[QUOTE=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.
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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.
[QUOTE=clayton_e]
Off topic, but I’m still grumbling about pages 2-4 of this thread. :mad:
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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.
Bryan, when you have to rhyme “war” with “war” in a limerick, it really is time to give it up. Isn’t it?
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers]
Could you express that in limerick form?
[/QUOTE]
Gaudere found morality in bars.
Spiritus found Aquinas’s scars.
Finch’s evolution
Was Voyager’s solution,
And Sentient wrote all about stars.
[QUOTE=Liberal]
Gaudere found morality in bars.
Spiritus found Aquinas’s scars.
Finch’s evolution
Was Voyager’s solution,
And Sentient wrote all about stars.
[/QUOTE]
For $40, I won’t shit in your next thread.
[QUOTE=CarnalK]
Bryan, when you have to rhyme “war” with “war” in a limerick, it really is time to give it up. Isn’t it?
[/QUOTE]
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.
[QUOTE=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.
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If we’re talking about live African Hissing Cockroaches, you could sell tickets to the event and make a handsome return on your investment.
[QUOTE=saoirse]
For $40, I won’t shit in your next thread.
[/QUOTE]
Sorry, you have to make it believable.
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers]
Well, actually, I was rhyming “bidding” and “fitting” (and “submitting”).
[/QUOTE]
But “bidding” and “fitting” don’t rhyme for the Briddish. 
[QUOTE=Liberal]
But “bidding” and “fitting” don’t rhyme for the Briddish.
[/QUOTE]
That’s the least of my poetic sins. I once rhymed “isosceles” with “colostomies.”
[QUOTE=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.
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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.
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
[QUOTE=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.
[/QUOTE]
So you say. But I’ve yet to see any actual evidence of greenbacks changing hands, jowhamsayin?
[QUOTE=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.
[/QUOTE]
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.
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.]
I think the frat boy would disagree with you. $500 buys a lot of beer and pizza.
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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…
[QUOTE=CarnalK]
I guess I’ve seen that before. As someone who generally detests amateur limerick contests, …
[/QUOTE]
What, you think it’s best left to the pros? 
[QUOTE=What Exit?]
Nah, I think the drama is done. It looks like it is time for a limerick or three.
[/QUOTE]
Hey guys, that was meant to be a joke. I wasn’t expecting an amateur limerick contest to break out.
Jim
[QUOTE=twickster]
What, you think it’s best left to the pros?
[/QUOTE]
Yes, but better yet only left to professional Irish poets. Preferably long dead professional Irish poets.
[QUOTE=What Exit?]
Hey guys, that was meant to be a joke. I wasn’t expecting an amateur limerick contest to break out.
Jim
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I won’t shit in this thread for $40.
[QUOTE=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.
[/QUOTE]
Particularly the roaches. Won’t anyone think of the roaches?
Stranger