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Author Topic: Dwarven Haiku? Bah! Limericks!  (Read 1715 times)

Flaede

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Dwarven Haiku? Bah! Limericks!
« on: August 05, 2010, 04:56:40 pm »

I've posted in the Haiku thread, but I really think that the haiku is vastly overrated. Limericks are more Fun.
And rhyming with Dwarf-words (or goblin words, or whatever) is entertaning to me.

So without further ado:

The giant turtle Nethg”nbidok
had a Zansong Obok of rock
After downing a flagon
He scuttled a wagon
Confusing it for breeding stock


Please someone else out there be amused by silly rhymes. Heck, don't limit your doggerel to the Limerick, just so long as it rhymes!
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Re: Dwarven Haiku? Bah! Limericks!
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2010, 05:57:28 pm »

With Limericks you often have problems:
Rhymes oft stymie your verbal whims.
  Haiku take no muse,
  Are quick to produce,
And as such, would-be poets prefer them.
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Re: Dwarven Haiku? Bah! Limericks!
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2010, 05:59:46 pm »

Urist couldn't find the right rock
And there wasn't a door I could lock
He went stark raving mad
And made me quite sad
When he beat Onib to death with his sock
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Re: Dwarven Haiku? Bah! Limericks!
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2010, 07:37:43 pm »

There once was a dwarf named McUrist.
Who fell in some lava and puristed.
The elves didn't care, see,
'til Urist McAngry
Threw them in the magma sea, too...rist.

There once was an elf named Donalginn.
Who had trees sprouting up in his noggin.
The dwarves cut him down,
And they ran around town,
Showing off their new masterpiece elf-bin.

When Urist McDrunken got bored
And punched out the tower-cap floors,
The tower-caps fell
And they managed to quell
The great Bronze Colossus of Yore

A sickly old goblin named Curse
When off to visit the nurse
The nurse gave him some pills
Said they'd cure all his ills
But they only made his illness worse.

I don't know, I'm running out of ideas.
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Urist McAwesome cancels Live: Taken by depression.
Urist McAwesome has perished in lava.

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Re: Dwarven Haiku? Bah! Limericks!
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2010, 08:20:42 pm »

There once was a dwarf named Urist
With his booze he was a purist
He took his booze you see
To the magma sea
And the crawlers had beer battered Urist.
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Re: Dwarven Haiku? Bah! Limericks!
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2010, 12:28:57 am »

There once was a dwarf named Morul,
who got into many a quarrel.
He shot orcs clear across the map
where they'd explode with a snap.
Don't mess with Morul is our moral.

Oft there was a Dungeon Master
who couldn't grab cloaks any faster.
One tamed a great dragon
who had just eaten a wagon.
This turned into quite the disaster.
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Re: Dwarven Haiku? Bah! Limericks!
« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2010, 01:18:56 am »

There once was a dwarf from Nantucket
Who kept all his logs in a bucket.
The elves were astounded,
"Save the trees!" they sounded,
And O'Catten replied: "You can suck it."
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Re: Dwarven Haiku? Bah! Limericks!
« Reply #7 on: August 06, 2010, 02:48:13 am »

There once was a dwarf from Nantucket

Nice!
I was wondering when Nantucket would make an appearance!  ;D

There once was a Dwarf from GemsPain
Who was caught outside in the rain
 His mood became fell
 And Murdrous, as well
Crafting raingear from skins of the slain.

oof. that turned out a little... grimmer than I originally intended.
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Toady typically doesn't do things by half measures.  As evidenced by turning "make hauling work better" into "implement mine carts with physics".
There are many issues with this statement.
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Re: Dwarven Haiku? Bah! Limericks!
« Reply #8 on: August 06, 2010, 03:44:47 am »

There was a young dwarf named Grummit
Who fell in love with a girl from the Summit
The problem he found
He lived far underground
And came out covered in Vomit
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Re: Dwarven Haiku? Bah! Limericks!
« Reply #9 on: August 06, 2010, 04:09:45 am »

there was a young miner named Groast
My skills are of legend he'd boast
This wasn't a problem
Till he got to the bottom
And hidden stuff ate him on toast
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Re: Dwarven Haiku? Bah! Limericks!
« Reply #10 on: August 06, 2010, 08:53:38 am »

There once was a dwarf named Loust
With a cat she loved the most
Til shot in the head
It died in red
But it made a great cat roast
« Last Edit: August 06, 2010, 08:56:26 am by Hamster Man »
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So there's that, as well. It looks like the only chronic problems that water can't cure are nausea and cave spider bites.
Which, coincidentally enough, can be cured by magma.

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Re: Dwarven Haiku? Bah! Limericks!
« Reply #11 on: August 06, 2010, 12:46:16 pm »

Once a great dwarf named Coggan
gave skulking vermin a good floggin'
cried "Try and steal from me, thief,
ye'll soon come to grief"
and dropped the 'bold on his noggin.
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Re: Dwarven Haiku? Bah! Limericks!
« Reply #12 on: August 06, 2010, 12:53:09 pm »

A snatcher took a messy dirt nap
His last words were likely "Oh crap!"
But the dwarves didn't know
100 Z-levels below
Until one went up and reset the trap.
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Re: Dwarven Haiku? Bah! Limericks!
« Reply #13 on: August 06, 2010, 04:14:18 pm »

The limerick packs laughs phenomenal
Into space that is quite economical
But the ones that we've seen
Are quite rarely clean
And the clean ones are never that comical.
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Re: Dwarven Haiku? Bah! Limericks!
« Reply #14 on: August 06, 2010, 04:25:17 pm »

Miners were chased away by a deer.
their work had to stop due to fear!
The alarm bells were rang,
the military sprang,
and died of thirst as they chased for a year.
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