# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/21 "2003-09-15T19:58:29Z")
But digress is what some here have done Confusing attempts to have fun We must read the rules So as not to be _ **fools** _ Alright, I’ve said my peace, now I’m done. ---
**Author:** ![RotorHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@RotorHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RotorHead)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/22 "2003-09-15T21:11:28Z")
“Fool” you say? No, not a chance. But its easier now, at a glance. New rules won’t frustrate, **Discombobulate** , Or make us look at it askance. ---
**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 15, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/23 "2003-09-15T21:28:42Z")
Discombobulate, huh? Getting smart, Aren’t you, **RotorHead**? You’re taking part In a frolic that’s sure To _ **entice** _ and to lure Many Dopers to limerick art. ---
**Author:** ![RotorHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@RotorHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RotorHead)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/24 "2003-09-15T22:01:51Z")
Entice them? I dare say it will. And for some of us, its quite a thrill. Even those who just lurk will at least give a smirk, And be learning a **valuable** new skill. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/25 "2003-09-15T23:47:32Z")
A valuable piece of advice For those who think it is nice To invoke **Batman** (Bruce Wayne) – Please, don’t be a pain, Nor pick nits (aka eggs of lice) ---
**Author:** ![RotorHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@RotorHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RotorHead)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/26 "2003-09-16T00:03:01Z")
The question has yet to be asked: Would Batman, if he were tasked, still be so strong, **versus** the throng If he were ever unmasked? ---
**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 16, 2003, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/27 "2003-09-16T01:09:51Z")
With verses of dog’rel sublime It’s **RotorHead** having the time Of his life – but the _ **curse** _ Of work is adverse; Is fun versus toil such a crime? ---
**Author:** ![RotorHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@RotorHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RotorHead)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/28 "2003-09-16T01:29:34Z")
Well, working is sometimes a fright, Needing money to lessen your plight. Alas, its a curse, But what might be the worse: Being so **broke** you can’t spend the night. ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/29 "2003-09-16T03:46:38Z")
Me mind be blank of rhymin’ words, tryin’ to think, I musta broke, the only tool I do not invoke, in a regular state of rhyme and verse, truly methinks it to be a curse, to know one’s head might be _DEAD_ but nae really (wink wink), it’s still abed! ---
**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 16, 2003, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/30 "2003-09-16T04:01:20Z")
“He’s dead!” “No, he’s not, he’s just resting.” A Pythonesque gambol in jesting I fondly recall. But alas! I must haul Myself back to my _ **work** _, it’s suggesting. ---
**Author:** ![RotorHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@RotorHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RotorHead)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/31 "2003-09-16T04:27:13Z")
Tragedy. Working, that is. But if you must get down to biz, Just think of the fun You’ll have when its done, And the time will go by in a **whiz**. ---
**Author:** ![pierre72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@pierre72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pierre72)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/32 "2003-09-16T05:53:47Z")
Whizened\* I am, but now sick Of “bold, underline or italic?” But to Spider(Sanguine) Your rhyming’s sublime But not a five-line **limerick**. (\*ouch!) ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/33 "2003-09-16T06:48:21Z")
Limerick is a city in Eire, That **Emerald** Isle so fair. The land’s also called Erin, Or Hibernia, for those who are carin’ To wax poetic o’er fine colleens’ hair. ---
**Author:** ![manwithaplan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@manwithaplan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manwithaplan)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/34 "2003-09-16T08:20:37Z")
Being Irish myself, may I say That Eire rhymes in no way With Emerald Isles so fair Or sweet maidens’ hair Cos it’s **bisyllabic** , OK? [sub]It was slavery to form that made it sound snippy, honest![/sub] ---
**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 16, 2003, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/35 "2003-09-16T11:54:10Z")
“Use bisyllabic,” you say? Oh, **manwithaplan** – touche! I’ve struggled to do it; Alas! I may _ **rue** _ it That ever this game I did play. Thought you had us there, huh? This game is getting _rough_. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/36 "2003-09-16T12:03:15Z")
The “bi” prefix’s uses ain’t few -0 “Biopic;” “bisexual” too. But with “bisyllabic” You’re _creating_ havoc. I can bicope. But bican biyou? ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/37 "2003-09-16T12:07:42Z")
I didn’t use “preview,” you see So **ETF** posted with me. I have to say “oops” Now I’ll round up the troops Redeem myself lim’rickally! This slip of my fingers I rue For “preview’s” my friend, it is true. So now I’m flat _busted_ My work can’t be trusted As from this two-fer you’ll construe. ---
**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 16, 2003, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/38 "2003-09-16T12:09:11Z")
**Hamadryad** , you’re creating verse With wisdom and wit, not perverse. Rue not that you sent Your reply when mine went Just before yours – mine’s worse, it’s _ **worse** _! ---
**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 16, 2003, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/39 "2003-09-16T12:15:03Z")
ACK! Busted again, I can boast By that _ **bete noir** _, board simulpost. What’s worse, I just bet **Hamadryad’s** all set To simulpost one more riposte! ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/40 "2003-09-16T12:25:26Z")
At first I was _ **thoroughly** _ intrigued. But now I see I’m out of my league. Yet looking it up I see, That bete noire ends in an ‘e’. And now my brain is fully fatigued. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705.md?page=3)