Archive for the ‘Mental Health Humor’ Category
Saturday, June 12th, 2021
It’s Limerick-Off time, once again. And that means I write a limerick, and you write your own, using the same rhyme word. Then you post your limerick(s) as a comment to this post and, if you’re a Facebook user, on Facebook too.
I hope you’ll join me in writing limericks using QUEST or REQUEST or BEQUEST at the end of any one line. (Homonyms or homophones are fine.)
The best submission will be crowned Limerick-Off Award Winner. (Here’s last week’s Limerick-Off Award Winner.)
Additionally, you may write themed limericks related to TIMING, using any rhyme word. And of course I’ll present an extra award — one for the best TIMING-related limerick.
How will your poems be judged? By meter, rhyme, cleverness, and humor. (If you’re feeling a bit fuzzy about limerick writing rules, here’s my How To Write A Limerick article.)
I’ll announce the winners on June 27, 2021, right before I post the next Limerick-Off. So that gives you two full weeks to submit your clever, polished verse. Your submission deadline is Saturday, June 26, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. (Eastern Time.)
Here’s my QUEST or REQUEST or BEQUEST-rhyme two-verse limerick:
A man was consumed and obsessed
With his passionate study of EST.
He threatened divorce
In order to force
His spouse to embrace the same quest.
His wife in response said, “You’re mad!
And that fad’s turned you into a cad.
It’s controlling your mind.
We’re no longer aligned.
Quit that cult, or I’ll marry your dad.”
And here’s my TIMING-themed limerick:
A pianist who hailed from Venango
Was teaching while munching a mango.
“Your timing is off,”
She said with a scoff:
“It’s a waltz in 3/8; NOT a tango!”
Please feel free to enter my Limerick-Off by posting your limerick(s) in my comments. And if you’re on Facebook, I hope you’ll join my friends in that same activity on my Facebook Limerick-Off post.
To receive an email alert whenever I post a new Limerick-Off, please email Madkane@MadKane.com Subject: MadKane’s Newsletter. Thanks!
Tags: Competition Limerick, Cult Humor, Divorce Humor, Divorce Limerick, EST, EST Humor, Limerick Challenge, Limerick Contest, Marital Relationships, Marriage Humor, Marriage Limerick, Meter Humor, Mind Control Humor, Music Humor & Verse, Music Limerick, Music Teacher Humor, Obsession Verse, Pianist Humor, Pianist Limerick, Pianists, Piano Humor, Piano Limerick, Poetry & Prompts, Rhythm Humor, Tango Humor, Tango Limerick, Timing Humor, Timing Limerick, Waltz Humor, Waltz Limerick, Writing Prompts
Posted in Behavior & Personality, Contests, Education & School Humor, Limerick & Haiku Prompts, Limerick Competition, Limerick Contest, Limerick Writing Contest, Limerick-Offs, Limericks, Marriage Humor, Mental Health Humor, Music Humor & Verse, Poetry & Prompts, Poetry Contest | 181 Comments »
Tuesday, June 8th, 2021
I found myself trapped among honkers
On a traffic-filled road deep in Yonkers.
Construction ahead?
A shooting? Some dead?
Whatever it was … they’d gone bonkers.
Tags: Bonkers, Car & Driving Humor, Car Limerick, Driving Humor, Driving Limerick, Mental Health Humor, Noise Humor, Noise Limerick, Traffic Humor, Traffic Limerick, Transportation Humor, Transportation Limerick
Posted in Car & Driving Humor, Mental Health Humor, Noise Humor, Transportation Humor | Comments Off on Traffic Tale (Limerick)
Saturday, May 29th, 2021
It’s Limerick-Off time, once again. And that means I write a limerick, and you write your own, using the same rhyme word. Then you post your limerick(s) as a comment to this post and, if you’re a Facebook user, on Facebook too.
I hope you’ll join me in writing limericks using SET or BeSET or UpSET at the end of any one line. (Homonyms or homophones are fine.)
The best submission will be crowned Limerick-Off Award Winner. (Here’s last week’s Limerick-Off Award Winner.)
Additionally, you may write themed limericks related to TRENDS, using any rhyme word. And of course I’ll present an extra award — one for the best TRENDS-related limerick.
How will your poems be judged? By meter, rhyme, cleverness, and humor. (If you’re feeling a bit fuzzy about limerick writing rules, here’s my How To Write A Limerick article.)
I’ll announce the winners on June 13, 2021, right before I post the next Limerick-Off. So that gives you two full weeks to submit your clever, polished verse. Your submission deadline is Saturday, June 12, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. (Eastern Time.)
Here’s my SET or BeSET or UpSET-rhyme limerick:
I need all the sleep I can get,
But I can’t get to sleep on a bet.
(Or a bed, for that matter.)
I blame all the chatter
My brain conjures up. I’m beset.
And here’s my TRENDS-themed limerick:
If I tried to be cool, I would fail.
Trends are nothing I ever would hail.
If I wear something “in,”
It has probably been
Purchased decades ago … and on sale.
Please feel free to enter my Limerick-Off by posting your limerick(s) in my comments. And if you’re on Facebook, I hope you’ll join my friends in that same activity on my Facebook Limerick-Off post.
To receive an email alert whenever I post a new Limerick-Off, please email Madkane@MadKane.com Subject: MadKane’s Newsletter. Thanks!
Tags: Brain Humor, Brain Limerick, Clothes Shopping, Clothing Humor, Competition Limerick, Fad Humor, Insomnia Humor, Insomnia Limerick, Limerick Challenge, Limerick Contest, Poetry & Prompts, Shopping Humor, Sleep & Insomnia Humor, Sleep Limerick, Trends Humor, Writing Prompts
Posted in Behavior & Personality, Clothing Humor, Contests, Fashion Humor, Limerick & Haiku Prompts, Limerick Competition, Limerick Contest, Limerick Writing Contest, Limerick-Offs, Limericks, Mental Health Humor, Poetry & Prompts, Poetry Contest, Sleep & Insomnia Humor | 150 Comments »
Sunday, March 21st, 2021
In the course of my constant perusal
Of email, I learned a word: “foozle.”
Though I’ve read it means “bungle,”
My mind is a jungle.
So recall it long-term? Brain refusal!
*********
NOTE: No doubt limerick experts are tempted to tell me that Foozle and Refusal don’t rhyme because Refusal has an F at the beginning of the 2nd syllable. However, I’d argue that Refusal is pronounced like “Re fyou sal” or “Ref you sal” and therefore sounds different enough to be a rhyme.
Tags: Brain Humor, Brain Limerick, Foozle, Language Humor, Language Limerick, Memory Humor, Memory Limerick, WOTD
Posted in Language Humor, Limericks, Memory Humor, Mental Health Humor | 1 Comment »
Friday, March 19th, 2021
While thinking’s a fine thing to do,
Lately thoughts have been turning me blue.
They kick up a stink,
So I can’t sleep a wink.
(What a shame that there’s no one to sue.)
Happy “World Sleep Day!” (3rd Friday of March)
Tags: Insomnia Humor, Insomnia Limerick, Insomnia Verse, Legal Limerick, Litigation Humor, March Holidays, Odd Holidays, Sleep Holidays, Sleep Limerick, Sleep Poetry
Posted in Behavior & Personality, Holiday Humor, Legal & Lawyer Humor, Limericks, Mental Health Humor, Odd Holidays, Sleep & Insomnia Humor | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, April 1st, 2020
The pandemic is causing a strain
On emotional health. What a bane!
We feel trapped! Tempers flare!
Can’t escape! I need air!
(Hey divorce lawyers, look for a gain.)
Tags: Coronavirus, Covid-19, Divorce Humor, Health & Medical Humor, Law Humor, Lawyer Humor, Mental Health Humor, Pandemic
Posted in Health & Medical Humor, Health Verse, Legal & Lawyer Humor, Limericks, Mental Health Humor | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
Innovation does rate an ovation,
But from change I request a vacation.
So much newness unending
Is stressful, mind-bending.
For salvation I crave a cessation.
Happy National Innovation Day. (February 16).
Tags: February Holidays, Innovation Humor, Inventions Humor, Odd Holidays
Posted in Inventions Humor, Limericks, Mental Health Humor, Odd Holidays | Comments Off on Happy Innovation Day (Limerick)
Saturday, June 20th, 2015
The U.N. has decreed June 21 to be International Day Of Yoga … which gives me a handy excuse to post this silly limerick:
A gal doing yoga while dressed
In a toga, when questioned, confessed
That her garb did not work—
Turned her poses berserk.
So instead of relaxed, she was stressed.
Tags: Clothing Humor, Exercise Humor, Health Limericks, International Day of Yoga, International Yoga Day, June Holidays, Mental Health Humor, Odd Holidays, Relaxation Humor, Stress Humor, Toga Humor, Yoga Humor
Posted in Behavior & Personality, Celebrations Poetry, Clothing Humor, Exercise Humor, Health & Medical Humor, Health Verse, Limericks, Mental Health Humor, Odd Holidays, Physical Appearance | 1 Comment »
Thursday, October 9th, 2014
Multitask THIS! (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Multitasking is bad for your brain,
Says a study I read on the plane
While cleaning my purse,
Writing email and verse.
Now where WAS I? That study’s insane!
According to research done at Stamford University, we are all seriously screwed.
Tags: Behavior Humor, Brain Humor, Brain Studies, Mental Health Humor, Multitasking, Scientific Studies, Stamford University
Posted in Behavior & Personality, Health & Medical Humor, Health Verse, Limericks, Mental Health Humor, Multitasking Humor, Science Humor | Comments Off on Multitask THIS! (Limerick)
Sunday, October 28th, 2012
It’s Limerick-Off time, once again. And that means I write a limerick, and you write your own, using the same first line. Then you post your limerick here and, if you’re a Facebook user, on Facebook too.
The best submission will be crowned Limerick Of The Week. (Here’s last week’s Limerick Of The Week Winner.)
How will your poems be judged? By meter, rhyme, cleverness, and humor. (If you’re feeling a bit fuzzy about limerick writing rules, here’s my How To Write A Limerick article.)
I’ll announce the Limerick of the Week Winner next Sunday, right before I post next week’s Limerick-Off. So that gives you a full week to submit your clever, polished verse. Your submission deadline is Saturday at 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Time.)
I hope you’ll join me in writing a limerick with this first line:
A man who was rather a nut…*
or
A gal who was rather a nut…*
*(Minor variations to my first lines are acceptable, but rhyme words may not be altered.)
Here’s my limerick:
Nutty Limerick
By Madeleine Begun Kane
A man who was rather a nut
Held a broad definition of smut:
With standards unbending,
He’d freak when attending
A film, often shouting out “Cut!”
Please feel free to write your own limerick using the same first line and post it in my comments. And if you’re on Facebook, I hope you’ll join my friends in that same activity on my Facebook Limerick-Off post.
To receive an email alert whenever I post a new Limerick-Off, please email Madkane@MadKane.com Subject: MadKane’s Newsletter. Thanks!
Tags: Behavior Humor, Competition Limerick, Film Limerick, Limerick Challenge, Limerick Contest, Mental Health Humor, Movie & Play Humor, Poetry & Prompts, Porn Humor, Smut Humor, Writing Prompts
Posted in Behavior & Personality, Contests, Limerick & Haiku Prompts, Limerick Competition, Limerick Contest, Limerick Writing Contest, Limerick-Offs, Limericks, Mental Health Humor, Movie & Play Humor, Poetry & Prompts, Poetry Contest | 75 Comments »
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
Just what we all need — yet another reason to eat chocolate!
Eat chocolate, win a Nobel Prize?
It may sound far-fetched, but a new study suggests it might not be bad advice.
The results show countries that eat the most chocolate also have the highest number of Nobel laureates per capita.
Yet Another Excuse To Eat Chocolate (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
If you want yet another excuse
To engage in some chocolate abuse,
It seems eating those sweets
Will create smart elites
And can Nobel Prize winners produce.
UPDATE: If you need a further excuse, I’ve just learned that December 16th is Chocolate Covered Anything Day.
Tags: Brain Humor, Brain Studies, Chocolate, Chocolate Poem, December Holidays, Dessert Humor, Food Humor, Food Verse, Intelligence, Nobel Prize, Science Humor, Scientific Studies
Posted in Food & Drink Humor, Mental Health Humor, Odd Holidays | 13 Comments »
Wednesday, September 12th, 2012
This month Acrostic Only asks for an acrostic limerick featuring the word ANGST. (An acrostic limerick spells out a word via the first letter of each line.)
So now you know why this limerick is definitely NOT funny:
Angst-Ridden Limerick
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Anxiety, fear, apprehension
Neurotically fill me with tension.
Getting out of my chair—
Somehow going somewhere
Tends to help with depression prevention.
Tags: Acrostic Only, Acrostic Poems, Angst, Anxiety, Depression, Fear Humor, Mental Health
Posted in Acrostic Limericks, Anxiety & Stress, Behavior & Personality, Limericks, Mental Health Humor | 13 Comments »
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
Poets United has a fun vice-versa challenge this week: Use all four of these words in any type of poem: Allow, Deny, Harsh, & Gentle. Here’s what I came up with:
Mental Limerick
By Madeleine Begun Kane
A man who denied being “mental,”
Was at times rather harsh, sometimes gentle.
He had one sacred cow:
He would never allow
A critique of his units parental.
Tags: Behavior Humor, Mental Health, Parents, Poets United, Relationship, Vice-Versa
Posted in Behavior & Personality, Limericks, Mental Health Humor, Mothers & Fathers Humor | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, June 27th, 2012
My insomnia blankets the night.
Slumber teases — declines to alight.
So I toss and I turn
In my bed, as I yearn
For release from my sleep-deprived plight.
(Prompted by Theme Thursday’s “beds.”)
Tags: Bed Poem, Beds Limerick, Insomnia Humor, Insomnia Verse, Sleep Poetry, Theme Thursday, Writing Prompts
Posted in Anxiety & Stress, Behavior & Personality, Furniture & Furnishings, Health & Medical Humor, Health Verse, Limericks, Mental Health Humor, Sleep & Insomnia Humor | 7 Comments »
Friday, June 8th, 2012
From time to time, somebody annoys me with bald assertions like this: “I don’t own a TV; they rot the brain.”
I usually ignore them, but NOT this time:
In Defense Of TV (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
There is good stuff and bad on TV.
Some will rot out your brain, I agree.
(Fox News comes to mind.)
But there’s great stuff to find.
Just be choosy and spurn the debris.
Tags: Brain Humor, Fox Television Humor, Intelligence, Media Humor, Mental Health Humor, TV Humor
Posted in Limericks, Media Humor, Mental Health Humor, Television (TV) Humor | 3 Comments »
Saturday, May 12th, 2012
It’s Limerick-Off time, once again. And that means I write a limerick, and you write your own, using the same first line. Then you post your limerick here and, if you’re a Facebook user, on Facebook too.
The best submission will be crowned Limerick Of The Week. (Here’s last week’s Limerick Of The Week Winner.)
How will your poems be judged? By meter, rhyme, cleverness, and humor. (If you’re feeling a bit fuzzy about limerick writing rules, here’s my How To Write A Limerick article.)
I’ll announce the Limerick of the Week Winner right before I post next week’s Limerick-Off. So that gives you a full week to submit your clever, polished verse.
I hope you’ll join me in writing a limerick with this first line:
A gal in an overpriced store…*
or
A man in an overpriced store…*
*(Minor variations to my first lines are acceptable, but rhyme words may not be altered.)
Here’s my limerick:
Overpriced Limerick
By Madeleine Begun Kane
A gal in an overpriced store,
Who’d completely forgotten what for,
Told the clerk, “Can’t recall
Why I came here at all.
Just as well. If I could, I’d be poor.”
Please feel free to write your own limerick using the same first line and post it in my comments. And if you’re on Facebook, I hope you’ll join my friends in that same activity on my Facebook Limerick-Off post.
To receive an email alert whenever I post a new Limerick-Off, please email Madkane@MadKane.com Subject: MadKane’s Newsletter. Thanks!
Tags: Brain Humor, Limerick Contest, Memory Limerick, Money Verse, Poetry & Prompts, Shopping Humor, Stores Limerick, Writing Prompts
Posted in Behavior & Personality, Contests, Limerick & Haiku Prompts, Limerick Contest, Limerick Writing Contest, Limerick-Offs, Limericks, Memory Humor, Mental Health Humor, Money & Finance Humor, Poetry & Prompts, Poetry Contest, Shopping Humor | 72 Comments »
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
Regular readers know that Facebook’s News Ticker has been driving me mad! It’s also driven me to write three anti-Facebook limericks.
If you share my problem, or if you simply feel sorry for me, you’ll be pleased to know I’ve uncovered a solution: Google Chrome has an extension that makes Facebook’s annoying Ticker vanish.
I’ve installed it and the extension works great. No more News Ticker. Yippee!
Time to celebrate with a limerick:
No Longer Tickered Out
By Madeleine Begun Kane
My outlook is better today
Cuz I’ve sent Facebook’s Ticker away:
Yes, a cool Chrome extension
Does Ticker prevention.
To Google, big thanks and hooray!
Tags: Chrome Extensions, Computer Verse, Facebook Limerick, Google, News Feed, Scrolling, Social Media Poetry, Stress Humor, Technology Humor
Posted in Anxiety & Stress, Computer Humor, Facebook Humor, Google, Limericks, Mental Health Humor, Social Media Humor, Technology Humor | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
I’ve been trying to find something good to say about Facebook’s new News Feed, and here it is: It’s very inspirational! Last night it inspired me to write this dizzy limerick. And now I’ve written two more:
If you like things that constantly flicker,
You’re sure to enjoy Facebook’s ticker.
As for me, I must flee:
My sore brain needs Chablis,
So I’m off for some Advil and liquor.
*****
I am not one to bitch and to bicker,
But I hate Facebook’s stupid new ticker.
It makes my brain ache!
How much more can I take?
Enough with the scrolling and flicker!
*****
(Here’s a fun post about limericks, where you can submit your own.)
UPDATE: Good news! I’ve found a solution to Facebook’s terrible News Ticker problem. You can read all about it here, including a celebratory limerick.
Tags: ADD Humor, Attention Deficit Humor, Computer Verse, Drinking Limerick, Facebook Limerick, Liquor Humor, News Feed, Scrolling, Social Media Poetry, Stress Humor, Technology Humor
Posted in Anxiety & Stress, Computer Humor, Facebook Humor, Food & Drink Humor, Limericks, Mental Health Humor, Social Media Humor, Technology Humor | 21 Comments »
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
Much to my surprise, I’ve found myself defending Facebook lately. For instance, I think its new subscription feature is a great idea. But an even newer change is driving me nuts — the ever-scrolling News Feed on the upper right corner of the screen. The damn thing is making me so dizzy, I can’t even think straight.
Limerick Ode To Facebook’s Dizzying Changes
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Dear Facebook, you’re making me dizzy
Cuz your feed on the right is too busy.
I’ll say this politely:
Your scrolling’s unsightly.
I am now in an A.D.D. tizzy.
(I’ve written two more limericks about Facebook’s annoying new Ticker here.)
UPDATE: Good news! I’ve found a solution to Facebook’s terrible News Ticker problem. You can read all about it here, including a celebratory limerick.
Tags: ADD Humor, Attention Deficit Humor, Computer Verse, Facebook Limerick, New Feed, Scrolling, Social Media Poetry, Technology Humor
Posted in Computer Humor, Facebook Humor, Limericks, Mental Health Humor, Social Media Humor, Technology Humor | 7 Comments »
