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  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host
    edited July 2022
    Number 10 is not yet vacated
    The people not yet placated
    But the news is just in
    that the Mop's in the bin
    And his premiership’s classed as unrated

    — — —

    Number 10 is not yet vacated
    The people not yet placated
    The languishing Boris
    Unforsaken by Dorries
    Just sits there quite ruffle-pated.

    — — —
  • SpikeSpike Ecclesiantics & MW Host, Admin Emeritus
    edited July 2022
    There once was a PM called Boris
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    There once was a PM called Boris
    Who may soon need some removal lorries
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    edited July 2022
    !!!
    :confused:

    It's a metaphor. Johnson is the mop(alluding to his coiffure), and the bin is a trash bin, meaning he's on his way out.
  • jrwjrw Shipmate
    There once was a PM called Boris
    Who may soon need some removal lorries
    Just pack up and leave
    And no longer believe
    Car parks with one floor are multi-stories

  • stetson wrote: »
    !!!
    :confused:

    It's a metaphor. Johnson is the mop(alluding to his coiffure), and the bin is a trash bin, meaning he's on his way out.
    Yes - I know. I was expressing mild confusion as to which limerick to work on...
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    There once was a fella named BoJo
    Who thought his historical mojo
    Was English and jaunty
    Like Churchill and Monty
    Though his politics tilted toward Tojo
  • SpikeSpike Ecclesiantics & MW Host, Admin Emeritus
    There once was a lady called Carrie
  • There once was a lady called Carrie
    Who lived with a feline named Larry
  • NenyaNenya All Saints Host, Ecclesiantics & MW Host
    edited July 2022
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  • There once was a lady called Carrie
    Who lived with a feline named Larry
    But the pussy will stay
    Although she’ll go away
  • There once was a lady called Carrie
    Who lived with a feline named Larry
    But the pussy will stay
    Although she’ll go away
    Her feckless old husband to harry
  • There was an Old Man in a Fridge
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    There was an Old Man in a Fridge
    Which someone tossed over a bridge

  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    There was an Old Man in a Fridge
    Who thought that he would build a bridge
    O'er the broad Irish sea,
    Or the Thames est-ua-ry
    But his promise was worth not a smidge.
  • There was an Old Man in a Fridge
    Which someone tossed over a bridge
    When it was fished out
    He started to shout
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    There was an Old Man in a Fridge
    Which someone tossed over a bridge
    When it was fished out
    He started to shout:
    "I wanted to sail to Blue Ridge!"
  • (staying topical)

    A Mop-headed Man with a Trolley
  • A Mop-headed Man with a Trolley
    Normally as cool as a lolly
    Wanted to marry
    But the one called Carrie
    Doesn’t live here any more, this dolly
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited July 2022
    :lol:
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    edited July 2022

    The Eurocrats over in Brussels
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    edited July 2022

    The Eurocrats over in Brussels
    Remember the Mop and his hustles

  • The Eurocrats over in Brussels
    Remember the Mop and his hustles
    Their Hip-Hip-Hooray
    Sounds o'er Europe today
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    edited July 2022
    The Eurocrats over in Brussels
    Remember the Mop and his hustles
    Their Hip-Hip-Hooray
    Sounds o'er Europe today
    Though there's no end to Albion's tussles


  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    The Eurocrats over in Brussels
    Remember the Mop and his hustles
    While their Hip-Hip-Hooray
    Rings through Europe today
    There's no end to Albion's tussles.

    Slight re-write. The "o'er" contraction has always sounded somewhat forced to me, and I moved the contradiction from the fifth to the third line.

  • stetson wrote: »

    Slight re-write. The "o'er" contraction has always sounded somewhat forced to me, and I moved the contradiction from the fifth to the third line.


    Yea, an it please thee, O Rhymer - I mind not, and thou mayest move thy contradictions whithersoever thou wilt.

    :wink:

  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    stetson wrote: »

    Slight re-write. The "o'er" contraction has always sounded somewhat forced to me, and I moved the contradiction from the fifth to the third line.


    Yea, an it please thee, O Rhymer - I mind not, and thou mayest move thy contradictions whithersoever thou wilt.

    :wink:

    Cool, dude.



  • I'm tempted to pen a limerick in 16thC English, were it not for fear of Hostly Admonitions...
    Channelling Edward Lear again, then:

    There was a Young Person whose Nose
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    edited July 2022
    There was a Young Person whose Nose
    Was as long as Pinocchio's which grows
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited July 2022
    There was a Young Person whose Nose
    Was as long as Pinocchio's which grows
    With each hideous fib
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    There was a Young Person whose Nose
    Was as long as Pinocchio's which grows
    So the ladies all guessed

  • EnochEnoch Shipmate
    There was a Young Person whose Nose
    Was as long as Pinocchio's which grows
    With each hideous fib
    He got more and more glib
    So for a job, it was politics he chose.
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host

    (I shall, slightly naughtily, complete version 2...)

    There was a Young Person whose Nose
    Was as long as Pinocchio's which grows
    So the ladies all guessed
    Its full size. He confessed
    That only his wife really knows.
  • A wordsmith named after a Hat
  • A wordsmith named after a Hat
    Paired up with a circus acrobat
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    edited July 2022
    A wordsmith named after a Hat
    Paired up with a circus acrobat
    They flew with such ease
    On a flying trapeze

  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    edited July 2022
    A wordsmith named after a Hat
    Paired up with a circus acrobat
    They flew with such ease
    On a flying trapeze
    But their rhyming and scanning fell flat.
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    The manual digits of clerics
  • NenyaNenya All Saints Host, Ecclesiantics & MW Host
    The manual digits of clerics
    Have most of their flock in hysterics

  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited July 2022
    stetson wrote: »
    The manual digits of clerics
    I saw what you did there... :lol:

    The manual digits of clerics
    Have most of their flock in hysterics
    Whilst pointing on high
    To the Pie in the Sky
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    The manual digits of clerics
    Have most of their flock in hysterics
    Whilst pointing on high
    To the Pie in the Sky
    While preaching in courtesans' barracks

  • A pesky young fly eating cake
  • A pesky young fly eating cake
    Was given a nasty head-ache
  • SpikeSpike Ecclesiantics & MW Host, Admin Emeritus
    edited July 2022
    A pesky young fly eating cake
    Was given a nasty head-ache
    ‘Cos a cake that eats flies
    Can get quite a surprise
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host
    A pesky young fly eating cake
    Was given a nasty head-ache
    ‘Cos a cake that eats flies
    Can get quite a surprise
    When put in the oven to bake

    — — —
  • SpikeSpike Ecclesiantics & MW Host, Admin Emeritus
    There was an old man from Caerphilly
  • jrwjrw Shipmate
    There was an old man from Caerphilly
    Who was bored so decided to kill e
    From the name of his town
    He wrote Carphilly down
    But was told to stop being so silly

  • There was an Old Person from Cheddar
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    There was an Old Person from Cheddar
    Who was quite a recalcitrant bettor
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    Eh, scratch that. New line...

    There was an Old Person from Cheddar
    Whose love life was just getting deader
    He met a young floozy
    Who wasn't too choosy


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