Laughing Along With A Limerick

Here’s to a great new week! Your new limerick challenge is as follows:

TALE

Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word STOP in it somewhere. Here are your masterpieces:

Keith Channing:

My heart was near brought to a stop
By a comet that’s known as Hale-Bopp
I looked to the sky
With my naked eye
And tripped on a tree root – kerplop!

Annette Rochelle Aben:

She wanted all traffic to stop
So, she enlisted the aid of a cop
His efforts were failing
And he felt like bailing
But instead he let his pants drop.

Trent’s World:

There is some madness ensuing
Everywhere laughter is spewing
I have to relate
I can’t concentrate
So please stop what you’re doing!

There once was a very strong man
Who could stop a train with his hand
Not as we wished
For he ended up squished
But the train did come to a stand.

Kim Smyth:

The girls at bus stops complain
While standing huddled up in the rain
While hating the way
Cars splashed them all day
One said, “We should have taken the train!”

Christine Mallaband-Brown:

I need to stop just for a rest
I really am trying my best
To write a report
On what I’ve been taught
This college work is a huge pest!

Lance Greenfield:

Bony Tony loved his punctuation.
His prose had rhythm and great fluctuation.
It just wouldn’t rhyme,
But that ain’t no crime,
As he knew the right POINT to STOP.

Linking People 2003:

Unce, Uncle, please help, Dad is beating black and blue,
Why not stop; but, want to buy or get as alm more arms and shoe
We are cousins by lineage but you know,
Faniliarity breeds contempt, hence the war to blow
Realising late, democratically elected leaders become puppets to slew!

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30 responses to “Laughing Along With A Limerick”

  1. There’s a broke banker from Berks
    On dating apps he lurks
    Says he’s got money
    It gets him the honey
    Telling tales sometimes works…

    Oh my godness, I’m cringing. That is what post-covid brain is spewing! 🙈🙈🙈

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      1. Seriously, Esther… Brain fart, right there! 🧠 💨

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  2. Let me tell you a caution’ry tale
    About why I eschew homebrewed ale.
    Just one little drink
    I can no longer think;
    I act daft and I end up in jail

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    1. That’s funny, Keith.
      Almost Chaucer brought into the 21st century.
      OK. Maybe ‘almost’ was an exaggeration.

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      1. Thanks, Lance. Not Chaucer, though; just some old bloke in his back bedroom.

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      2. My thoughts are that he was once just an old chap pressing grapes for wine in his garden shed. His Eureka moment came when he saw lettering appear in the grape juice stains on his pressing pads. What a day that was for the history of literature!

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      3. Does that mean that any negativity in his Canterbury Tales was just sour grapes?

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    2. That’ll teach you! 😂 Great fun. Thanks, Keith.

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  3. I have quite a tale to tell
    Of a girl who fell into a well
    She got soaking wet
    Had to visit the vet
    Her tail, it had started to swell

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    1. That’s fun, Ruth! Thank you.

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  4. Hold on and listen for a few
    For I’ve a tale to relate to you
    It’s as absurd
    As any you’ve heard
    And you might not think it’s true…

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    1. I like that. Very, very good, Trent.

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      1. Thanks, Esther.

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  5. There once was a guy from Lake Fork
    Who told the tale of a spork
    It wouldn’t cut meat
    He gave up in defeat
    And then ate a fish with a fork!

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    1. Ha, ha! Very clever, Kim, and very entertaining.

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      1. Thanks, but I just threw that together. 😂🤣

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  6. I have to tell a dragons tale
    In a book or I will fail
    My college course
    And what is worse
    The dragon will burn my mail!

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    1. You’ve clearly had fun with this one, Christine!

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    Alsu Remi

    There once was a sailor from Ayr
    Who managed to drink lots of beer
    He yelled:’Where’s my ale?!’
    And told us his tale
    Of trying to father an heir.

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    1. Tathat’s great! Thanks, Alsu.

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  8. You’ll be frightened. Your skin will go pale
    Whilst I read you this Grimms’ fairytale
    I will turn out the light
    And allow in the night
    Then read the whole book out in braille

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    1. I always look forward to your limericks. Very entertaining. Thank you.

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  9. Bony Tony was a splendid fella
    And, most would agree, a great storyteller.
    He would spin a yarn
    With plenty of charm.
    His tales of space travel were more than stellar.

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    1. Very clever! A Bony Tony fav!

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