Laughing Along With A Limerick

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:

Keith Edgar Channing:

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.

Kim Smyth:

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!

Christine Mallaband-Brown:

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!

Trent’s World:

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.

TanGental:

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.

Lance Greenfield:

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.

Quiall:

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.

Val Fish:

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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29 responses to “Laughing Along With A Limerick”

  1. A spider’s an eight-legged creature
    Whose four eyes are quite a neat feature.
    Some big ones are hairy,
    Which makes them more scary;
    My golly! I sound like a teacher!

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    1. Very good, Keith! Brought a big smile 😊

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      1. Thanks, Esther 😁🙏

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  2. There once was a cute little spider
    Who slid down his silk right beside her
    The lady then smiled
    Stayed to visit a while
    Then the pair read her book with each other!

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    1. Really funny, Kim. Thank you 😊

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      1. It was a bit of a struggle today, but I managed it, lol

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      2. You did really well!

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      3. Aww, thanks! ☺️

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  3. As Miss Muffet watched that spider
    That came and sat beside her
    Another, if you please
    Got into her cottage cheese
    Now that spider is inside her

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    1. The Who sang of a spider named Boris
      In a song that certainly won’t bore us!
      Cool musical choices
      And silly voices
      And a two word chorus

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      1. You’re so good at these!

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      2. Limericks are fun. Thanks!

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      3. Glad you enjoy them 😃

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    2. Hilarious! Nice one, Trent 😁

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      1. Thanks, Esther 🙂

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  4. I once met a spider on a walk-oh
    hung by its legs from a hedgerow
    It had a big grin
    And it was in a spin
    As it twisted and turned all around-o!

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    1. That’s really funny. Thanks, Christine 😊

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      1. Lol, I suspect the – oh and – o is cheating, but they do it in folk songs!

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  5. I once came across a great web,
    It filled the others with dread!
    Then along came a spider,
    As I sat down beside her,
    I realized I was about to be dead!

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    1. Super stuff. Thank you 😁

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  6. spider
    tuffet muffet
    beside her~

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  7. Miss Muffet, I can’t abide her
    For dissing George, my pet spider.
    She screams and she shouts,
    She stamps and she pouts.
    Poor George, she could have been kinder.

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    1. Very witty! Thank you 😊

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  8. Itsy, a six legged spider,
    Bottled her hurt deep inside her;
    Until a kind chap called Jim
    Offered prosthetic limbs
    And she put her troubles behind her.

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    1. Hilarious! Thanks, Geoff.

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