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!
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.
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:
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!
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”.
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
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!