Bear, I think that the real "point" of a limeroid is that the first four lines do what they can to create an expectation in the reader, and then it's humorous when the expectation isn't actually met in the fifth line. This will work best with "dirty words" because we all know what "truck" and "Venus" rhyme with, and it's relative easy to set up a specific expectation, but there's no theoretical reason why a limeroid would be unable to set up an equally specific expectation without getting ribald. Let me improvise an example:
As President Grant sat there drinkin'
The hard whiskey started him thinkin',
..... "As presidents go
..... I'm the best one I know
Yet somehow the world prefers Millard Filmore."
Okay, not the funniest thing ever written but I think it proves my point. The appeal of a limeroid isn't to come up with euphemisms for dirty words, but to set up and humorously fail to fill an expectation.
And ChrisW, the Gazebo thread now knows quite well that yours is the immortal honor of coining the the term "limeroid."
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