“Since fresh ice cream’s my favorite vice,
My own creamery sure would be nice.
But my blood sugar’s high,”
Said the man, with a sigh.
“So I’m putting that pipe dream on ice.”
Tags: Blood Sugar, Business Humor, Health Humor, Health Limerick, Ice Cream Humor, Ice Cream Limerick
Mad Kane (Madeleine Begun Kane) is a writer, musician, and "recovering lawyer." She won the Robert Benchley Society Award For Humor and enjoys writing limericks, song parodies, and current events haiku.
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Folks sometimes ask about my limerick-writing thought process. Here’s how this one came about:
1. I always look for prompt-words on BlueSky. And when I saw the prompt word “ice,” the “putting something on ice” idiom came to mind. So I opted to use it in a punchline and then try to back into it.
2. My next issue was: What to put on ice. And since my goal was humor, I figured putting something ice-related on ice might work. And that gave me the creamery idea.
3. Next, I needed a motivation. And since someone with high blood sugar might have trouble resisting ice cream’s constant temptation, the motivation problem was solved.
4 After that, all I had to do was tell this tale in five lines, with proper meter and rhyme. 🙂
Said a poet who needed a kick,
“Coming up with ideas makes me sick!
Conscious thoughts never stream
Till I’m drunk on ice cream.
It’s a habit I’m sure I can lick.”