Posts Tagged ‘Clothing Humor’
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 »
Wednesday, August 21st, 2019
An old woman with terrible taste
Believed fashion and style were a waste.
So when items she owned
Became trendy, she groaned;
They were thrown in the garbage posthaste.
Happy World Fashion Day! (August 21)
Tags: August Holidays, Clothing Humor, Fashion Day, Fashion Limerick, Odd Holidays, Style Limerick, World Fashion Day
Posted in Clothing Humor, Fashion Humor, Limericks, Odd Holidays | Comments Off on Unfashionable Limerick
Saturday, October 27th, 2018
UPDATE!!! ANNOUNCEMENT: DUE TO FAMILY OBLIGATIONS, I MUST POSTPONE THE DEADLINE FOR THIS LIMERICK-OFF BY ONE WEEK. THE NEW DEADLINE IS SAT. NOV. 17. RESULTS TO BE POSTED ON NOV. 18. MY APOLOGIES!
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 PLACED or MISPLACED OR REPLACED or DISPLACED 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 FOOTWEAR, using any rhyme word. And of course I’ll present an extra award — one for the best FOOTWEAR-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 November 11, 2018, 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, November 10, 2018 at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern Time.)
Here’s my limerick:
A fellow with terrible taste
Always purchased his clothing in haste.
He lacked passion for fashion,
Yet swore he looked dashin’…
His self-confidence sadly misplaced.
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: Clothing Humor, Competition Limerick, Fashion Humor, Limerick Challenge, Limerick Contest, Poetry & Prompts, Taste Humor, Writing Prompts
Posted in Behavior & Personality, Contests, Limerick & Haiku Prompts, Limerick Competition, Limerick Contest, Limerick Writing Contest, Limerick-Offs, Limericks, Poetry & Prompts, Poetry Contest | 207 Comments »
Saturday, March 10th, 2018
Though it’s “Skirt Day,” I’d rather wear pants,
Whether walking or trying to dance.
I’ll ponder and pause,
Lest I feature my flaws —
Flaws that skirts simply love to enhance.
Tags: Clothes Humor, Clothing Humor, Fashion Humor, Fashion Verse, Flaws, Flaws Humor, March Holidays, National Skirt Day, Odd Holidays, Skirt Day, Skirt Humor, Skirts
Posted in Clothing Humor, Fashion Humor, Limericks, Odd Holidays | Comments Off on Skirting Skirt-Racks (Limerick)
Tuesday, March 6th, 2018
“You’re moving too much. Please hold still,”
Said a seamstress while sewing a frill
On a dress that was drab
And would never be fab,
Though it WOULD yield a fabulous bill.
Happy Dress Day! (March 6)
Tags: Clothes Humor, Clothes Limericks, Clothing Humor, Dress Day, Dress Humor, Fashion Humor, Fashion Verse, March Holidays, National Dress Day, Odd Holidays
Posted in Clothing Humor, Fashion Humor, Limericks, Odd Holidays | Comments Off on Happy Dress Day (Limerick)
Wednesday, February 28th, 2018
A woman was using the sink
To launder her shirt, stained with ink.
She’d soap and she’d wet it,
Then see that she’d spread it.
But at least she looks pretty in pink.
Happy Pink Shirt Day! (Pink Shirt Day is a Canadian anti-bullying holiday celebrated on the 4th Wednesday in February.)
Tags: Anti-Bullying, Bullies, Canada, Clothes Humor, Clothing Humor, Ink Humor February Holidays, Laundry Humor, Odd Holidays, Pink Ink, Pink Shirt Day
Posted in Canada, Chores Humor, Clothing Humor, Limericks, Odd Holidays | Comments Off on Laundry Blues (Limerick)
Thursday, January 25th, 2018
Happy “Clashing Clothes Day!” (4th Thursday of January)
Said a gal to her spouse, with a frown:
“Tell me, why are you dressed like a clown?
Orange jacket? Green shirt?
Purple pants? My eyes hurt!
Just this once, can’t you wear solid brown?”
#ClashingClothesDay #NationalClashingClothesDay
Tags: Appearance Humor, Clashing Clothes Day, Clothes Humor, Clothing Humor, Clothing Poem, Design Humor, Fashion Humor, January Holidays, Odd Holidays, Style Humor
Posted in Clothing Humor, Fashion Humor, Limericks, Odd Holidays | Comments Off on Happy “Clashing Clothes Day!” (Limerick)
Tuesday, July 5th, 2016
Today’s the bikini’s 70th birthday. So happy World Bikini Day!
I’ve never dared don a bikini;
They’re too skimpily small — teeny-weenie.
Call me shy if you must,
But I simply don’t lust
After beachwear that’s dwarfed by a beanie.
Tags: Beachwear, Bikini Day, Clothing Humor, Fashion Humor, July Holidays, Odd Holidays, Swimming Humor
Posted in Clothing Humor, Fashion Humor, Limericks, Odd Holidays, Outdoors Humor | Comments Off on Happy Birthday, Bikini (Limerick)
Saturday, May 28th, 2016
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 Press or Impress or Express or Oppress at the end of Line 1 or Line 2 or Line 5. (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 ANGER, using any rhyme scheme. And of course I’ll present an extra award — one for the best anger-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 12, 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 11, 2016 at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern Time.)
Here’s my limerick:
When job-seekers “dress to impress”
At the office, that’s helpful I guess.
But must social attire
Entail and require
Spending ev’ry last cent you possess?
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: Clothing Humor, Competition Limerick, Employment Humor, Fashion Humor, Limerick Challenge, Limerick Contest, Money Verse, Poetry & Prompts, Writing Prompts
Posted in Behavior & Personality, Clothing Humor, Contests, Fashion Humor, Limerick & Haiku Prompts, Limerick Competition, Limerick Contest, Limerick Writing Contest, Limerick-Offs, Limericks, Money & Finance Humor, Poetry & Prompts, Poetry Contest, Workplace & Career Humor | 79 Comments »
Monday, May 9th, 2016
AWOL socks are a grim laundry given;
Former pairs inexplicably riven,
Dresser drawers oddly littered
With orphans, embittered
And wond’rin’ where old mates are livin’.
*****
Yet another sock
Has escaped; it’s on the run.
AWOL! Or eaten.
May 9 is National Lost Sock Memorial Day. And December 4 is National Sock Day.
Tags: Clothing Humor, December Holidays, Fashion Humor, Footware Humor, Lost Sock Memorial Day, May Holidays, National Sock Day, Odd Holidays, Socks, Sorting Socks Humor
Posted in Clothing Humor, Fashion Humor, Limericks, Odd Holidays | Comments Off on Limerick Ode And Haiku To Lost Sock Memorial Day
Friday, January 15th, 2016
What’s my excuse for this ridiculous limerick? It’s National Hat Day. (January 15)
A woman who always wore hats
Would never be seen without spats.
Did they match? But of course!
And this clotheshorse’s course
Was to also adopt matching cats.
Tags: Clothes Humor, Clothing Humor, Hat Day, Hat Humor, Hat Limerick, January Holidays, Odd Holidays
Posted in Clothing Humor, Limericks, Odd Holidays | Comments Off on Happy National Hat Day! (Limerick)
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2015
Guys who despise ties (and who doesn’t?) will love New York City’s new gender discrimination rule banning restaurants from requiring ties for male diners only.
A male-only necktie demand
In Big Apple rest’rants is banned.
This new rule now protects
Our poor fellows’ sore necks.
How grand that such sexism’s panned!
Tags: Clothing Humor, Discrimination Limerick, Gender Humor, Necktie Limerick, Restaurant Humor, Sexism Humor, Tie Humor
Posted in Clothing Humor, Food & Drink Humor, Limericks, Restaurant Reviews & Humor | Comments Off on No Longer Tied To Ties (Limerick)
Tuesday, August 4th, 2015
Not Mad About The Weather (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Each summer I bitch about heat.
Humidity too makes me bleat.
But the current one’s better
Than most — wore a sweater
One night, which beats sweat indiscreet.
(DVerse Poets wants weather about the dog days of summer.)
Tags: Clothing Humor, Seasonal Verse, Summer Gripes, Summer Humor, Sweat Humor, Sweater Humor, Weather Humor
Posted in Clothing Humor, Limericks, Seasons Humor, Weather Humor | 7 Comments »
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 »
Wednesday, May 20th, 2015
I find jeans to be patently uncomfortable. But I’m dutifully celebrating the birthday of its patent — granted to Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis on May 20th, 1873:
Call them denims or jeans — I don’t care–
That’s one garment I simply won’t wear.
I don’t buy the appeal
Of its look or its feel,
And I’d rather go naked. Don’t stare!
*****
National Blue Jeans Day falls on December 5th.
Tags: Blue Jeans Day, Clothing Humor, December Holidays, Denim Humor, Dungarees, Fashion Humor, Inventions Humor, Inventions Poem, Jacob Davis, Jeans Humor, Levi Strauss, Odd Holidays, Patent Humor
Posted in Fashion Humor, Inventions Humor, Limericks, Odd Holidays, Physical Appearance | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, April 29th, 2015
Limerick Ode to the Zipper (Zipper Day: April 29)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
I’ll bet Gideon Sundback felt chipper
When designing the modern-day zipper–
An invention surpassin’
The old ways to fasten…
And a slick trick to hook a big tipper.
Tags: April Holidays, Bawdy Humor, Clothes Humor, Clothing Humor, Gideon Sundback, Inventions, Inventions Poem, National Zipper Day, Odd Holidays, Patent Humor, Zipper Day
Posted in Bawdy Limericks, Clothing Humor, Inventions Humor, Limericks, Odd Holidays | 1 Comment »
Monday, February 23rd, 2015
The Revealing Oscars
By Madeleine Begun Kane
The Oscars have aired
With winners declared,
While folks mostly stared
At the skin that was bared.
Tags: Actress Humor, Actresses, Clothing Humor, Oscars, Style
Posted in Actors & Actresses, Clothing Humor, Limericks, Movie & Play Humor | Comments Off on The Revealing Oscars
Monday, November 24th, 2014
Posterior Advances (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Most hospital gowns can cause tears
Cuz our butt spheres so rarely get cheers.
But the med field’s revealed
Asses CAN be concealed;
New frontiers in design shield our rears.
Tags: Butt Humor, Clothes Design, Clothing Humor, Derriere, Health Limerick, Hospital Gowns, Hospital Humor, Medical Humor
Posted in Fashion Humor, Health & Medical Humor, Health Verse, Limericks, Physical Appearance | 1 Comment »
Monday, July 14th, 2014
Limerick Ode To “Nude Day”
By Madeleine Begun Kane
A gal likes to publicly doff
All her clothing, then pose to show off.
“It’s a strip search time-saver
I did you a favor,”
When jailed, she’ll transparently scoff.
Tags: Bawdy Humor, Clothing Humor, Crime & Punishment Humor, International Nude Day, July Holidays, Law Humor, Legal Limerick, Naked Limerick, National Nude Day, Nude Day, Nude Humor, Odd Holidays, World Nude Day
Posted in Bawdy Limericks, Behavior & Personality, Clothing Humor, Crime & Punishment Humor, Fashion Humor, Legal & Lawyer Humor, Leisure Time Humor, Limericks, Odd Holidays | Comments Off on Happy “Nude Day!” (July 14)
