Laughing Along With A Limerick

Happy new week! I hope you all have a productive one.

Your new limerick challenge is:

SHOWER

Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word TOAD in it somewhere. You produced some limericks to make us laugh:

Christine Mallaband-Brown:

My pond has a goldfish and frog

And a toad that sits on a log

Also crayfish with claws

Dragonfly larvae jaws

Plus plants that grow in a bog!

Kim Smyth:

Mr Toad sought romance one day

So he hopped to a group at play

Saw some toad he liked

His heartbeat did spike

But sadly she sure hopped away.

Trent’s World:

Liz wanted to marry a prince

She read fairy tales, looking for hints

If species she knowed

She wouldn’t ‘ave kissed a toad

She’s been covered in warts ever since.

Tex was the last cowboy to goad

For his wit was easy to load

A word out of place

Said to his face

And you’d forever be that “Horney Toad”.

Baron Silas Greenback, the “Terrible Toad”

Was the nemesis of Danger Mouse and Penfold

Evil, I’d say

Genius? No way!

But his silly plots were so bold!

Lance Greenfield:

Bony Tony presented his bowl,

Filled with sausages, batter and soul.

“Can you please cook this,

On gas mark six?

For my supper I’ll have toad-in-the hole!”

TanGental:

There are many things about the toad

That science has yet to decode:

Do they wait for the water to boil?

Do they morph if kissed by a royal?

And why oh why did they cross that road?

Mr Toad: much missed, always squished…

Keith Channing:

A lady with tendencies sapphic

Saw the face of her love through the traffic.

On crossing the road

She was squashed like a toad.

I’m sorry, but was that too graphic?

Cee Tee Jackson:

AGENT TOAD.

There once was toad who showed

A talent for talking in code.

So, with an IQ that high

Became an amphibian spy,

And the secrets of newts soon flowed.

Quiall:

I once knew a toad called Bob,

A cranky and slimy old slob.

But when he did sing,

It was a beautiful thing!

Alas, it wasn’t his job.

Serenading a beautiful frog,

Into the road our dear Bob did jog.

When out of the dark,

A car left its mark.

And now our toad is a clog.

Treehugger:

I feel I have to upload

Of my fears concerning a toad.

He slept in my shoe,

Caused a big hullabaloo,

The shock made me nearly explode.

Val Fish:

That ebullient extrovert Toad

Stole a car and took to the road

When caught by the cops

Cried out ‘Fatty Chops’

Didn’t he know his Highway Code?

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41 responses to “Laughing Along With A Limerick”

  1. Do those in power take a shower
    When it’s time to go up in the tower
    Or do they take baths
    Despite other’s laughs
    No matter, as long as they don’t smell sour!

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    1. That’s really funny! 😂

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      1. Thanks Esther!

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  2. Whilst preparing a nice sweet and sour,
    I awkwardly spilt all the flour.
    Lost my footing and sat
    In a bowlful of fat.
    I’ll be back when I’ve had a quick shower!

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  3. I wake tired and tornBut take a shower each mornAnd, for goodness sakeIt makes me more awakeAs fresh as when I was born

    *

    It doesn’t beat coffee, but helps 😉

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    1. I am getting strange formatting in the comments…

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      1. Not sure why. Technology!

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      2. Odd… I can try again, if you’d like – sort of hard to read as it is

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      3. I think it works if you leave a space/double space. Don’t why it’s decied to misbehave!

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      4. Yesterday the comment box changed everywhere for me. It gives me all of the block formatting tools. I mostly ignored them and just did the comment as normal, but obviously it wanted more… One thing I do – within a block, to make a single space line break, I use Shift-Enter and Enter to start a new block. I am assuming it didn’t like the shift-enter – there must not be a way to do new lines within these blocks.

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      5. It’s bizarre!

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      6. Well, don’t text in the shower! 🤣📲🚿

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      7. There were only a few sparks as I attempted it, so i thought I was good… lol

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      8. I wake tired and torn

        But take a shower each morn

        And, for goodness sake

        It makes me more awake

        As fresh as when I was born

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  4. Today it started to shower
    And watered a poor little flower
    That had got very dry
    Under a cloudless sky-
    A watering can has great power!

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    1. A great little ditty!

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  5. I’m still frightened to shower and wash my mohawk.My wife thinks I’m weird, and perpetually mocks.But I prefer a bath to get cleanSince watching that scene,In ‘Psycho’ by Alfred Hitchcock.(** This is not contrived … I do really rock a mohawk hairstyle – see the entry for November 15th on the Home page of my blog. **) 🙂

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    1. I’m still frightened to shower and wash my mohawk.My wife thinks I’m weird, and perpetually mocks.But I prefer a bath to get cleanSince watching that scene,In ‘Psycho’ by Alfred Hitchcock.(** This is not contrived … I do really rock a mohawk hairstyle – see the entry for November 15th on the Home page of my blog. **) 🙂

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  6. Sorry Esther – WordPress formatting has gone haywire. Perhaps you can delete the other two attempts at posting?Here it is hopefully in the correct format:I’m still frightened to shower and wash my mohawk.My wife thinks I’m weird and perpetually mocks.But I prefer a bath to get cleanSince watching that scene,In ‘Psycho’ by Alfred Hitchcock.(** This isn’t contrived – I do really rock a mohawk hairstyle – see the entry for 15th November on the Home page for my blog. **) 😀

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    1. Sheesh! I give up! 😦

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      1. I don’t what’s gone wrong! I’ve not changed anything so not sure why it’s behaving like this! But I can work out the limerick just fine and love it 😊

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      2. Looking at others, it seems to have worked if you leave an extra line space in between, but I really don’t know why it’s misbehaving.

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    2. Still readable and enjoyable.

      Cue screeching violins!

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      1. Cheers, Lance. 😃

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  7. It didn’t take much to make dad glower

    At the first mention of flower power

    He’d become uncouth

    About feckless youth

    Who he’d call an ‘utter shower’.

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    1. Ooh, very good, Geoff.

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  8. At the risk of offending somebody with sustainability controversy . . .

    Is it a sin to pee in the shower?

    Some may think so and others may glower.

    It saves a cistern of water,

    So didn’t we oughta,

    Save the planet by peeing in the shower?

    Standing by for outrageous comments

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    1. That’s very good, Lance. Not sure I could do that even for the salvation of the planet! 😆

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      1. Go on Esther; you don’t know until you try. Free the Pee!

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  9. If only it could be in my power,
    To nourish sunflowers with a daily shower.
    They’d perk up with delight,
    A miraculous sight.
    Capturing a sunburst in flower.

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    I trust in the Lord to lead the way
    In everything that I do and say
    When it comes to lust
    I do what I must
    Just have a cold shower and pray

    Sorry very last minute!

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    1. But definitely worth the wait!

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    SexagenarianScribbler

    Thanks Esther

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