The Linking Limerick Game

I offer this new game today:
Write limericks – and you must say
Somewhere in your post
A word that the last
Contributor put into play.

Thus:

begin

So come – take this game for a spin.
There’s nothing in prizes to win,
Except for the pleasure
Of meeting the measure.
And now – let the rhyming begin!

Here’s a softball to get it started:

laugh

I just need the rules in my head -
Should the word stand alone, or embed?
And should it be relevant
Or not: e.g. “elephant!
It’s a laugh, nonetheless, so well said.

Once, for a bit of a laugh,
A challenge was made to Giraffe
To make sarnies for tea,
Then dip them in pee,
While the rest of use tried not to barf.

Do I choose a word now? Here you go: lemon.

I was too late and jiimm’s is better. Oh well.

Good start! Both of you have the way
Of the challenge I’ve made for today.
I like the word elephant
E’en though it’s not relevant
For lemon fizz in her essay.

Hey, if you can fit your new word into your limerick, super! Or you can just lay it out separately, thus:

game

Help me, as I am not wise.
Should the linking word be italicised?
If so then this game
is anything but lame
if not, then I’ll be surprised

I’m surprised by the lack of cliches.
Should be plenty of twenties death rays.
Hi, Opal. Rehash
Gotcha ya and Og Smash.
And words ending the “g-r-y” way.

Smash the State” used to be the graffit
That appeared on the walls of our street -
With the As crossed with Os
Which means “anarchy” - so’s
It’s actually “Smanarcysh the Stanarchyte”.

Some say the Straight Dope is anarchy
But that’s just a load of malarkey
It’s a dictatorship
So don’t give the mods lip
And to the admins don’t be snarky!

A dictatorship maybe, but what
Are the alternatives that we have we got?
A system where Mods
Are treated like Gods
And all disbelievers are shot

A limerick with a subplot:
Demanding, as if by fiat
That the rhyme must include,
A word previously spewed.
But I might as well give it a shot.

My friends once said I was moany
But I told them that this was baloney:
It was just that my Fiat
Was running so shiat,
That I called it “Fix it again Tony”.

Apologies for poor quality.

Baloney, the lunch meat divine!
The flavoring mostly benign
And what scented bouquet!
Just don’t get in my way.
If available, it must be mine!

On many occasions I’ve whined
Those rule-benders ought to be fined.
Instead of bouquet,
A brickbat your way.
The link’s italicised, not underlined!

Back to poetry basics we go
To give bouquet a show
Cos’ it’s oft pronounced “bucket”
Which rhymes with…nantucket,
A limerick classic, you know.

the formatting which was assigned,
may well have been underlined
but we all can agree
the next words clear to see
or at least thats how I have opined.

The name is pronounced Bouquet
Is something Hyacinth liked to say
But the truth, if I don’t muck it
Is that her name was Bucket
And we all knew that Sheridan was gay

Oh, dear! Underlined or ital?
At least let me say to you all
The truth is, I blew it
Underline old, ital new! It
Makes it all clearer, my pal!

That surely is clearer, we’re told.
But there are other methods. Behold:
If italics wont do it
one way to construe it
is, if I may be so bold.

You can bold the new link, if you will.
It’s quicker to spot when you fill
In the limerick line.
So the rules we define:
Bold and underline now is the drill?

But ital has its charms nonetheless
For the new word to use to progress.
For the old, underline
I agree would be fine.
What the heck – let it roll, not digress!