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Jan 22, 2021 - 11:33 PM
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Tall Guy
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These are so much fun to read. I see KeV and Onya joined our limerick clan.
Maybe this thread will last a very long time.
Absolutely - and speaking of fresh blood, jackfu joined the ranks in 2018...
There was a guy, DavidinBerkeley
Who spawned a Nerd War like a jerkly.
When the Nerd War exploded,
FilmScoreMonthly imploded.
So was it then only a quirkly?
And there was some friendly rivalry around when another limerick thread emerged, I think when for some reason mine became hard to find. As a result, I slipped the word “original” into the name of the thread...
This thread could appear like it’s cursed,
Or is it ignored, ‘cos it’s worst?
It might not be vital,
but with its new title
You can’t say it wasn’t the first!
Now, where’d the other thread go?!
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There once was a "wanker" named Carson
End it there, Joanie. Never say in 50 words what you can accurately nail in 7. 
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Jan 23, 2021 - 3:59 AM
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Tall Guy
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Cheers, Kev, topical and funny.
I’m going to have a run at this now to try to add in the last limericks that made this thread disappear, with a bit of narrative to give them a little context. They’re mine unless attributed elsewhere.
First, linked with how hard this thread became to find, Jenkwombat pitched in to be helpful and certainly didn’t deserve the one that came to mind for him, for which I was grateful he took it in good heart...
Jenkwombat’s in a tight spot
Though he searches, nowhere has he got.
Now “wombat” means kind,
Persistent, refined,
And “jenk” is a word that meaning “not”.
Yavar’s just like a piranha
Every Goldsmith score he has to garner
His faves include S*P*Y*S
The Blue Max and The Prize
And the one like Carmina Burana
dtw gave his commentary on modern scoring:
The banging of pots and of pans
Is a score style with plenty of fans.
But if most sound the same
Folks are quick to cast blame -
The finger gets pointed at Hans.
And he also offered commentary on a disputed interview, the exact background to which escapes me at present:
The interview sounded quite moany
But has since been retracted as phoney.
In this late show of tact
Who exactly backtracked?
Marcel Anders? Playboy? Morricone?
Adam B. gave us:
The Die Hard soundtrack was a single CD
It ballooned to two, and is now three.
Kaman fans are thrilled
Their Christmas wish fulfilled
And that is just fine with me.
Williams’ Dracula, long thought lost
Produced by Varese at quite a high cost
I am quite glad
But Thor finds it sad
The old half hour disc can be tossed
After a gap on my participation on this thread, Joan mused on my absence, to which I commented:
Joan just accused me of shirking
My own thread! I feel like berserking!
The truth is, our Joanie,
My silence was stoney
Because, for a change, I was lurking.
Edw chimed in with a dubious thought -
On one point Joan and I do agree
Those Brits known and Bill and TG
Always act with such class
Neither acts like an ass
From scolding them Sones is quite free.
Manderley delightfully celebrated its return -
This thread once again re-appears
Every decade or 1 or 2 years
It’s so witty and clever
I am nothing but ever
Reduced to loud laughter and tears.
My birthday a couple of years ago:
Birthdays occur to the strongest,
The weakest, the rightest, the wrongest.
As I start a new year
One thing is quite clear -
Those who have most live the longest.
Jackfu again -
There once was a film score called “Die Hard”
To get it right meant you must try hard.
For they took Kamen’s work
And some cues they did jerk
So, to have them all you must now buy hard!
My ode to Graham...
I’m terribly fond of G Watt
I envy the lifestyle he’s got
The place he was born to
Plus the land he has gorn to
Makes him an Iberian Scot
And his reply...
I’m humbled to see that our Tall Guy
Believes that I’m really no small guy
A person reacts
Without knowing the facts
So how do we know who’s the fall guy?
dtw brought us back on topic, thankfully, with he following
Work with Hitchcock was fruitful for Benny:
He scored loads of his movies, but then he
Really wasn’t that certain
About doing Torn Curtain
And thenceforth he didn’t score any.
One of mine in tribute to a relatively new music love:
Mieczyslaw Weinberg (or “Moisey”)
Wondrous music deploys; he
Is not too well known
But his status has grown
And his stuff is sublime, never noisy.
But I’m giving the last, brilliant, word to dtw
Scrolling back through these limericks, I’m
Amazed at this paean to rhyme
There’s still the small matter of
Rhyming Amfitheatrof
But I’m sure we’ll achieve it, in time.
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None of my little efforts survived the Threademic, so I'll have to locate and re-up.
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Otherwise, TG, it's a towering effort, this!
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