# 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:** 4
**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, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/61 "2003-09-16T19:58:21Z")
**Eddy** , you sassy young thing! It seems you were able to bring Your wit to the case But did you **unlace** for the onlookers, that classy g-string? ---
**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, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/62 "2003-09-16T20:50:09Z")
“Young thing”? Said the hag with a giggle “That was _ **aeons** _ ago! But I’ll wiggle All the chins 'neath my face And I’ll even unlace My support hose! Does that make you wriggle?” ---
**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, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/63 "2003-09-16T21:37:01Z")
Support _ **hose** _ don’t even HAVE laces. Of buttons and battings, no traces. Unlace you may try; In the wink of an eye You’ll make runners - and angry, red faces. ---
**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, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/64 "2003-09-16T21:58:33Z")
When support hose is asked to retain All the **EdTedFred** bulk, and contain The _ **billowing** _ masses Of **ETF’s** ass, is Lace-free safe? No way! Straps and chain! ---
**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, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/65 "2003-09-16T22:23:07Z")
Poor **Eddy** , she’s needing a chain, The billowing mass to retain. But worse it would be, **Indubitably** , If travel required a crane. ---
**Author:** ![Hitsnarfle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c4cdca/32.png) [@Hitsnarfle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hitsnarfle)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2003, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/66 "2003-09-16T22:41:50Z")
Travelling by crane to the brook Can be **confusing** without first a look Indubitably I’d rather be Astride a bird than up on a hook ---
**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, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/67 "2003-09-16T23:06:56Z")
**Hitsnarfle** ’s “crane” homonym, Is somewhat confusing to him. But he’d better look Before jumping in brook, And know if he’ll sink or he’ll **swim**. ---
**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 17, 2003, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/68 "2003-09-17T01:09:07Z")
To swim 'gainst the tide is my nature; Indeed, I’m a contrary _ **creature** _. Say “Yes,” I say “No”; Say “Stay,” I say “Go.” They sigh; there’s no way they can reach her. ---
**Author:** ![RotorHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@RotorHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RotorHead)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/69 "2003-09-17T01:23:48Z")
A creature of habit, you are. Your contrary nature, **bizarre**. So I’ll ask you to go, In hopes you’ll say “no.” 'Cause this thread needs your _faire de savoir_. ---
**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 17, 2003, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/70 "2003-09-17T01:31:35Z")
Me? _Faire de savoir_? Well, I never! Bizarre, yes; perhaps even clever. But such a sophis- ticate you think this miss? Why, **RotorHead** – my thanks _ **forever** _! ---
**Author:** ![RotorHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@RotorHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RotorHead)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/71 "2003-09-17T02:55:46Z")
“Forever” is such a big share Of time. We’re not half the way there! That really is great, But if you wish to **truncate** , “Always” is fine, I declare. ---
**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 17, 2003, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/72 "2003-09-17T03:04:59Z")
“Go truncate that tree,” ordered Jack For the lumber he kept in a stack. “If you axe me politely, I’ll do it quite nicely,” Jill said, “Just don’t give me no _ **flak** _.” ---
**Author:** ![RotorHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@RotorHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RotorHead)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/73 "2003-09-17T03:21:53Z")
But Jack didn’t listen to Jill. And his flak kept that tree on the hill. So the lesson, Jack learned, Was when Jill had **sojourned** With his younger brother named Bill. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/74 "2003-09-17T04:05:50Z")
After **RotorHead** had sojourned For a time in _ **Virginia** _, he learned That a storm named Isabel Was a threat to give hell And so he cried "Meeting adjourned!’ ---
**Author:** ![RotorHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@RotorHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RotorHead)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/75 "2003-09-17T04:19:06Z")
Virginia is nice where I stay, But events of this coming Thursday, Have made clear to me I will be in NC When the **hurricane** cometh my way. ---
**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 17, 2003, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/76 "2003-09-17T04:46:29Z")
A hurricane! Oh, what a fate! Our biggest was in '38 In New England. My mom Was caught out in that storm She survived – by a narrow _ **escape** _. ---
**Author:** ![RotorHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@RotorHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RotorHead)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/77 "2003-09-17T05:02:47Z")
Narrow escape? Not for me. I’m going right to it, you see. My house in VA May get **blown** away, But my mother is there in NC. ---
**Author:** ![pierre72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@pierre72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pierre72)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/78 "2003-09-17T08:01:25Z")
I’m fond of Old North Carolina A year at NCSU was Fine-ah! It scares me to think That in nary a wink Of an eye it may be blown to **China**. ---
**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 17, 2003, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/79 "2003-09-17T12:40:05Z")
Her China doll looks she did treasure; They won her a life rich with leisure. Till Isabelle’s rambles Made the doll’s house a _ **shambles** _. Now her losses she scarcely can measure. ---
**Author:** ![RotorHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85e7bf/32.png) [@RotorHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RotorHead)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/80 "2003-09-17T13:19:10Z")
I figure this house for a shambles After Isabel, over it rambles. But I hope it’ll pass This-here bit of **landmass** Its just one of this life’s many gambles. [sub]And, the buy-one-get-one-free bonus, worth about what you paid for it: I regret its become plain to see A few days on the road, soon to be. And my travels wont let Me to access the net, Nor visit the SDMB. Signing off, but back again soon… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705.md?page=5)