{"id":29424,"date":"2014-11-22T23:18:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T03:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=29424"},"modified":"2014-11-22T23:38:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T03:38:15","slug":"limerick-of-the-week-190","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2014\/11\/22\/limerick-of-the-week-190\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick of the Week (190)"},"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<\/a>, who wins Limerick of the Week for this funny verse:<\/p>\n

The Republicans now see the light!
\nExecutive orders aren’t right!
\nYet when I remind them
\nThat Ron Reagan signed them,
\nThey answer, “But Reagan was white!”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And congratulations to these Honorable Mention winners (in random order) Tim James, Colleen Murphy<\/a>, Brian Allgar, Robert Schechter<\/a>, Robert Basler<\/a>, Jon Gearhart, Konrad Schwoerke, and Fred Bortz, for his four-verse science saga.<\/a> Here are their respective Honorable Mention limericks:<\/p>\n

Tim James:<\/p>\n

A criminal pun came to light
\nWhen a bedbug decided one night
\nTo hold a church wedding
\nRight there in the bedding:
\nAn example of mite making rite.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Colleen Murphy: <\/p>\n

\u201cThe trouble with traveling light
\nIs I won\u2019t know which outfit is right,\u201d
\nSaid my daughter while packing.
\nNo clothes was she lacking,
\nAs she filled up two bags for one night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Brian Allgar: <\/p>\n

Though his needs for nutrition were light,
\nThe vampire felt peckish that night,
\nAnd invited a maid
\nWho had foolishly strayed:
\n\u201cMy dear, do you fancy a bite?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Robert Schechter: <\/p>\n

My girlfriend is so impolite!
\nIn the course of one glorious night
\nOf unbridled ardor,
\nShe said, “Were it harder,
\nPerhaps you’d be doing it right.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Robert Basler: <\/p>\n

A music motif that is leit
\nIs a common Wagnerian sight.
\nIt’s a theme that’s recurring
\nIn opera, all during–
\nIf you miss it, you can’t be too bright.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jon Gearhart: <\/p>\n

A damp cellar can make the heart light
\nAs an entymological site
\nFor a group that elects
\nTo study in sects
\nWith their peers, a combined show of mite.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Konrad Schwoerke:<\/p>\n

Our waitress is such a delight,
\nBut the diners are sometimes a fright.
\nOne tried copping a feel;
\nNow he\u2019s wearing his meal,
\nSo we think she has served the guy right.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fred Bortz: <\/p>\n

Though Planck’s math used quanta of light,
\nHe still did not think that was right.
\nYoung showed light behaves
\nExactly like waves.
\nThen Maxwell’s math made that case tight.<\/p>\n

Herr Einstein, of course, saw the light:
\nIn photoelectrics, you might
\nNeed only one quantum
\n(Or more if you want ’em)
\nTo eject an electron. That’s right!<\/p>\n

Then deBroglie declared that if light
\nIs both wavelike and grainy, you might
\nFind electrons the same,
\nAnd when Schr\u00f6dinger came,
\nWe saw Quantum Mechanics take flight.<\/p>\n

Though limericks make this tale light,
\nThe science behind it is quite
\nA profound undertaking
\nAnd foundation-shaking.
\nThat’s why we call physicists bright.\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 ROBERT SCHECHTER, who wins Limerick of the Week for this funny verse: The Republicans now see the light! Executive orders aren’t right! Yet when I remind them That Ron Reagan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,84,1192,1983,65,42],"tags":[4003,2525,3523,3727,2538,5009,5018,2280,2537,3167,487,523],"class_list":["post-29424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests","category-limerick-award-winners","category-limerick-contest","category-limerick-of-the-week","category-limerick-writing-contest","category-limericks","tag-brian-allgar","tag-colleen-murphy","tag-fred-bortz","tag-jon-gearhart","tag-konrad-schwoerke","tag-limerick-contest","tag-limerick-of-the-week","tag-robert-basler","tag-robert-schechter","tag-tim-james","tag-writing-competitions","tag-writing-contest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=29424"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29538,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29424\/revisions\/29538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}