Laughing Along With A Limerick

Hello, everyone! I hope you had a great weekend.

Here’s your new limerick challenge:

SPAM

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

Keith Edgar Channing:

Sometimes the best thing is to sneak;

Not fearfully, however bleak.

Each year it gets harder

Attacking the larder

Knowing soon you’ll have need of a leak!

Kim Smyth:

There once was a sneak who picked pockets

He’d snatch and take off like a rocket

But once he was caught

And the man was so fraught

He got smacked right in the eye socket!

Christine Mallaband-Brown:

Deciding to go for a peak

Suella decided to sneak

Into the gallery

Of artist, Mallory

What she saw there? She won’t speak!

TanGental:

The world can be jolly bleak

If your brother turns into a sneak.

But I’ve been told

Revenge, served cold

Will make the little ratbag squeak.

When Godiva decided to streak,

She said, ‘No one should sneak a peek.’

But she caught one reporter

Doing what he didn’t oughter

Accusing him of a bare-faced cheek.

Lance Greenfield:

There was a young scholar called Snook

Who’d often sneak off for a look.

By nature quite curious,

His parents were furious,

Till his travels produced a good book.

Quiall:

There are those who will call me a freak

Because of the way that I sneak,

Into gardens at night,

Oh, it is such a sight,

With my nose up a rose I can’t speak!

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23 responses to “Laughing Along With A Limerick”

  1. Want to know how the food spam
    Got the name that’s on its can?
    It’s not an acronym
    Or even a backronym!
    It’s a portmanteau word for SPiced hAM!

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    1. Super stuff! 😂

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  2. I don’t like spam of either kind
    One is salty, the other annoying
    Filling your mailbox
    With unwanted trash or
    Upsetting tummies with spam-a-lot hash!

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    1. I don’t like either kind, either! 😆

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  3. I silence my mouth like a clam
    Whenever I hear the word spam.
    I send an email
    Every week without fail
    Coz that’s just the person I am.

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    1. Good to know! Thanks for this, Keith. I hope you are still recovering well.

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      1. Thanks, Esther. To quote John Lennon (or was it Paul McCartney) It’s getting better every day.

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      2. That’s good to hear 😊

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  4. My inbox is full ‘most every day
    Filled with emails with nothing to say
    I’m sure the world is damned
    That we are so spammed
    Maybe if I block work email it’d all go away
    *
    OK, not sure if it came across that I was calling work email “spam”, but…

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    1. It’s great, Trent 😊

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  5. Bony Tony could’ve been fitter.
    Trouble was that he loved spam fritters.
    With piles of chips,
    They put weight on his hips.
    He’d wash them down with a few pints of bitter

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    1. Super! Good ol’ Bony Tony 😊

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      1. Bony Tony was a man of good taste! 😉

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  6. Tonight, our dinner is ham,
    The stuffing I think will be spam.
    Some taters and sprouts,
    And if there are doubts,
    The world will not give a damn

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    1. They certainly won’t! 😂

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    SexagenarianScribbler

    The message came through in my Spam
    I’m thinking it must be a scam
    You’ve won the lottery
    There’s a processing fee
    How stupid do you think I am?

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    1. I can relate to this. I get this sort of thing all the time! A great limerick 😊

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    SexagenarianScribbler

    Thanks Esther

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  9. I remember when I first tasted spam
    And was told it was superior ham
    But with the texture of rubber
    And the taste of old blubber
    I knew it was just one more scam.

    There’s a reason why both are called spam:
    The trick and the rubberised ham;
    If you accept each in haste
    They’ll leave a bad taste
    While their makers just don’t give a damn.

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    1. Two goodies, Geoff. Thank you.

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