{"id":18224,"date":"2013-01-20T03:09:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T07:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=18224"},"modified":"2013-01-20T06:22:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T10:22:10","slug":"limerick-of-the-week-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2013\/01\/20\/limerick-of-the-week-97\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick of the Week (97) (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s time to announce the latest Limerick of the Week based on submissions (on this blog and on Facebook) in last week’s Limerick-Off.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Congratulations to Kirk Miller, who wins Limerick of the Week for this funny verse: <\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a raven that\u2019s dead down below,\u201d
\nSaid the vulture. The eagle said, \u201cNo,
\nYou are wrong as can be.\u201d
\nSo they flew down to see,
\nAnd the vulture was forced to eat crow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Please note that Kirk’s limerick technically violates my rules, by using my first line as his last<\/strong> line. But I liked his limerick so much, I chose it anyway.) <\/p>\n

Congratulations to Robert Basler<\/a>, who wins this week’s Facebook Friends’ Choice Award for this limerick:<\/p>\n

A woman refused to eat crow
\nOr haggis, or broiled escargot.
\nThe quite picky maven
\nSaid, “Once I ate raven,
\nBut never again! Never-mo!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And congratulations to these Honorable Mention winners (in random order) Sue Dulley, Chris Doyle, Kathy El-Assal, Jamie Hutchinson, Jane Shelton Hoffman, and Steve Earp. Here are their respective Honorable Mention limericks:<\/p>\n

Sue Dulley:<\/p>\n

A baker refused to eat crow
\nFor letting her business run low:
\nThe bread wouldn’t rise
\nTo a suitable size
\nCuz the banker had frozen her dough.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Chris Doyle: <\/p>\n

A caterer never ate crow
\nThough she served an hors d’oeuvre that caused woe.
\nHer “caviar emptor”
\nWas ruled to exempt her
\nIf customers upchucked the roe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kathy El-Assal: <\/p>\n

Ann Coulter refused to eat crow,
\nFinding left-wing critique oh-so-faux.
\nShe just doubled down,
\nKnowing Fox News renown
\nWas the source from whence fortune would flow.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jamie Hutchinson:<\/p>\n

A blowhard who wouldn’t eat crow
\nWas convinced he was someone you’d know\u2014
\nSo much that he coughed
\nAn objection (though soft)
\nWhen the coroner tagged him “John Doe.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jane Shelton Hoffman: <\/p>\n

A woman would frequently crow:
\n“Plastic surgery’s THE way to go.”
\nBut her skin was so tight
\nShe could not smile or bite.
\nAnd when folks saw her breasts, they’d say, “Whoa!”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Steve Earp:<\/p>\n

A raven was mocked by a crow:
\n\u201cYou don\u2019t know Mark Twain from van Gogh.\u201d
\nBut the crow could have cried
\nWhen the raven replied,
\n\u201cHave you<\/strong> been the subject of Poe?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Congratulations again to all the winners for your wonderful limericks. And thanks to everyone for your fun submissions.<\/p>\n

In the next couple of minutes I\u2019ll be posting a new Limerick-Off,<\/a> which gives you yet another opportunity to win Limerick Of The Week.<\/p>\n

To receive an email alert whenever I post a new Limerick-Off, please email Madkane@MadKane.com Subject: MadKane’s Newsletter<\/a>. Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s time to announce the latest Limerick of the Week based on submissions (on this blog and on Facebook) in last week’s Limerick-Off. Congratulations to Kirk Miller, who wins Limerick of the Week for this funny verse: \u201cThere\u2019s a raven that\u2019s dead down below,\u201d Said the vulture. The eagle said, \u201cNo, You are wrong as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62,84,3270,1192,1983,65,42],"tags":[3116,3073,2281,2543,3284,5009,5018,2280,3401,3369,487,523],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18224"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18224"}],"version-history":[{"count":67,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18357,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18224\/revisions\/18357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}