# 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:** 7
**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 19, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/121 "2003-09-19T01:29:22Z")
With eight cats, my furniture’s scratched; The curtains are fur-flecked and patched; There are toys everywhere, Black and _ **orange** _ shed hair – But the laughter and love are unmatched! ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/122 "2003-09-19T02:00:28Z")
**ETF** , you just _had_ to do it, didn’t you?! Sorry for mangling your initials - brain fart! I realized while out shopping for hinge- able doors that I hadn’t a door hinge! And what good is a **door** Just laid out on the floor? Unless, of course, painted bright orange. at which point, it becomes a fashion statement, you see! Hey, it was the best I could do with orange - so sue me! ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/123 "2003-09-19T02:22:47Z")
Out of the sequence - ignore for the purpose of the game! I’d stay until I was near dead, But I really must go up to bed. Don’t view me with scorn - I’ll be back in the morn! 'Cause I just _love_ doing this thread! Thanks, **ETF** , for starting it! ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/124 "2003-09-19T02:32:54Z")
Someone show **AvhHines** the door For such rhyming that all should abhor! Oh, stop now, I’m just kidding And thank you for ridding Us of a link with rhymes so _ **obscure** _! ---
**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 19, 2003, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/125 "2003-09-19T03:20:06Z")
The link, whether plain or obscure, Doesn’t have to be line-ending, sure; It can go anywhere That its _ **placement** _ seems fair. But a clever rhyme counts even more. I’m just wondering how long this thread Can go on, ere at last put to bed. ACK! My brain’s got a tic! Now it’s locked in lim’rick Rhythms, endlessly loop in my head! ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/126 "2003-09-19T03:54:18Z")
I hope you’ll forgive my embracement Of rules stricter than you in this case meant. While allowed to engird with the rest the **key** word, I prefer to reserve final placement. couldn’t resist one more before lights out! 😃 Good night, for real this time! ---
**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 19, 2003, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/127 "2003-09-19T05:48:43Z")
**AvhHines** , you’re gamer than me. I thought wisest for players 'twould be To allow them to pick Where the link they would stick While creating their rhyme cleverly; Thus providing a challenge enough While not making the task way too tough. Let the players have fun; Test their wits, but not un- Duly torture them – that’s much too rough. On the other hand, it seems to me I perhaps could enhance the ant **e** By asking you choose _ **Two** _ links you could use; Instead of just one that is key. So I’ve bolded two links in this rhyme; Pick just one, or take both the same time. It may drive you to _ **drink** _; It will sure make you think! You can use extra stanzas; that’s fine. And now, having thrown THAT little bomblet out, I’m off to bed, to sleep the smirkingly satisfied sleep of the wicked. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/128 "2003-09-19T08:06:15Z")
Two things drive me near off the brink And fear for how deeply we’ll **sink** : Success of the Yankees And Shrub’s hanky-pankies. But lim’ricks won’t **drive** me to drink! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/129 "2003-09-19T08:15:51Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by EddyTeddyFreddy \* > When I started this thread, I did hope > 'Twould be fun for the fans of Straight Dope. > I’m delighted to see > That it’s through to Page 3! > So let’s give a new link: **jackelope**!_\*\* After _work_ I was having a drink, And I suddenly began to think My _ears_ burning; I’ll strive Not to imbibe and **drive** , For this karma has made my heart **sink**. [sub]Weak, I know, but I had both words to use _and_ a left-field call-out to respond to.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![pierre72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@pierre72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pierre72)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/130 "2003-09-19T10:08:13Z")
Right! So put away your kiddy toys. You’re playing with men and not boys One link wouldn’t do, So we’re working with two 'Ears to some more **cunning rhyme** ploys. ---
**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 19, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/131 "2003-09-19T12:55:46Z")
“Men not boys”? sniffed the cunning old _ **dame** _ Who came up with this limerick game. You’d best not be sexist. Or you _ **will** _ cease to **ex** ist! Just make sure that your rhyme isn’t lame! ---
**Author:** ![petre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@petre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/petre)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/132 "2003-09-19T14:01:00Z")
Fear not, fair dame, I’ll be not so crass. Yet your final criteria confounds me, alas. My **brow** is all rippled. Is my poetry crippled? Then it will need crutches, and **fast**. ---
**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 19, 2003, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/133 "2003-09-19T14:10:59Z")
My limerick skills; rusty at best Will surely be put to test By joining this game (Hope this rhyme isn’t lame) but I won’t have much time to **invest**. Rats, now my eyebrows are raised petre with that last rhyme has me fased because I am not fast **enough** keeping up with you will be tough with all your prowess I am amazed. ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/134 "2003-09-19T14:28:15Z")
**Old Broker’s Advice** this one required a title Invest, young folks, that is the stuff Of which **fortune** s are made. Now get **tough** With your huge self-indulgence and crass self-effulgence. Save, save, save! It can’t be too much. ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/135 "2003-09-19T14:30:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AvhHines \* > \*\ ***Old Broker’s Advice** > this one required a title > > Invest, young folks, that is the stuff > Of which **fortune** s are made. Now get **tough** > With your huge self-indulgence > and crass self-effulgence. > Save, save, save! It can’t be too much. \*\* :smack: :smack: :smack: Invest, young folks, that is the stuff Of which **fortune** s are made. Now get **tough** With your huge self-indulgence and crass self-effulgence. Save, save, save! It can’t be enough. :smack: :smack: :smack: Carry on… ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/136 "2003-09-19T14:35:54Z")
Oh, and ears to you, too, **pierre72**. May our puns never get us shot! ---
**Author:** ![pierre72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@pierre72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pierre72)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/137 "2003-09-19T14:46:11Z")
Fortune-ately there is no law That requres me from puns to withdraw “Tough justice” you’d call When I’m first 'gainst the wall “ **Dreadful** puns were his one only **flaw** ”! ---
**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 19, 2003, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/138 "2003-09-19T15:21:40Z")
A giraffe with dreadful halitosis Tried to cure by **principle** of [osmosis](http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=osmosis) though mints absorbed the smell on her **throat** they were hell and her flawed plan caused reverse [peristalsis](http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=peristalsis). Yuck ---
**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 19, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/139 "2003-09-19T15:24:18Z")
Ye gods! This addiction is dreadful! For limerick lines I’d a head full Of words; then I saw That each one had a flaw, Now, like _ **Porpentine** _, I’ve become _ **fretful.** _ ---
**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 19, 2003, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705/140 "2003-09-19T15:29:05Z")
**_Spider_ Woman** – ahead by a throat With the answering limerick she wrote True to principle, she Set us two words to be Linking onward – ennui’s _ **antidote** _. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-linking-limerick-game/201705.md?page=8)