[Ann Drysdale]

Marion - I thought the sheep and the swordsman were in Far from the Madding Crowd. I did a sort of slantwise suggestion and Martin didn't say yes or no - but I really could do two-and-a-bit Swaledale ewes in Gabriel Oak's "thrree and twenty minutes and a half".

[Marion Shore]

Two lovers on a journey pelagic,
in a tale that is ancient and tragic,
swear eternal devotion
though they don't drink a potion,
for the screenwriters took out the magic.

[Marion Shore]

Ay! We had to start this up again?


A big pooch and a scruffy young man,
with three friends and a mystery van,
run from monster and ghost
till it looks like they're toast,
but the ghouls are unmasked in the end.

[Martin Rocek]

Ann,
you got it right. The popping sheep scene is pretty unforgettable. Julie Christie and
Alan Bates, directed by John Schlesinger.

Martin

Marion,
right about Cries and Whispers, though it is a very powerful movie--I do have to
confess to being a Bergman fan, though I find The Virgin Spring harder to bear
than A Passion (the American title is a mistranslation).

Anyone have a guess about my third flimerick?

[Martin Rocek]

Here is one for the true cinephiles; it was shown only at festivals, though it is
now available on youtube:

Buster returned from retirement
to help with Sam's little experiment:
"Just what did I do?
I don't have a clue--
but knowing was not a requirement."

[Pedro Poitevin]

I'm also a Bergman fan, Martin! I can't figure out your third filmerick, though. Is it a Bergman film? (It doesn't sound like one! Give us a hint?)

As for the fourth: It's Film, isn't it?

Pedro.

[Martin Rocek]

Pedro,
right! Here is a great link:
http://www.apieceofmonologue.com/201...kett-film.html

The third one is just a bad limerick. The film is great. The director is a master.
Ask yourself what materials are used for statues.

[Martin Rocek]

Here is another one from the same director as the third one; the last line certainly
needs work.

So two men walk into this bar,
and one of them looks like a star;
he lights little flames
and mentions some names
and then kills the guy from the car.

[Brian Allgar]

Originally Posted by Marion Shore

P.S. I think tocking and talking is fine. Limericks after all are allowed to use the same rhyme word for first and last line. So this is close enough. Besides, I don't think there are that many limerick purists who are going to quibble with it. Although you never know.

Marion,

As a limerick purist, allow me to quibble.

[Jerome Betts]

I have to second that, Marion. Who wants to play tennis with a drooping net? I'm not a fan of the bearded ones cop-out last lines. Even his nursey rhyme model 'There was a sick man of Tobago' managed three rhymes