Laughing Along With A Limerick

How was your weekend? I hope it was a good one. Here’s a new limerick challenge to kick-start your Monday.

Your new word is:

SPELL

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

Keith Channing:

The brain is astutely designed

To sense danger in front or behind.

Each time I spy trouble,

I bend myself double

Long as it don’t see me, I don’t mind

Kim Smyth:

There once was a man of a mind

To search and see what he could find

Here he went and there

And saw not much anywhere

So he returned home sitting on his behind.

Christine Mallaband-Brown:

My mind is a-buzzing today

All sorts of things twirling away

I’m sitting around

Eyes on the ground

Life sometimes just gets me that way!

Nicola Daly:

Said the captain of the ‘Golden Hind’

When he stopped chewing on his bacon rind

‘It’s so plain to me

That when I sail the sea,

Rain is something I really do mind!’

Sometimes I procrastinate and get behind

When the words I need I just can’t find

That’s why I say

It’s time to play

‘Cos writing limericks helps my mind!

TanGental:

He said that true love is blind,

It requires a meeting of minds:

But what makes my heart to glow

It’s her lack of B.O.

Her own teeth and perfect behind.

Treehugger:

When there’s something on my mind,

My workmates are not kind.

As I struggle to concentrate,

I can hear, “What’s wrong mate?

Have you left your brains behind?”

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23 responses to “Laughing Along With A Limerick”

  1. Sinking into a new depth of hell,
    Pretending I know how to spell.
    Every word I dictate
    Leads my brain to rotate
    Like a horse on an old carousel.

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    1. I thought it was about time I gave you an acrostic. You didn’t disappoint 😄

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  2. It’s Beltane or Valpurges night
    On the 30th of April, that’s right
    When witches abound
    And are flying around
    Their Spells will give you a fright!

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  3. squirreljan Avatar
    squirreljan

    To spell or not to spell, is what I ask

    Should it be barf not bath, or marsk not mask?

    Phonetics is a wordy trap

    I want to give it such a slap

    But laugh when AI can’t manage the task

    (Written in humorous annoyance as AI keeps changing my typed words and not just the spelling, and I don’t see it until I’ve finished – I touch type.)

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    1. I agree – it’s very annoying!

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  4. Reading the Word causes a spell
    Will I go to heaven or hell
    Am I the person I’m supposed to be
    Or should I do more to ascend to thee
    I guess I’ll know when I hear the Bell.

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    1. Very dark! I love it!

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  6. Wanda did not realise, truth to tell,

    That her career choice was its own kind of hell;

    But then it’s a real bitch

    To find you’re a dyslexic witch

    Whose only job is to be able to spell

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    1. That’s brilliant. Very funny, Geoff.

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  7. I was once hit by a magical spell
    Instantly all my inhibitions fell
    Things I did and said
    Wow, I wish I was dead!
    For ever since my life’s been Hell!

    *

    I hope you’re doing well
    Come in and sit for a spell
    I hope you agree
    To have some tea
    You’ll laugh at the news I’ll tell

    **

    I can very much relate to that definition of cinnamyn, uhm, I mean words that mean the same….

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    1. Thanks for this fab duo 😄

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      1. Glad you liked them 🙂

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  8. nikidaly70 Avatar
    nikidaly70

    There once was a witch from Carlisle
    Walked around with a satisfied smile
    She’d cast a bad spell
    With a terrible smell
    Which made everyone run for a mile!

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    1. That made me laugh out loud!

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  9. SexagenarianScribbler Avatar
    SexagenarianScribbler

    At school I didn’t fare very well

    Couldn’t read, couldn’t right, couldn’t spell

    But with beauty instead

    I forged on ahead

    In a subject I knew I’d excel!

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    1. That’s great, Val. Thank you 😊

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        SexagenarianScribbler

        Thanks Esther

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  10. With promises of sweets and treats,
    She put me under her spell.
    She chanted and panted,
    Mumbled and ranted.
    At her home in Dingly Dell.

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    1. That works really well 😄

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