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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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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 On-words to race #3: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
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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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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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Originally posted by Various Artist View PostThis 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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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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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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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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Originally posted by Sean of the Shed View PostIs an incomprehensible chump
Thanks though matt, I'll get limericking. How long until the Race 2 entries close?
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