Archive for the ‘Language Humor’ Category
Tuesday, December 19th, 2023
Sundry word games are making me daft.
I pretend they’re improving my craft.
But I’ll play till I drop,
Though I know I should stop.
Now I’m drowning. Don’t laugh! Where’s my raft?
(Games Day falls each year on December 20th.)
Tags: Bee, Connections, Games Humor, Games Limerick, Language Humor, Language Humour, Language Limerick, New York Times Humor, Puzzles Humor, Puzzles Limerick, Spelling Bee, Spelling Humor, Spelling Humour, Spelling Limerick, Word Games, Word Usage Humor, Wordle, WordleBot
Posted in Games Humor, Language Humor, Limericks | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, December 19th, 2023
“Let’s circle back later,” they say.
That phrase tries my patience, so NAY!
It’s a roundabout ploy
To evade and annoy…
Plus I’m dizzy. The answer’s NO WAY!
Tags: Circle Back, Communication Humor, Communication Limericks, Communications Limerick, Irritations
Posted in Behavior & Personality, Communication Humor, Idiom Humor, Language Humor, Limericks | Comments Off on A Maddening Phrase (Limerick)
Saturday, December 16th, 2023
“Let’s not eat here,” said Brad. “It’s for nerds.
And I’ve heard that the food tastes like turds.”
But Brad’s meal-mate insisted
And raved: “Can’t resist it!”
Brad ended up eating his words.
Tags: Dining Humor, Dining Limerick, Food Humor, Food Limerick, Idioms Humor, Idioms Limerick, Restaurant Humor, Restaurant Limerick
Posted in Food & Drink Humor, Idiom Humor, Language Humor, Limericks, Restaurant Reviews & Humor | Comments Off on Dickering Over Dining (Limerick)
Friday, December 1st, 2023
“Do I eat like a horse? Nay,” said Ray.
“So stop saying I do, right away!
I stand falsely accused
And feel bruised, yet amused,
For the truth is I never touch hay!”
Tags: Accusations Humor, Accusations Limerick, Eating Humor, Eating Limerick, Food Humor, Food Limerick, Horse Humor, Horse Limerick
Posted in Animal & Pet Humor, Behavior & Personality, Food & Drink Humor, Idiom Humor, Language Humor, Limericks | Comments Off on Naysayer Ray (Limerick)
Saturday, November 4th, 2023
“Common sense” is alarmingly rare;
Few folks have a sensible flair.
So the term makes no sense;
A misnomer immense!
“Common denseness” prevails, so beware!
(Use Your Common Sense Day is celebrated on November 4th.)
Tags: Common Sense, Common Sense Day, November Holidays, Odd Holidays, Use Your Common Sense Day
Posted in Behavior & Personality, Language Humor, Limericks, Odd Holidays | 1 Comment »
Friday, November 3rd, 2023
I’m compelled to condemn the cliché.
When I hear one, I’m rubbed the wrong way,
Also irked and annoyed.
They are best to avoid
Like the plague … at the end of the day.
(Cliché Day is always observed on November 3rd.)
Tags: Cliché Day, Clichés, Clichés Humor, Idiom Humor, Idiom Limerick, Language Humor, Language Limerick, November Holidays, Odd Holidays
Posted in Cliché Humor, Idiom Humor, Language Humor, Limericks, Odd Holidays | Comments Off on Celebrate Cliché Day? No way!
Tuesday, May 30th, 2023
My mind is a jumble, confused
Because “jargogle’s” no longer used.
When a word’s fun to say,
It should NOT go away.
Its abandonment can’t be excused!
(JARGOGLE: An obsolete word that means to confuse, jumble, mix up.)
Tags: Jargogle, Language Humor, Language Limerick
Posted in Language Humor, Limericks | Comments Off on “JARGOGLE” Giggles (Limerick)
Monday, March 20th, 2023
I used to speak French fairly well,
But my accent is no longer belle,
And my “je ne sais quoi”
Is reduced to a blah.
(That damn phrase is a struggle to spell!)
(Happy UN French Language Day! — March 20)
Tags: French Humor, French Language Day, French Limerick, March Holidays, Odd Holidays, UN, UN French Language Day, United Nations
Posted in Communication Humor, Language Humor, Limericks, Memory Humor, Odd Holidays | Comments Off on Pardon My French! (Limerick)
Sunday, January 29th, 2023
It’s “National Puzzle Day,” which gives me a good excuse to post this limerick:
I never play Wordle in “hard mode.”
It feels like a feathered and tarred mode.
I would rather control
All my moves, on the whole.
It’s too bad they don’t offer a “bard mode.”
Tags: Games Humor, Games Limerick, January Holidays, Language Humor, Language Humour, Language Limerick, New York Times Humor, Odd Holidays, Puzzle Day, Puzzles Humor, Puzzles Limerick, Word Games, Word Usage Humor, Wordle
Posted in Games Humor, Language Humor, Odd Holidays | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, January 10th, 2023
Madeleine: Nice job on yesterday’s Bee! You got some great words I missed.
Mark: But that makes no sense! I learned them from you.
Madeleine: I didn’t teach you those words. I transferred them.
Tags: Games, Life With Mark, Marital Humor, Marital Relationships, Mark Kane, Marriage Humor, Memory Humor, Words
Posted in Games Humor, Language Humor, Life With Mark And Madeleine, Marriage Humor, Memory Humor, Personal | Comments Off on More Life With Mark And Madeleine
Monday, January 9th, 2023
It’s “National Word Nerd Day.” Yay!
I’m a “word nerd.” It’s true. Ev’ry day
I try to learn new words,
Recalling but few words;
In my brain they’re reluctant to stay.
Tags: January Holidays, Language Humor, Language Humour, Language Limerick, National Word Nerd Day, Odd Holidays, Word Nerd Day, Writing & Publishing Humor
Posted in Language Humor, Limericks, Odd Holidays, Writing & Publishing Humor | Comments Off on Happy “Word Nerd Day!” (Limerick)
Sunday, October 16th, 2022
It’s “National Dictionary Day,” which gives me a good excuse to post a limerick about another new-to-me term: “Dawn Chorus.”
(For the record, all the names have been changed to protect the guilty.)
“Let’s go back to that lovely ‘Fowl Inn,’”
Said my spouse, quite forgetting its din.
’Twas no use telling Boris
(A bull-headed Taurus)
That its dawn chorus drove us to gin.
*****
Happy birthday to American lexicographer Noah Webster, of dictionary compilation fame. He was born October 16, 1758.
Tags: Animals, Bird Humor, Bird Limericks, Birds, Dawn Chorus, Dictionary Day, Dictionary Humor, Hotel Humor, Hotel Limerick, Language Humor, Language Satire, Noah Webster, Noise Humor, Noise Limerick, October Holidays, Odd Holidays, Webster's Dictionary, Words Humor
Posted in Animal & Pet Humor, Language Humor, Limericks, Odd Holidays, Vacation Humor | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, October 11th, 2022
“Nemonic” is tricky to spell,
And my efforts to spell it: Pell-mell!
Since my problem is chronic.
I’ve tried a “kneemonic,”
Which hurls me to memory hell.
Tags: Memory Humor, Memory Limerick, Mnemonic Humor, Mnemonic Limerick, Spelling Humor, Spelling Limerick
Posted in Language Humor, Memory Humor | Comments Off on Mnemonic Nightmare (Limerick)
Sunday, October 2nd, 2022
“After seeing your farm, I’m agog
At its beautiful pigpen. My dog
Doesn’t live half as well!
The big barn where pigs dwell
Is superb! They live high on the hog.”
*****
Happy World Farm Animals Day! (October 2)
Tags: Animal & Pet Humor, Animal Limericks, Dog Humor, Dog Limerick, Farm Animals, Farm Humor, Farm Limerick, Odd Holidays October Holidays, Pig Humor, Pig Limerick, Wordplay, Wordplay Humor
Posted in Animal & Pet Humor, Language Humor, Limericks, Odd Holidays, Wordplay | Comments Off on Buttering Up A Farmer (Limerick)
Saturday, September 24th, 2022
How to punctuate: That is the query.
Ill-timed marks can be irksome and dreary.
Bangs, ellipses, and dashes
Add drama in flashes.
Overuse is abusive!!! — Be leery!!!!!
(National Punctuation Day is celebrated yearly on September 24th.)
Tags: Bangs, Dashes, Ellipses, Exclamation Marks, Grammar Humor, Grammar Limerick, Holiday Haiku, Language Satire, National Punctuation Day, Odd Holidays, Punctuation Day, Punctuation Humor, September Holidays, Writing & Publishing Humor
Posted in Language Humor, Limericks, Odd Holidays, Writing & Publishing Humor | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, September 14th, 2022
My self-challenge for today was writing a limerick using the new-to-me word “fugleman.”
An assertive, decisive, and frugal man
Was also an excellent bugle man.
He would make extra dough
Playing band gigs and so
In parades, he was always the fugleman.
Tags: Band Humor, Band Limerick, Bugle Humor, Bugle Limerick, Frugality, Fugleman, Marching Humor, Marching Limerick, Money & Finance Humor, Money Limerick, Music Humor & Verse, Music Limerick, Parade Humor, Parade Limericks
Posted in Language Humor, Limericks, Money & Finance Humor, Music Humor & Verse, Music Poems | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, September 7th, 2022
I use new-to-me words in my verse;
Vain attempts to cajole and coerce
My old brain into learning
Their meaning. But spurning
Those efforts, my mind makes me curse.
So I’m forced to confess with veracity
That I wish I had greater capacity
To remember cool words,
But my brain’s for the birds,
Which explains all my failed orchidacity.
Tags: Brain Humor, Brain Limerick, Language Humor, Language Limerick, Memory Humor, Memory Limerick, Orchidacity, Showiness
Posted in Aging Humor & Verse, Language Humor, Limericks, Memory Humor | 7 Comments »