Here’s your Monday smile – it’s limerick time. Send in your own or here’s a prompt for you –
WRONG
Here are a few limericks to make you smile this Monday. The prompt last week was BRAIN.
Brain is what makes people smart;
Read the writings of René Descartes.
Although, just like you
I won’t think it’s true.
Not until it is on a flip-chart.
Having a really smart brain
Using it to come in out of the rain
Is so very smart
Yet most people don’t start
Until wet, now that’s really insane!
My brain hurts so much more now
I’ve just tried calculus you know
It didn’t make sense
And made me so tense
My maths skills have taken a blow!
Paul Mastaglio:
Don’t complain
If you don’t use your brain
Take time to think
Then with a nod and a wink
You’ll be back in the game.
Today I can’t brain nor rhyme
For I have very little time
My mind is fog
And stuck in a bog
My poetry attempts are a crime.
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A zombie has eaten my brain
And has left me quite insane
For his sup
He slurped it up
And my skull he did drain.
My darling daughter is Laura Jane,
Just like her Dad she is quite insane,
She loves to be tidy,
Like many girl Friday,
But oftentimes – it does in my brain!
Ritu:
If he ever used his brain
Jack would be right as rain
Instead, he won’t think
Just has another drink
And let’s people think he’s insane!
For my Dad, Tony Greenfield.
How brainy was old Bony Tony?
He’d often speak utter baloney.
His greatest advice?
“If ten words will suffice,
Use more and you’ll often be lonely.”
Valerie Fish:
Her brain was the size of a pea
Her cup size, a huge Double ‘D’
She wasn’t that dumb,
Success was to come
Flaunting her assets on page three.
A well-hung young fella from Spain,
Said, ‘I’ve really no wish to complain,
That the girls from Lanzarote
See me as male totty,
Rather than for the size of my brain.’
The world’s tiniest girl named Lorraine,
Was a genius in spite a wee brain.
Her brilliance was lost!
In the Spring’s melting frost.
She was tragically swept down a drain.
Linking People 2003:
Education is to train the brain to think,
Vocalise and use the brain or lose it without a blink!
Brain controls the neuroendocrine system.
Endocrinal pituitary and pineal glands in rhythm,
With brain and spinal cord prevent brain shrink!
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Whether it be right or wrong,
Ricky will still sing his song.
Once he’s in flight,
No end in sight.
Guess we should all sing along!
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Great fun, Keith.
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Thanks, Esther. 🙂
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Something’s not right
But the answer is just out of sight
Something feels wrong
In fact, there’s a bit of a pong
Brace yourself and hold that nose tight!
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That’s brilliant, Paul!
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A few thoughts of my own – not necessarily reflective of my own ethical positioning ….
Is it wrong to be sexist but gay?
Is it wrong when you think but don’t say?
Should you give false confession
Provide the wrong impression
But do what you like anyway?
Is it wrong to be right all the time?
Does it help credibility climb?
Is it wrong to use words
That are just polished turds
Is it right, just as long as they rhyme?
Is it right? Is it wrong? Is it rude?
To be me and be free. Or be prude?
Should one skinny dip?
Or stay clothed round the hip?
Or should one simply strip and go nude
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A terrific trio. Thank you.
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I am having a very strange day
I think it started the wrong way
I dressed an hour
Before my shower
So in wet clothes I join the fray
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Very good, Trent. Thank you.
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It feels wrong to get up so late
Thank goodness I still feel great
Daylight savings made change
Our hours rearranged
Sleeping in just might be our fate!
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Excellent, Kim.
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Thanks! I really did get up late and throws my day off, but I puttered through!
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It was wrong to eat all of the cake
My friends for my birthday did make
I know I’m a glutton
But I burst my top button,
On best dress – for goodness sake!
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I feel your pain 🤣
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😅🤣
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I feel her tight stretch!
If the cake is in the house, we eat it and our clothes tend to burst.
A great verse that resonates with us all.
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😊
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Our dear friend Whale, comes from Hong Kong,
Likes a karaoke sing song,
When his brain is a mess,
It helps sort out his stress,
Then, nothing in life seems that wrong!
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That’s really funny! Thank you.
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Said Ernie, “Here’s a play what I wrote.”
Said Eric to Ernie, “Don’t gloat.
Your grammar’s all wrong
But it’ll do for a song.
In the Euros it’ll get plenty of votes.”
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That’s excellent, Lance. Thank you.
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I’d value your opinion on this, Esther.
I was going to write, ‘Said Ernie to Eric, “Here’s a play what I wrote.” ‘ for the first line but the syllable count in that is all wrong for a limerick. However, in my tiny mind, it flows much better.
BTW, I love reading it back. It brings back memories of some of the greatest British comedy of all time. Genius!
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They certainly were! And it’s fine how you’ve writen it. It flows better as you say 😊
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Captain Tom, who was seldom wrong.
Taught me to sing some very good songs.
But ‘Eskimo Nell’
Stretched me so well.
A great ballad . . . but EVER so long!
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Communication error occurred between brain and keyboard.
The second line should read ‘rude’ rather than ‘good’.
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Okay. I’ll update it 😃
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Thanks!
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Another great funny 😊
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RIGHT or wrong is determined by circumstances,
An act in itself is not wrong or right needs acceptances.
Wrong normal dose for thin patient,
Can turn out to be right due to spillage if impatient,
Two wrongs, indeed at times can turn out to be right reflectances!
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Thank you ever so much!
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There was a young woman named Wong –
An Aussie, who hated Mah-jong;
Was redhead, and crude;
Disliked Chinese food;
‘Perhaps,’ thought Ms. Wong, ‘I’m all wrong.’
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That’s really funny, Chelsea. Thank you.
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Hope you enjoy, Esther 🙂 https://aonceandfuturerecluse.wordpress.com/2021/03/17/long-night-wrong-right/
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I thought there was something throng
Finding hubby dressed in a thong
On the kitchen table
With my best friend Mabel
Playing anything but ping-pong
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THat’s funny, Val. Thank you.
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