{"id":9489,"date":"2011-10-16T01:32:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T05:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=9489"},"modified":"2011-10-16T01:38:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T05:38:58","slug":"limerick-of-the-week-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/10\/16\/limerick-of-the-week-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick of the Week (31)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to announce the latest Limerick of the Week based on submissions (on this blog and on Facebook) in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/10\/08\/case-limerick-off-monday\/\">last week&#8217;s Limerick-Off.<\/a>  I&#8217;m very pleased to announce the winning Limerick of the Week and the Honorable Mentions:<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to JANE SHELTON HOFFMAN who wins Limerick of the Week for this clever verse:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A fellow at work on a case<br \/>\nDressed his client in white pearls and lace.<br \/>\nBut her prints on the gun<br \/>\nProved she was the one.<br \/>\n&#8220;Burn in hell!&#8221; shrieked the host Nancy Grace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And congratulations to these Honorable Mention winners (in random order) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.limericksecon.com\/\">David Lefkovits a\/k\/a Dr. Goose<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writing.com\/main\/handler\/item_id\/986307-Linericks\">David McCormick a\/k\/a AdamantYves<\/a>, Johanna Richmond, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhymemeasmile.blogspot.com\/\">Rachel Hoyt a\/k\/a Rhyme Me A Smile<\/a>. Here are their respective Honorable Mention limericks:<\/p>\n<p>David Lefkovits a\/k\/a Dr. Goose:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A woman at work on a case<br \/>\nOf a guy who was gone with no trace<br \/>\nWas intrigued by the clue<br \/>\nThat his sexy wife, Sue,<br \/>\nWore a satisfied smirk on her face.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>David McCormick:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A fellow at work on a case<br \/>\nYelled, \u201cWhat hamfister sketched out this face?!<br \/>\n\u201cSuspect\u2019s eyes\/ears transposed?!<br \/>\n\u201cTwo-tone lips?! Double-nosed?!\u201d \u2026<br \/>\n\u201cName\u2019s Picasso, he\u2019s new round the place.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Johanna Richmond:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A fellow at work on a case<br \/>\nGalactic&#8217;ly tumbled from grace:<br \/>\nThrough judicial robe zipper<br \/>\nOut slipped the big dipper<br \/>\nWhen &#8220;All rise!&#8221; reverbed through the place<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rachel Hoyt a\/k\/a Rhyme Me A Smile: (<a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5845765\/batman-responds-to-bat-signal-shows-up-at-police-station\">related news story<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A woman at work on a case<br \/>\nHad Batman show up at her place.<br \/>\nSaid he saw in the sky<br \/>\nThe bat signal (no lie)<br \/>\nBut she just didn\u2019t trust his thin face.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Congratulations again to all the winners for your wonderful limericks. And thanks to everyone for your fun submissions.<\/p>\n<p>In the next couple of minutes I\u2019ll be posting a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2011\/10\/16\/take-a-shot-at-limerick-off-monday\/\"> new Limerick-Off,<\/a> which gives you yet another opportunity to win Limerick Of The Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to announce the latest Limerick of the Week based on submissions (on this blog and on Facebook) in last week&#8217;s Limerick-Off. I&#8217;m very pleased to announce the winning Limerick of the Week and the Honorable Mentions: Congratulations to JANE SHELTON HOFFMAN who wins Limerick of the Week for this clever verse: A fellow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62,84,1983],"tags":[2047,2425,2281,2065,5018,2512,487,523],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9489"}],"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=9489"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9576,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9489\/revisions\/9576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}