Candlelight Supper
Amanda B Reckondwyth
Shipmate
in The Circus
First line of the couplet is an invitation to something.
Player supplies second line of the couplet -- something that will spoil the invitation.
Player then starts a new couplet.
Example:
Come to dinner, please, tonight,
But 'fraid I have no 'lectric light.
Shall we begin?
Let's go boating on the lake
Player supplies second line of the couplet -- something that will spoil the invitation.
Player then starts a new couplet.
Example:
Come to dinner, please, tonight,
But 'fraid I have no 'lectric light.
Shall we begin?
Let's go boating on the lake
Comments
The buoyancy's entirely fake,
The insurance has expired long since,
Umm . . . the first line of the couplet should be an invitation. Let's be generous and interpret this line as an invitation to renew the policy.
The insurance has expired long since,
And my agent auditioned to be a grinch.
Come sing a little song with me
Think I'm a bird perched in a tree?
Take this three times daily after meals
It won’t cure you, better sort out the wills!
Come to the park with your little dog
Great big dogs lurking in the fog ...
I'd love for you to come to dinner
But don't plan on getting thinner!
Let's go out for a little drive
It braces me after a whisky or five.
Please come to my engagement party...
And dress yourself in something tarty.
Alas my fiancée's a bit of a prig ....
A question by the way. Have I got this wrong in assuming the new line is supposed to follow on from what's gone before like Consequences rather than be completely free-standing?
Second line "sours" the invitation.
Next couplet is brand new -- doesn't follow the previous one.
Alas my fiancée's a bit of a prig ....
Perhaps I'll hide his horsehair wig!
Come live with me and be my love.
Not till you give your wife the shove.
Come into the garden Maud
You’ll find my wooing techniques are flawed.
Won’t you join my on an evening stroll?
We might be eaten by a giant vole!
Come join me for a swim in my new pool…
A few small icebergs keep it nice and cool.
Would you like to play strip poker?
With a stevedore and a stoker?
Perhaps you’d like a glass of wine?
You might fancy me after eight or nine.
Would you like to be my penfriend?
Absolutely not!
Merry Vole wrote:
Would you like to be my penfriend?
Only after we've both served our sentences.
I wandered lonely as a cloud
Rich-ard! Do be careful with my Royal Doulton china with the hand painted periwinkles!
Past a sign saying 'Not Allowed'
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Of women on the road, beware!
Come to church with me on Sunday
Or be deported to Burundi
Let's go out for a lovely meal
Come with me in my aeroplane
The new Bond film seems worth a look...
But no martinis, please, well shook!
Come take a ride in my new car
Would you like to read my book?
Would you like to read my book?
Or do you just not give a .... ?
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
And let me snip them off with my new shears.
How's about a holiday in Spain?
On the plain in mainly rain
I know a bank where the wild thyme grows
Down by the river let's lie in the shade
In the hole that I made with my sharp new spade
Come dance with me by the light of the moon
with my two left feet, to a horn pipe tune
In the woodland let’s walk hand in hand
No, you're not.
Till we get to the beach and can stroll on the sand.
It's St Swithin's today. The rain's steadily falling.
The urge to stay in is stridently calling.
The footie's all finished, so what will we do?
Start on Bob’s leg—I’ve made a nice stew!
(“Donner, party of four?”)
Let’s go out in the bright sunshine
The "boiled lobster" look will suit you just fine
Come live with me and be my love
Give your other half the shove!
You take the high road and I’ll take the low road
I'll catch the bus, a better transport mode.
Come into the garden, Maud.
Dig that ditch and cut that sod
Come onto these golden sands
And say good-bye to wedding banns.
A trip to outer space should thrill
But only Musk can afford the bill
Will you, won't you, won't you join the dance?
Wouldn't you like to fly in a beautiful balloon?
Probably not, heights make me swoon.
Think of a number between one and ten.
I've done that - so what then?
Do you remember an inn, Miranda?
What a shame you got drunk and fell off the veranda
Come buy, come buy our orchard fruits.
We've cared for them since they were but shoots.
Who's claiming that Maud and sod can rhyme?
Not Maud, the sod. She's past her prime!
Come clean my messy house for me.