Zounds woman, what's that you ask?
'zoom I cannot redo this task
I'm too zonked, you see
To zip back to "v"
And we have reached "ground zero", at last

[thank goodness]

OK, lets start the next xhallenge with zest
I've had a while to think fo this test
We start with Sins of the Past
and run through the others real fast
one by one, oh i not jest

*so basically, a lim of each ep, in order.. *S*, either include the title somewhere, or make it about the ep..LOL

I know you guys needed a real challenge, since it was a month between 2 of the letters..

damn Ame, that's one helluva test
can't we just give our poor brains a rest?
but a beat won't be missed
if you'll just post the list
of the eps--then we'll start the Xena-lim fest

[ February 22, 2003, 10:59 AM: Message edited by: Shorthorn so true in spirit ]

you don't know all eps in order, off by heart?
I read that, and it gave my heart a start
I'll run to whoosh to get
So you don't forget
Then love will never keep us apart
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Here is season 1.. lets see if we can complete 134 ep lims.

(01/101) Sins of the Past
(02/102) Chariots of War
(03/103) Dreamworker
(04/104) Cradle of Hope
(05/105) The Path Not Taken
(06/106) The Reckoning
(07/107) The Titans
(08/108) Prometheus
(09/109) Death in Chains
(10/110) Hooves and Harlots
(11/111) The Black Wolf
(12/112) Beware Greeks Bearing Gifts
(13/113) Athens City Academy of the Performing Bards
(14/114) A Fistful of Dinars
(15/115) Warrior...Princess
(16/116) Mortal Beloved
(17/117) The Royal Couple of Thieves
(18/118) The Prodigal
(19/119) Altared States
(20/120) Ties That Bind
(21/121) The Greater Good
(22/122) Callisto
(23/123) Death Mask
(24/124) Is There a Doctor in the House?

Xena had found peace at last
She had left behind her evil past
Then she met Gabrielle
Who had stories to tell
And the peaceful times were shattered - fast!

Xena takes an arrow for a pacifist's son--what a mess
then ends up wearing his dead wife's blue dress
there are chariot wrecks
(when do we get some subtext?)
and Gabrielle's ability to annoy i can't express

Even though the show's only begun
Gabby's already showing she's dumb
Xena's already caught in a entrapment
Saving gabrielle every season, such an attachment
But Xena, and those eyes, you know she's the one

"if i wanted to kill you, you'd already be dead"
and she meant every word that she said
X&G had in episode four a
run-in with Pandora,
and a king, and a henchman who subsequently bled.

For the third Pandora life was awfully bleak
She feared that her box of hope would leak
So one night in the inn
She indulged in some sin
And now also deals with diapers that reek

ETA: Waaaah! Just too slow on the draw. Damned if I'm deleting it though, lol.

[ February 25, 2003, 12:29 AM: Message edited by: Smirk Morgan ]

this episode lim challenge ain't easy
and yet we're making it look breezey
this thread now even boasts
simultaneous lim posts
now someone do Path Not Taken, puh-leezey!

If I am not much mistaken
Gabrielle took a path not less taken
Xena made Marcus good
As only she could
And then saved a young woman's bacon!

So we see Ares for the very first time
Damn he's hot I almost forgot to rhyme
Trying to lure our Xena with his evil ways
And trying to tempt her with erotic displays
Although I don't like his hair as much, this way

* i just wanted to use erotic displays.. hehe

Gabrielle awakes the ancestors of the gods
and as irritating blonde, gets several more nods
but she's not such a pain
when she's on the hensbane
to meddling busybodies, i'll always prefer sods.

Wonderful Prometheus was chained to a rock
And people everywhere were dying of shock
So proud Xena fought Herky
But he just proved too perky
Fortune intervened and showed how to break the lock

When he caught death dear old Sisyphus
Was eventually thwarted by Talus
Who was killed by Celesta
Along with the resta
The people who had syphilus

Noone ever likes to see an Amazon come to harm
Comforted though she may be by Gabby's charm
Wrongly, the centaurs caught blame
Due to a masterful, dastardly frame
Designed to sell Amazon and Centaur the farm

"Who is the Black Wolf?" some said
"They cannot be right in the head?"
Best throw them in gaol
Be they woman or male
Or better still, kill the Wolf dead!"

the Trojan War re-explored
finds Gabby's ex now warrior-ed
he only wishes he had heard it thus:
"run for your life, Perdicus!"
cuz hanging with Gabby will eventually get him gored

For Xena the time came to all soon
but Gabrielle's dream had already bloomed,
to be the best bard in the land
a contest in Athens she had to attend
where she tricked her way into getting a room.

For Xena the parting took more of a toll
but true friends know when they must let go.
Gabby's stories would please
She taught Homer the keys
and made friends like Twickenham and Stellon-us

Sparticus and Hercules filled out the show
with clips from Kirk Douglas' excellent role.
This first clip-show wasn't flat
Lucy took time off for her back
and Roc revealed the Bard's storytelling soul.

You didn't say it had to be ONE stanza did you?

[ March 07, 2003, 02:57 PM: Message edited by: Nanzar ]

Not that it isn't lovely, Nanzar, but this is a limerick thread.

I wrote a limeric! Who says I didn't write a limeric?

Smirk- are you sure you read what I wrote?
OK, so maybe I can't spell it, but I think I know how to write one!

[ March 07, 2003, 10:17 PM: Message edited by: Nanzar ]

Next Xena made a disclosure
She had part of the key to ambrosia
She hooked up with a prat
Who called Gabby a brat
But his death gave the story some closure

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I feel I should pause for a stanza
To my good buddies Smirky and Nanzar
Some lymericks rhyme
But not all of the time
After all we're all in this just for fun, 'ey, so assonance should be acceptable as long as we're moving through the challenge and having a bit of a giggle, yeah?

yeah Nanzer I read it. I even asked for a second opinion on it.

But as Argy says, let it go.

[ March 08, 2003, 06:29 PM: Message edited by: Smirk Morgan ]

Uh oh! See - here comes some trouble
It seems Xena now has a double
A Princess, no less
But I have to confess
Her brain is as full as a bubble

Xena had kept in a cupboard
Her feelings about her beloved
But when they came out
All he did was shout
As a knife into his chest was shove-ed