The One Line Poem Game (1-50 Words) Showing 1,951-2,000 of 5,070

[Roger]

He forgot to pay his parking ticket

[Roger]

And told the judge it wasn't cricket

[Roger]

To knock out a man's middle wicket.

[Preston, Moderator]

And lose his ball in the rough grown thicket.

[Preston, Moderator]

The American sighed and started to pout,

[Preston, Moderator]

in the US it's three strikes before you're out.

[Preston, Moderator]

And also this cricket bat is very flat,

[Preston, Moderator]

In the US baseball bats are round and fat.

[Roger]

Which you must admit isn't very logical

[Roger]

With a cylinder it's hard to strike a bollickle

[Roger]

When with a flat bat you can hit the ball

[Roger]

And send it flying right over the wall.

[Preston, Moderator]

Baseball balls are pitched at 100 miles per hour*,

*160 kph

[Preston, Moderator]

A flat bat would be smashed by all that power.

[Roger]

There's only one way for cricketers to stick it

[Roger]

To baseballers—stick ’em in front of a wicket!

[Preston, Moderator]

This is why the World Series Games with their madhouse and mayhems

[Preston, Moderator]

Have never been played on the banks of that river named Thames.

[Preston, Moderator]

Ever year again and again,

[Preston, Moderator]

There's no baseball on the Seine.

[Preston, Moderator]

And in all history time after time,

[Preston, Moderator]

They haven't played it on the Rhine.

[Preston, Moderator]

Down and dirty with the nitty gritty,

[Preston, Moderator]

The World Series is in an American City.

[Roger]

The Brits are well known around the globe as bounders

[Roger]

They compound their reputation by calling baseball "rounders."

[Roger]

In Britain rounders is a game played by schoolgirls

[Roger]

Which sends them spinning round and round in whirls.

[Roger]

But "real" men, they go snorkelling in the bog

[Roger]

It's a sport best played in the thickest of fog.

[Preston, Moderator]

I love that in England despite the pea soup weather,

[Preston, Moderator]

In the moorland heather folks can enjoy the heather.

[Preston, Moderator]

The fog gives a mysterious haze all around,

[Preston, Moderator]

but still in the towns and hills beauty is abound.

[Preston, Moderator]

And where the gardens grows the primrose,

[Preston, Moderator]

They curse up your nose with a rubber hose.

[Roger]

Remember never to eat any rice

[Roger]

When you're out shooting the grouse *

*Among the nobility, "grouse" is pronounced "grice".

[Roger]

Only the hoi poloi, the plebs and proles make grouse

[Roger]

Sound as though it might rhyme with mouse.

[Preston, Moderator]

I don't even need to think twice,

[Preston, Moderator]

To say your rhyme is very nice,

[Preston, Moderator]

But where I come from a lower class grouse,

[Preston, Moderator]

When pronounced will rhyme with louse.

[Roger]

In Shropshire-speak, I'm sad to say,

[Roger]

They mangle words in a peculiar way,

[Roger]

So that as you enjoy a plate of pasta,

[Roger]

In Shropshire you'd be going much farster.

[Preston, Moderator]

In the Arizona city of Prescott it is tacit,

[Preston, Moderator]

The name of the place rhymes with biscuit.