# A Verse Game **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 27, 2003, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-game/151351 "2003-01-27T22:48:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-game/151351/61 "2003-02-01T04:21:14Z")
Dame MacBeth will be the death of me, unless I make a stand. Went up a year today! I recollect it well! ---
**Author:** ![petcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5fc32e/32.png) [@petcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/petcat)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-game/151351/62 "2003-02-01T04:56:12Z")
Yet taken nearly twice that long, to remove the fishy smell The time has come, the Walrus said, to speak of many things… ---
**Author:** ![Pucky\_Schumer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@Pucky\_Schumer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pucky_Schumer)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-game/151351/63 "2003-02-01T05:02:15Z")
So that is why we clamped your thumbs and put your nads in strings Oh what can ail thee, knight at arms ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-game/151351/64 "2003-02-01T16:51:29Z")
"Vile heartburn - it sets off fire alarms’ She dwelt among the untrodden ways ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-game/151351/65 "2003-02-01T19:42:21Z")
But went to France on holidays. * * * Gather ye rosebuds while ye may ---
**Author:** ![raygirvan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac91a4/32.png) [@raygirvan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raygirvan)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-game/151351/66 "2003-02-01T19:53:31Z")
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may The florist is looking the other way. The king sits in Dunfermline town, drinking the bluid-red wine ---
**Author:** ![petcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5fc32e/32.png) [@petcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/petcat)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-game/151351/67 "2003-02-01T20:04:13Z")
and thinking of the girl he met last night whilst he was online… The sky above the port was the color of television. tuned to a dead channel ---
**Author:** ![NardoPolo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@NardoPolo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NardoPolo)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-game/151351/68 "2003-02-01T21:04:59Z")
The sky above the port was the color of television tuned to a dead channel But that’s just because Billy left his toy sailboat on the mantle. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-game/151351/69 "2003-02-01T22:52:57Z")
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore; Vainly did I try to cram in all the teacher might examine On old Eire’s Potato Famine and the immigrants of yore, Only to begin to snore. * * * Something there is that doesn’t love a wall ---
**Author:** ![petcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5fc32e/32.png) [@petcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/petcat)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-game/151351/70 "2003-02-01T23:12:12Z")
Not I, the neighbor’s headboard’s thumping down the hall Whilom ther was dwellynge in my contree An erchedeken, a man of heigh degree ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-game/151351/71 "2003-02-02T04:10:15Z")
Who, under a sheltering linden tree, did confess village maidens lustfully. * * * A jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and thou ---
**Author:** ![Pucky\_Schumer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@Pucky\_Schumer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pucky_Schumer)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-game/151351/72 "2003-02-02T04:54:23Z")
A jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and thou If you get the milk for free, why buy the cow? Thou still unravished bride of quietness ---
**Author:** ![petcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5fc32e/32.png) [@petcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/petcat)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-game/151351/73 "2003-02-02T06:13:50Z")
Suprised was I to find a man cross-dressed! O! now be gone; more light and light it grows… ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-game/151351/74 "2003-02-02T10:37:14Z")
As soon as you can locate all your clothes. Sunset and evening star, and one clear call for me! ---
**Author:** ![NardoPolo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@NardoPolo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NardoPolo)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-game/151351/75 "2003-02-02T15:56:27Z")
Sunset and evening star, and one clear call for me. I hope that Pop can make my bail and get my butt out free! Lying in my bed I hear the clock tick and think of you ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-game/151351/76 "2003-02-02T20:05:35Z")
Lying in my bed I hear the clock tick and think of you; Oh sweet seductive booze, I must go out and have a drink of you. I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world… ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-game/151351/77 "2003-02-02T22:30:16Z")
But my cellmate Bubba’s butt is bare So instead I must pretend to be his girl. * * * Since I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me ---
**Author:** ![raygirvan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac91a4/32.png) [@raygirvan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raygirvan)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-game/151351/78 "2003-02-03T00:24:01Z")
“You want a ride?” he said. “You’ve died, from snorting PCP”. Quinquireme of Niniveh from distant Ophir Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine… ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-game/151351/79 "2003-02-03T00:31:35Z")
Quinquireme of Niniveh from distant Ophir Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine… Rower 1 to Rower 2: “Pass me down a beer.” Rower 2 to Rower 1: “Fuck off, they’re mine.” * * * It is an ancient Mariner And he stoppeth one of three. ---
**Author:** ![Pucky\_Schumer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@Pucky\_Schumer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pucky_Schumer)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-game/151351/80 "2003-02-03T02:38:59Z")
It is an ancient Mariner And he stoppeth one of three. The lineman’s past retirement time. Seattle cut him free. It little profits that an idle king By this still hearth, among these barren crags [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-game/151351.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-verse-game/151351.md?page=5)