Archive for the ‘Smell Humor’ Category
Sunday, November 24th, 2024
After learning that today is National Sardines Day, I felt compelled to pen this limerick:
How I loathe the vile smell of sardines.
It’s far worse than the farts caused by beans.
When my spouse grabs a can
Of those critters… oh, man,
I must flee, lest I sully my jeans.
Tags: Food Humor, Food Limerick, Marriage Humor, Sardines, Sardines Humor, Sardines Limerick, Smell Humor, Smell Limerick
Posted in Clothing Humor, Food & Drink Humor, Limericks, Marriage Humor, Odd Holidays, Smell Humor | No Comments »
Tuesday, February 27th, 2024
The foul smell of a burning cigar
Is so dreadful, it’s something I’d bar
(If I could) ev’rywhere
It’s still legal. So there!
Now you know what I’d do, were I czar.
(National Cigar Day falls each year on February 27.)
Tags: Cigar Day, February Holidays, National Cigar Day, Odd Holidays, Odor Humor, Odor Limerick, Smell Humor, Smell Limerick, Smoking Humor, Smoking Limerick
Posted in Limericks, Odd Holidays, Smell Humor, Smoking Humor | Comments Off on Just In Time For “Cigar Day” (Limerick)
Friday, February 17th, 2023
A bride, who’d worn too much perfume,
Made folks fume in the small chapel room.
The essence was floral.
Its strength caused a quarrel.
And that’s how the bride lost her groom.
Tags: Fragrance Humor, Fragrance Limerick, Perfume Humor, Perfume Limerick, Smell Humor, Smell Limerick, Wedding Humor, Wedding Limerick
Posted in Limericks, Marriage Humor, Smell Humor | Comments Off on Flagrantly Fragrant Limerick
Saturday, April 30th, 2016
I follow the smells where they lead me.
“I want you,” I cry. They don’t heed me.
Then my senses all quicken;
It’s barbecue chicken!
How I long to say, “Neighbors, please feed me.”
Happy National Sense Of Smell Day! (last Saturday of April)
Tags: April Holidays, Barbecue, Chicken Humor, Food Humor, Food Verse, Odd Holidays, Sense Of Smell Day, Smell Humor
Posted in Food & Drink Humor, Limericks, Odd Holidays, Smell Humor | Comments Off on The Nose Knows (Limerick)
Monday, March 21st, 2016
It’s essential to celebrate smells–
Just the good ones, of course; Nothing quells
A good mood like a stink,
Which might possibly shrink
The terrain where your fella’s brain dwells.
Happy National Fragrance Day! (March 21)
Tags: Bawdy Humor, Fragrance Day, Fragrance Humor, March Holidays, National Fragrance Day, Odd Holidays, Smell Humor
Posted in Bawdy Limericks, Limericks, Odd Holidays, Smell Humor | Comments Off on An Essential Holiday (Limerick)
Saturday, June 14th, 2014
This Invention Doesn’t Pass The Smell Test (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
I’m vexed and a little perplexed
By the concept of smells sent by text.
I do not mean to vent,
But don’t send me a scent,
Or our friendship is apt to be exed.
(Harvard engineering professor David Edwards and co-inventor Rachel Fields have invented an aromatic mobile messaging device called an oPhone that sends and receives scents.)
Tags: Aroma Limerick, Communication Humor, Computer Humor, David Edwards, Friendship, Inventions Poem, Mobile Messaging, OPhone, OSnap, Rachel Fields, Scents, Smell Humor, Technology Humor, Text Messaging, Texting
Posted in Communication Humor, Computer Humor, Friendship Humor, Inventions Humor, Limericks, Smell Humor, Technology Humor | 14 Comments »
Thursday, June 6th, 2013
I’m both steamed and in a lather over this stinky new “cleansing reduction” trend. I don’t know about you, but in our house, daily showers are a fixture.
This Trend Stinks (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Here’s a trend that I’d sure like to quell:
Bidding show’ring each day a farewell.
Daily cleansing’s essential
And highly prudential:
If you don’t shower daily, you smell.
Tags: Bathroom Humor, Body Odor, British Humor, Cleanliness Humor, Daily Cleansing, Odd Trends, Shower Humor, Shower Verse, Smell Limerick, Trends Humor, UK Humor
Posted in Behavior & Personality, Health & Medical Humor, Limericks, Odd Trends, Physical Appearance, Smell Humor | Comments Off on This Trend Stinks (Limerick)
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
I hope you’ll join me in writing a limerick with this as a first line:
A wealthy old fellow named Bart…
Here’s mine:
A Limerick Meal
By Madeleine Begun Kane
A wealthy old fellow named Bart
Began ev’ry meal with a fart.
When guests came to dine
They’d pretend all was fine
Cuz they hoped to inherit his art.
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.
Tags: Art Limerick, Digestion Humor, Dinner Humor, Fart Limerick, Greed Humor, Inheritance Humor, Money Verse, Poetry & Prompts, Writing Prompts
Posted in Art Humor / Verse, Behavior & Personality, Family & Relatives Humor, Family Verse, Food & Drink Humor, Health & Medical Humor, Health Verse, Limerick & Haiku Prompts, Limerick-Offs, Limericks, Money & Finance Humor, Poetry & Prompts, Smell Humor | 12 Comments »
Saturday, September 1st, 2007
As a result of a neighbor’s lawsuit, a Swedish woman can no longer smoke in most of her garden. (And you thought the United States was a litigious country.)
Stockholm – A Swedish woman has been banned by court order from smoking in large parts of her own garden following a complaint from a neighbour…
… The neighbour, a lawyer, filed the complaint with the court in Vaxjo, in southern Sweden, saying he was obliged to wear a mask in his garden when the neighbour lit up.
Weeding Out Crazy Lawsuits (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
A cig-hating fellow from Sweden
Sued a gal cause she smoked during weedin’.
Now smoking’s been banned
On much of her land.
What’s next? Litigation o’er readin’?
Tags: Cigarettes, Law Humor, Lawsuit Humor, Lawyers, Litigation Humor, Litigious Society, Neighborly Humor, Neighbors Humor, Smoke-free Satire, Smoking Bans, Smoking Humor, Sweden, Swedish
Posted in Gardens / Plant Humor, Legal & Lawyer Humor, Limericks, Neighbors Humor, Outdoors Humor, Smell Humor, Smoking Humor, Social Satire | Comments Off on Weeding Out Crazy Lawsuits (Outdoor Smoking Ban Limerick)
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
According to this odd story, a smoking ban in British pubs has managed to make British bars smell even worse. Apparently, the acrid smell of smoke is a delight compared to all the foul odors smoke used to mask: “stale food and beer, damp, sweat and body odour, drains and – how do you put this nicely – flatulence.”
So what’s the solution? You might think cleaning supplies would be in order. But you would be wrong. Instead, they’re pumping perfume into 2000 pubs — the essence of “leather, freshly cut grass, and ocean breeze fragrances.”
This cries out for a limerick, don’t you think?
This Doesn’t Pass The Smell Test (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
The stench of Brit pubs once was hidden
By smoke, but now smoking’s forbidden,
And since folks can’t abide
The foul odor, they hide
It with pumped-in-perfume. I’m not kiddin’.
(You can find more of my food and drink limericks and humor here.)
Tags: Body Odor, British Pubs, Flatulence, Foul Smelling Pubs, Great Britain, Masking Odors, Perfume, Smoking Ban, Stale Beer
Posted in Food & Drink Humor, Limericks, Smell Humor, Smoking Humor | 6 Comments »
