{"id":25051,"date":"2014-03-09T01:09:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T05:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=25051"},"modified":"2014-03-09T01:25:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T05:25:32","slug":"limerick-of-the-week-155","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2014\/03\/09\/limerick-of-the-week-155\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick of the Week (155)"},"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 CHRIS DOYLE, who wins Limerick of the Week for this clever verse:<\/p>\n

Father Fine teaches art and design
\nAt St. Joe’s and is known to use wine
\nTo get lads to undress
\nAnd caress him. So yes,
\nI would guess every good boy does Fine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Congratulations to Mark Kane and Fred Bortz<\/a>, who are tied in winning this week’s Facebook Friends’ Choice Award for the limerick receiving the most Facebook “likes.”<\/p>\n

Mark Kane:<\/p>\n

A comic worked hard to design
\nA routine which allowed him to shine.
\nHe’d set out a bowl,
\nSpike the juice, then cajole
\nOut the laughs from his loaded punch line.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fred Bortz:<\/p>\n

A scandalous spying design
\nLed to President Nixon’s decline.
\nHis brash overreach
\nCaused the House to impeach
\nAnd led Tricky Dick to resign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Congratulations to Chris Doyle and Brian Allgar, who jointly win a special Limerick Repartee Award for this limerick exchange about Edward Lear, widely recognized as the “father” of the limerick:<\/p>\n

Chris Doyle: <\/p>\n

Who’da thunk Edward Lear would design
\nA new verse form we had to refine
\nSo as not to repeat,
\nWord for word, the three feet
\nAt the start in the terminal line?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Brian Allgar, speaking for Edward Lear:<\/p>\n

Mr Doyle, my splendid design
\nPleases many, so why do you whine?
\nI regret that your taste
\nFor the new has debased,
\nMr Doyle, my splendid design.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And congratulations to these Honorable Mention winners (in random order) Jon Gearhart, Tim James, Sallie McKenna, Will T. Laughlin<\/a>, Chris Doyle, Brian Allgar, and Kevin Ahern<\/a>. Here are their respective Honorable Mention limericks:<\/p>\n

Jon Gearhart:<\/p>\n

A woman worked hard to design
\nAn After Ten dress to define
\nHer nice set of cones
\nAnd erogenous zones,
\nBut her date ripped it off before nine!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tim James:<\/p>\n

Our language is strange in design.
\nIf the plural of \u201ccow\u201d can be \u201ckine,\u201d
\nThen explain to me how
\nJust one swine\u2019s not a \u201cswow\u201d
\nAnd a bride doesn\u2019t take wedding vine?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sallie McKenna:<\/p>\n

A woman worked hard to design
\nA new look for her scruffy canine;
\nShe tied ribbons and bows,
\nThen she tweeted a pose.
\nIn a trice, he got four dates online!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

So now we see Putin\u2019s design.
\nHis beady eyes narrow and shine:
\n\u201cSend bombers! Send tanks!
\nSend troops on both flanks
\n(This\u2019ll keep Pussy Riot in line)!\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Chris Doyle: <\/p>\n

The proctologist knows the design
\nOf my colon, but still I’ll decline
\nThe exam he’ll suggest
\n‘Cause his mother knows best:
\nThat’s a place where the son doesn’t shine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Brian Allgar: <\/p>\n

A woman asked God to design
\nA companion who\u2019d treat her just fine.
\nBut the spare rib \u2013 bad luck! –
\nWas a pig\u2019s, so she\u2019s stuck
\nWith another male chauvinist swine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kevin Ahern: <\/p>\n

I think you should know the design–
\nWhy we toast to the great pinot shrine:
\n“The wine,” said a sage
\n“May get better with age”
\n“But it’s age that gets better with wine.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

We workers in graphic design
\nHave a precept we\u2019d like to enshrine:
\nShould the customer want
\nComic Sans as his font,
\nWe will pickle his noggin in brine.\n<\/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 CHRIS DOYLE, who wins Limerick of the Week for this clever verse: Father Fine teaches art and design At St. Joe’s and is known to use wine To get lads […]<\/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":[4003,3116,3523,3727,3499,5009,5018,175,3881,3167,3543,487,523],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25051"}],"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=25051"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25148,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25051\/revisions\/25148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}