Laughing Along With A Limerick

Happy start of the week! Here’s a fresh limerick challenge to kick-start your Monday.

Your new word is:

SHOCK

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

Keith Channing:

Each time that I look at my chin

I can never suppress a slight grin

Some people’s are large

Or shaped like a barge

Whilst mine is all pointed and thin.

Cee Tee Jackson:

There was a young man from Hitchin

Who preferred to shave in the kitchen.

So his wife, the poor soul,

Gave him a cereal bowl,

To put the hairs of his chinny-chin-chin in.

Trent’s World:

Bob says his problem is finally cured

On his chin is tattooed a beard

He wants just stubble

With little trouble

But I think it looks quite weird.

Kim Smyth:

A bearded man shaves his chin

To stay looking clean and quite thin

Never mind the belly

That shook like a bowl full of jelly

He thinks he’s a catch-what a grin!

Christine Mallaband-Brown:

I’ve taken your comment on the chin

That was a bad way to begin

A novel should never

Start with an endeavour

To make ice-cream out of Gin.

TanGental:

A poet, with a very fine chin,

Said, ‘it would be a terrible sin,’

‘If I didn’t declaim,’

‘While stroking the same’

‘Given Keats is my kith and kin.’

Treehugger:

When I’ve been on the gin,

I have a continuous grin.

But nothing is as nice,

As to add tonic and ice,

And to hear, drink up, old girl, chin, chin.

Val Fish:

I love your upturned nose and toothy grin

Your saggy boobs and double chin

You will always be

Beautiful to me

I’m here for you through thick and thin. 

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28 responses to “Laughing Along With A Limerick”

  1. Some people who live in Bangkok
    Have ne’er had to season a wok.
    Oh sure, it takes time,
    Corrosion’s a crime.
    Keep going but look at the clock.

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    1. You make it look so easy.

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      1. Would that it were, Esther! Thanks, anyway.

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    squirreljan

    A teenager was so into glam rock

    For a gig, she bought herself a new frock

    While dancing and singing

    The straps went a-pinging

    Her escaping boobs gave Sweet such a shock!

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    1. That’s hilarious! Love it 😆

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        squirreljan

        Thanks, Esther. I had a lot of fun writing it. Janice

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      2. I’m so pleased. It’s gone down really well.

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  3. Oh what a shock I had today
    A old friend had come to stay
    He bought a box
    Which held a fox!
    Now my cats have gone astray!

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    1. Ooh, poor cats!

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  4. Writing a limerick is fine
    When it takes little time.
    But today was a shock
    As I hit writer’s block
    And couldn’t get anything to rhyme.

    (Truth!)
    😀

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    1. Well, you’ve done very well!

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  5. I got a bad shock when he said
    That my favorite kitty was dead
    My mom ran him over
    Dad buried him in clover
    Then our whole family was filled with dread.

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    1. Poor kitty! The rhyming’s good though! 😂

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  6. It came as a considerable shock

    When Harold’s groin was hit by a rock

    .Asked by his wife, ‘If you please,

    Can we still hope to conceive,

    Now you’re destined to go off half-cock?’

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    1. Hilarious! Thanks for making me laugh out loud, Geoff 😂

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  7. […] (The prompt word today was ‘shock.’) […]

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  8. With “Shock the Monkey Tonight”
    Peter was funky, all right
    What it seems
    Ain’t what it means
    A primal instinct junky held tight

    **

    After I had the idea, I looked up the song and Peter said it was about no matter how advanced we think ourselves, our primal instincts, our inner monkey, still rule – this is about jealousy, not animal rights.

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    1. Very interesting. Makes you think. Thanks, Trent.

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    samjgood

    In a village where chickens did squawk,
    Lived a rooster named Fred, quite a jock.
    He crowed with such flair,
    Caught the hens unaware,
    Their fainting spells caused quite a shock!

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    1. Very witty. Thank you so much for this.

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  10. As I stood in the dock,

    I looked up at the clock.

    Twenty years in the clink,

    Lots of time to think.

    But better than my head on the block.

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    1. That’s very dark! But great 😊

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    SexagenarianScribbler

    The news came as a massive shock

     When I answered the postman’s knock

     The letter read ‘Dear John’

     So sorry, I’ve gone

     Off with that Josie who lives round the block 

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    1. Very funny. Happy Easter, Val.

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