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All readers, readers inside and readers outside the Well, are invited to
play our "Finish the Limerick" game. The play is easy:
                        
We give you the first line of a limerick and you finish it and email it to
your Cosmos [the game superintendants]. We will post the entries, without
attribution, here and ask for readers to vote for their favorite. Well
members can vote by posting their preference in the topic and other
readers will email their votes. After a week or so of collecting votes we
will post the results and announce the identity of the winner, although
the only prize is the huzzahs and admiration of the crowd.
 
We indulge in limerick play in the <words.> conference and are hopeful
your play here will be as witty as it is there.
 
Email your submissions to <edgarbox@well.com>. We will acknowledge all
entries and post updates here.
 
Your line:              The president answers to George
  

    
And keeps all his beer in the Norge
  

    


clmyers:  Please email your Limerick continuation to (edgarbox@well.com). A
continuation needs 4 more lines just like the one entry we've already
received and acknowledged.

We won't be posting who entered our game until the votiing is over since
experience [and we're nothing but experienced in <words.>-games] has shown
that voters try to guess who might have written what and vote for the
entrant instead of the entry.

So, Finish this Limerick:

        The president answers to George

and email your entry to edgarbox@well.com.


All other limerick discussion sans the george line may now commence.  Thank
you.
  

    
D'oh!  Shoulda read the instructions!  Sorry.
  

    
There will be remindering here in the topic, yeah?
  

    
I think this would be more fun if the first three lines were written by the
first three people to come along, like in the words conf., and then the
contest would be to see who submits the best last two lines to finish it up.
  

    

Yeah, remindering:  send edgarbox@well.com your entry.

pk, maybe we can use that idea next round.  I'm thinking we might get a
wider range of lines with just the first line. But, we've only got one entry
so far.

<1> for the rules to the game.
  

    

That's <0> for the rules.
  

    
And that's <edgarbox@well.com> to enter.
  

    


Two more entries in!

pre.vue.25: Your pre.vue Limerick Game

pre.vue.25.0: Chuck Charlton (chuck)  Fri 24 Jan 03 13:59

 All readers, readers inside and readers outside the Well, are invited to
 play our "Finish the Limerick" game. The play is easy:
                        
 We give you the first line of a limerick and you finish it and email it to
 your Cosmos [the game superintendants]. We will post the entries, without
 attribution, here and ask for readers to vote for their favorite. Well
 members can vote by posting their preference in the topic and other
 readers will email their votes. After a week or so of collecting votes we
 will post the results and announce the identity of the winner, although
 the only prize is the huzzahs and admiration of the crowd.
  
 We indulge in limerick play in the <words.> conference and are hopeful
 your play here will be as witty as it is there.
  
 Email your submissions to <edgarbox@well.com>. We will acknowledge all
 entries and post updates here.
  
 Your line:             The president answers to George



Looking for more entries from ALL readers.  Send it in, folks.
  

    

Chiming in late here to encourage more limerickatious entries completing:

                The president answers to George
                .
                .
                .
                .

to edgarbox@well.com.

Thank you.
  

    
read the instructions

signed,
One Who Didn't, And Sent Only A Second Line
  

    
At least we don't have to start with a line that ends with "orange".
  

    
yeah, once you use up 

      Told Angie "I'll mop up the floor, Ang," 

you're nearly sunk.
  

    
message in a bottle:

"Or should we alter this door flange?"  
  

    

Tonight George speaks re the State
Where he'll answer to us and relate
Why war is for him
A mongering whim
And tax cuts are good for his hate


Folks!  we've got 3 entries for our modest contest.
Finish the limerick that begins with this line:

        The president answers to George

Send your entry to <edgarbox@well.com>. 
  

    


Okay, we have FOUR entries so maybe it's time to set a deadline.  Any
thoughts?

If this is your first reading of this topic, read <0> for the rules.
  

    

Five, Five finished fine limericks are in.  We're setting a deadline and
will accept entries until Midnight (pac), Friday, January 31st. This year.
Bookmark this topic so when you visit this weekend you can vote for your
favorite.

http://engaged.well.com/engaged.cgi?c=pre.vue&f=0&t=25

All readers of this topic are invited to play, just finish the limerick that
begins

                The president answers to George

"all" refers to Well members and readers not on the WEll.

Submit your great limerick to <edgarbox@well.com>.

ThankS!
  

    

TEN! entries, folks.  Setting a deadline works, thanks so much.  Check back
here tomorrow for the post detailing the voting procedure for the wonderful
entries.

Also, remember, players will not be identified until we've collected the
votes and voting is open to all readers, regardless of whether they've
submitted an entry.

                The president answers to George

is the first line of the limerick we invite you to finish. Send your clever
lines to <edgarbox@well.com>.

Ten!  Make it more.  THANKS!!

Oh, the deadline is tonight.
  

    



Only hours away from the inaugural deadline.  <19>'s got the details.
  

    


Well Readers, Guests, and Members, here are the entries:

1.
The president answers to George,
The same as at old Valley Forge.
The first George was just
And earned people's trust. 
The new one, at best, is a scourge.

2.
The president answers to George
While Cheney does secretly forge
In corporate guise
Fresh fraudulent pies
At federal troughs to engorge

3.
The President answers to George;
A warfront, he's trying to forge.
Between him and Rummy,
My poor sickened tummy
is forced all its bile to disgorge.

4.
The president answers to George.
Familial truth we disgorge:
He doesn't exist;
Now won't you enlist
To lay down your life for our George?

5.
The president answers to George,
When a battle he's trying to forge.
When he hears calls to "Charge!"
His dick will enlarge,
Sigh... If only his brain would engorge.

6.
The president answers to George
And to Barbara, the pearl-sporting Norge
He'd do better, it's said
If he listened to Jed
Who can teach him how better to forge.

7.
The president answers to George
When young he liked booze pills and org-
ies more than his books.
He had few brains or looks,
But Dad's name he never did forge.

8.
The president answers to George
Though not the one from Valley Forge
He's not honest like Lincoln
Nor a Roosevelt, I'm thinkin'
Plus his voice pulls a rise up my gorge

9.
The president answers to George   
"Resident" - a name he'd not forge
We din't vote him in -
He faked that big win
and on taxes and oil now he'll gorge

10.
The president answers to George
NOT the cool one who rocked Valley Forge
This one's smart as a gnat
A spoiled rotten brat
Think:  Niagra Falls, barrel, and gorge

11.
The president answers to George
I'd like to drop him in a forge
I think if I did
I'd nail on a lid
to prevent accidental disgorge

12.
The president answers to George
Washington raises his gorge
When they stutter in lockstep
He's forced to then hard schlep
His message, which takes too much cour'ge



Twelve clever entries from which to choose, thank you players!
Voting is easy: Well members vote right here in the topic by format
id:#.  Your comments are invited along with your vote.  

Off-Well readers should send their vote (and comments) to <edgarbox@well.com>
and one of the Cosmos will post it here.  

Please, try not to vote for your own entry and Please, EVERYONE, vote!
  

    

Many of the entries suffered from some moderate to severe meter issues, but
a few were just wonderful.   The one that made me smile and rolled off the
tongue the easiest was

dsg:3
  

    
I liked that one, too.  Meter is such a tricky thing, yet so critical.

agentmitten:3
  

    
fom:6
  

    

I like 10 I think.