Laughing Along With A Limerick

How does Monday come around so quickly?! I hope this week’s a good one for you.

Your new limerick challenge is:

TRAIN

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

Keith Channing:

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!

Ritu:

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.

TanGental:

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.

Christine Mallaband-Brown:

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!

Kim Smyth:

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.

Val Fish:

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.

Treehugger:

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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18 responses to “Laughing Along With A Limerick”

  1. Casey was a rail engineer
    He drove a train without peer
    On the fatal night
    A stopped freighter out of sight
    Casey’s heroic actions cost him dear
    **
    If you don’t know the story, or heard any of the songs, Google Casey Jones…

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    1. I will! Thanks, Trent 😊

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  2. Maybe in bad taste a little? But I’ve always thought limericks were supposed to be (a little) bawdy so here goes…

    Angie is no scatterbrain,
    she’s well known from New York to Maine.
    Groups of men she’d amaze,
    when her skirt she would raise
    and say, “Boys now queue up for the train.

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    1. That’s definitely bawdy! But, yes, limericks often are. Thank you for this, Michael.

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  3. Tomorrow, I’m catching a train,
    Riding southward from Donny to Spain
    A few weeks ago
    I went with the flow
    Now something is hurting my brain

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    1. Well done for the acrostic, Keith.

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      1. Thanks, Esther. I quite fancy a train trip from Donny (Doncaster) to Spain, though now I’m driving again (and bought myself a little electric runaround) I might opt for a drive.

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  4. An 0-6-0 train sped by
    On a viaduct high in the sky
    With a clatter and rattle
    Like an army in battle
    White steam around it did fly!

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    1. That’s lots of fun! Thanks, Christine 😍

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  5. I rode once on the Tarantula Train
    Luckily it wasn’t in the rain
    We solved a murder
    While eating our lunch order
    And no one felt any pain!

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    1. Very funny. Thanks, Kim 😁

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  6. If you’ve ever commuted, you’ll know the pain,
    Stuck every day, on a bus or train,
    Breathing in fetid breath
    Containing hints of coming death
    And then you do it again and again…

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    1. I’ve lived that life so know the pain. Very entertaining.

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  7. I hope it doesn’t rain,
    As I patiently wait for my train.
    With luggage and cases,
    To see different places.
    Umbrella up, all hopes are in vain.

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    1. Yes, that’s England! Very good, Sheila.

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  8. […] Limerick prompt is train and it’s taken a gloomy […]

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