Posts Tagged ‘Brain Humor’
Monday, October 21st, 2013
Happy Information Overload Day! (October 20, 2015)
Limerick Ode To Information Overload (3-Verse Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Too much data is haunting my dreams–
Excess info and too many memes.
Overloaded with news,
My brain has the blues:
“I’m cluttered with tidbits,” it screams.
So what’s the solution pray tell
That will free me from info-stress hell?
Turn off ev’ry machine
And device? That sounds mean
And quite limiting. Not a good sell!
Is there anything else I can do?
I suppose I could hide in the loo.
But alas and alack,
That room has a stack
Of old weeklies — a factoid fondue.
***
Update: The first Friday of March is the National Day of Unplugging.
Tags: Anxiety Humor, Brain Humor, Computer Humor, Data Humor, Info Overload, Information Overload, March Holidays, National Day of Unplugging, October Holidays, Odd Holidays, Stress Humor, Techno-Stress, Technology Humor
Posted in Anxiety & Stress, Behavior & Personality, Computer Humor, Limericks, Odd Holidays, Technology Humor | 7 Comments »
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013
I almost forgot to write a limerick about “I Forgot Day.” It’s celebrated, if I remember to, on July 2nd.
Limerick Ode To “I Forgot Day”
By Madeleine Begun Kane
I nearly forgot “I Forgot Day.”
How ’bout naming it “Memory Rot Day?”
Since my brain is a sieve,
I find each day I live
A confounding “Forgetting A Lot Day.”
Tags: Brain Humor, I Forgot Day, July Holidays, Memory Humor, Memory Limerick, Odd Holidays
Posted in Behavior & Personality, Limericks, Memory Humor, Odd Holidays | 17 Comments »
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
Just what we all need — yet another reason to eat chocolate!
Eat chocolate, win a Nobel Prize?
It may sound far-fetched, but a new study suggests it might not be bad advice.
The results show countries that eat the most chocolate also have the highest number of Nobel laureates per capita.
Yet Another Excuse To Eat Chocolate (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
If you want yet another excuse
To engage in some chocolate abuse,
It seems eating those sweets
Will create smart elites
And can Nobel Prize winners produce.
UPDATE: If you need a further excuse, I’ve just learned that December 16th is Chocolate Covered Anything Day.
Tags: Brain Humor, Brain Studies, Chocolate, Chocolate Poem, December Holidays, Dessert Humor, Food Humor, Food Verse, Intelligence, Nobel Prize, Science Humor, Scientific Studies
Posted in Food & Drink Humor, Mental Health Humor, Odd Holidays | 13 Comments »
Friday, June 8th, 2012
From time to time, somebody annoys me with bald assertions like this: “I don’t own a TV; they rot the brain.”
I usually ignore them, but NOT this time:
In Defense Of TV (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
There is good stuff and bad on TV.
Some will rot out your brain, I agree.
(Fox News comes to mind.)
But there’s great stuff to find.
Just be choosy and spurn the debris.
Tags: Brain Humor, Fox Television Humor, Intelligence, Media Humor, Mental Health Humor, TV Humor
Posted in Limericks, Media Humor, Mental Health Humor, Television (TV) Humor | 3 Comments »
Saturday, May 12th, 2012
It’s Limerick-Off time, once again. And that means I write a limerick, and you write your own, using the same first line. Then you post your limerick here and, if you’re a Facebook user, on Facebook too.
The best submission will be crowned Limerick Of The Week. (Here’s last week’s Limerick Of The Week Winner.)
How will your poems be judged? By meter, rhyme, cleverness, and humor. (If you’re feeling a bit fuzzy about limerick writing rules, here’s my How To Write A Limerick article.)
I’ll announce the Limerick of the Week Winner right before I post next week’s Limerick-Off. So that gives you a full week to submit your clever, polished verse.
I hope you’ll join me in writing a limerick with this first line:
A gal in an overpriced store…*
or
A man in an overpriced store…*
*(Minor variations to my first lines are acceptable, but rhyme words may not be altered.)
Here’s my limerick:
Overpriced Limerick
By Madeleine Begun Kane
A gal in an overpriced store,
Who’d completely forgotten what for,
Told the clerk, “Can’t recall
Why I came here at all.
Just as well. If I could, I’d be poor.”
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 on my Facebook Limerick-Off post.
To receive an email alert whenever I post a new Limerick-Off, please email Madkane@MadKane.com Subject: MadKane’s Newsletter. Thanks!
Tags: Brain Humor, Limerick Contest, Memory Limerick, Money Verse, Poetry & Prompts, Shopping Humor, Stores Limerick, Writing Prompts
Posted in Behavior & Personality, Contests, Limerick & Haiku Prompts, Limerick Contest, Limerick Writing Contest, Limerick-Offs, Limericks, Memory Humor, Mental Health Humor, Money & Finance Humor, Poetry & Prompts, Poetry Contest, Shopping Humor | 72 Comments »
Thursday, May 10th, 2012
At Think Tank Thursday (Poets United), we’re asked to write a news-related poem. Now since my other blog, Mad Kane’s Political Madness, is devoted to mocking politicians and other news-makers via limericks, I thought I’d try a different news angle here:
Sleepless Limerick
By Madeleine Begun Kane
A woman was trying to snooze,
But was kept wide awake by her muse.
Stubborn rhymes kept invading
Her brain and upbraiding
Her: “Rise and go mock some more news.”
Tags: Brain Humor, Creativity, Inspiration, Muse, News Limerick, Rhyming Obsession, Sleep & Insomnia Humor, Sleeplessness
Posted in Behavior & Personality, Creativity Verse, Limericks, Obsessions Humor, Sleep & Insomnia Humor | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
Nonplussed by Google-Plus?
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Is Google-Plus blessing or curse?
It’s surely inspired some verse.
But here’s what I fear:
With the Plus option here,
My A.D.D.’s getting much worse.
Tags: ADD Humor, Attention Deficit Humor, Attention Span Humor, Brain Humor, Concentration Limerick, Distractions, Google, GooglePlus, Health Limerick, Mental Health, Social Media Poetry, Social Networking Humor
Posted in Anxiety & Stress, Behavior & Personality, Google, Health & Medical Humor, Health Verse, Limericks, Mental Health Humor, Social Media Humor | 9 Comments »
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
Digital Impasse
By Madeleine Begun Kane
My brain is packed with secret codes
To access all my stuff,
Like bank accounts and sundry cards.
Recalling them is rough.
I pay my bills online and need
A PIN for each of those.
My website has a password too,
Protecting verse and prose.
These letters, numbers, symbols mix
In ways to stave off theft.
We’re warned to make them quite complex,
Defeating hackers deft.
We’re also cautioned, “Vary them.
Don’t make your codes the same.
A thief gets hold of only one —
You’re screwed and you’re to blame.”
So ciphers clutter up my mind.
I dare not write them down.
With paper bearing secrets dear,
A thief could go to town.
I’m forced to hide them in my brain —
A codified morass,
Despite my fear that one day soon
They’ll flee my mind en masse.
(Prompted by secrets at Poets United.)
Tags: Banking Humor, Bill Paying Poem, Brain Humor, Codes, Computer Humor, Computer Security, Cyber Crime, Hacker Humor, Memory, Online Humor, Passwords Humor, Privacy Humor, Secrets, Technology Verse, Theft
Posted in Anxiety & Stress, Computer Humor, Crime & Punishment Humor, Internet Humor, Memory Humor, Privacy Satire, Technology Humor | 28 Comments »
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
Here’s my limerick and haiku prompted by this attention prompt and this challenge to write about writing:
Attention Must Be Paid
By Madeleine Begun Kane
I find paying attention’s a pain.
A-D-D makes it rather a drain.
I’m drifting right now.
Lost in thought? Yes, and how!
Which is why this short story’s inane.
*****
Must pay attention
to pretentious professor.
Can’t? Then pretend to.
*****
Tags: ADD Humor, Attention Deficit Humor, Attention Span Humor, Brain Humor, Concentration Limerick, Education & School Humor, Writing & Publishing Humor
Posted in Behavior & Personality, Creativity Verse, Limericks, Mental Health Humor, Writing & Publishing Humor | 10 Comments »
Sunday, March 27th, 2011
Left brain or right brain —
Which am I? The one, I fear,
that can’t remember.
*****
Creative options
seem nearly unlimited —
overwhelmed, I freeze.
*****
(The 2nd haiku was prompted by Writer’s Island’s unlimited and Sunday Scribblings’ nearly.)
Tags: Brain Humor, Creativity, Haiku & Senryu, Left Brained, Memory, Mental Health Satire, Right Brained
Posted in Anxiety & Stress, Creativity Verse, Haiku & Senryu, Memory Humor, Mental Health Humor | 15 Comments »
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
This space has been quiet of late.
But it’s not that my readers don’t rate.
I’ve broken my wrist,
And my brain’s in a twist
From pain killers. Writing must wait.
Tags: Brain Humor, Broken Wrist, Health Limerick, Injury Verse. Accident Poem, Pain Killers
Posted in Blogging Humor, Health & Medical Humor, Limericks, Mental Health Humor | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Before I get to today’s limerick and haiku theme, I want to thank you for the many kind comments and emails concerning my father’s death. I was very touched by your thoughtfulness.
My latest limerick and haiku prompt topic is absent-mindedness and memory. First, my limerick:
“Please help me! I really need aid,”
Said a lady who looked quite afraid.
“Seems I can’t find my purse,
And, perhaps, even worse
It appears that my maid’s been mislaid.”
And now, my haiku:
Memorized data—
Still there, but hard to access.
Mulltiple choice brain.
Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to write a limerick or haiku (or both) about absent-mindedness and/or memory. When you’ve posted your verse, please return here and add a direct link to your themed poetry.
If you want to keep up to date with my poetry prompts, you can subscribe to either my entire blog feed or just to my limerick and haiku prompt topic feed.
Tags: Absent-Minded, Behavior Humor, Brain Humor, Memory Limerick, Personality Humor
Posted in Behavior & Personality, Haiku & Senryu, Limerick & Haiku Prompts, Limericks, Memory Humor, Mental Health Humor | 8 Comments »
