Here’s to a great new week! Your new limerick challenge is as follows:
BORE
Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word MEAN in it somewhere. Here are your masterpieces:
Please don’t call me average; I’m mean,
And although you may think it obscene
Or at least controversial
In matters inertial
My moment was quite Damascene.
There once was a kid who was so mean
He spray painted his kid brother green
His mom shrieked in fright
Upon the first sight
And said some words quite obscene!
Mike was a guy who was very mean
Whose IQ was below the mean
Not just cruel
But also a fool
Do you know what I mean?
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The mean girls didn’t like Sue
They never knew what to do
Whatever they tried
Won for her side
Making her happy and them blue.
There once was a man who was mean
He stank and his teeth turned real green
He jumped in a pool
And started to drool
His teeth, they almost came clean.
I just don’t get statistics
Or understand mathematics!
What does algebra mean
For those, inumerate being
Who find two and two fantastic!
Last night we tried nouvelle cuisine
But oh boy, were the portions mean
A hundred quid
For three rings of squid
And the limpest lettuce ever seen.
Bony Tony just LOVED green beans.
He’d eaten them raw since his early teens.
Very good for his heart,
But they made him fart,
Meaning you could always tell where Tony had been.
Norman Concrete possessed a talking spleen
Whose patter was clever rather than clean.
He answered Mark, a bit of a joker,
Who accused our hero of being mediocre:
‘I may be average, but at least I’m not mean.’
Linking People 2003:
Moderation is mean of excess and nothing,
Arithmetic mean is about number plaything.
But, means for life is for survival and swallow,
Take care of the means, end will follow.
Mean person can change into kind and loving!
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Esther Chilton 
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