A shocking young punster from Enfield
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hairyears and aardvark179 (I can't remember precisely where to lay the blame, which is probably for the best), ably aided and abetted by covertmusic, fivemack, taimatsu, addedentry and me. What is this new jeu du jour?
Oxbridge limericks.
It's not an aimless or endless meme: unusually, it's a meme with a publishable goal. The aim is to come up with limericks for each of the Oxford and Cambridge colleges. Most of the examples so far have been scurrilous in the extreme; I offer this most recent contribution phoned in (well, txted in) byhairyears as an exemplar:
The ultimate aim is to create two full sets of limericks for each university's colleges: one 'clean' (if you could tell it to your mum -- no, not Your Mum -- then it's probably fine) and one, er, not (see e.g. above). We'll collect the best ones (all entries will be subjected to rigorous peer-review through the media of LJ polls and shouting) and hopefully put them together into something on paper that people can keep (think of this as the Viz to Pocketful of Lies' LRB).
For the time being, just post your limericks as comments here or in your own journal with the tag 'oxbridgelimericks'; in time I may be able to find a better home for them, but I don't want to delay the fun because of boring information management issues. Examples have already been sighted in the wild; it's possible that we may be seeing the start of a limerick pandemic (popularly known as 'rhyme flu').
Go forth and versify!
hairyears and aardvark179 (I can't remember precisely where to lay the blame, which is probably for the best), ably aided and abetted by covertmusic, fivemack, taimatsu, addedentry and me. What is this new jeu du jour?Oxbridge limericks.
It's not an aimless or endless meme: unusually, it's a meme with a publishable goal. The aim is to come up with limericks for each of the Oxford and Cambridge colleges. Most of the examples so far have been scurrilous in the extreme; I offer this most recent contribution phoned in (well, txted in) by
hairyears as an exemplar: The delicate dons of St Hilda'sThe only rule over and above those dictated by the form is that the limerick must use the name of the college as the primary rhyme (commonly used shortened forms are acceptable, e.g. "Catz" for St Catherine's).
Were shocked by the bill from the builda's
They charged for the water,
The bricks and the mortar,
And labour, replacing the dilda's.
The ultimate aim is to create two full sets of limericks for each university's colleges: one 'clean' (if you could tell it to your mum -- no, not Your Mum -- then it's probably fine) and one, er, not (see e.g. above). We'll collect the best ones (all entries will be subjected to rigorous peer-review through the media of LJ polls and shouting) and hopefully put them together into something on paper that people can keep (think of this as the Viz to Pocketful of Lies' LRB).
For the time being, just post your limericks as comments here or in your own journal with the tag 'oxbridgelimericks'; in time I may be able to find a better home for them, but I don't want to delay the fun because of boring information management issues. Examples have already been sighted in the wild; it's possible that we may be seeing the start of a limerick pandemic (popularly known as 'rhyme flu').
Go forth and versify!
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By way of apology, a clean one about Blackfriars
Date: 2009-05-13 10:57 pm (UTC)Are scholarly, jolly, and pious
This rare combination
Requires meditation
And credit with sherry suppliers
...And a moderately clean one for Wolfson
Date: 2009-05-13 11:12 pm (UTC)A notable fellow of Wolfson
Regarded his job with revulsion
He eloped with the Dean
And was thereafter seen
Asleep in the Mexican Gulf's Sun
The rhyme 'revulsion' sort of works in a northern accent. Get
Re: ...And a moderately clean one for Wolfson
Date: 2009-05-14 11:16 am (UTC)Wolfson is the rare exception that has no Dean
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Another clean one: St.John's
Date: 2009-05-13 11:28 pm (UTC)The wealthiest college, St.John's
Is stuffed with gold, silver, and bronze
The fellows, they dine
On such fine food and wine
That for tea they have caviar scones
The other usable rhymes are:
- Paris Salons;
- Strange going-ons;
- Swans;
- Dons;
- Cons.
...Which makes me think I could do better. Or at least: ruder.A truthful and somewhat wry observation would be:
The fellows, they dine
On the best food and wine;
But not for the students: just Dons.
However, I can't say that it's a terribly interesting Limerick. Perhaps if strange going-ons were laid-on... But not for the students, just Dons.
St. Catz attracts sarcasm and *no filth whatsoever*
Date: 2009-05-13 11:34 pm (UTC)Resembles the council-buit flats
This concreted folly
Was called 'Cherwell Poly'
And causes depression in rats
St. Anthony's is difficult...
Date: 2009-05-14 12:28 am (UTC)Grow up riding squashed little ponies
The rich little boys
Have Ferraris as toys
And get jobs in the banks with dad's cronies
A bestial Don at St.Anthony
Had a fetish we'll call Elephantony
He died in a funk,
In a clinch with a trunk
When the beast didn't want his implantony
Sweeping up the stragglers now...
Date: 2009-05-14 12:37 am (UTC)Have no say in hebdomadal Senates
A mere private hall
Does no voting at all
And so say our governing tenets
Campion, with no small measure of filth...
Date: 2009-05-14 12:51 am (UTC)A layman admitted to Campion
Had genitals shaped like a Champignon
They reached wide and deep
In his wife's dusty keep
And sucked out three dead mice and a tampion.
Oh well, Blackfriars gets a dose of filth too...
Date: 2009-05-14 01:32 am (UTC)Suppress their unnatural desires
For under their habits
Mechanical grabbits
Clamp down on their crotch when impious