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GNS: Do I get the prize? :-)

Started by Brian Leybourne, February 09, 2003, 11:59:12 PM

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Brian Leybourne

I don't know if anyone has ever risen to the challenge before, but, well, it's a slow day at work :-)

There was a young man from Schenectady
Who fell foul to unfortunate synecdoche
To the doctor he said
stop the blood to my "head"
and got a lobotomy instead of a vasectomy

OK, not great, but what can you do with those words! :-)

Brian.
Brian Leybourne
bleybourne@gmail.com

RPG Books: Of Beasts and Men, The Flower of Battle, The TROS Companion

Ron Edwards

Hi Brian,

Actually, I've collected about twenty.

I've private-messaged you about the prize.

Best,
Ron

clehrich

I know it's a bit strange, but this thread being what it is, would people mind posting their limericks (as long as there's 20-odd of them, and Ron doesn't keep a big "silly limericks" file).  I've got one, but I'm not posting it unless others want to share.
Chris Lehrich

greyorm

Quote from: Brian LeybourneOK, not great, but what can you do with those words! :-)
One day I had a vasectomy,
By the doctors in Schenectady,
Thought I'd lost the whole thing,
Which I'd borrowed from Ming,
But my fears were due synedoche.

Hah! And I didn't even know precisely what a limmerick WAS until tonight (other than that it rhymed). Yeah, baby! Ouch! That's really disturbing!
Rev. Ravenscrye Grey Daegmorgan
Wild Hunt Studio

clehrich

OK, you asked for it.

There once was a man from Schenectady,
Who decided to have a vasectomy.
Though no longer whole,
His part met its goal,
So he renamed his penis "synechdoche."

Anyone else sick enough to write one of these?
Chris Lehrich

joshua neff

I believe I was the first person to write Ron a "synechdoche" limerick, but I don't have it anymore. If Ron wants to post it, he has my blessings, but I don't recall it being anything to get excited about.
--josh

"You can't ignore a rain of toads!"--Mike Holmes

Jared A. Sorensen

Quote from: joshua neffI believe I was the first person to write Ron a "synechdoche" limerick, but I don't have it anymore. If Ron wants to post it, he has my blessings, but I don't recall it being anything to get excited about.


A bragging young man named LaRoche
did travel by airplane in coach.
I showed him this thread,
And outloud he read,
but mispronounced it "sin-e-doach."
jared a. sorensen / www.memento-mori.com

marknau

Poor Ron, I wonder if he expected each and every person who read his throw-away dare to send him a bad limerick. Here was the one I sent him:

There once was a jerk from Schenectady
Who wanted to get a vasectomy
"I'll feel just a prick,
Then I won't be a dick."
But that was mistaken synecdoche

lumpley

Here is Joshua's.

Here's mine:

The hospital up in Schenectady
Terribly botched my vasectomy
I'd cross half the damn earth
To give that town its berth
--But perhaps I'm committing synecdoche.

-Vincent

greyorm

I thought up a really good one last night...good, meaning in bad taste...I mean really bad taste...I mean...well...I'll think about it.
Rev. Ravenscrye Grey Daegmorgan
Wild Hunt Studio

Walt Freitag

Well, given "vasectomy" and a word meaning "to mistake the part for the whole," I imagine the plot of most of these cockamamie limericks is going to be pretty foreordained. But here's a go anyhow:

In Schenectady for a vasectomy,
I was victim of flagrant malprectomy.
Not synechdote, worse:
'Twas just the reverse.
And they say they can't give back my dicktome.

- Walt
Wandering in the diasporosphere

greyorm

Ok, ok, I've been convinced...but don't say I didn't warn you:

Over lunch he had a vasectomy,
Resulting in odd synedoche.
For whenever he came
It didn't taste quite the same,
Said the women of Schenectady.
Rev. Ravenscrye Grey Daegmorgan
Wild Hunt Studio

ethan_greer

Well, here's my go at it:

There once was a man from Schenectady
Who meant to undergo a vasectomy.
But when he said "I want fixed,"
The procedures were mixed,
And he became a victim of synecdoche.

All the others I've read are about as good (bad?).  This is very silly.  I approve.