they’d say, “fella”...how odd!

Two
For worldwide places - it’s odd;
So many are great, like Riyadh
Or Paris or Seoul
Or Rome - the North Pole!
And yet I prefer my Cape Cod!

Three
A mermaid off shore of Cape Cod
Saw a man there and wanted his bod.
He said, “I’m not a fish!”
Neptune granted her wish,
And arranged that the fellow was scrod!

Four
A young convent girl from Cape Cod
Thought babies were all gifts from God.
Or that is at least
What her handsome young priest
Maintained - though his “worship” was odd.

Five
Said a pretty young girl from Cape Cod
”Forgive me - but sex I find odd”
But he plied her with whisky
And she soon became frisky -
Then nothing was odd - lucky sod!

Six
After hearing a priest in Cape Cod
A young lesbian questioned her god:
”If it’s true what he says -
That you hate girls and gays -
Why’d you make me, you miserable sod?”

Seven
A siren who lived at Cape Cod
And blessed with a beautiful bod,
Was unsatisfied
Though she had often tried
To lure a President’s prod.

Eight
Caught a bass in the bay in Cape Cod
With my boat and my bait and my rod.
Made a tasty wee dish
With the head of that fish
But the cat ran away with the bod.

Nine
There once was a man of Cape Cod
Who went out on the sea with his rod
But came back without fish
And his wife said, “I wish
You could use that rod better, by God!”

Ten
A whaler who sailed from Cape Cod
And declared to the world, “There’s no God!”
Fell over the rail
And was ate by a whale
And inside it was Jonah, how odd!

Choices:
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten

 

And here is one I'd have entered if I could

Nancy lives by the beach in Cape Cod.
From her porch she sees visitors plod
Past the dunes in Hyannis,
Unmindful her man is
Interred by her hand in her yard.

Poor Shu

Oh, that's hilarious, proof!

What I wished I'd thought of in time.

A young lad who was fishing Cape Cod
Saw a lass with a beautiful bod,
And struck by her beauty
He called out, "Hey cutie,
When you're done there come tackle my rod!"

I'd call that a winner, except you didn't enter it.

Is it a good idea to move either the bluffing game or the limerick game to the Word Games thread since they both conflict for space on the opening page?

I would probably appreciated number 3 better had I known what "scrod" is. It's not a term I've even heard used in the UK.

But I have voted anyway - not easy since there are some fine submissions.

I presume the last line is an allusion to the following old joke (taken from here):

A businessman arriving in Boston for a convention found that his first evening was free, and he decided to go find a good seafood restaurant that served scrod, a Massachusetts specialty. Getting into a taxi, he asked the cab driver, "Do you know where I can get scrod around here?" "Sure," said the cabdriver. "I know a few places... but I can tell you it's not often I hear someone use the third-person pluperfect indicative anymore!"

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Is it a good idea to move either the bluffing game or the limerick game to the Word Games thread since they both conflict for space on the opening page?

We created the "Word Games" forum to stop that happening, at a time when we were playing lots of games. That meant that the guessing game was often buried under the more active games threads.

We've only got two such threads going on here now, the guessing and limerick games, so they should live together without too much problem.

In case you think me illiterate based on the "Cpe Cod Limerick Game" title, I noticed the typo after I had set the poll but could not fix it without having to reset the entire poll. So I let it be.

This is based on an old joke from early in TK's life before he became "The Lion of the Senate."

Off a bridge on the Cape went a car
With a babe that Ted found in a bar.
He jumped in the bay twice
But not 'cause he was nice:
Once to cross her legs, then hook her bra.

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but I can tell you it's not often I hear someone use the third-person pluperfect indicative anymore!

Ah, yes, my husband has told me that one before.

Last chance to vote for your favorite. I'll announce the winner tonight.

Sorry to be a day late but life intervened.

Here's the breakdown

1& 2 Kalleh
3 Shufitz
4 & 5 Richard English
6 Mike
7 Greg S
8 Stella
9 & 10 BobHale

And the undisputed winner, with 50% of the votes, is Kalleh!

Ah, well, don't I wish. Nobody voted for either of mine; Shu won. He'll start a new game.

A worthy winner.

Was I the only one who liked the double entendre in Bob's number 9? Or is it just my mind? Possibly it would have been clearer had L5 read "your rod" rather than "that rod".

I really have to have a new artificial eye replacement. Although it would be better if the line in the poll was directly opposite the number it represents.

I agree; it's a confounded nuisance.

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?Any sign of Shu's new game?

Ah, yeah. I'll remind him again. Sorry about that!