Here’s to a great week! Your new limerick challenge is as follows:
SALE
Your challenge last week was to write a limerick using the word SPROUT in it somewhere. Here are your masterpieces:
A well-to-do farmer from Brussels
Had two little doggies – Jack Russells;
After they’d eaten sprouts
He knew their whereabouts
By the fragrance from their bottom muscles.
I don’t know what she’s talking about
“Sow thy seeds and they will sprout.”
I tossed some here
I threw some there
And not a one came out.
How will you get your plants to sprout?
There’s frost and snow and ice about.
I’ll put them in a heated shed
Make quite sure that they are fed
To grow big sprouts and that’s no doubt!
She waited for her plant sprout
“Oh, when will it ever pop out?”
But nothing is done,
Or in one minute won,
After two she discharged her pout.
There once was a girl named “Sprout”
Because she was short and stout
But then she grew up
Into a willowy pup
And Dad won’t dare let her go out!
Once, an old man from Leeds
Said he only would ever ‘grow’ weeds.
He hated all sprouts,
Reeds, leaves; sauerkraut.
In short, he just hated his greens.
I wanted that baby to sprout
He did, and he started going out
He quickly learned words
Not uttered by birds
He’s a puzzle, of that, there’s no doubt.
Raw sprouts are Bony Tony’s thing.
They’re crunchy and peppery and full of zing.
But boiled, they’re mushy
And smelly and yeuchy,
And, for Tony, they’re only fit for the bin.
When choosing explosives, one stands out a mile
Though it’s never found in any missile.
While gunpowder, plastics are in with a shout
Nothing quite beats the humblest sprout
Which combined with my gut is truly fissile.
Linking People 2003:
Sprout germination of seed, edible,
Stored form of Solar Energy, incredible!
Leaves are Solar panels for biosynthesis,
Receiving Sun rays for photosynthesis,
H2O and CO2 into fruit and vegetable.
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My face must have gone really pale!
Even though it was up for sale.
The fridge freezer was pricey
And it was very very dicey
So I stole it and ended up in jail!
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That’ll teach you! 😂😂
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😂 😂 😂
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She was becoming old and frail
Less appealing to the fun-seeking male
To keep having fun
Something must be done
So, she put herself on sale!
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Very funny, Annette! 😂
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Thank you! 🙂
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All set for the New Year’s Day sale
She arrived, then her face went all pale
The queues were so long
She tried to be strong
She went home. The trip was a fail!
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I know how she feels! 😂
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🤣🤣 me too?
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Some shoes that I want are on sale
But the contents of my wallet were pale
So I bought them on credit
And I bragged about it on Reddit
My husband saw and began to wail!
(Not a true story)
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😂😂 Just as well!
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I went to the January sales,
I followed the M4 from Wales.
A nice day it was not,
You know what I got?
A sequence of near-epic fails!
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Very nice, Keith. Happy New Year!
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Thanks, Esther. I hope you have a great 2023
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When my daughter returned from the sale
She looked shocked, and really quite pale.
‘Please don’t get too mad,
But I’ve bought a new dad.
He looked so sad, alone, on the rail.’
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Hilarious! You’d better watch out!
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Did your daughter ever read the Dad library? Excellent if slightly terrifying book for fathers
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I’ll have to recommend that to her, then!
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Ok… here’s mine:
There was an old lady that went to a sale
She had so many items she stopped to drink ale
She stacked them up tall
Then they started to fall
She screamed and she started to wail
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Ha, ha! So funny 😂😂
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😁
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I’d like to tell you the tale
Of a Shark who played fullback for Sale.
He danced through defences,
Who quite lost their senses,
As they tried to catch him and fail.
Note for those who who are unaware of the game ofrugby: Sale Sharks are a top English rugby team.
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I enjoyed this take on the prompt very much 😊
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The last word should be ‘failed’ rather than ‘fail.’
I struggled over that, but now that I read it on your blog, I realise the correct way to go. Often the way. 🙂
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I’ll make sure I put ‘failed’ for you. It’s often the way that you see it differently.
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BUSINESS by companies do Machiavellian policy hail,
As exercised by politicians to rob the rich for the poors to avail!
High prices are set at the launch period almost double;
Thereupon, price is reduced to make it affordable,
Such that not so privileged can buy during sale!
कंपनियों द्वारा व्यापार में माचियावेलियन नीति,
जैसा कि राजनेताओं द्वारा अमीरों को लूट गरीबों को देने की नीति,
लॉन्च की अवधि में उच्च कीमतें लगभग दोगुनी,
इसके बाद, इसे सस्ती कीमत विपरीत दोगुनी,
जिस से की कम विशेषाधिकार प्राप्त लोगों को प्राप्ति!
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Thank you for sending this over.
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