Limerick thread

[Olly Buckle]

I was trying to think of something different for the poetry challenge and came up with this. I wondered if maybe it should be in word games, but a poem is a poem.

The idea is that the first person makes up the first line, eg.
There was a young lady from Ryde

Next person makes up second line and posts it with the first, eg
There was a young lady from Ryde
Who ate some green apples and died

And so on until the final person posts,
There was a young lady from Ryde
Who ate some green apples and died
The apples fermented
Inside the lamented
And made cider inside her inside

Okay, I didn't make any of that up, it's simply in case anyone doesn't know the structure.
Oh, and different people must post consecutive lines, and this is a family forum, risqué is one thing but stay in the bounds of decency.

I start the first one

There was an old codger from Queensland

[Gumby]

There was an old codger from Queensland
who liked to draw ladies in freehand

[ash somers]

for god's sake, get out of the way!


There was an old codger from Queensland
Who liked to draw ladies in freehand
With his hand on his crutch

[The Backward OX]

Ok, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.




There was an old codger from Queensland
Who liked to draw ladies in freehand
With his hand on his crutch
Like Van Gogh, who was Dutch









Oh, boy, is there some potential here.

[Cran]

There was an old codger from Queensland
Who liked to draw ladies in freehand
With his hand on his crutch
Like Van Gogh, who was Dutch
He drew them away to New Zealand

[The Backward OX]

[quote=The Backward OX;1315499 I was expecting some truly creative stuff here, brilliant five-liners from individual authors, and this .... is obviously the first of them, quoth Olly inside the quotes[/quote]

F*cked it up again, didn't 'e?

[The Backward OX]

First line someone? Or does it fall to Cran for finishing so brilliantly?

...

Methinks this should be spelled out in the rules. Along with an embargo on first lines ending in "Nantucket."

[Foxee]

There was a sweet young thing from York

[Gumby]

There was a sweet young thing from York
who would only eat candy and pork

[caelum]

There was a sweet young thing from York
who would only eat candy and pork
all her wardrobe was green

[Tiamat10]

There was a sweet young thing from York
who would only eat candy and pork
all her wardrobe was green
From Dior to McQueen

[The Backward OX]

There was a sweet young thing from York
who would only eat candy and pork
all her wardrobe was green
From Dior to McQueen
And now she's gone missing, like Hawke

[Olly Buckle]

Astutely observed sir, but it doesn't really relate to the rest, how about:-
"Which disguised the puke when she hawked"?
Sorry, get your own back,

Start with this:-
The mentor from East Sussex was chronic,

[ash somers]

The mentor from East Sussex was chronic
So we quickly went out to buy tonic

[Gumby]

The mentor from East Sussex was chronic
So we quickly went out to buy tonic
through the aisles we did dash