{"id":21129,"date":"2013-06-09T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T04:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=21129"},"modified":"2013-06-09T00:09:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T04:09:35","slug":"limerick-of-the-week-117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2013\/06\/09\/limerick-of-the-week-117\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick of the Week (117)"},"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 Robert Schechter, who wins Limerick of the Week for this funny verse:<\/p>\n

In Montana, a man with a suit
\nIs laughed at. They think he’s a hoot!
\nAnd they holler with glee
\nIf by chance they should see
\nThat he’s wearing a necktie to Butte.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Congratulations to Colleen Murphy<\/a>, who wins this week’s Facebook Friends’ Choice Award for this limerick which received the most Facebook “likes.”<\/p>\n

My neighbor was filing a suit,
\nClaimed I’d sealed up the holes in his flute.
\nSo I entered a plea,
\n“With the charge I agree,
\nBut it sounds so much better on mute.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Congratulations to Steve Whitred<\/a>, who wins a special Limerick Saga Award, occasionally given to a very clever multi-verse limerick. (Here’s some info about the case<\/a> Steve’s describing in his limerick.) <\/p>\n

My fav\u2019rite Nebraskan filed suit
\nAgainst God, with intent to impute
\nThat he caused to transpire
\nFloods, earthquakes and fire.
\nFor his part, the Yahweh was mute.<\/p>\n

The judge promptly threw out the suit,
\nSaying God had no street or rur\u2019l route,
\nAnd the bench then observed
\nThough the lord must be served,
\n\u201cWe\u2019ve no viable means of pursuit.\u201d<\/p>\n

So the plaintiff\u2019s appealing the suit,
\nSays \u201cThe grounds for dismissal are moot.
\nWe\u2019re subpoena foregoing.
\nJehovah\u2019s all knowing.
\nWe shouldn\u2019t his presence dispute.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then the high court vacated his suit,
\nThough the brief they reviewed was astute.
\nNow he\u2019s known as the hater
\nWho sued the Creator
\nFrom Oshkosh to Lincoln to Butte.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And congratulations to these Honorable Mention winners (in random order) Scott Crowder, Colleen Murphy<\/a>, Johanna Richmond, Jane Shelton Hoffman, Sue Dulley, Robert Schechter, and Will T. Laughlin<\/a>. Here are their respective Honorable Mention limericks:<\/p>\n

Scott Crowder: <\/p>\n

If you see me dressed up in a suit
\nAnd looking refined and astute,
\nWith pants neatly creased,
\nI must be deceased,
\nIn which case I won\u2019t give a hoot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Colleen Murphy:<\/p>\n

A tomato was filing a suit,
\nClaimed the farmer had called him a \u201cFruit.\u201d
\nThe judge said, \u201cTrue ref’rence,
\nThough not as to pref’rence.
\nThe point of the matter is moot.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Johanna Richmond: <\/p>\n

No matter the price of the suit;
\nWhen that back-talking Maximus (Glute)
\nThrows his cares to the wind,
\nRich and poor are chagrined.
\nMighty mouth of the south, I salute.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jane Shelton Hoffman: <\/p>\n

A Senator wearing a suit
\nWas a right wing, religious old coot.
\nHe’d profess, “Guns don’t kill!
\nBut if you’ve got some skill,
\nWhen a thug comes around, you should shoot!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sue Dulley:<\/p>\n

A man all dressed up in a suit
\nCaught the train for his morning commute.
\nHis outfit, so formal,
\nWas looked on as normal
\nBy others who took the same route.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Robert Schechter: <\/p>\n

Said a man who was hit by a suit:
\n“I suppose I was far from astute.
\nI taunted, ‘So sue me!’
\nHe did. Now I’m gloomy.
\nIt’s wiser, at times, to stand mute.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Will T. Laughlin:<\/p>\n

Our limerick rhyme-word is \u201csuit\u201d:
\nHere\u2019s the worst one \u2014 and that\u2019s absolute.
\nIt\u2019s intended in fun,
\nSo I beg: when I\u2019m done,
\nWould you kindly not hurl rotten fruit?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m told that some Hollywood suit
\nPitched a biopic: \u201cHawley and Smoot\u201d.
\nSmoot never would bend
\nTo the Hollywood trend,
\nBut Hawley would. Ain\u2019t THAT a beaut?<\/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 Robert Schechter, who wins Limerick of the Week for this funny verse: In Montana, a man with a suit Is laughed at. They think he’s a hoot! And they holler […]<\/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":[2525,2281,2065,5009,5018,2537,2223,3342,3369,3543,487,523],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21129"}],"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=21129"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21204,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21129\/revisions\/21204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}