Fun Stuff: This Week's Caption Contest

[Garritan]

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[C J Pro]

Where's Jim Self when you need him? It's time for a Close Encounters sequel, but with more bass!

[lunker]

He may have been short, but his love for music was large.

[Styxx]

It's not funny!

[Pingu]

When marching bands becomes an olympic sport.

[linwood]

Walter, unfortunately legally blind in most states, said she was the best he ever had.

[LFO]

`One note Freddy' has announced that his arm extension surgery will occur in the next 2 weeks, adding 18 inches to his right arm. `I'll then be able to push the valves, but buying shirts is going to be a real pain in the neck.'

-LFO

[buckshead]

This time the rain fell on Snorlax and he shrank.

[reberclark]

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There once was a man from St. Huber,
Named Henry Labidulus Buber.
He spent all his days
in a valve-oil soaked haze,
While blowin' his pet Uber Tuber.

[KE Peace]

Alright, soup! I feel an attack of "acute limerickosis" coming on!
:-)

[KE Peace]

The difference, 'tis said, between boys
Big and little is the size of their toys
I say, 'tis their instruments
and not their amusements
Where size most determines their joys.

Martin Hieronimus Platt
Played a giant euphonium flat.
When the critics protested
That he should be arrested,
He silenced them all with one BLATT!

As much as I love the euphonium,
I don't have the power to blow-in-em.
But I still love to spectate
As the player expectorates
Loud humid notes o'er the podium.

Is it legal -- a tuba on steroids?
Methinks it would make such a big noise
That the aural flamboyance
Would cause such annoyance
That in lieu of "Bravos" we'd hear "Oys"!

- KE ;-)

[KE Peace]

ps. as you can see, i'm not totally sure what instrument this actually is -- but I can say now that tuba is sure easier to put into a limerick!

-K

[GDG]

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This is the photo that almost got me arrested for the Northridge earthquake in 1994. :wow:

[Larry G. Alexander]

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That's not a musical instrument.
It's actually an enormous marijuana pipe!
The dude is toking...not blowing.

[Leaf]

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That's not a musical instrument.
It's actually an enormous marijuana pipe!
The dude is toking...not blowing. How embarrassing, we asked him to bring his gong and he thought we said bong.

[AlanPerkins]

Honey I shrunk the trumpeter

[AlanPerkins]

With petrol the price that it is,
I thought I would start my own biz
Stick my spit here in one end,
Scoop the output from that end
And maybe your car will go fizz.

[KE Peace]

OK! We got the limericks going! I missed that part of the forum )(~ good one Alan!

[tubajedimr]

Finally, I can get all the whales back in the ocean with this industrial sized Humpback Caller

[reberclark]

So K.E. and Alan and me
Assail the Limerick Tree.
Like old days gone by
When we all would try
To keep our minds happy and free.

[KE Peace]

So K.E. and Alan and me
Assail the Limerick Tree.
Like old days gone by
When we all would try
To keep our minds happy and free.

I said something 'bout boys and their toys
But the real mature male knows the joys
of the lim'rick: with luck it comes
with a large bucket of
X-rated fun with the "girl from Nantucket" .

[schneb]

ps. as you can see, i'm not totally sure what instrument this actually is -- but I can say now that tuba is sure easier to put into a limerick!

Those were great! Got a couple of good chuckles for my morning.

[robh]

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"Yesterday, I had a bad case of gas - and it sounded something like this. . ."

Rob

[KE Peace]

I wonder if Gary and/or whoever is the moderator of this section is watching this outbreak. Should we tell him to call the exterminators before it spreads and infects the whole forum?

[KE Peace]

So K.E. and Alan and me
Assail the Limerick Tree.
Like old days gone by
When we all would try
To keep our minds happy and free.

The fruit of that tree is so rarified,
I wonder if people would stare if I'd
Plunder its fruit
Without giving a hoot
If my fervor caused them to be terrified!

Alas, for the bare Limerick Tree,
We've shaken its fruit, all we three
Til the ground is all covered
And the grass has been smothered
By its fruit, most nonsensically.

for 'tis only the few cognoscenti
can appreciate so unrelenting
fixations with meter
and words as we teeter
on the brink of poetic insanity!

[snorlax]

Compared to the master...SNORLAX
All other verse writers are hacks
So put down your pens
and say your amens
and spare me your tacky comebacks....

BUT...

I see that your ears are now smoking,
But you know that ol' Snor is JUST JOKING!
So don't do my bidding,
'cuz I was just kidding,
I prob'ly deserve a good soaking

[snorlax]

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Size DOES matter.

[KE Peace]

Compared to the master...SNORLAX
All other verse writers are hacks
So put down your pens
and say your amens
and spare me your tacky comebacks....

BUT...

I see that your ears are now smoking,
But you know that ol' Snor is JUST JOKING!
So don't do my bidding,
'cuz I was just kidding,
I prob'ly deserve a good soaking


The Limerick Battle is heating!
Your limerick's great and we're eating
The perfection of metrical
Rhythm symmetrical
Your verse is the salt and the yeasting!

But don't swell your head to the bursting
My Snorlax, cause soupy came firstly
He started this battle
And his brain is quite addled
Enough to convey humor tersely.

[C J Pro]

Please sit back and take a rest
for at limericks I failed the test
As you all battled with rhyme
I sat as silent as a mime
But my joining now leaves no contest

Do I win?

[reberclark]

The students that stab at this form
Do often conform to the norm
That rhythm and rhyme,
In compounded time,
Evoke a behavior that's warm.

It's nice to see lim'ricks are back.
This forum was starting to lack
All sense of the silly -
with language that really
Belonged to the humorless hack!

It's cosmic! It's deep! and it's wide!
This view that all life can reside
Inside of our Mind
So, try to be kind
To your thoughts - for they've lived and they've died!

I hope you've enjoyed this short verse.
(I know many things can't be worse!)
But disciplined art
Will ever impart
A sense of the whole universe.

[KE Peace]

The students that stab at this form
Do often conform to the norm
That rhythm and rhyme,
In compounded time,
Evoke a behavior that's warm.


But to master this elusive form
Take humor and talent and more:
To practice your art
With unwavering heart
And write 'til your fingers are sore!

[reberclark]

But to master this elusive form
Take humor and talent and more:
To practice your art
With unwavering heart
And write 'til your fingers are sore!

In rhyming "form" with the word "more,"
We've strayed off the rails, d'accord?
But drifting so free -
It liberates me!
So now I'll rhyme "more" with "Saskatchewan!"

[KE Peace]

In rhyming "form" with the word "more,"
We've strayed off the rails, d'accord?
But drifting so free -
It liberates me!
So now I'll rhyme "more" with "Saskatchewan!"

You propose to rhyme "more" with "Saskatchewan?"
What surreal train did I catch you on?
If a train of your thought,
You sorry old sot,
It seems its the caboose end they've sat you on. )(~

[reberclark]

You propose to rhyme "more" with "Saskatchewan?"
What surreal train did I catch you on?
If a train of your thought,
You sorry old sot,
It seems its the caboose end they've sat you on. )(~

KE! You amaze me! that was great!!!

[AlanPerkins]

Saskatchewan's weather is cold
And the limericks here are bold
Karen's stuff that she's written
Has got me quite smitten
Her weight she is worth in real gold.

ReberClark the soupmeister has done
A great job on with his poems and pun
CJPro's breaks the rules
of rhyth(e)mic tools
But I'm happy he's tried to have fun!

Sir an elephant fell in my tuba
I bought when I sailed through Cuba
It's big and its bold
(Quite a sight to behold)
And it sounds like a train from Aruba

[AlanPerkins]

Ritornellos are what the world needs
Ritornellos are what the world needs
Ritornellos are what
Ritornellos are what
Ritornellos are what the world needs

[KE Peace]

Ritornellos are what the world needs
Ritornellos are what the world needs
Ritornellos are what
Ritornellos are what
Ritornellos are what the world needs

Alan, I'll "second" that!
Soup -- glad you liked it ;-)

[snorlax]

ritornellos are what the world needs
ritornellos are what the world needs
ritornellos are what
ritornellos are what
ritornellos are what the world needs


celtic tune form:
ababguinnessabababguinnessababababguinnessabababab

modern music form:
philipglassphilipphilipglassglassjohnadamsphilip

[KE Peace]

celtic tune form:
ababguinnessabababguinnessababababguinnessabababab

modern music form:
philipglassphilipphilipglassglassjohnadamsphilip

Snor --

that one's way over my head!
i don't understand what you said!!!
it's elusive, post-modern,
delusive, and tottering
dangerously close to the edge!

I can't scan the rhyme or the rhythm,
which in lim'ricks is generally a given!
Or is it a new form
with its own unique norm?
It may take me some time to live-with-em!;)

[KE Peace]

There was once a composer of note
Who assembled his motives by rote.
His "motives", though good,
Didn't fit as they should
So his works couldn't quite stay afloat.

[snorlax]

Snor --

that one's way over my head!
i don't understand what you said!!!
it's elusive, post-modern,
delusive, and tottering
dangerously close to the edge!

I can't scan the rhyme or the rhythm,
which in lim'ricks is generally a given!
Or is it a new form
with its own unique norm?
It may take me some time to live-with-em!;)

Mr. Perkins, a most clever fellow,
paid homage to the ritornello
His clear expositions,
(quite odd for musicians)
Led me to this music quite mellow...

A jig or a reel, as you see,
has only two parts, A and B.
But when do you stop?
You play 'til you drop
from the Guinness you're drinking like tea.

The music of Adams and Glass,
seen by some as a pain in the aszhe*,
repeats and repeats;
the fans in their seats
fall asleep and start snoring en masse.

*Forum prevented the proper spelling.

[KE Peace]

Jim,
Can't top those!

Here's an idea -- educational lectures in limerick form!

Now that would keep a class awake.;)

For example:
On the Law of Supply and Demand:

Today, we'll address ergonomics
In the field of advanced economics.
'Tis comfortably right
High demand to invite
A supply of goods quite astronomic.

ps did i ever tell you my father was an economist?

[Pingu]

So we're wordsmithing now in this thread?
The one where I started went dead.
My energy spent,
On a poetic vent,
When I should have been here instead.