{"id":33580,"date":"2015-08-15T22:13:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T02:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=33580"},"modified":"2015-08-15T22:24:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T02:24:21","slug":"limerick-of-the-week-226","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2015\/08\/15\/limerick-of-the-week-226\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick of the Week (226)"},"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

Down in Sydney, a chef thought he knew
\nHow to add to some soup, kangaroo.
\nBut it spoiled the soup;
\n\u2019Twas too thick; to recoup
\nHe renamed it mar-soup-ial stew.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And congratulations to these Honorable Mention winners (in random order) Phyllis Sterling Smith a\/k\/a Granny Smith<\/a>, Brian Allgar, Dave Johnson, Ian Graham<\/a>, Tim James, and Suzanne Heymann. Here are their respective Honorable Mention limericks:<\/p>\n

Phyllis Sterling Smith: <\/p>\n

When the weather outside turns one blue
\nAnd it’s barren where veggies once grew,
\nThere’s nothing so neat
\nAs to turn up the heat
\nAnd serve chili instead of bland stew.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Brian Allgar:<\/p>\n

He was painting the whole of Peru
\nIn the purest cerulean blue,
\nBut the paint got confused
\nWith his lunch-pail (he\u2019d boozed),
\nSo now Lima\u2019s the color of stew.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dave Johnson:<\/p>\n

All the others continued to stew
\nWhen The Donald was finally through.
\nHe had left Megyn fuming
\nAnd now he\u2019s assuming
\nHe\u2019ll fire the rest of them too.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ian Graham:<\/p>\n

\u201cHis heart,\u201d in her old mother\u2019s view,
\n\u201cWill be melted by serving him stew.\u201d
\nA ragout made of mutton
\nSeemed right on the button
\nWhen he dreamily sighed \u201cI love ewe.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tim James:<\/p>\n

\nThe gourmet served his signature stew
\nMade from wombat and spiced kangaroo.
\nNot to seem impolite,
\nI consumed ev\u2019ry bite.
\nNow excuse me. I must<\/strong> find the loo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Suzanne Heymann:<\/p>\n

I once had some gnarly beef stew.
\nThe stuff was just too hard to chew–
\nSo tasteless and dry.
\nI soon found out why;
\nIt was made from my grandfather\u2019s shoe!<\/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: Down in Sydney, a chef thought he knew How to add to some soup, kangaroo. But it spoiled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,84,3270,1192,1983,65,42],"tags":[4003,4465,4519,3284,5009,5018,2046,4533,3167,487,523],"class_list":["post-33580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests","category-limerick-award-winners","category-limerick-competition","category-limerick-contest","category-limerick-of-the-week","category-limerick-writing-contest","category-limericks","tag-brian-allgar","tag-dave-johnson","tag-ian-graham","tag-kirk-miller","tag-limerick-contest","tag-limerick-of-the-week","tag-phyllis-sterling-smith","tag-suzanne-heymann","tag-tim-james","tag-writing-competitions","tag-writing-contest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33580","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=33580"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33702,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33580\/revisions\/33702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}