Well done, everyone!

1.I know a young farmer in Brussels
Who's busy: he bustles and hustles.
He grows tons of Sprouts
And if he's on the outs
He plays with his doggies (Jack Russells).

2. Do sprouts come from Brussels?
Do chefs use their mussels?
On the derriere
Do most brides still wear,
As from the past, bustles?

3.A brickie while briefly in Brussels,
Met Mimi who moved minor muscles
So when they would tighten,
His hard-on would heighten,
Because of his crowning corpuscles.

4. There once was a couple in Brussels
Whose family name was the Fussells
The man was a grump
The wife was a frump
Together they had many tussles

5.The soldier was stationed in Brussels
And known for his drinking and tussles.
He ran way amiss
At Manneken Pis
Stripping and showing his muscles.

6.Check out the ball-boy in Brussels
His abs are six-packs of muscles
We serve into net
Because, best view yet:
To-die-for buns when he hustles


7.Oh, the ladies of night up in Brussels
Under dresses, they’ve corsets and bustles!
“Pay to unsnap each snap,
And you won’t get the clap”—
One of Belgium’s red-light-district hustles.

8.It once was the fashion in Brussels
For modesty's sake to wear bustles
But fashions have changed
And styles rearranged
Now women can show their butt muscles

9. Our game’s gone from Romans to Brussels
Just like the historical* hustles
Of certain small veggies
Inciting >ouch!< wedgies
When boys punish farters with tussles.

*Forerunners to modern Brussels sprouts were probably cultivated
in Ancient Rome. Brussels sprouts as they are now known were
grown possibly as early as the 13thC in what is now Belgium.


10.Molly Malone moved from Brussels
To escape from the brawls and the tussles
She's now back in Dublin
Where whiskey's a-bubblin'
But she offers Cockles and Mussels

11.In a city of hustles and bustles
Causing too much of a fuss’ll -
-S -end you quite mad
But you’ll never be sad
On a cut price day trip down in Brussels


12.The political punch-ups and tussles
That are standard conditions in Brussels
For all EU nations
Who feel their foundations
Are best shown by flexing their muscles.

13.There once was a fellow from Brussels
A dealer in cockles and mussels
A woman named Pam
Once offered her clam
And stiffened the fellow's love muscles

14.There is an old man in Brussels
Who’s fond of the cattle he hustles
His favorite is Zephyr
A cute little heifer
With her he flexes his muscles

15. I know this young fellow in Brussels
With a beard and dark hair - and those muscles!
The gals are all calling
And fighting and brawling.
He's causing these cat-fights and tussles!

Three and thirteen are very similar. Coin toss: Three wins.

Good job, all!

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Originally posted by Geoff:
Three and thirteen are very similar. Coin toss: Thirteen wins.

Good job, all!

I had several I really liked, but I am voting for three.

I agree with Geoff. These were a good bunch of limericks.

3

Free??

I'll take TWO!

8

This is why I like NOT using the poll: I had intended to say, "three," but wrote "thirteen." Can't do that with the poll.

Well I for one, prefer the Poll because it's anonymous, and I don't understand how people are still having issues reading the Poll results.

Anyway I know I am in the minority so I'll just have to live with it, same with the casting vote rule, which by the rules here, denies the game setter an actual vote. If you don't get to vote on the matter in the first place, then it is (by definition) not a casting vote. It's just a silly rule that says sorry you aren't allowed to vote, but we will let you break a tie, if there is one.

But since I am generally a sufficiently infrequent player these days, please feel free to ignore my rantings.

Anyway I like quite a few of them, but I ended up going for 12 because it hasn't got a vote yet and I think it deserves at least one.

Let me append a late entry, not for voting. It tickled my fancy (as well as my sweet tooth) and also takes advantage of that not-usually-available permission to use "slant rhymes."

I grew up in northernmost Brussels
But my Grampa's now living in Dussel-
Dorf, Germany and he
Likes marzipan candy.
He says that it cures him of snuʃʃles.

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Hey Hab,

How did you make the text blue?

Two ways to color text that I know of.

One is to type “[color:<type nameofcolorhere>]<nowtypetexttocolor>[/color].

Or, find the bar just above the window where you type your message, and find icons for emoji, palate (bingo!), url(for inserting links) bold, italics, and such. Click on the palate button and proceed from there. The site will create the effect for you.

I prefer the poll, too, Greg. For me: This way it's difficult to see which one is ahead, particularly when people change their minds. It is also less clear who gets one vote (or maybe two), but still doesn't win.

But I know we agreed to post them how we'd like, and variety is the spice of life!

I vote for # 12. I feel political these days.

Greg - is there really a rule that I can't vote unless there's a tie? I don't remember that. I thought the only rule was you can't vote for your own.

If I'm allowed a vote, I like #13 best.

Well last time I brought the subject up it was agreed that the game setter had to withhold their vote until the end and only to use it to split a tie if their was one, which is the same as not having a vote. But maybe things have changed again, and as Kalleh has just said variety is the spice of life and game setters can choose how they wish to present the voting, so maybe they also have the freedom to decide if they get a normal vote or not. I think your vote for number 13 should be counted, and if it ends up in a tie for the win, then you should be allowed to use your casting vote to make it the winner. But that's just me talking and what would I know?

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Originally posted by Greg S:
Hey Hab,

How did you make the text blue?

Silly me, I thought you did it by making it obscene, as in "cussing a blue streak." But whadda I know; I'm too stoopid to use polls - or is it poles, or pols? Hell, I don't know...

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He says that it cures him of snuʃʃles.

Love the creative way you have used a special character so it looks like both the f that it is meant to be and the s that it is supposed to sound like.

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Originally posted by Geoff:

quote:

Originally posted by Greg S:
Hey Hab,

How did you make the text blue?

Silly me, I thought you did it by making it obscene, as in "cussing a blue streak." But whadda I know; I'm too stoopid to use polls - or is it poles, or pols? Hell, I don't know...

Oops - never even thought of that kind of "blue." I'm more used to thinking of (if anything) purple prose.

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Originally posted by Greg S:

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He says that it cures him of snuʃʃles.

Love the creative way you have used a special character so it looks like both the f that it is meant to be and the s that it is supposed to sound like.

That was another part of it that tickled me. Thanks for noticing.

Yes, Bethree, i think we had agreed that the poster of the limericks (the winner in the last game) only votes when there is a tie. At least that's how I've always played.

This game has lasted one month and a day so far.

Sorry about that, gang. I was going great guns, then got felled by head cold for a week, followed by a flu?flu shot reaction? bizarrely violent sinus infection? [doc wasn't sure] the following week!!

1.I know a young farmer in Brussels... haberdasher
2. Do sprouts come from Brussels?... sattva X
3.A brickie while briefly in Brussels... gregS XXX
4. There once was a couple in Brussels... geoff
5.The soldier was stationed in Brussels.. sattva
6.Check out the ball-boy in Brussels.. bethree5
7.Oh, the ladies of night up in Brussels.. bethree5
8.It once was the fashion in Brussels... Geoff X
9. Our game’s gone from Romans to Brussels... bethree5
10.Molly Malone moved from Brussels... haberdasher
11.In a city of hustles and bustles.. bobhale
12.The political punch-ups and tussles.. bobhale XX
13.There once was a fellow from Brussels.. geoff (Host’s choice)
14.There is an old man in Brussels... tinman
15. I know this young fellow in Brussels.. kalleh

GREG YOU AH DE WINNAH!

Okay, thank you all. But I cheated (sort of), so I am coming clean now. The first Limerick game I ever entered was for a place in England called Brighton, and I won that game too. I basically took the limerick from that game and swapped the A and B rhymes to provide me with my entry for this one. The Brighton limerick was:

The brute who had brought her to Brighton,
Was her tutor who taught her to tighten
Particular muscles
To move his corpuscles,
Enabling his hard-on to heighten.

Assuming it is a legal form of cheating, I will come up with a new location shortly.

Sorry that you have been ill, Bethree5. Hope you are feeling better, now.

Congratulations, Greg

Nicely done, Greg. Looks like we appreciate liberal use of alliteration.

That's not cheating. We are easy going here. Congratulations!

What's our next word, Greg?

Glad you're OK, Bethree! I can sympathize. After slicing my left thumb I had a tetanus booster. Sore for a week. Then a flu shot when the stitches came out of the thumb, followed by aches and pains everywhere, chills and fever, and worsening asthma.

WHEEEEEEEZE....

Good going, Greg!

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Originally posted by Geoff:
Glad you're OK, Bethree! I can sympathize. After slicing my left thumb I had a tetanus booster. Sore for a week. Then a flu shot when the stitches came out of the thumb, followed by aches and pains everywhere, chills and fever, and worsening asthma.

WHEEEEEEEZE....

Good going, Greg!

"WHEEEEEEEZE...." You called? LOL That's one of my nicknames. Geoff, do you think you had a reaction to the flu shot? My one friend from Florida just told me she became ill after having hers. I hope your asthma improves.

Many flu vaccines are based on eggs, and can trigger allergic reactions in susceptible people. Could that be part of the problem?

Probably not, since I often eat eggs with no problem. My environment could be problematic, though, with corn and soybeans being harvested (We live in the middle of two corn fields and one bean field) , and dogs and cats in the house. Once we get moved into town the agricultural issue will subside.

I've had asthma since childhood. What I don't get is why no Medicate policies cover inhaled corticosteroids in their formularies. They are the first line of defense against asthma, but they act as if they were the last resort.

Albuterol-inhaling Geoff

Hi All,

I have opened a new potential limerick game thread, but I am looking for feedback on whether or not you might prefer one of the other names suggested in the discussion there.

Geoff, my son had asthma until his mid 20s, when he did a Buteyko breathing course. Although he still keeps some asthma medication for emergencies, he has been pretty much asthma and medication free, in the 15 years that have passed since then.