Laughing Along With A Limerick

Happy Monday! Here’s a fresh limerick challenge to start your week.

Your new word is:

LATE

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

Keith Channing:

The prisoner tripped and he fell

Down the steps on the way to his cell.

Look at it some more,

There’s only one floor!

That’s one more new level of hell!

Christine Mallaband-Brown:

A mitochondria in a small cell

Went dizzy and started a spell

Of making new flavours

Of chocolate favours

And created a sweet you could sell.

Kim Smyth:

Do not drive while looking at your cell

The results could turn out not well

You might change lanes

Or slip slide in the rains

Or worse, crash and feel you’re in hell!

Chel Owens:

“To sea!” cried the sailor, “To sail!”

But his mate (who didn’t hear well);

Thought the cap’t, leaf-turned,

Meant admittance, well-earned;

– As, through jail cell, he kept tryin’ to yell!

Cee Tee Jackson:

A fraudulent trader called Del

Forged share certificates to sell.

But the Stock Exchange got wise

To his blatant deceit and lies,

So now he’s banged up in a cell.

Lance Greenfield:

My best friend’s called Mello-Elo.

She eats ice cream with yellow Jell-O.

If you’re feeling ill

Or just want to chill,

She’ll play you a tune on her mellow cello.

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28 responses to “Laughing Along With A Limerick”

  1. Being on time is really great
    It’s such bad manners to show up late
    You don’t want to miss
    Pure moments of bliss
    So don’t make your customers wait!

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  2. Late for choir again they said!
    I’d been sleeping in my bed
    To wake up late
    Is my fate
    Insomnia makes me feel half dead!

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    1. I know the feeling! 😆

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  3. Great limericks, Esther.

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    1. Thanks, Robbie. Glad you enjoyed them.

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  4. To my funeral, I shall be late
    If I’m honest, that’s always my fate.
    But expect me on time
    For a vodka and lime
    And a game of ten pin with my mate!

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    1. That’s really funny. Thanks for that, Keith.

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      1. Thanks, Esther. I have to admit that finding a suitable game for the last line slowed me down a bit 🤓

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  5. There was a bartender called Kate
    Who was always persistently late
    She pushed it too far
    Got fired from the bar
    And there lies young Kate’s fate!

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    1. Very funny! Thanks, Ritu 🥰

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      1. 😬😬

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    Linkingpeople2003

    There once was a man who was late,
    His punctuality just wasn’t great.
    In a rush, his toast burned,
    At each corner, he turned,
    His smile, at the gate, didn’t seal his fate.

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    1. Super! Great to see you back.

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  7. It didn’t take much to infuriate
    My bête noire, my Great Aunt Kate
    And not to speak ill of the dead,
    It removed one source of dread,
    When Great Aunt Kate was declared ‘the late’.

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    1. Very entertaining. Thanks, Geoff.

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  8. I once asked a girl on a date
    Though she walked with a terrible gait.
    I was totally smitten
    But her shoes were ill-fitting
    And that’s why she always was late.

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    1. Revised – I think this makes more sense:

      If The Shoe Fits …

      My girlfriend and I would go out on a date
      She looked like a model, but had a terrible gait.
      I was totally smitten,
      But her shoes were ill-fitting –
      Her excuse for always being late.

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      1. Okay – I’ll switch to this one 😁

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    2. Brilliant! Very funny. Thank you 😄

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  9. […] Laughing Along with a Limerick: Late […]

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  10. […] My girlfriend and I would go out on a dateShe looked like a model, but had a terrible gait.I was totally smitten,But her shoes were ill-fitting –Her excuse for always being late.(Today’s limerick was prompted by the word, ‘late.’) […]

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  11. Bony Tony had a hot first date;
    A lovely lass whose name was Kate.
    It all went bad
    And Tony was sad,
    When he was early and Kate was late.

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  12. His downfall was being late.
    In fact it sealed his fate.
    To sum it all up,
    She got quite fed up.
    And decided to marry his mate.

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