{"id":4895,"date":"2011-03-02T02:50:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T06:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=4895"},"modified":"2011-03-02T03:19:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T07:19:35","slug":"limerick-odes-to-charlie-sheen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/03\/02\/limerick-odes-to-charlie-sheen\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Odes To Charlie Sheen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After flunking (badly) The Guardian&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/quiz\/2011\/mar\/01\/muammar-gaddafi-charlie-sheen-quiz\"><em>Who Said This &#8212; Gaddafi or Charlie Sheen<\/em> quiz,<\/a> I forced myself to watch ABC&#8217;s entire 20\/20 Charlie Sheen interview conducted (I&#8217;m not sure how) by Andrea Canning.  Yikes!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m no shrink, but if Sheen isn&#8217;t certifiable, I can&#8217;t imagine who is. Yet Sheen&#8217;s suing CBS  and Warner Bros. for canceling <em>Two and a Half Men<\/em>. CBS and Warner Bros. should keep a copy on hand of ABC&#8217;s interview.  Because that show gives CBS all the <a href=\"http:\/\/watching-tv.ew.com\/2011\/03\/01\/charlie-sheen-abc-2020-andrea-canning\/\">ammunition it needs to  defeat Sheen&#8217;s case.<\/a>  We&#8217;re talking loony-tunes-uninsurable!<\/p>\n<p>And so, Charlie Sheen has earned himself two &#8220;Dear Charlie&#8221; letter limericks.  Here&#8217;s the first:<\/p>\n<p>Dear Charlie, you&#8217;re acting bizarre.<br \/>\nWe don&#8217;t need yet another sick star.<br \/>\nYou appear on the brink<br \/>\nOf a breakdown, yet think<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re not crazy, which proves that you are.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s my second limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Dear Charlie, you&#8217;re losing your sheen.<br \/>\nOnce funny, you&#8217;re now turning mean.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s clear that you&#8217;re sick.<br \/>\nGet some help. Do it quick!<br \/>\nAnd stop wasting your comedy gene.<\/p>\n<p>(You can find more <a href=\"http:\/\/write-a-letter-wednesday.blogspot.com\/\">letters at <em>Write A Letter<\/em>.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After flunking (badly) The Guardian&#8217;s Who Said This &#8212; Gaddafi or Charlie Sheen quiz, I forced myself to watch ABC&#8217;s entire 20\/20 Charlie Sheen interview conducted (I&#8217;m not sure how) by Andrea Canning. Yikes! I&#8217;m no shrink, but if Sheen isn&#8217;t certifiable, I can&#8217;t imagine who is. Yet Sheen&#8217;s suing CBS and Warner Bros. for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49,56,50,23,122,1020,10,118,42,43,71],"tags":[1888,1889,1688,710,1886,1171,1890,821,1537,1162,436,1893,303,1891,1892],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895"}],"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=4895"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4938,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions\/4938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}