Ah, yes. A next destination is needed.

Lessee, now. It was Alan J Lerner who wrote "The Rain in Spain stays Plainly down in Maine,"
(or words to that effect). Sounds like a nice workable place.

Let's try that. MAINE. Remember? Sounds like "Main," as in Overthebounding. Send me yer PMs and we'll see how it goes! (Wasn't it National Pirate Day yesterday or so?)

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OK, all gassed up and heading northeast!

I hope you brought your waders

Kinda wet where you live, too, it appears. Ironic, sice we're in a drought! Now I've gotta remember the Maine!

I've comeup wth two lame ones, and am trying to write a good one. If I only had a brane...

I've scent my stinkers to you, Haberdashererererer

Bumping it back to the top.

FWIW department: there are eight limericks presently in the line, and I haven't written mine yet...

I guess I'll post them on Sunday.

LAST CALL !!

Is it Sunday yet? Or sundae? Or some day?

Here they be, Folks. Better than Never. An interesting crop, I must say.

Make your preferences known!

_______________________


1.
I’m writing a lim’rick on “Maine”,
And I’m finding it truly a pain,
But don’t worry, brother,
I’ll send you another
That’s rattling around in my brain.


2.
There once was a fellow of Maine
Who flew in an old-fashioned plane
It flew upside down,
He fell out on his crown
And now he's bereft of his brain


3.
Frankenstein built a monster in Maine
And had finished apart from the brain
“Go, Igor”, he said
“Find someone who is dead”
“Not someone you’ve killed! Is that plain?”


4.
There once was a lady of Maine
Quite unlike the Lady of Spain *
She wasn't adored
But rather deplored
For making men have to explain

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUpnHKmgRWw


5.
Frankenstein built a monster in Maine
And had finished apart from the brain
“Go, Igor”, he said
“Find someone who is dead”
“Not someone you’ve killed! Is that plain?”


6.
I once met a man with a Maine
Coon cat who sat in the rain
While it's odd for a cat
That is just where he sat
Just why no one could explain


7.
A writer of limericks in Maine
Would just write the same verse again
And again and again
And again and again
And again and again and again.


8.
A man in a cabin in Maine
Whose pancake love was insane
Would flip them so high
That they’d stick to the sky
And syrup came down like sweet rain


9.
I once had lover in Maine,
Who drove me completely insane!
His clothes were a mess,
And I must confess,
From sex he would never refrain!


10.
There was a young fellow from Maine
Whose farm produced beef, in the main.
He said “I'd grow wheat
Just to help make ends meet
But I've found that it goes 'gainst the grain!”

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That's the lot of 'em. Late submissions also welcome! Vote, early, vote often!

Whoever wrote #9 must have had Ogden Nash's Belle of Natchez on his/her/their/ mind! I'll wait to see if someone else submits one before choosing.

3 and 5 are the same limerick

I'll take 10 as they are currently numbered

quote:

Originally posted by BobHale:
3 and 5 are the same limerick

Indeed they are. That's what I get for posting hurriedly.

9 3/4 had a duplicate, too, and I caught that, but I missed this one!

So my suggestion is to vote for the number as shown and then we can just add 3 and 5's votes together,

Sounds like a good plan. Adheres to the KISS Principle.

Whimsy, humour and downright hilarity with this lot! I flipped a coin thrice in selecting one, and it came up #9. Yes, the REAL #9!

Apropos of late submissions -- does anyone know a separate e-address for B35 for purposes of reminding her of this posting and maybe even jiggling her elbow?

Per the contact in the other thread, I hope she can send some limericks. I'm not ashamed of changing my vote if need be! And Hab, I hope you're doing well!

So far, only silence from the hinterlands. B35? Shu? Kalleh? anything to add?

I contacted someone with B35's name, but she was not OUR Leigh Bucci. Rats. I'm ready to give up. It seems that the founders of this site don't want to, or can't, support it, so I'm ready to throw in the towel. Perhaps the Israeli debacle has taken them away from here, but I don't know. I'm in occasional touch with Bob via Facebook, and hope I can do the same with you, Hab.

O what a noble site is here o'erthrown...

Well, I'm not ready to throw in the towel, as long as the site's up. I'll post the contributors' names as soon as I figure out what to do about this Medicare re-enrollment stuff. (My Plan D medication supplier has decided not to stay in the business any more, and I need to find a replacement...Do you think there's a parallel lurking somewhere?)

A parallel? Somebody's using my gmail address. Does that count? One of us will, like you, check in here until you give up.

Maybe a faster turnaround will be useful.

Here's the attributed list:

1.
I’m writing a lim’rick on “Maine”,
And I’m finding it truly a pain,
But don’t worry, brother,
I’ll send you another
That’s rattling around in my brain.
– Shufitz

2.
There once was a fellow of Maine
Who flew in an old-fashioned plane
It flew upside down,
He fell out on his crown
And now he's bereft of his brain
--Geoff

3.
Frankenstein built a monster in Maine
And had finished apart from the brain
“Go, Igor”, he said
“Find someone who is dead”
“Not someone you’ve killed! Is that plain?”
--BobHale

4.
There once was a lady of Maine
Quite unlike the Lady of Spain*
She wasn't adored
But rather deplored
For making men have to explain

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUpnHKmgRWw
--Geoff

5.
I once had lover in Maine,
Who drove me completely insane!
His clothes were a mess,
And I must confess,
On sex he would never refrain!
--Kalleh

6.
Frankenstein built a monster in Maine
And had finished apart from the brain
“Go, Igor”, he said
“Find someone who is dead”
“Not someone you’ve killed! Is that plain?”
--BobHale

7.
I once met a man with a Maine
Coon cat who sat in the rain
While it's odd for a cat
That is just where he sat
Just why no one could explain
– Geoff

8.
A writer of limericks in Maine
Would just write the same verse again
And again and again
And again and again
And again and again and again.
-- BobHale

9.
A man in a cabin in Maine
Whose pancake love was insane
Would flip them so high
That they’d stick to the sky
And syrup came down like sweet rain
-- chatGPT via BobHale

10.
(same as 5. My lapse. Sorry)

11.
There was a young fellow from Maine
Whose farm produced beef, in the main.
He said “I'd grow wheat
Just to help make ends meet
But I found that it goes 'gainst the grain!”
--Hab


"Belly up, belly up to the bar, boys,
Better let out your belts,
Ony drink when you're all alone
Or with somebody else;

Belly up, belly up to the bar, boys,
Let your money be seen,
Only drink when it's day or night
Or somewhere in between!"

- from The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Okay, Folks, let your money be seen!

I see one vote for Kalleh, and one for me, and Shu and Kalleh haven't voted yet, and my vote as tiebreaker would be for the Maine Coon cat = Geoff.

Kalleh, can you undertake to run one of these sessions? That would be my suggestion for the next round.

"That's a good idea, Ollie." Stanley Laurel.

BTW, I really liked the embedded pun in yours, Hab!

(Even if I can't count to ten)

quote:

Originally posted by haberdasher:
(Even if I can't count to ten)

There's a character on Sesame Street who can help with that.

MAKING BOTH ENDS MEAT - a scam for cheating on sausage quality

That reminds me of the "one end moo, the other end milk" limerick.

quote:

Originally posted by Geoff:
That reminds me of the "one end moo, the other end milk" limerick.

I do hope you're making turkey sausage so it's kosher.

Bovine ilk, you say? Ogden Nash was a goodness!

Wasn't he also a now-defunct car dealership in Utah?

quote:

Originally posted by Geoff:
Wasn't he also a now-defunct car dealership in Utah?

Could'a been from Utah originally, but I hear he rambled a lot

quote:

Originally posted by Geoff:
I contacted someone with B35's name, but she was not OUR Leigh Bucci.

INDEED, GEOFF! I had just discovered the hackery on the eve before Bob suggested disbanding [which made me doubly disgruntled]. Done by some clearly Asian hacker. My sons only recently caught on, cracking up over the painted geisha who had replaced my profile picture. So far only mild-mannered religious-prayer postings with suggestions to link here or there to no doubt data-stealing sites. FB promises to return me control [that and a subway token will get you a ride]. I can no longer access FB at all. But get to see from hubby how this hussy is using baby pix of my dearly departed son or random photos of cousins in her posts. !!
Anyone who wants to talk to me virtually, find me at ginnybee3@comcast.net.

Well this was a funny bunch! My "Main" vote goes to the one that made me guffaw-- #2!
Can we do stacked ranking? My 2nd choice is #11, which is spiffy and witty, and 3rd choice to #8, because it's funny.

I really missed reading one from you! Yours are always very good! How about going ahead and writing one or three and posting them? I'm not averse to changing a vote or ranking them.

Thanks for clearing up that stolen FB mystery. I've been getting Venmo information for someone whose email address differs from mine only slightly, and I can't get Venmo to correct their error. GRRRR!!! AND, thanks for letting us know how to be in touch!

quote:

Originally posted by haberdasher:
Well, I'm not ready to throw in the towel, as long as the site's up. I'll post the contributors' names as soon as I figure out what to do about this Medicare re-enrollment stuff. (My Plan D medication supplier has decided not to stay in the business any more, and I need to find a replacement...Do you think there's a parallel lurking somewhere?)

Hab-- ditto on the site staying up. And ditto on the Medicare bit! Hubby & I are finally switching to Medicare at age 74... What a hornet's nest of bureaucracy! This is why I couldn't do Maine limericks. All spare time futzing around with that crap, & all of a sudden time to plan/ execute Thanksgiving. [At age 74 with my various joint issues, have to spread chores out over 5+ days. I know, kvetch kvetch kvetch ]

quote:

Originally posted by Geoff:
I really missed reading one from you! Yours are always very good! How about going ahead and writing one or three and posting them? I'm not averse to changing a vote or ranking them.

Thanks for clearing up that stolen FB mystery. I've been getting Venmo information for someone whose email address differs from mine only slightly, and I can't get Venmo to correct their error. GRRRR!!! AND, thanks for letting us know how to be in touch!

Geoff thanks for the encouragement, maybe I'll do it. RE: venmo, oh no! That's scary. In October our landline went down, & trying to see if we can get by with cells to save $ - suddenly it's like gawd mawd the number of friends/ relatives/ businesses to give the new # to or won't even know if somebody died. Unrelated to hacking of course -- but these communications snafus are making me nervous, like what's next? My email?

Looks as if too many people took Jules Verne, Ursala Le Guin,Ray Bradbury, et al seriously. (***^%$!@#. May I have fries with my Soylent Green?

Speaking of Soylent Green - Robert Heinlein had a couple of stories briefly alluding to having Long Pig in the diet ("citation needed," as wikipedia likes to say), or the horror of broken taboos, to the shame and self-loathing of the breaker (Cat Who Walked Through Walls)

Long Pig? Viet Namese fella. Went to school with him.

As for broken taboos, here's the book: https://www.amazon.com/Stalkin...Hardin/dp/1881780112

OK. Next destination is HERE, if I can get the instructions right...

I've submitted one piece of smut, filth, and banned in Boston tripe

Just a reminder- that's a Kentish limerick, not Maine. Been there, done that, as they say.

You should have three pieces of Kentish offal from me in limerick form

Sorry I missed this one, too.