A Miss-Misunderstanding

I hope you’ll join me in writing a limerick with this as a first line:

There once was a woman named Ann…

Here’s mine:

A Miss-Misunderstanding
By Madeleine Begun Kane

There once was a woman named Ann,
Who people assumed was a man.
When she walked in the ladies,
They yelled out, “No matees!”
And that’s when the shit hit the fan.

Please feel free to write your own limerick using the same first line and post it in my comments. And if you’re on Facebook, I hope you’ll join my friends in that same activity in my Limerick-Offs.

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27 Responses to “A Miss-Misunderstanding”

  1. Catherine says:

    There once was a woman named Ann
    Who desperately ached for a man
    Once she took him to bed,
    the romance was dead…
    He was DONE… before she began!

  2. There once was a woman named Ann
    Hotstuff with a paint roller and pan
    When the house was all done,
    She realized she won,
    He was still parking the van.

  3. There once was a woman named Ann
    Who married a medicine man
    When parts of her hurt
    Said her wedded expert,
    “To your diet you must add more bran.”

    OR

    There once was a woman named Ann
    A spirited Octogenarian
    At an earlier age
    She danced on the stage
    And was known for a lascivious can-can.

    OR

    There once was a woman named Ann
    Who swooned when she yelled, “Yes, We Can!”
    When the polls came in higher
    She yelled, “He is my Messiah…
    …and I am his #1 fan!”

  4. There once was a woman named Ann
    Who claimed to be bipartisan,
    When elephants escaped,
    She was supergirl caped,
    Believe dung and asses? no one can.

  5. Randy Lee says:

    There once was a woman named Ann
    Who swallowed a box of some bran
    To help start a movement
    For bowel improvement.
    It worked. So please turn on the fan.

  6. Linkmeister says:

    There once was a woman named Ann
    Whose life, it was said, had no plan
    So she enrolled in a course
    In economics, perforce
    Then she got a good job on the Bourse!

  7. Linkmeister says:

    There once was a woman named Ann
    Who lived all her life in Milan
    But then a man beckoned
    And thus (who’d have reckoned?)
    She found herself mushing in Ketchikan!

  8. madkane says:

    Thanks very much for these, and please keep them coming. And, if you’re on FB, feel free to post them on my FB Limerick-Off post as well.

  9. There once was a woman named Ann
    Who dated a woman named Pam,
    Until Pam’s sex change
    Made everything strange
    Now Pam feels like a new man!

  10. Carroll Straus says:

    There once as a woman named Ann
    Who said to herself “yes I can.”

    She decided to vote
    And Obama she wrote
    Now she sees her hopes in the trash can.

  11. There once was a woman named Ayn
    Whose last name just happened to be Rand
    While Atlas shrugged
    She got out her drugs
    And said the “Free” market’s my favorite scam!

  12. Ron says:

    There once was a woman named Ann
    Who never could capture a man
    She had one last fling
    And found just the thing
    Wrapped she her lips on his organ

  13. Libby says:

    I wrote this without reading the others first. Interesting to see how it follows a common thread.

    There once was a woman named Ann
    Who knew when she saw it, a scam
    Knew that GOP flyer
    Was really a liar
    So she threw it into the trash can

  14. Peyton Coyner says:

    There once was a woman named Ann
    With a wild write-a-limerick plan.
    It’s starting to teeter
    For most screw up the meter,
    Force the rhyme or ain’t funny, by damn!

  15. madkane says:

    Thanks for the fun limericks. Looking forward to more.

  16. SallyRenfield says:

    Great fun here!
    Always thought slamming Ann Coulter for being TV was so cruel to TV’s. And so many evil women out there–Elisabet Bathory, Ayn Rand, Ilsa Koch, Michelle Malkin; why not just acknowledge that girls can be quite evil:
    There once was a woman named named Ann
    Who some libs were sure was a man.
    But such slight Adam’s apple
    t’aint proof; with that don’t grapple
    to show evil cranks can’t be femme.

  17. madkane says:

    Thanks, Sally. I agree about the women. By the way, it sounds like you should be reading my Political Madness blog. :)

  18. Libby says:

    Okay one more:

    There once was a woman named Ann
    Spent her summer acheiving a tan
    When winter winds wailed
    she became very pale
    But next summer she did it again.

  19. hedera says:

    There once was a woman named Ann
    Whose shirttail got caught in a fan.
    It shredded her top,
    Someone called a cop,
    And they took her away in the van.

  20. Peyton says:

    There once was a woman named Ann
    With a visage more colter than lamb.
    Though tooth-pickingly sized,
    She wrote huge big fat lies
    And told all of the lib’rals, “Pound sand.”

  21. madkane says:

    Thanks for all your limericks. I’m enjoying them very much.

    And for those of you who wrote limericks about Ann Coulter, you might enjoy visiting my Political Madness Blog. Hope to see you there too.

  22. SteveNance says:

    My entry in this sub-category is a bit late, but…

    There once was awoman named Ann
    Whose vitriol gained her some fans
    On the right-winger “news”
    While protected, she spews,… See More
    By the same Bill of Rights that she pans.

  23. SteveNance says:

    There once was a soldier named Ann
    who was sent off to fight in the ‘Stans
    First Afghani-, then Pak-,
    Tadjik-, Uzbek-, Kazakh-,
    All in flames, per imperial plans

  24. Realist says:

    There once was a woman named Ann
    Whose output deserved to be banned
    She just worships Mammon
    She should package Salmon
    In a warehouse outside Ketchikan

  25. Nate Levin says:

    There once was a woman named Ann
    Who ate all her meals from a can.
    Thanks to Chef Boy-ar-dee
    And their ravioli,
    Every evening went by the same plan.

  26. madkane says:

    Thanks so much everyone! I’m posted a new Limerick-Off limerick prompt in the next hour or so. Hope to see you there!