# The Linking Limerick Game **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 15, 2003, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705 "2003-09-15T12:18:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![ISNorden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/47e85d/32.png) [@ISNorden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISNorden)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/201 "2003-09-20T14:37:06Z")
“An umbrella indoors is bad luck”, **groused** a cranky old geezer named Buck. “But outdoors, it’s no folly unless you feel jolly being soaked as you **slog** through the muck.” ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/202 "2003-09-20T16:48:04Z")
A slug slogged its way through a slough; a grouse groused overhead while it flew; Hungry grouse espied slug while not a _tasty_ bug _found_ it quite satisfying to chew. ---
**Author:** ![SpyderWoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@SpyderWoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpyderWoman)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/203 "2003-09-20T18:05:57Z")
Oh, heavens! I tried but I am terrible at this. Just saying hi since I’m new and Spider Woman was kind enough to invite me to this thread. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/204 "2003-09-20T18:16:14Z")
'Twas a tasty repast, but then :eek:!! For I found, in my _ **bubble** _ and squ:eek:\* One half of a worm! My gut started to _ **squirm** _. What a shock! Couldn’t eat for a w:eek:!! Meat fried with potatoes and greens, for those unfamiliar with the term. ---
**Author:** ![pierre72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@pierre72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pierre72)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/205 "2003-09-20T18:37:18Z")
Hadn’t been on the 'Dope in some ages I needed my fix of wise sages But when home I flew From my soccer (we drew!) I find this thread runs to FIVE PAGES! Bubble and Squeak you say? Oh how quaint! But Haute Cuisine it simply just ain’t Now my guts are **squirm** ing And not from your worming It’s **fried** left-overs that leave me quite **faint**! ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/206 "2003-09-20T18:59:42Z")
There are lots of arachnids from here but never enough though I fear they make most people squirm but I feel I must affirm they are quite interesting; tis clear. The [water spider](http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/pondexplorer/gallery/wspid.html) takes lots of trouble by protecting her brood in a bubble the babes leave a mess when exiting the nest Leaving **nature** to deal with the rubble. Curses, foiled again! Hello there Pierre72! My fried **brain** can’t keep up with you! You’re limericks a doozy I’m feeling quite woozy And faint from the strain to construe. Welcome SpyderWoman!Weak at best ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/207 "2003-09-20T19:01:46Z")
Argh, forgot to underline fried and faint, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/208 "2003-09-20T19:04:43Z")
DOUBLE ARG! Weak at best was supposed to refer to the my last limerick, not to Welcome SpyderWoman (who reports she chose that name because she drives a Spyder; I’m jealous). I’m going back to bed. ---
**Author:** ![SpyderWoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@SpyderWoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpyderWoman)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/209 "2003-09-20T19:07:55Z")
Thank you for the welcome. I am enjoying this board quite a bit already. ---
**Author:** ![ISNorden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/47e85d/32.png) [@ISNorden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISNorden)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/210 "2003-09-20T19:30:18Z")
The brain-doctors love to discuss whether nature or nurture **shapes** us– genes or **learning,** our fates, which one most relates? But I don’t understand all the fuss. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/211 "2003-09-20T19:43:29Z")
In the wake of all the simulposts, the four words underlined below never got their due: **SpyderWoman** just arrived from the state Of Georgia – I think that’s just great But as **Spider Woman** also here sits, I’ll be searching my wits Just to keep the two homophones straight! We now return you to your regularly scheduled game, where _nature_ and _brain_ are in play, assuming no other additions have been made to the thread in the last few minutes… ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/212 "2003-09-20T19:51:23Z")
A zookeeper, once, using shapes, Attempted to **teach** all the apes. But he had to **concur** Learning wouldn’t occur: They preferred to throw poo and eat grapes. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/213 "2003-09-20T20:00:03Z")
In _ **summertime** _, trying to teach A teenager’s way past my reach. I’m sure you’d concur The teen’s mind is sure To be thinking that life is a _ **beach** _. ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/214 "2003-09-20T20:14:56Z")
In summertime a great blue whale lost **direction** while trying to **sail** with his tail; he did reach the white sands of a beach and was blown back to sea by a gale. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/215 "2003-09-20T21:32:33Z")
Hark! She sails like a whale in a gale! Almost _ **foundered** _ in passing waves’ swale. Has she lost her direction? Will Neptune’s protection Over storm wind and water _ **prevail** _? ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/216 "2003-09-20T22:47:49Z")
Arrr, “foundered” an evil word be. Could I **pardon** **EddyTeddyFreddy**? This rhyme is quite stale But if I prevail The **stakes** will be raised some by me. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/217 "2003-09-20T22:55:14Z")
There once was a sweet cat named **Teddy** Whose big friendly brother was **Freddy** But the biggest of all Was the third brother, tall, Long and lean: orange mega-cat **Eddy**! Okay, having hijacked my own thread to get THAT off my chest, I now return you to our previously scheduled rhyming. ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/218 "2003-09-20T23:32:04Z")
While preparing three witches to burn at the stakes (each would take her own turn) A governor’s pardon received by the guard on that morning gave cause for concern. The teeming **throng** would cry for blood and the guard preferred that it would not be his that they spilled if no witches he grilled so he did not that pardon make good. While tying each witch to her tree he could not understand their great **glee**. Here was their joke: gone in a puff of smoke before fire was lit they were free. Now the guard o’er his shoulder does look passing each little cranny and nook for warts and hooked noses and brooms and striped hoses Of witches he failed to cook. The moral of this story is"Damned if you do and damned if you don’t. Hmmmph. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2003, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/219 "2003-09-21T01:24:09Z")
The throng **demonstrated** great glee As the point guard sank a last-second “three”, But the fans’ roar wasn’t just for The game-winning score – 'Twas a **cheerleader’s** thong they did see! ---
**Author:** ![pierre72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@pierre72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pierre72)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2003, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/220 "2003-09-21T07:59:52Z")
Cheerleaders! The image sublime… But the only word I can think of to rhyme With the link demonstrated Is… erm… **menstruated** A mental image I won’t shift for some **time** … Ewwwwww… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705.md?page=12)