twitmericks

Lovely twitmerick slideshow on the wapo blog site. I’ll post a permanent link too. Should really do pix here, but that might slow things down a little.

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Which really deserves its own twitmerick:

Wapo’s @dabeard has made/A twitmerick slideshow parade/With visual trix/& appropriate pix/Results absolutely high-grade http://wapo.st/xzFMTn

The BBC PM programme just read out one of my Offside Rule limericks (see below).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018xw7t

That was the challenge set by the BBC PM programme – well, they said a tweet, but of course it had to be a limerick too.

This was my first effort:

If one player passes the ball/Going forward the others must all/Be behind the passee/To ensure he or she/Gets the old referee’s offside call

That met with protests from @gfkw47 and @mrblawton, who felt it was inaccurate. Well, OK, it should have said “all except one”, but I wasn’t counting the goalie. Which of course you have to. And it’s a bit misleading as I’m using “behind” to mean behind the direction of the pass, rather than the direction in which the defending team is playing. So I tried again:

It’s not really tricky at all/The player receiving the ball/Must have 2 more ahead/& can push on instead/Of receiving the ref’s offside call

@mrblawton concedes that’s closer – but is it good enough?