Limerick thread

**Olly Buckle** · November 5th, 2009, 09:15 PM

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** · November 6th, 2009, 03:15 AM

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

**ash somers** · November 6th, 2009, 05:41 AM

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** · November 6th, 2009, 06:46 AM

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** · November 6th, 2009, 02:04 PM

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** · November 7th, 2009, 12:04 AM

[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?