Posts Tagged ‘Education Limerick’
Saturday, February 17th, 2024
“Tell me, what is this meeting about?”
Yelled the parent, unfazed by the clout
Of the teacher he faced.
“Time’s a-wasting. Make haste!
I must go and attend to my gout.”
Said the teacher, “Your son loves to flout
All our rules and will likely flunk out.
He’s ignoring his studies,
Too busy with buddies,
Preparing for life as a lout.”
Tags: Education Humor, Education Limerick, Parents Limerick, Pupils, School Limerick, Students, Teachers, Teachers Limerick
Posted in Children Humor, Education & School Humor, Family & Relatives Humor, Family Verse, Limericks, Parenting Humor | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, November 21st, 2023
A bright future felon named Phil
Liked irking his teachers at will;
Adroitly annoying,
He shined at deploying
His smarts, as he went for the kill.
Tags: Crime Humor, Crime Limerick, Education Humor, Education Limerick, Felons Humor, Felons Limerick, School Humor, School Limerick, Teachers Humor, Teachers Limerick
Posted in Crime & Punishment Humor, Education & School Humor, Legal & Lawyer Humor, Limericks | Comments Off on The Future Felon (Limerick)
Friday, June 16th, 2023
Said a grad student, seething, “I reckoned
That I’d surely be first, and not second.
My exam’s been mismarked!”
The peeved prof sternly barked:
“Your ego’s remarkably fecund!”
Tags: Argument Humor, Argument Limerick, Education Humor, Education Limerick, Exam Humor, Exam Limerick, Professors, Students Humor
Posted in Communication Humor, Education & School Humor, Limericks | Comments Off on A Testy Exchange (Limerick)
Tuesday, December 13th, 2022
A gal’s parents, upset, then joined forces
In condemning her new choice of courses.
“I’ll be learning collage,
Equine health and dressage.”
“Bad idea,” they nagged. “Please hold your horses.”
(December 13th Is National Day Of The Horse. )
Tags: Animal Humor, Animal Limerick, College Humor, College Limerick, December Holidays, Dressage Limerick, Education Humor, Education Limerick, Equine Humor, Equine Limerick, Horse Humor, Horse Limerick, National Day Of The Horse, Odd Holidays, Parental Humor, Parental Limerick
Posted in Animal & Pet Humor, Education & School Humor, Limericks, Odd Holidays, Parenting Humor | Comments Off on A Change Of Course (Limerick)
Friday, August 5th, 2022
When a gal switched her major to art,
Her parents’ responses were tart:
“Paying bills is a bitch,
So you’d best marry rich.”
“Are you planning to clerk at the mart?”
Tags: Art Humor, Art Limerick, Career Humor, Career Limerick, Education & School Humor, Education Limerick, Marriage Humor, Marriage Limerick, Money & Finance Humor, Money Limerick, Parenting Humor, Parenting Limerick
Posted in Art Humor / Verse, Education & School Humor, Limericks, Marriage Humor, Money & Finance Humor, Workplace & Career Humor | 1 Comment »
Friday, May 20th, 2022
A boy was bawled out by the nuns
For his sly use of off-color puns.
But he swore “I’m not punning!”
(The fellow was cunning.)
“Besides baking, just what’s done with buns?”
Tags: Bawdy Humor, Bawdy Limerick, Children Humor, Education & School Humor, Education Limerick, Nun Humor, Nun Limericks, Nuns, Pun Humor, Pun Limerick, Religion Humor, Religion Limerick, School Humor, School Limerick
Posted in Bawdy Limericks, Behavior & Personality, Children Humor, Education & School Humor, Language Humor, Limericks, Religion Verse, Wordplay | Comments Off on The “Innocent” Punster (Limerick)
Monday, March 14th, 2022
Today (March 14) is “International Day Of Mathematics,” which gives me a good excuse to post this limerick:
A professor would often deride
His students as slackers who lied:
“For math you need smarts.
You’ve no brains. Try the arts.
You want me to pass you? Denied!”
Tags: Education & School Humor, Education Limerick, IDM, International Day Of Mathematics, March Holidays, Math Day, Math Humor, Math Limerick, Maths Day, Odd Holidays, World Maths Day
Posted in Education & School Humor, Odd Holidays | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, September 21st, 2021
A bee expert’s promised appointment
To be Dean di’n’t pan out — no anointment;
Some serious flaws
In his thesis, the cause…
And so that was the fly in the ointment.
Tags: Bee Humor, College Humor, College Limericks, Education & School Humor, Education Limerick, Entomology Humor, Entomology Limerick, Fly Humor, Insect and Bug Humor, Insect Humor, Insect Limerick, Insects
Posted in Education & School Humor, Insect Humor, Limericks | Comments Off on Disappointing Limerick
Monday, September 6th, 2021
This is a true, personal story. And it remains a vivid memory:
My teacher in pre-school would whine:
“Is your coloring off by design?
You must crayon within
The lines, or your kin
Will be called. I am drawing the line!”
Seems it never occurred to my teacher
That I’m naught but a near-sighted creature,
Who could NOT see those lines.
She missed all the signs.
To this day, I would love to impeach her.
Tags: Art, Back To School, Bad Teachers, Badly Behaved Children, Childhood Memories, Coloring Books, Coloring Limerick, Crayon Limerick, Education Limerick, Eyesight Limerick, Pre-School, School Limerick, Teachers, Vision Limerick
Posted in Art Humor / Verse, Education & School Humor, Limericks, Personal | Comments Off on Blind To The Truth (Limerick)
Saturday, January 4th, 2020
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 CUE or QUEUE 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 SIN, using any rhyme word. And of course I’ll present an extra award — one for the best SIN-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 January 19, 2020, 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, January 18, 2020 at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern Time.)
Here’s my CUE/QUEUE-rhyme limerick:
A teenager caught playing pool
After ducking out early from school,
Cut classes anew
The next day — right on cue.
And was handed a dunce cap and stool.
And here’s my SIN-themed limerick:
Show me someone who never feels guilt,
And I’ll bet that he sins to the hilt,
That his attitude’s cocky,
His love life is rocky —
Wilted conscience all muddied with silt.
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, Conscience Limerick, Education Limerick, Guilt Humor, Guilt Limerick, Limerick Challenge, Limerick Contest, Poetry & Prompts, Pool Humor, School 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 | 157 Comments »
Wednesday, January 7th, 2015
Limerick Virtuoso
By Madeleine Begun Kane
A famed violin virtuoso
Said his student’s performance was “so-so.”
“You were NOT even there,”
She replied in despair.
The response from her prof: “I just know so.”
(Inspired by Merriam-Webster Word of the Day – VIRTUOSO)
View my Virtuoso Limerick image here.
Tags: Concert Humor, Education Limerick, Limerick Images, Merriam-Webster, Music Humor & Verse, Music Students, Teachers, Violinist, Virtuoso Humor, Word of the Day
Posted in Education & School Humor, Limericks, Music Humor & Verse, Music Poems | Comments Off on Limerick Virtuoso
Thursday, March 29th, 2012
Yoga’s been in the news quite a bit lately. Is it good for you? Is it bad for you? Should you purchase some fancy yoga garb and skip the actual yoga?
But the oddest story so far is this one about naked yoga classes in South Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York.
Nude Yoga? Yikes!
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Take a yoga class naked? How scary!
I confess that the thought makes me wary.
Yes I’ll gladly condone
Nude yoga alone.
But in public? I’m sorry. Too hairy.
(If you’re in Brooklyn and want to study yoga in a more modest fashion, check out my niece’s Crown Heights Fitness.)
Related Posts: A Fountain Of Face-Yoga Youth? and Yoga For What?
Tags: Attire Verse, Clothing Poem, Education Limerick, Exercise Humor, Health Limerick, Naked Limerick, New Age, Nudity, Yoga, Yoga Humor
Posted in Exercise Humor, Health & Medical Humor, Health Verse, Limericks, New Age Humor, Physical Appearance, Sports Humor | 3 Comments »
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
A teachable moment: When committing crimes, be sure to use spell-check:
Nabbed By A Typo (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
A man may end up in a cell
Cuz his parking permit had a tell:
There was one extra letter
In “parking.” It’s better
When forging to learn how to spell.
(This is based on an actual news story: A driver in Hoboken, New Jersey forged a parking permit on his home computer. He might have even gotten away with his scam, had he not spelled “parking” as “parkting.”)
Tags: Automobile Humor, Car & Driving Humor, Crime, Drivers, Education Limerick, Forgery Humor, Hoaxes, Law Humor, Legal Limerick, Parking Humor, Scams, School Humor, Spell-Check, Spelling, Stupid Criminals, Typos Humor, Writing & Publishing Humor
Posted in Behavior & Personality, Car & Driving Humor, Crime & Punishment Humor, Education & School Humor, Language Humor, Limericks, Scams & Fraud & Hoaxes, Writing & Publishing Humor | 3 Comments »
Friday, February 15th, 2008
Today’s limerick and haiku theme is bad jobs. Why? Because everyone I know has had at least one really awful job. As for me, I’ve had more bad jobs than I’d care to remember. So here’s a pair of poems about two of them. First, my limerick about substitute teaching:
In my twenties I substitute taught.
‘Tis a challenging job and it’s fraught;
All those calls before dawn
To instruct devil’s spawn
Made me anxious, uptight—overwrought.
And now, my haiku about working in a discount department store:
Discount lingerie:
Folded, painstakingly shelved.
Soon to be litter.
Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to write a limerick or haiku (or both) about bad jobs. When you’ve posted your verse, please return here and add a direct link to your themed poetry.
Tags: Bad Jobs, Department Store, Discount Lingerie, Education Limerick, Employment Humor, Job Limerick, School Humor, Shoppers, Substitute Teaching
Posted in Children Humor, Education & School Humor, Haiku & Senryu, Limerick & Haiku Prompts, Limericks, Shopping Humor, Workplace & Career Humor | 13 Comments »
Monday, August 20th, 2007
It’s mid-August, which means back-to-school day is just around the corner. And that in turn means it’s time to start shopping for school supplies: rulers and notebooks and pens and lunch boxes and calculators and computers and school clothes and … bulletproof backpacks???
“We’re just trying to give kids a defensive tool to use in case something does happen,” Curran said of the backpacks, which sell for $175 US. …
Since they started selling online last week, they’ve sold out of their initial stock of several hundred backpacks and are now ordering a new shipment from Massachusetts.
Methinks this calls for a limerick:
Bulletproof Backpacks: In Case Your Kid’s Classmate Is Packing
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Selling bulletproof backpacks? How sad!
Could the safety of schools be so bad,
That parents must buy
Such an item? Oh my!
Are they needed, or just a mad fad?
(You can find more of my school and education humor here.)
Tags: Back To School, Bulletproof Backpacks, Education Limerick, School Safety, School Supplies, Schooling Satire
Posted in Children Humor, Education & School Humor, Family & Relatives Humor, Guns & Safety Humor, Limericks, Mothers & Fathers Humor, Polls, Shopping Humor | 6 Comments »