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:
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!
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.
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.
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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”.
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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!
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!”
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…
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?
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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Esther Chilton 
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