Before I left the A Way With Words group there was a discussion going on about whether or not the "l" in words like "talk" "walk" or "stalk" is silent.

To aid you with your rhyming let me say that in (most) Uk English neither the R in Cork nor the L in walk are sounded so that those words rhyme and I will accept them as perfect rhymes if you choose to use them.

(The people discussing it were all adamant that they were right whichever side of the fence they were standing. The idea that different regions might pronounce it differently didn't seem to be on the table.)

This is harder than it looks. Well, for me at least.

Mein Zin.

Ja, mein alzo, but it zucks!

Neither of the two entries so far is as bad as their respective authors make out.

Just a reminder to others

In British English torque and talk are homophones. You may rhyme walk, talk, orc, prok, stalk, chalk, awk, fork, hawk, spork, and so on with Cork.

I've sent another, rhyming cork with bottle.

You are struggling because you are insisting on American rhymes with "ork" and not accepting my advice that "awk" and "alk" are also acceptable.
That said...

There once was a fellow of Cork
Whose Guinness he ate with a fork
It was quite thick enough
But the thing he found tough
Was getting it out of the bottle.

Maybe it was Sir Alec in the bottle?

I have another one but
a) it contains a dreadful pun and
b) last time I posted my own to encourage others it apparently pre-empted someone else's idea

So I will save it until the game is finished.

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Originally posted by Geoff:
Maybe it was Sir Alec in the bottle?

You mean to suggest that he had trouble exiting the bottle because he was really stout?

quote:

Originally posted by haberdasher:
You mean to suggest that he had trouble exiting the bottle because he was really stout?

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quote:

Originally posted by haberdasher:

quote:

Originally posted by Geoff:
Maybe it was Sir Alec in the bottle?

You mean to suggest that he had trouble exiting the bottle because he was really stout?

OK. I take it back. The pun I have in mind for my limerick suddenly doesn't seem as bad as I thought it was. Not compared to that one.

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Originally posted by BobHale:
it apparently pre-empted someone else's idea

and Hab: ...because he was really stout?

Eric Stout is my stepson. The only bottles he deals with are the metaphoric ones at Lawrence Livermore's nuclear fusion reactor. One shot of that thing and the lights dim in San Francisco. Take THAT, Guinness!

Three steps of separation ! I didn't know you were related to renowned mystery author Rex Stout !

Nah, this Stout: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stout_Scarab
Isn't a Stout Scarab a beetle with rigor mortis?

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Originally posted by haberdasher:

quote:

Originally posted by Geoff:
Maybe it was Sir Alec in the bottle?

You mean to suggest that he had trouble exiting the bottle because he was really stout?

No, because he was already aling

Pale and aling, that is.

Even white claws didn't work.

At least he didn't have a yeast infection.

Bob, how many have you got now?

Limericks 6 people 2

Shoot! I have missed this one. I've send one in, though I am pronouncing it my way.

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Originally posted by Kalleh:
Shoot! I have missed this one. I've send one in, though I am pronouncing it my way.

I think you may have missed my point... to me all of those are correct, including "your way".

Please submit several, Kalleh, to make up for my crappy ones.

Any real "corkers" yet, Bob?

I sent mine, but it's hardly a "corker,"