Archive for the ‘Holiday Humor’ Category
Wednesday, October 29th, 2014
Here’s a creepy Halloween-related survey:
More than half (53%) of parents of trick-or-treaters say their children between the ages of 4 and 10 would prefer cash over candy or even toys, according to a survey of 1,747 parents who celebrated Halloween carried out by coupon- and discount-code website Vouchercloud.net.
Trick-Or-Treating Goes Green? (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
To you kids who want Halloween cash,
And not candy, your hopes I must dash.
If you ask me for money
Dear girly or sonny,
I’ll double the other kid’s stash.
Tags: Candy Humor, Children Humor, Greed Humor, Halloween Humor, Money & Finance Humor, Money Verse, October Holidays, Trick-or-Treat
Posted in Behavior & Personality, Children Humor, Food & Drink Humor, Holiday Humor, Limericks, Money & Finance Humor | 3 Comments »
Friday, October 3rd, 2014
Limerick Ode To Holiday Fasters
By Madeleine Begun Kane
To those who are fasting right now,
It is best not to think about chow.
And I hope that this tip
Doesn’t strike you as flip:
Though it’s stressful, please don’t have a cow.
Tags: Eating Humor, Fasting Limerick, Fasts Humor, Food Verse, Holiday Fast Humor, Holiday Humor, Jewish Humor, Religion Humor, Yom Kippur
Posted in Food & Drink Humor, Holiday Humor, Limericks, Religion Verse | Comments Off on Limerick Ode To Holiday Fasters
Monday, August 18th, 2014
Today, August 18, is Bad Poetry Day. So I figured I’d write a bad limerick on purpose. How? By picking an A-rhyme with a relatively small word selection:
Limerick Ode To Bad Poetry Day
By Madeleine Begun Kane
It’s Bad Poetry Day, and I wonder
Why bother to pillage and plunder
The language of verse.
I the blunderbuss curse
Who’d, on purpose, tear poems asunder.
Tags: August Holidays, Bad Poetry Day, Odd Holidays, Writing & Publishing Humor
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Friday, July 4th, 2014
Limerick Ode To A Stormy Independence Day
By Madeleine Begun Kane
The East Coast, alas, is awash
With Hurricane Arthurly slosh,
Bringing wind gusts and rain
And flooding — the bane
Of saluting the 4th with panache.
Tags: Holiday Humor, Hurricanes, Independence Day, July 4th, July Holidays, Patriotic Humor, Rain Limerick, Storm, Weather Humor
Posted in Holiday Humor, Limericks, Seasons Humor, Weather Humor | Comments Off on Limerick Ode To A Stormy Independence Day
Monday, June 2nd, 2014
Brace yourself for “I Love My Dentist Day.” (June 2nd)
Limerick Ode to “I Love My Dentist Day”
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Some holidays offer delight,
And others are likely to bite:
Love My Dentist Day’s one
That is NOT packed with fun,
So I brush the day off like a mite.
(You might also enjoy my Dental Deal and my Biting Limerick.)
And don’t forget about National Toothache Day (February 9th) and Dentists Day (March 6th.)
Tags: Dental Humor, Dentistry, Dentists Day, February Holidays, Health & Medical Humor, I Love My Dentist Day, June Holidays, March Holidays, Medical Humor, National Toothache Day, Odd Holidays, Pain, Teeth
Posted in Health & Medical Humor, Health Verse, Holiday Humor, Odd Holidays, Professions Humor | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, May 13th, 2014
Limerick Ode To The Cocktail
By Madeleine Begun Kane
We celebrate cocktails in May:
May 13th is “World Cocktail Day.” Yay!
But I hope you won’t laugh
When I say on behalf
Of its worshippers: Why just one day?
(On May 13, 1806, The Balance and Columbian Repository, an upstate New York newspaper, published the first known definition of the word “cock-tail,” as “a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water and bitters.”)
Tags: Alcoholic Poems, Beverages, Drink Verse, Drinking Humor, Drinking Limerick, Liquor Humor, May Holidays, Odd Holidays
Posted in Food & Drink Humor, Holiday Humor, Limericks, Odd Holidays | 1 Comment »
Monday, April 21st, 2014
Mark (unlike me) follows the Passover dietary rules. And now that the end’s in sight, he’s practically panting in anticipation of pizza and pasta.
Pasta Dreams (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
My husband’s excitement is rising.
His mood’s leavened, which isn’t surprising.
Cuz Passover week
Is soon ending its streak;
Bread and pasta-decriminalizing.
Tags: April Holidays, Bread, Dietary Rules, Jewish Holidays, Jewish Humor, Matza Humor, Matzo Humor, Matzoh Humor, Passover, Pasta Humor, Pizza Humor, Religion Humor, Unleavened Bread
Posted in Behavior & Personality, Food & Drink Humor, Holiday Humor, Jewish Humor, Limericks, Religion Verse | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, April 15th, 2014
Passing Over Some Rules (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Though I’m Jewish, I’m still eating bread
And refuse to munch matzo instead.
I spurn rules all the time,
Except canons of rhyme
And of meter … so don’t be misled.
Tags: April Holidays, Bread, Jewish Holidays, Jewish Humor, Matza Humor, Matzo Humor, Matzoh Humor, Meter Humor, Passover, Passover Humor, Religion Humor, Rhyme Humor, Unleavened Bread, Writing & Publishing Humor
Posted in Behavior & Personality, Food & Drink Humor, Holiday Humor, Jewish Humor, Limericks, Religion Verse, Writing & Publishing Humor | 1 Comment »
Monday, April 14th, 2014
May your seder be lovely,
A holiday treat.
May it not be too late
Till you finally eat.
Happy Passover to all who celebrate it!
Tags: April Holidays, Dining Humor, Family Verse, Food Humor, Holiday Humor, Jewish Holidays, Jewish Humor, Passover, Passover Humor, Religion Humor, Religious Humor, Seder Humor
Posted in Family Verse, Food & Drink Humor, Holiday Humor, Jewish Humor, Religion Verse | Comments Off on Passover Verse
Tuesday, April 1st, 2014
A Fool’s Errand? (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
It’s alarmingly easy to lose
One’s sense of what’s true, so peruse
With great caution tales spun–
And not JUST April One.
There’s disinfo galore in the news.
Tags: April Fools' Day, April Holidays, News Humor, News Limerick, Odd Holidays
Posted in Holiday Humor, Limericks, News Humor, Odd Holidays | Comments Off on A Fool’s Errand? (Limerick)
Monday, February 17th, 2014
Presidents Day Limerick
By Madeleine Begun Kane
It’s Presidents Day. Zut alors!
Does anyone know what it’s for?
I’m not sure, but I’d guess
It’s meant to address
The need for more sales at each store.
Note from Mad Kane: I blame the champagne.
Tags: Abe Lincoln, February Holidays, George Washington, Holiday Humor, Money & Finance Humor, Presidents Day, Shopping Limerick
Posted in Holiday Humor, Limericks, Money & Finance Humor, Shopping Humor | 1 Comment »
Saturday, February 15th, 2014
Post-Valentine’s Day Ode
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Shoveling snow–
Not my favorite chore.
Mark did it for me.
That’s what marriage is for.
Tags: Battle of Sexes, Chores Humor, February Holidays, Holiday, Husband Humor, Marriage Verse, Romance Humor, Romantic Husbands, Shoveling Snow, Snow Verse, Valentine Day's Humor, Weather Poem
Posted in Battle of the Sexes, Chores Humor, Holiday Humor, Limericks, Marriage Humor, Romance Humor, Seasons Humor, Weather Humor | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, January 1st, 2014
Resolution Disclaimer (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Resolutions ain’t sticky, I fear,
Be it sugar, tobacco or beer.
If you’ve broken that pledge,
Please don’t be on edge.
No worries! There’s always NEXT year.
Tags: December Holidays, Holiday Limericks, Holiday Poetry, January Holidays, New Year's Humor, New Year's Poem, New Year's Resolutions Humor, New Year's Resolutions Verse
Posted in Holiday Humor, Limericks | 1 Comment »
Friday, May 24th, 2013
I sure hope your Memorial Day weekend weather’s better than ours, here in New York.
Beached Plans (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Though Memorial Day is upon us,
Winter clothing continues to don us.
So I plead and beseech:
Kindly stop talking “beach.”
New York media’s trying to con us.
Tags: Holiday Humor, May Holidays, Media Limerick, Memorial Day, New York Beaches, Outdoors Humor, Spring Limerick, Weather Limerick, Winter Clothing
Posted in Holiday Humor, Media Humor, Outdoors Humor, Seasons Humor, Weather Humor | 12 Comments »
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
Motherly Angst (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
A mom at the end of her rope
Said “It’s hopeless! I simply can’t cope.
Both the food and the band
Appear to be canned.
The rest of my kids must elope!”
Happy Mother’s Day!
Tags: Food Humor, Marriage Limerick, May Holidays, Mother's Day, Mother's Day Limericks, Mothering Humor, Music Humor & Verse, Parenting Humor, Wedding Humor
Posted in Behavior & Personality, Family & Relatives Humor, Family Verse, Holiday Humor, Limericks, Marriage Humor, Mothers & Fathers Humor | 21 Comments »
Monday, April 22nd, 2013
Karaoke isn’t my thing because my singing voice is lousy. (Alas, there’s no connection between being able to play the oboe and having a dulcet singing voice.)
But since it’s National Karaoke Week (celebrated each year during the 4th week of April) I couldn’t resist posting this silly limerick:
Limerick Ode To Karaoke
By Madeleine Begun Kane
There are people whose singing is croaky.
Some are pitchy — too high or too low-key.
But no matter your voice,
Almost all can rejoice
In this musical fun: Karaoke.
Tags: April Holidays, Karaoke Humor, Music Limerick, Odd Holidays, Singing Humor, Singing Voice, Voice Humor
Posted in Anxiety & Stress, Holiday Humor, Limericks, Music Humor & Verse, Odd Holidays | 5 Comments »
Thursday, April 18th, 2013
I’ll bet you didn’t know that April 18th is Idiom Idiocy Day. How do you celebrate it? By using idioms amusingly in verse, jokes, or short prose.
Limerick Ode To Idiom Idiocy Day
By Madeleine Begun Kane
A fellow was biding his time
And refusing to get off the dime.
He was dragging his feet
And could not take the heat.
His idiom use? It’s a crime!
Author’s Note: Idiom Idiocy Day is a brand new annual holiday established by none other than MOI. Why? Because it doesn’t exist, and it NEEDS to.
Tags: April Holidays, Idiom Humor, Idiom Limerick, Idioms Humor, Language Satire, Odd Holidays, Time Humor
Posted in Holiday Humor, Idiom Humor, Language Humor, Limericks, Odd Holidays | 9 Comments »
Thursday, February 14th, 2013
Crawling With Gift Ideas (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
It’s too late for a Valentine’s broach?
Need a holiday gift plan to poach?
Well, here’s something new
From the helpful Bronx Zoo:
Give your sweetie her name on a roach.
From the Bronx Zoo, a strange and limited Valentine’s Day Offer:
Can’t decide on what to get that special someone for Valentine’s Day? Sometimes the answer is all around us, and right where it’s been for millions of years—like cockroaches!
Naming a Madagascar hissing roach in honor of someone near and dear to your heart shows that you’ve noticed how resilient, resourceful, and loyal that person is. You’re not afraid to say, “Baby, you’re a roach!”
WCS’s Bronx Zoo has 58,000 of these brown, iridescent beauties, and most go humbly by “whatchamacallit.” With a $10 donation, you can name one for your sweetie, and send a truly unique certificate of honor.
Tags: Bronx Zoo, Cockroaches, February Holidays, Gift Giving Humor, Holiday Humor, Insect and Bug Humor, Madagascar Hissing Roach, Roaches Humor, Valentine Day's Humor
Posted in Gift Giving Humor, Holiday Humor, Insect Humor, Limericks | 9 Comments »
Saturday, February 2nd, 2013
Limerick Ode To Groundhog Day
By Madeleine Begun Kane
There’s an animal hogging the news
And casting a shadow on views.
It’s the groundhog, of course:
Our annual source
Of featherbrained seasonal clues.
Happy Groundhog Day! (February 2nd.) And for more groundhog poetry, visit DVerse Poets.
Tags: Animal & Pet Humor, February Holidays, Groundhog Day, Groundhog Humor, Odd Holidays, Punxsutawney Phil, Seasonal Humor, Spring Poetry, Weather Forecast, Weather Humor, Winter Humor
Posted in Animal & Pet Humor, Holiday Humor, Limericks, Odd Holidays, Seasons Humor, Weather Humor | 18 Comments »
