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Matt J's "Word Racing" timewaster/game for the stay-at-home COVID-19 days of 2020

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  • San Bernardhinault
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    Chloroquine laced peaches

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  • Various Artist
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    When in need of some ointment

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  • Sean of the Shed
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    He's abusing his power

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  • Southport Zeb
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    A chicken crossed over the road

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  • nmrfox
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    A mishap with his clippers

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  • lambers
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    I think his rhyming was skeezy

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  • Balderdasha
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    She tried simmering lobsters

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  • Sporting
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    Unhappy with self-effacement

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  • matt j
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    Limerick Week, Race 2 results:

    Perhaps it's that every racing team is stuck reading Ulysses and arguing over the proper meaning of a false rhyme scheme and what exactly is the proper noun-verb relationship when discussing team sports, but fundamentally, in the 2nd week of our races, once again most team's entries couldn't manage to find the pacing required to keep up with the test racer.

    Thankfully, this race, fan favorite sits, upon the stairs, like the stars upon the ocean, waiting, confidently like a cat waits for its owners to return, that proved at least capable of tying the test racer, if not defeating them.

    Strong showings from the smasha Balderdasha and the cleano San Bernardhinault, kept both of those teams in the hunt for the first ever Limerick word racing world champion.

    A three-way tie for fourth (horned-luge diable rouge, rambler lambers, track-star slackster) pushed perennial favorite the ad hoc ultimatum down the table to depths they've never experienced before.
    Racer Name Race Placing
    sits 1
    Test Racer X
    San Bernardhinault 2
    balderdasha 3
    diable rouge 4
    lambers 4
    slackster 4
    ad hoc 7
    sean of the shed 8
    nmrfox 9
    Southport Zeb 10
    Various Artist 11
    sporting 12
    Racer Name Place Race #1 Place Race #2
    ad hoc 2 7
    balderdasha 1 3
    diable rouge 9 4
    lambers 5 4
    nmrfox 8 9
    San Bernardhinault 3 2
    Sean of the Sead 10 8
    sits 7 1
    slackster 6 4
    Soutport Zeb 11 10
    sporting 4 12
    test racer X X
    Various Artist XX 11
    On-words to race #3:

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    Limerick week, Race #3:

    So I went to a bar in Wisconsin...- scores 148
    said, "I will have a tonic and gin" - scores 151
    The bartender flipped his lid, - scores 141

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  • Various Artist
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    Heheh, what a happy upshot!

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  • matt j
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    Ditto.

    Er, I mean, surely everyone is taking the 'race' part seriously, right?

    (For me, I realized (remembered) after writing that sonnet a few pages back that writing poetry can actually just be fun. I don't know why this seemed like a shock, but this whole timewaster has kind of made me try and get my head straight about doing more writing just for writing's sake.)

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  • Sporting
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    Originally posted by Various Artist View Post
    This is a great idea for a theme for the week, though I confess I only approached mine 'poetically', as it were, rather than paying any heed to how it might score. I'm going to have to go and see where San Bernardhinault scored in Race 1 to find out I would've done there at any rate.

    I really hope we'll have everyone's completed limericks published side-by-side at the finish line. I've had fun flicking back and forth between the two pages so far to see how they look to be shaping up, other than the more-than-slightly incomprehensible few that are being published in tactical order rather than line order.
    Ditto

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  • Various Artist
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    This is a great idea for a theme for the week, though I confess I only approached mine 'poetically', as it were, rather than paying any heed to how it might score. I'm going to have to go and see where San Bernardhinault scored in Race 1 to find out I would've done there at any rate.

    I really hope we'll have everyone's completed limericks published side-by-side at the finish line. I've had fun flicking back and forth between the two pages so far to see how they look to be shaping up, other than the more-than-slightly incomprehensible few that are being published in tactical order rather than line order.

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  • Sits
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    Thanks Matt.

    Who liked it a bit to affront

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  • matt j
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    well, if race 1 entries are to be trusted we are just missing Sits , I think.

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  • ad hoc
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    naans will save Shawn from nil

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  • Wouter D
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    That doesn't rhyme.

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  • matt j
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    Originally posted by Various Artist View Post

    A teacher in Buddhist Tibet

    would have tied with San Bernardhinault.

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  • matt j
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    Originally posted by Various Artist View Post
    Yeah, I know.


    Thanks though matt, I'll get limericking. How long until the Race 2 entries close?
    based upon the way today is shaping up, probably not until tomorrow (Saturday).

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  • slackster
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    With a voice as loud as thunder

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  • Sporting
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    Hope it's ok and not too late but I edited my line above to:

    My head covered by my pullover

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  • Various Artist
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    OK, I'm in.

    First line is pointless (in every sense) Race 1 'submission', post-hoc. Second line is official Race 2 submission:

    A teacher in Buddhist Tibet
    Is a lama, and monk-y, but yet

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  • Various Artist
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    Originally posted by Sean of the Shed View Post
    Is an incomprehensible chump
    Yeah, I know.


    Thanks though matt, I'll get limericking. How long until the Race 2 entries close?

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  • nmrfox
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    Whose hedge was made out of box

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  • lambers
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    One night, old Nigel was queasy

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