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I expected to see my deathbed in a decade or so, but if I keep up with limmericking I may count some good years off.
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Attempts at divestiture failed;
Reporters and critics assailed;
With my business ka-blooey
I drowned in Drambuie,
And off to Australia I sailed.
TRANSPOSITION -- TRAVELED
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@ coffeebean: TERRIFIC!
A fellow's genetic condition
Left him seeking a real transposition.
His gender unraveled,
So to Sweden he traveled,
And her life has now come to fruition.
DYSPROSIUM - EARED
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Thanks, Beck! Fun addition to the game!
Attending a nuclear symposium
Tom learned all the facts of dysprosium;
With a manual dog-eared
for a bomb – it is feared –
He has gone off to begin composing ‘em.
OOZE -- OPEN-MOUTHED
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It happened on the way to symposium,
From the sky fell a chunk of dysprosium!
And being big-eared,
It did as he feared,
And richocheted off his big nosium!
*sigh* please forgive the amateurishness...
CIUDAD TRUJILLO CLAIRVOYANCE
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We're becoming inspired! Those two were great - I wouldn't want to have to choose between them, and, thankfully, I don't.
@ twosleepy: I'm in north Florida, and this week I saw your avatars migrating through, so spring is on the way. The robins passed through two to three weeks ago in great flocks.
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Not soon enough for me. I have cabin fever as do so many folks
here. Enough is enough of snow and ice. So glad the robins
are coming.
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He thnored in the road, open-mouthed.
He had fallen there, dreadfully thouthed.
The empty of booze
Glithened there in the ooze,
While ith contenth inthide him were houthed.
McDOWELL - MEANDER
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Hi, Luke. Nice to know you're out there. Keep your chin up - you've been through winter before.
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There once was a lady from Mayence
Who was cursed with backwards clairvoyance
She sang, "Amore Mio"
In Ci'dad Trujillo
Two days late, to the locals' annoyance.
(see my earlier post for the next two words...)
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A happy young man from Kandy,
On drinking Mcdowell's brandy,
Began to meander,
While saying candour,
"How are you. My name is randy!"
NUMB NURSE
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He went to see Lola, the nurse
And complained his condition was worse.
So she sucked on his thumb
Until it was numb,
And he slipped his ten bucks in her purse.
(It is most challenging to keep these PG-rated)
LOX - LUDDITE
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The day shift's contribution
To eat both lox and lox
Would be a bad paradox
Like the Luddite in rage
Destroyed their own wage
When preventing machines to make socks.
STONEHENGE SUPERSTRING
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I'll bet you walk around all day thinking in limericks. Does the pace of your walking follow the beat?
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Oops! I had a reply window open at work, and was slowly building my limerick. When I finished I was in a hurry and didn't wait to see the posted post. It's fun, though, to see two different, yet alike, ideas with the same words. I do believe, however, that symposium is the only true rhymer for dysprosium. Sorry to have stepped on you, Coffee! :0)
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It may be the only one spelled identically, but there's a bug called a "no-see-um" whose name would rhyme, no?
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 No-see-ums on a man's hand (the very tiny dark spots)
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No problem, twosleepy! That happens!
A bikini’d young lass decked with bling
Was studying most everything
From stone age to stonehenge
She relished the challenge
And was eager to try superstring.
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Not to my ear, Beck. I like the "-osium" to rhyme. Not much out there with that!
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When she fell in love with a 'whatnot'
of political dubious upshot,
she said: "whence this crush came
and who is to blame,
I wish I could tell but I cannot."
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He donned his infernal raincoat,
The "flashy" one, if you'll take note.
Shoppers can't reconcile
What they saw in that aisle
With his face, since they never saw both.
INVISIBLE INK - IODOUS
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A wedding by shotgun for Linc:
The bridesmaids in iodous pink;
He pondered and mused,
His back badly bruised:
“Could I sign in invisible ink?”
FRAGMENT -- FRANKFURTER
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Very clever. 
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Real charming coffeebean!  It seemed an impossible one.
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A wise old professor, Doc Hagment,
Translated the mystic text fragment
With his language converter
While he ate his frankfurter,
Then understood just what the hag meant.
CRATER - CREATURE
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A wise old professor, Doc Hagment,
Translated the mystic text fragment
With his language converter
While he ate his frankfurter,
Then understood just what the hag meant.A wedding by shotgun for Linc:
The bridesmaids in iodous pink;
He pondered and mused,
His back badly bruised:
“Could I sign in invisible ink?” I give up on you guys. Clever both!
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Thanks! Sometimes I have to let the words bounce around in my pea brain for a while before an idea comes. Have been trying to inject a little humor if I can.
Bernard fell in love with a preacher
But found her a prim, frigid creature.
On a date at the crater
He killed her and ate her,
Declaring: “AHA! That’ll teach her!”
FESTOONERY -- FEZ
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@ coffeebean: That's great! I like when there are internal rhymes in the lines. I'm afraid we're scaring others away, though - I wouldn't want to do that. I hope there are afficianados out there who are enjoying this doggerel, even if they aren't participating...
In the hand of his girlfriend, Inez,
A lad placed a small, plastic fez.
Despite its festoonery
And her boyfriend's buffoonery,
Inez knew it simply held PEZ.
BUGLOSS - BULLDOZE
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I think Sparteye's the person who had us doing something like this lo these many years ago: take the first and last headwords of an open dictionary, and make a sentence out of them--the weirder the better. I agree - some folks who were participating earlier have dropped out.  I think we should go back to the Roolz and make a sentence. Now, as you can see, we did not hesitate to make a couplet at times. Want to start a new thread for limericks only? Or keep it as-is? CB
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Pez is candy that comes in a dispenser with a character head. Perhaps someone can insert a photo....
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 The back of the heads have hinges, and the brick shaped candy dispenses below the chin when you tilt the head back. There are hundreds of Pez dispenser styles. The candy is mostly fruit flavors.
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Oh okay thanks. Is it a brand name? Why doesn't the Webster's new world dictionary list it?
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It's a trade mark Pez I like to read your limericks, but for me it takes too much time to do it. The occasional sentence was OK. I have to look up most of the given words to begin with.
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Want to start a new thread for limericks only? Or keep it as-is? This thread was pretty inactive for a while. I tried to revive it with the limericks a month or so ago, and we had the discussion early on about whether or not to start a new thread. That was left unresolved at the time, so we can decide today (but I have to leave for work right now.)
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I totally enjoy reading the limericks. Have attempted a few,
but get boggled down. Keep 'em up!.
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I have to look up most of the given words to begin with. I have to look up quite a few of them too! Well, let's keep the thread as-is. All you non-limerickers: feel free to jump in with a sentence or whatever moves you. If we have a double post (which sometimes happens anyway) we will address both posts and continue having fun. CB
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The bugloss flower would have bulldozed across the field was it not rooted to the ground.
- COLON COLLAR
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