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   wordscribe41posted 15 years ago

   I'm suddenly craving pad thai,
   or perhaps a boysenberry pie.
   any food, not opposed,
   but the kitchen is closed,
   anyone have some french rye?  (I'm starving)

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   Shalini Kagalposted 15 years ago

   Ernest you’re much too polite
   To berate or start up a fight
   To ignore might be best
   When it comes to the test
   Then there’d be no one for them to backbite

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   wordscribe41posted 15 years ago

   Earnest was the subject of a thread,
   highly inappropriate I said.
   To call out a hubber,
   is really a flubber,
   THEN try to keep a level head.

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   earnestshubposted 15 years ago

   It's good to have both of you here
   lets break out the food and good cheer
   wordscribe needs some food
   to go with the mood
   I've got bread and some very good beer

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      marcofratelliposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Dude, you know I love that cold stuff!
      While the company's awesome enough
      I just have to scream:
      Where the -beep- have I been?
      No wonder I'd been doin' it tough.

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   wordscribe41posted 15 years ago

   Did someone say something 'bout food?
   Dessert you will surely include.
   I'll pass on the booze
   or else I will lose
   all my manners and become quite rude!

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   earnestshubposted 15 years ago

   That's a tremendously eloquent post
   like a visit from the holy ghost
   though we do disagree
   I like you you see
   so we get to enjoy love the most

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   wordscribe41posted 15 years ago

   Religion and limericks don't mix,
   I'm simply here to get my kicks.
   I've been down your path,
   then I did the math.
   And I'll pass on the six, six, six!

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   earnestshubposted 15 years ago

   Non alcoholic for sribe
   she already has the right vibe
   we must feed the young thing
   before we can sing
   of the virtues of being alive.

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   marcofratelliposted 15 years ago

   Oops, I forgot not to mention the drink
   Earnest, let's go empty it in the sink
   It's just not fair to tease
   Rather have fun and ease
   Any burden that's lurking that brink

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      wordscribe41posted 15 years agoin reply to this

      No, please imbibe, I don't notice!
      Heck, it's fine if you even get loaded.
      Alcohol and I
      have said goodbye.
      And it's not like I could ever be goaded...

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    wordscribe41posted 15 years ago

    Your hors d'ouvres were quite lovely, many thanks.
    I'm much better now you've filled up my tank.
    Let's sing now, happy tones.
    Like the Beatles or the Stones.
    A jolly tune to cure all the angst!

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       marcofratelliposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       (I almost swore when I read that last line
       Tripped my tongue, even though it read fine
       Must be the letters I find
       In the middle, combined
       With dyslexia and fruit of the vine)

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    earnestshubposted 15 years ago

    That's great. I'll grab my guitar
    you can hear it from near and from far
    pick any song
    the old martin is strong
    they will hear us from Rome to Quatar

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    wordscribe41posted 15 years ago

    Your strumming is music to my ears!
    Better than I've heard in many years.
    I love the guitar,
    Do you have a cigar?
    I love singing with engineers.  (Earnest, Marco's an engineer)

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       earnestshubposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       Yes I know, and did appreciate the inclusion very neat bit of scribe type engineering in that limerick too.

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    earnestshubposted 15 years ago

    Twelve bar and classical rock
    the beatles the stones and their lot
    made wonderful tunes
    for foruming loons
    like me when I'm wearing a frock.

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    wordscribe41posted 15 years ago

    I can definitely see you in frocks,
    with matching heels and a pair of socks.
    Men's briefs I will wear
    to give my husband a scare,
    but we're opening Pandora's box.

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       earnestshubposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       I remember that box from the past
       the stories got racy and fast
       I'm too scared to go there
       till the weather is fair
       even then I'd wind up in a caste.

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          marcofratelliposted 15 years agoin reply to this

          Yes, I think we should leave that alone
          All the places it goes to are known
          It is scary to try
          It could all go awry
          Might end with some tears (or a moan!!)

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    earnestshubposted 15 years ago

    With a name such as Marco Fratelli
    the song will come up from the belly
    then enter the room
    with a stones kinda Boom!
    and scare the cat off of the telly!

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    Don Wposted 15 years ago

    There's something that I'd like to know
    could Shelly write limericks? If so
    could we write in his style
    just to raise half a smile?
    I'll give it a try, here we go:
    
    How beloved though art to me,
    Though eyes run as deep as the sea
    Far apart though we are
    I shall wish on a star
    and cause all the distance to flee.

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       wordscribe41posted 15 years agoin reply to this

       NICE!!!!!!  That's bar none THE best avatar on HubPages!

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          earnestshubposted 15 years agoin reply to this

          and a great limerick. You have it nicely worked out.

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    marcofratelliposted 15 years ago

    Woah, out of breath, but can I still type?
    Internet's been pretty bad here, even Skype
    (Even though I'm not on it)
    Earnest rocks - he's legit
    Don't have a cigar, here's a tobacco pipe...

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       wordscribe41posted 15 years agoin reply to this

       Nothing's worse than connectile dysfuntion,
       worse than a misplaced conjunction.
       Time-out errors
       give me night terrors.
       To have patience takes a lot of gumption.

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          earnestshubposted 15 years agoin reply to this

          You really are a wordsribe
          such depth and meaning arrive
          for you when you rhyme
          all in perfect time
          the process is hard to describe.

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             wordscribe41posted 15 years agoin reply to this

             Your poetry speaks to me so,
             like a glass of fine bordeaux.
             Something you're born with,
             a brilliant wordsmith,
             an artist like Vincent Van Gogh.  (10 more to go tonight)

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    earnestshubposted 15 years ago

    Well friends, I must go to bed
    It's been a great day as I said
    my friends on the forum
    with so much decorum
    have filled me up, I am fed!

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       wordscribe41posted 15 years agoin reply to this

       Nighty, night. 

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    wordscribe41posted 15 years ago

    Earnest does rock, too legit to quit,
    He's a rhymer, debater and other sh*t.
    Plus his parties all rock,
    Cause he's been 'round the block...
    and he knows how to take a hit!

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    marcofratelliposted 15 years ago

    I'm afraid it is time for shut eye
    As I feared, I think I'm gonna cry
    Didn't do what I planned
    (This rhyming's out of hand!)
    Tomorrow's my last chance to try...
    
    *waves good nigh'*

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    Don Wposted 15 years ago

    Goodnight? Here it's late afternoon
    and your words have been such a boon.
    Hope you have a good rest
    for tomorrows contest
    P.s say hello to the moon.

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    earnestshubposted 15 years ago

    It is now Lunch time Tuesday in oz
    I only slept lightly because
    it was storming all night
    It awoke me in fright
    with the wind whistling inside my snoz.

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    Paragliderposted 15 years ago

    The finest of threads can unravel
    and starting today, I must travel
    but while I'm away
    twenty limericks a day
    is your target. (I've beaten my gavel!)
    
    (I'm off to London & Amsterdam)

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       wordscribe41posted 15 years agoin reply to this

       Twenty limericks a day, a decree!
       And coming from you, the absentee.
       20 limericks, he insists
       we won't be remiss.
       You'll be pleased with our rhyming spree.
       
       (Have fun!)

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    earnestshubposted 15 years ago

    We better get at it now scribe
    to keep the good limericks alive
    after london he's dutch
    gee he travels so much
    some of the airlines will thrive.

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    Shalini Kagalposted 15 years ago

    A score a day – now is that hard?
    Not when there are so many bards
    Right here in this forum
    To follow this dictum
    So fellow limerickists – en garde!

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       earnestshubposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       I'm afraid we have all been remiss
       world time is the main cause of this
       in the wee hours we've read
       while others instead
       are seeking the morning sun's kiss.

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    wordscribe41posted 15 years ago

    Limericks are fun, what a hoot!
    Makes everything else seem moot.
    15 more to go,
    or Paraglider will blow,
    C'mon put on your rhyming boots.

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    wordscribe41posted 15 years ago

    These limericks make me profound,
    the meaning of life abounds,
    this is the thread
    for using your head,
    the depths we go will astound! 

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       earnestshubposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       The first words come in to my head
       then I try to follow that thread
       if it goes askew
       then I start anew
       then follow whatever is said!

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       earnestshubposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       Profundity frequents these pages
       I hope we enjoy them for ages
       If love is alive
       I feel sure we'll survive
       given time we may become sages!

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    Ghost32posted 15 years ago

    Not to ignore the posters before
    But I worked all day on the floor
    Destroying the couch
    I heard it say ouch
    But Pam told me,  "Break it some more!"
    
    No longer could she get to sleep
    On that worn old furniture heap
    A mattress is coming
    And she is a-humming
    Can't wait to start counting those sheep

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       earnestshubposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       ghost! You are a welcome sight!
       I hoped you would drop by tonight
       though you're still in the shed
       with a mattress instead
       of the couch you will soon be alright.

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       wordscribe41posted 15 years agoin reply to this

       Anthropomorphizing your couch,
       no wonder you feel like a grouch.
       A mattress is essential
       for marital potential,
       something for which I can vouch.  (5 more)

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    wordscribe41posted 15 years ago

    If ever there was a convention
    of Hubpages, now there's an invention.
    I'd love to meet Earnest
    our resident internist
    a doctor of immense comprehension.  (7 more)

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    earnestshubposted 15 years ago

    Ah wordscribe this takes us to six
    so close to our limericks fix
    with some more posts
    from Marcos and ghosts
    we'll get all of our prizes for nix!

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    Shalini Kagalposted 15 years ago

    Did you think that a mattress could be
    The subject of such intensity
    Took a dear Ghost
    A limerick to post
    And make a mattress a star – yippee!

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       earnestshubposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       It's great when we get a good sleep
       it's far better than counting the sheep
       when you find the write spot
       go to sleep in a shot
       and wake when the sun starts to peak (2 more?)

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    Shalini Kagalposted 15 years ago

    Just two more to go says Ernest
    Do you think then that we’ll pass the test
    Set by the one
    Who started this run
    Will Professor Paraglider think we’ve progressed?

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    earnestshubposted 15 years ago

    The professor had set a fine task
    to do twenty a day was the ask
    I try to do some
    then hope others will come
    to fill up the almost full flask!

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    Shalini Kagalposted 15 years ago

    A flask that is almost full of limericks
    Might just give some folks a kick
    A swig in time
    To bring out the rhyme
    Do you think we now have those twenty licked?

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       earnestshubposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       Shalini I thik it is done
       this next should be twenty one
       we may get a credit
       so will need to edit
       just nineteen when 'morrow has come

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          Shalini Kagalposted 15 years agoin reply to this

          Do you think it’s tomorrow as yet?
          Sometimes I really forget
          Is Tomorrow Today
          In Timbuktu or Taipei
          We need to calculate right, you bet!

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    marcofratelliposted 15 years ago

    Wow, that's some feat you've achieved!
    And I'm sure all you guys are relieved,
    Para-G will embrace,
    Just remember to place
    On your CV awards you've received
    
    I just watched that old Turtles movie
    The original and the most groovy
    Ninja Turtles fight crime
    They mutated in slime
    You must rent it out for a newbie

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    Shalini Kagalposted 15 years ago

    Marco – those of the teenage mutant kind?
    They’re the best bloomin’ heroes you can find
    My favourite you see
    Is Michaelangelo and he
    With his Nanchukas just blows your mind!

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    wordscribe41posted 15 years ago

    Earnest,
    
    Please check your email right now!
    Rhyming's not in me, so:  DAIRY COW!
    I have had a bad day,
    "it" needs to go away.
    I'm about to say something disallowed!
    
    (Bad limerick, I know...  Just not "feelin' it" at the moment.

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       earnestshubposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       nothing arrived yet.

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          wordscribe41posted 15 years agoin reply to this

          Really?  Weird...  I can try again.

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             earnestshubposted 15 years agoin reply to this

             Please do. I heard it can take 24 hours through hubpages! You can send it sraight to my email from your mailer if you like.

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                wordscribe41posted 15 years agoin reply to this

                I did...  Perhaps some funky lapse.  Darnit.

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    wordscribe41posted 15 years ago

    What is up with fanatacism
    and this hideous growing schism?
    I cannot cope
    despite any hope
    they'll come to a rational decision.

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    earnestshubposted 15 years ago

    I received your fine little prose
    it fits like the ring in his nose
    I would like to see fitted
    whenever he shitted
    the bejesus outta me!

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       wordscribe41posted 15 years agoin reply to this

         and GRRRRRRR!!!!!

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          earnestshubposted 15 years agoin reply to this

          Exactly! right down to the last exclamation mark!!!!!!

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    earnestshubposted 15 years ago

    Two days is too long without
    a limerick (said with a pout)
    we should try to feed it
    or even to seed it
    daily to keep the moths out.

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    dutchman1951posted 15 years ago

    Now that Clintons' a Lady of State
    She Spends much time away from her mate
    So to break up his boredom
    I offerd a spot in a forsome
    He said sure,
    But he'd perfer to do it with EIGHT!
    
    Jon in Nashville
    
    sorry could not resist!

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    Shalini Kagalposted 15 years ago

    You think he would really love eight?
    (Sounds like a quadruple date)
    It’s four times the trouble
    So best stick to double
    Too many can quite seal your fate!!

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    still4realposted 15 years ago

    I think he can deal with the eight
    after that one who really needs fate
    you get 2 after 2
    then you do the last 2
    and consider the last one your date

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    Bibowenposted 15 years ago

    From the rhyme I oft take a break
    but never the rhyming forsake
    For the rhymes that I make
    are oft “rhymes for rhyme’s sake”
    that they’ll quote in ad nauseum at my wake.

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    manlypoetrymanposted 15 years ago

    Oh...On Forums they like to think they know...
    About Who is Who that has an Alter-Hub Ego...
    Some write a bunch of: "Yak, Yak, Yak",
    When you ain't around to watch your back,
    When they haven't even made a proper guess using qualified info!

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    Ghost32posted 15 years ago

    Can't blame every Forum bad actor
    Who's jealous--he ain't got no tractor!
    An avatar fine
    Like both yours and mine
    Catch girls 'cause the pictures impact her!

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       earnestshubposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       A man needs a tractor that's certain
       to keep all the sheila's a flirtin
       add a bandanna
       and Hannah Montana
       will chase you until you are hurtin!

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    Ghost32posted 15 years ago

    Oh Hannah! Go some other way!
    You're too young by a decade they say!
    I've hid every hanky
    There's no hanky-panky
    Till you're legal to come out and play!

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    dutchman1951posted 15 years ago

    A dog catcher named Charlie McGee
    made his rounds every day happily
    he had a very slow pace
    with each dog that he'd chase
    cause he stopped at each Hydrant to pee!

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    dutchman1951posted 15 years ago

    My Austin Minor shows good modest class
    and runs great on this Cheep unleaded gas
    Around this Island I chug
    as slow as a slug
    With my butt
    six inches higher than the Grass!

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       earnestshubposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       I don't know the Austin A10
       Could you tell me, it was made when?
       a photo would do
       of the Austin and you
       to allow me see this chook pen!

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    dutchman1951posted 15 years ago

    I changed it for you Earnest, had wrong designator
    was thinking of a trip I took a few years back
    had fun with a rent car, an Austin Minor. It was great.

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