Game Limerick (Limerick-Off Monday)
It’s Limerick-Off time, once again. And that means I write a limerick, and you write your own, using the same first line. Then you post your limerick here and, if you’re a Facebook user, on Facebook too.
The best submission will be crowned Limerick Of The Week. (Here’s last week’s Limerick Of The Week Winner plus the Honorable Mentions.)
How will your poems be judged? By meter, rhyme, and cleverness. (If you’re feeling a bit fuzzy about limerick writing rules, you can find some helpful resources listed here.)
I’ll announce the Limerick of the Week Winner right before I post next week’s Limerick-Off. So that gives you a full week to submit your clever, polished verse.
I hope you’ll join me in writing a limerick with this first line:
A woman who always seemed game…
or
A fellow who always seemed game…
Here’s mine:
Game Limerick
By Madeleine Begun Kane
A woman who always seemed game
To attempt any venture you’d name
Resisted just one:
French kissing a nun.
Her excuse? “I can’t kiss an old flame.”
Please feel free to write your own limerick using the same first line and post it in my comments. And if you’re on Facebook, I hope you’ll join my friends in that same activity on my Facebook Limerick-Off post.
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Tags: Adventures Limerick, Bawdy Humor, French Kissing, Nuns, Poetry & Prompts, Religion Humor, Writing Prompts
Spurned
I was a sweet old lady till I met you!
Forgot to post the limerick!
SPURNED!
A woman who always seemed game,
Said ‘I’m finding my life much too tame!’
So they thought they would mate her
With a big alligator!
But he said ‘ She’s not my type of dame.’
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I did the haiku, but then came here and found a limerick asked for. Both rather feebel, I’m ashamed to say.
Looking at the mirrored image
Someone older than I used to be
Yet still that is me
A woman who always seemed game
Replied when asked for her name
I’m known far and wide
As Matilda; Mrs Hyde
As Jeckyll, there’s be too much shame
oops feeble! not feebel – or maybe the freudian slip makes the word correct?
A woman who always seemed game
Developed spots with a long Latin name.
She got infected
After sex unprotected;
But was at a loss to know who to blame.
LOL! Excellent. :O)
A woman who always seemed game
Was a bore, and really quite lame
And when it came to sex
Would only do it with the Ex
And as a result, everything was really just the same.
A woman who always seemed game,
Never held on to any one flame.
She’d use and abuse them
And often confuse them,
Then leave shortly after she came.
a fellow who always seemed game
went out with a strange looking dame
as the petting got heavy
in back of his Chevy
he found out that Pete was her name
Nice job Matty that one really made laugh!
A woman who always seemed game,
Was known to the coppers by name.
Though simple as dust,
She’d use up her trust,
And was taken downtown for to blame.
A woman who always seemed game,
wrote a limerick, but it turned out lame
she said, “Darn the luck! It
turns out that Nantucket
has no rhyme that sounds quite the same!”
So you’re a bad influence Huh Mad?
Rinkly Rimes says: “I was a sweet old lady till I met you!”
Amanda Moore says: “So you’re a bad influence Huh Mad?”
LOL! A bad influence … and PROUD of it.
Which reminds me — one of our frequent participants is a former nun. (But I won’t say who. :) )
Thanks everyone for your fun limericks and kind words … and please keep them coming!
Too funny! Kissing old flames is never any fun!
FYI, your link on OSI didn’t work when I tried it, took me back to the OSI page, not to your blog.
Hugs to you Madeleine.
A woman who always seemed game,
From Siam, said, without any shame:
“I will whip your behind,
If you like Thais that bind,
‘Cause I dress not to kill, but to maim.”
Hello.
I’m laughing so hard, my side hurts!
You definitely know how to entertain us and set everyone else off too.
Nicely done, Mad Kane!
Remove These Satin Sheets…
A woman who always seemed game
Needed someone to blame
As a matter of fact
It was such a terrible act
As she screamed out another guys name
witty and funny.
A woman who always seemed game,
could never remember my name.
I told her, quite peavy,
“My dear, it is Levy.”
Now her name and mine are the same.
A woman who always seemed game
threw a shoe and came up quite lame
when he said giddy up
she gave him a slap
and cross the finish line alone without shame
Good one!
A woman who always seemed game
Wished a man would remember her name.
They never did
And she felt so off the grid
And she raised her children on a road without name.
hahahaha i love this!!!! you made me laugh with the french kiss thing there!!!
A woman who always felt game
Could do any voice you could name;
From the slow, husky drawl
Of Lauren Bacall
To the Moll-speak of Gloria Grahame.
A woman who always seemed game
chose partners, not ever the same
when their members fell off
at them she would scoff
did a moth ever harm the flame
A fellow who always seemed game
Would do anything to widen his fame
He went on TV
And danced nakedly
But only his head made it into the frame
A fellow who always seemed game
Couldn’t one night – to his shame
His search for a pill
Came up with nil
And he stood with his member quite lame
A woman who always seemed game
On second thought considered one lame.
Her stylist gave her a dare:
“Cut off all of your hair!”
“Just a trim,” she said, “but thanks all the same.”
A fellow who always seemed game
Had an ego no woman could tame
It drove everyone wild
He was like a spoiled child!
At least everyone ’round knew his name.
came over from gautami’s monday train… these are hilarious!!! i’m gonna have to work this one…
A fellow who always seemed game
seemed to cower in fear and in shame
when his wife told a crowd
his love making was loud
such is the power of fame
A fellow who always seemed game
Went by a peculiar name
Alfonso O’Reilly
Nicknamed ‘Weird O’Smiley’
He ended up going insane
A woman who always seemed game
For a fling with a passionate flame
Was spotted alone
With Armando, Ramón,
Antonio and Joe What’s-His-Name.
A woman who always seemed game
For finding another to blame
Said: “My problem today
Is, my 2nd Grade play
Was not met with sufficient acclaim.”
A woman who always seemed game
Had a fearful reputation to her name
A guy who tried to get fresh
Was on the behind thrashed
She was of a black belt Tae Kwon Do fame
A fellow who was always game
Cast his lot with a bossy dame
She cursed and she swore
Now he’s game no more
And skittish around whips and chains
A woman who always seemed game
Took a few goes to steady her aim
Then she seized a young man
Who passed by in a van
And his wife to this day she remains
A woman who always seemed game
has lost her insanely cute name.
She got angry and furious
not happy and curious
and never became a posh dame!
This might apply to “Crazy Eyes” too:
A woman who always seemed game
Backed up too close to a flame
As she flew through the air
With a lit derriere
She was looking for someone to blame.
A fellow who always seemed game
Had a perfectly awful first name.
When he started computin’
He came up with Rasputin
Whose name of ill fame was the same.
A woman who always seemed game
forgot three times a day ’bout her name
it was simply gone
and wasn’t much fun
after a while she felt quite insane
already in with a limerick…just wanted to say good to see you at dverse…
A fellow who always seemed game
Ended up taking all the blame –
From cheating to assault
Ev’rything was his fault…
And yet no one felt it was a shame.
A fellow who always seemed game
Other people to hurt and maim
Soon found it was painful
More than it was gainful
When the Mafia came into the frame.
Love it!
A woman who always seemed game
Should not have to hide behind name
She stood strong and tall
With no fear of the fall
Like her, there were none of the same
As the old saying goes–that’s funny, I don’t care who you are! laffin.
A woman who always seemed game,
Ignoring the prudes saying, “Shame!”
Screwed powerful pricks,
In state politics,
Who passed many laws in her name.
Congratulations…You are now accessible!
Funny! Mad.
Pamela
A fellow who always seemed game
met a huntress with archery fame.
When she asked, “You seen prey?”
“I’m game,” he did say.
So she shot him! Now that was a shame.
A woman who always seemed game
bedded men who all asked her the same:
“Did you have a good time?”
And every night she would chime,
“Oh yes! I am so glad I came!”
Whoops, wrong version of that one – here’s a slight revision – thanks, Mad:
A woman who always seemed game
bedded men who all asked her the same:
“Did you have a good time?”
And each night she would chime,
“Oh yes! I am so glad I came!”
A woman who always seemed game
for publicity, parlayed her fame
and her dynamite looks
into movies and books –
that former spy, Valerie Plame.
hahaha… It’s always a pleasure to visit you, Madeleine!! :)
A fellow who always seemed game
Brought home a lioness – wild, not tame
Noble was his cause
But when she bared her claws
In the cage he leapt, his pride not the same
;-)
Bad Penny
A woman who always seemed game
never would ask a hunk for a name,
date of birth, stats, or vital statistics.
But she soon gained a claim to fame
By carefully arranging all the logistics
of assignations way too many
causing worried clinicians to exclaim,
Ma’am you’re, like, a Bad Penny!
A woman who always seemed game
Loved a man who put “spicey” to shame;
While his creamed pepper jack
Made a very nice snack,
His Jamaican jerk set her aflame.
A fellow who always seemed game
Savored spice — the man’s tastes were not tame
But he courted fiasco
With KY-Tabasco —
Poor woman spit fire when she came.
A woman who always seemed game
Ran a tater sack race though she’s lame;
When on hop one, she fell,
She yelled “Y’all go to hell!
I’ll be filing an insurance claim!”
A woman who always seemed game,
felt like her ass was aflame.
Not from something she ate,
it seems that her date,
really should work on his aim.
Thanks everyone for your fun limericks and please keep them coming!
A woman who always seemed game,
one day heard God call her name,
“Do not bathe in the bay!”
but Eve did anyway,
and the fish still do not smell the same.
A senator who always seemed game
To make any outlandish claim
Faulted the poor
For all but the war,
Then that silly page, once he came.
Thanks again everyone for your delightful limericks. This Limerick-Off is officially over and you can find out who won here.
But don’t worry — a new Limerick-Off has already begun. You can find it here: Limerick Braggart