Laughing Along With A Limerick

Happy New Year! I hope you’re all having a great day. To get the new year going, why not have a go at writing a limerick?

Your new limerick challenge is:

FAME

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

Keith Channing:

Awards are not given for trying,

When heroes and villains are dying.

Ask any marine

Resisting routine –

Don’t tell me that’s not edifying!

Michael B. Fishman:

I must say I really was floored

When she gave me this verbal award:

“You’re so manly, steadfast,

and you certainly do last!”

I replied I’m just happy I scored.

Christine Mallaband-Brown:

I will award all of my friends

A gold star for kindness that mends

My poor broken heart

That was falling apart

That with love I can say it sends.

Kim Smyth:

There once was a man with a Ford

So pretty it won an award

He polished and waxed

Remodeled and taxed

And now gets to reap his reward!

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18 responses to “Laughing Along With A Limerick”

  1. All she wanted was fame
    For all to know her name
    Instead, she went viral
    Her life in a spiral
    Now hangs her head in shame

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    1. Poor love! 😂 That’s great. Thanks, Ritu.

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      1. 😬😁😬

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  2. There once was a girl who sought fame
    Too bad her band mates were lame
    She’d ask them to practice a song
    But nobody would stay for long
    Now no one would remember her name.

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    1. That made me smile. That’s great, Kim 😊

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      1. Good! Happy New Year!

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  3. I wanted to find great fame
    Being an artist was my game
    I can paint and draw
    Things that I saw
    But fame? It never really came!

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    1. Excellent, Christine 😍

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  4. Whilst searching for fame as a writer,
    I oft had to pull an all-nighter.
    The trouble was not
    The setting or plot,
    But my MC’s a miserable blighter!

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    1. That made me laugh out loud. Thanks, Keith.

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      1. I’m glad I could start the year on a high, Esther. Thanks for the prompt.

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  5. Great aunt Ethel, quite the grande dame
    Acquired a rather dubious fame:
    To everyone’s horror
    She fell for a collier
    Called Sid, which compounded the shame.

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    1. Good old Sid. Thanks for this Geoff.

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    SexagenarianScribbler

    The world of reality TV
    Is full of sad wannabes
    At the end of the day
    They learn the hard way
    Fame’s not all it’s cracked up to be

    Happy New Year everybody

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    1. That’s so true! Happy New Year, Val.

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  7. He hopes we don’t hold him to blame,
    All he desired was fortune and fame.
    But over the years, it all ended in tears.
    Anonymity is all he could claim.

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    1. Very clever, Sheila.

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