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Help needed with a limerick

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Pennies · 22/07/2006 22:39

DH has got to so a best man speech for a bloke who's trademark thing when writing cards / in wedding books etc is to do a limerick, so he thought that a fitting end to his speech would be to close with a limerick. Trouble is we're having trouble coming up with one. Can you help?

The key info is this:

He's called Max
His bride is called Sue.

DH met Max at uni where he considered himself something of a socialist lefty but without any oomph (think Neil from the Young Ones but not so hippy-ish - tho he certainly had hippy tendancies, which we're not allowed to mention!). He thinks he's a something of a sportsman but he's not (tho Sue is very good at sport, esp golf). Professionally she's something of a dynamo (they work together) whereas he talks it up but we know that he's not really that driven (his student liberalism is still present but he conveys a capitalist tendancy, but strangely we think he thinks the exact opposite IYSWIM). Max's previous love life has been rather, errr, wayward.

We want to say something that conveys Max's rather haphazrd past and how Sue has "rescued' him. We want something is a little risque, that has a slight jovial pop and Max and portrays Sue in a good light. We don't want it to be trite or overly sentimental.

A bit of a tall order? If you have any poetic tendancies can you help?

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Pennies · 22/07/2006 22:44

Sorry - "Jovial pop AT Max"

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anthonykiedisbitontheside · 22/07/2006 22:54

There was a young man called max
Who'd never own a filofax
Thank god for Sue
Who he decided to woo
and who kept him on the right trax (poetic license for the spelling of trax!)

anthonykiedisbitontheside · 22/07/2006 23:08

Holes? Our groom he has had some
His wife's golf skills? Are second to none
We thank his new wife
For saving his life
and this time he's scored a hole in one!

anthonykiedisbitontheside · 22/07/2006 23:08

sorry i;m not very good at this but at least someone is trying!

bubble99 · 22/07/2006 23:16

There was a young man called Max
Who wanted his name to be Marx
He ranted in parks
But only after dark
Met a girl named Sue
And thought...'she'll do'.

bubble99 · 22/07/2006 23:18

Maybe doesn't describe a life affirming love?......

And it doesn't 'flow'.

I'm working on it.

anthonykiedisbitontheside · 22/07/2006 23:21

Max used to be quite a lad
some would say quite mad
thank goodness for Sue
Who he decided to woo
and now he's not so bad!

bubblerock · 23/07/2006 00:01

Raise a toast... to Max the groom, who of course you'd assume
Had been good as gold the whole of his life
Of course we know this aint true so thank christ for Sue, his brave new trouble and strife.

Pennies · 23/07/2006 09:11

Morning all! Sorry - baby woke and had to sort her out and then fell asleep myself! These look good and you're obviously much better poets than me coz I just got stuck with,

"A sporting young man called Max..." and couldn't get much further. So much for my blimmin' A'level English.

There's some really good material here and think I can pilfer bits from them to cobble something together, but if anyone else is feeling the Bard rise within them (ooooohh Matron) then any suggestions welcome!

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Jbck · 23/07/2006 11:26

When Max first set eyes on young Susie
He came over a little bit woozy
Dolly birds, he'd had his fair share
But none of them could really compare
Cos this girl's a bit of a doozie (forgive the spelling).

Jbck · 23/07/2006 11:33

Stole your own line here

We all know a sporting youngster called Max
Who met a lady from the right side of the tracks.
She's put all other girls in the shade
& what a good decision he seems to have made
By telling her he loves her stacks!

rabbitrabbit · 23/07/2006 12:02

There once was a young man called Max
Whos politics are now showing some cracks
But when Sue shouted FORE
He cried out for MORE
and said he'd be happy with her in a shack

hmmmm...must try harder

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