Hello, everyone! I hope you had a great weekend.
Here’s your new limerick challenge:
SPIDER
Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word SPAM in it somewhere. Here are your masterpieces:
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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?
And here’s a fun limerick from Sarian Lady on the previous prompt of SNEAK
Too harsh the word sneak
When I only wanted a peek
I am curious and furious,
When caught it was ruinous.
Twas only your password I seek.
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Esther Chilton 
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