Laughing Along With A Limerick

Happy new week, everyone! Here’s to a good one.

Your new limerick challenge is:

SNAKE

Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word BELT in it somewhere. You produced some amusing limericks:

Christine Mallaband-Brown:

If you belt out that song!

You can win a kareoke gong

Don’t sing too loud

Or be too proud

Or hold a note for too long!

Kim Smyth:

Belts to me are too stiff and tight

Yet without one certain outfits don’t look right

Like a mumu style dress

Or that baggy pant mess

But a big belly keeps them upright!

TanGental:

I’m lucky, I’ve always felt

With the hand that I’ve been dealt:

I can eat what I please

Any variety of cheese,

And never have to tighten my belt.

Val Fish:

Walking home one night through the rec

Some strange guy grabbed me by the neck

A black belt in Kung Fu

I knew just what to do

It was him crying, ‘What the heck!’

Keith Channing:

Imagine how awful I felt

Making two extra holes in my belt.

But a man’s got to do

What a man’s got to do

And we all play the hand we are dealt!

V. M. Sang:

I needed to buy a new belt.

My old one had split, buckle bent.

I tried that new shop

But then had to stop

The belts there were all for a tent.

Treehugger:

To eat what I liked, I felt,

Tight corsets,in summer I’d melt.

I can now eat my dinner,

And still feel much thinner.

Hurrah for the waspie belt.

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23 responses to “Laughing Along With A Limerick”

  1. The garden was needing a rake
    Til Missy discovered a snake
    She dropped it and ran
    Grabbed her neighbor Mr Dan
    Who shot it and made the snake ache!

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    1. I think it would! 😂

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  2. Some snakes are more scary than others,
    None more so than one of my brother’s.
    A ten-foot constrictor
    Known fondly as Victor.
    Ex-boa, if I had my druthers!

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    1. Really clever, Keith. Thank you 😄

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  3. I love to pick up a snake
    At wildlife parks, I don’t quake
    They are smooth and firm
    And don’t make me squirm
    Fantastic pets they do make!

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    1. I’ll take your word for it 😂😂

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      1. Ever since I was about 8 and they bought snakes into school. I was the only one that would touch one. X

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      2. I’m okay with snakes. It’s spiders I struggle with!

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      3. My manager used to ask me to take spiders out of her office!

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      4. I’d ask you too 😂

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    I once had a pet anaconda
    Of whom I was awfully fond a
    Till that one fateful day
    The snake slithered away
    To somewhere in the wild blue yonder

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    1. Very good, Val. Thank you 😄

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        SexagenarianScribbler

        Thanks Esther

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  5. For Halloween…

    Every year Jim would bake,
    For Halloween, a vampire snake;
    Served with a clotting jus,
    He’d offer you a devil’s brew,
    Extra chips and a well-done stake.

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    1. That’s very witty and timely, Geoff! 🎃

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      1. Glad you enjoyed

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  6. […] week’s prompt wasn’t very halloweeny but I found a way: […]

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  7. I once had a pet called Jake
    He was a six-foot, one-eyed snake.
    We couldn’t cuddle,
    We got in a muddle.
    And he made all my family quake.

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