Okay time to vote folks. Disappointing quantity but hopefully we have made up for it with quality:<BR><BR><B>1</B><BR>In a brawl in a pub in Echuca<BR>With a cheat in a lost game of snooker,<BR>I was suddenly decked<BR>'Cause I didn't detect<BR>The the cheat was a damn mollydooker.<BR><BR>Note: mollydooker is the Aussie equivalent of southpaw<BR><BR><B>2</B><BR>On the Murray's green banks in Echuca<BR>There would sit an old gent name o' Lucca<BR>Who shared with kindly gladness,<BR>His Mullumbimby Madness<BR>From the multiple stems of his hookah.<BR><BR><B>3</B><BR>A prizefighter known in Echuca<BR>Was odds on to beat a palooka<BR>From west Wharparilla<BR>But the ringer, a killer<BR>Had a right like a mighty bazooka.<BR><BR><B>4</B><BR>On the river in pretty Echuca,<BR>While smoking my Indian hookah,<BR>I found my true love;<BR>We fit like a glove.<BR>And wow! He was really a lookah!<BR><BR><B>5</B><BR>A hippie who lived in Echuca<BR>Sought enlightenment up in Menucha.<BR>The guru was fake;<BR>Said, “Sit on my snake!”<BR>So she kicked his ass clear to Paducah.<BR><BR><B>6</B><BR>On a steamboat up near Echuca<BR>And deep in a tight game of euchre,<BR>I had the game won<BR>Till her blouse came undone<BR>And out popped her big left bazooka!<BR><BR><B>7</B><BR>Why wouldn't the town tell a spruiker<BR>Hired especially to sell Echuca,<BR>That his snake oil pitch<BR>For tea-tree's a bitch?<BR>It might well be thus: Melaleuca!<BR><BR>Note: In case you missed it, aurally, "thus: Melaleuca" = "the smell o' lucre"So get your votes in now!1234567

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Greg S,

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The the cheat was a damn mollydooker.

Don't want to edit it now, because someone has already voted (and editing resets the poll), but there is a typo in Line 5 of Limerick 1, it should be:

That the cheat was a damn mollydooker.

Hopefully someone will break the 4-way tie soon. I would prefer not to have to do it, since 3 of the 7 limericks are mine.

It's broken. We now have a two-way tie atm!

Hi Folks,

No need for me to break the tie with a casting vote since both the limericks with 2 votes are mine. I will start a new game shortly.

Limericks were from:

1 - me - glad a couple of people liked it - I did too.
2 - B35 - this one had me so convinced it was a fair-dinkum (Aussie slang for genuine) story, I started looking for Lucca on the Web. Love the Mullumbimby Madness too.
3 - B35 - if this had been in the tie I might have voted for it.
4 - Kalleh - I think if you run back through the history I think you'll find Kalleh has found her true love many different times and in the strangest of places.
5 - Geoff - clever use of multiple place names to get the Echuca rhymes.
6 - me - obviously its slightly blue storyline won it a couple of votes.
7 - me - my favourite of mine, but it didn't garner a vote, yet I thought it was a killer and would win for sure.

Well, for whatever it's worth, #2 go my vote. I thought "o' Lucca" was the name of a person (O'Lucca).

To me, it, and only one other, had full-rhymes; all the others settled for "near-rhymes" from what I could tell. And the "Mullumbimby Madness" put it over the edge it for me.

Hi Tom,

o' = of

As for your so called near rhymes, it depends on your local pronunciation. The somewhat lazy Aussie version of English means that nouns ending in -er are indistinguishable from those ending in -a in the Antipodes.

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Originally posted by Greg S:

o' = of

As for your so called near rhymes, it depends on your local pronunciation. The somewhat lazy Aussie version of English means that nouns ending in -er are indistinguishable from those ending in -a in the Antipodes.

"... gent name o' Lucca" would make the gent's name Lucca, to my mind.

I think you are right about the pronunciation and I misspoke. I have heard similar pronunciations like you describe here in the states depending on the local accent. In rhyme, I like to use the particular pronunciation that "makes it rhyme" and was judging those other limericks a little unfairly.

Still I "prefah" (prefer) no. 2

New game is posted.