A pitting of Liberal and the Mods that let it happen.

[saoirse]

@Bryan Ekers

The limericks have started a bidding war.
And surely there’s not a more fitting war.
For it’s surely a waste
Of our fragile good taste
Though it does get some users submitting more.

And there, you see, Malacandra? My weakness has encouraged other poetic terrorists, and now the stock has been watered.

I can write worse poetry than I have so far. I won’t for $75 and a Don Beebe jersey.

[clayton_e]

@clayton_e

Off topic, but I’m still grumbling about pages 2-4 of this thread. :mad:

Oh, this is from earlier in the thread, but I forgot to mention… I skimmed over the first post of page 5 at the time I wrote the quoted post.

[CarnalK]

Bryan, when you have to rhyme “war” with “war” in a limerick, it really is time to give it up. Isn’t it?

[Liberal]

@Bryan Ekers

Could you express that in limerick form?

Gaudere found morality in bars.
Spiritus found Aquinas’s scars.
Finch’s evolution
Was Voyager’s solution,
And Sentient wrote all about stars.

[saoirse]

@Liberal

Gaudere found morality in bars.
Spiritus found Aquinas’s scars.
Finch’s evolution
Was Voyager’s solution,
And Sentient wrote all about stars.

For $40, I won’t shit in your next thread.

[Bryan_Ekers]

@CarnalK

Bryan, when you have to rhyme “war” with “war” in a limerick, it really is time to give it up. Isn’t it?

Well, actually, I was rhyming “bidding” and “fitting” (and “submitting”). As I understand it, this is acceptable as the stress in those lines is not on the last word but second-to-last.

[Jackmannii]

@Arnold Winkelried

I am sure that I could convince some frat boy college student to eat a bag of cockroaches for $500, but I don’t see how either of us comes out any better than the other at the completion of that transaction.

If we’re talking about live African Hissing Cockroaches, you could sell tickets to the event and make a handsome return on your investment.

[Liberal]

@saoirse

For $40, I won’t shit in your next thread.

Sorry, you have to make it believable.

[Liberal]

@Bryan Ekers

Well, actually, I was rhyming “bidding” and “fitting” (and “submitting”).

But “bidding” and “fitting” don’t rhyme for the Briddish.

[Bryan_Ekers]

@Liberal

But “bidding” and “fitting” don’t rhyme for the Briddish.

That’s the least of my poetic sins. I once rhymed “isosceles” with “colostomies.”

[dropzone]

@Una Persson

…which makes this bit of drama one of the top 3 worst melodramatic events on this Board in the 7 years I’ve been here.

Now, wait just one cotton-pickin’ second here! Please tell me you posted that without really giving it any thought because otherwise I have to believe that you are losing your memory. I can think of times when both Liberal and PRR were more melodramatic, not to mention some of the OTHER spectacular burnouts we’ve witnessed. :eek:

As for the willingness to take the money, there have been times when I needed the money more than I needed to post here but now that I am a member of the SDSAB* it’s worth the money just to pretend I’m in the same class as Cecil. And it’s cheaper than self-publishing.

• • Honest, Dex, the lady I spoke to on Friday just has to get back to me about something and I’ll have the article done for you.

[Autolycus]

This thread is becoming a joke
so let’s all go out for a smoke
when we come back
the flames all will stack
until the poor hampsters die of exhaustion

[Malacandra]

@saoirse

And there, you see, Malacandra? My weakness has encouraged other poetic terrorists, and now the stock has been watered.

I can write worse poetry than I have so far. I won’t for $75 and a Don Beebe jersey.

So you say. But I’ve yet to see any actual evidence of greenbacks changing hands, jowhamsayin?

[CarnalK]

@Bryan Ekers

Well, actually, I was rhyming “bidding” and “fitting” (and “submitting”). As I understand it, this is acceptable as the stress in those lines is not on the last word but second-to-last.

I guess I’ve seen that before. As someone who generally detests amateur limerick contests, I’ll take your word for it. I was going to point out that you should all have had the class to let it end on a high note with xenophon41’s but I see now that was in the other Lib/prr thread that you guys also drenched in limericks.

[kaylasdad99]

@Q.E.D.

Originally Posted by Arnold Winkelried
I am sure that I could convince some frat boy college student to eat a bag of cockroaches for $500, but I don’t see how either of us comes out any better than the other at the completion of that transaction.

I think the frat boy would disagree with you. $500 buys a lot of beer and pizza.

Yabbut, if $400 worth of beer and pizza doesn’t get rid of the taste of cockroaches, I don’t see how $500 worth will…

[twickster]

@CarnalK

I guess I’ve seen that before. As someone who generally detests amateur limerick contests, …

What, you think it’s best left to the pros?

[What_Exit]

@What Exit?

Nah, I think the drama is done. It looks like it is time for a limerick or three.

Hey guys, that was meant to be a joke. I wasn’t expecting an amateur limerick contest to break out.

Jim

[CarnalK]

@twickster

What, you think it’s best left to the pros?

Yes, but better yet only left to professional Irish poets. Preferably long dead professional Irish poets.

[saoirse]

@What Exit?

Hey guys, that was meant to be a joke. I wasn’t expecting an amateur limerick contest to break out.

Jim

I won’t shit in this thread for $40.

[Stranger_On_A_Train]

@Arnold Winkelried

Concerning the idea that the Poster A, after convincing Poster B to perform an act by waving the Almighty Dollar in their face, seems to think that they have shown any superiority over Poster B: I tend to disagree with the conclusion. I am sure that I could convince some frat boy college student to eat a bag of cockroaches for $500, but I don’t see how either of us comes out any better than the other at the completion of that transaction.

Particularly the roaches. Won’t anyone think of the roaches?

Stranger