Quiz Limericks News Challenge

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I’m Martha Barnette.

And I’m Grant Barrett, and we’re joined on the line by the fabulous John Chaneski.

Hello, John.

Hi, guys.

Hi, Grant.

Hi, Martha.

You know, guys, it’s that time again to check out news stories from the past few months.

Oh, yes, it is.

Yeah.

And find some way to shoehorn them into limericks.

Okay.

I’ll give you the first four lines and the start of the last line.

You give me the last rhyming word or phrase, okay?

All right.

All right.

Do our best.

Remember, these are all about things that were in the news in the past few months.

Okay.

Of course, sometimes you can just kind of get it from the first line.

That’s okay.

Just wait for the last line.

Here we go.

Letter writing has become quite passé. Emailing only lasts for a day. But if that makes you sad, don’t you worry, my lad. Your tweets have been saved by the…

NSA.

NSA, right.

You know, people say, oh, it’s out there. No one keeps anything.

No, they keep it all.

No, they got it.

Don’t worry.

That’s great.

We don’t have to back up our computers anymore.

That’s right.

You’re becoming a dinosaur daily-o. You’ve got claws and your skin is all scaly-o. Perhaps the solution to your de-evolution is you switched your whole diet to paleo.

Paleo, yes.

Paleo diet.

Let’s try this one.

The president made an admission the websites could use a physician. Obamacare shame one could say could be blamed on the Internet’s…

Pre-existing condition.

Yes.

Very good.

Let’s face some facts.

Bonus.

Very good.

Where’s the website that doesn’t have the problems?

Come on.

All right.

House of Cards, Breaking Bad, and That Orange is the New Black. It seems my night’s more hinge on the fact I can’t wait a whole week just to sate.

My episodic TV Jones.

So what’s your…

Your binge?

Yes, what’s your binge?

Oh, what’s your binge?

What’s your TV binge?

Wow, the limerick, man, the limerick.

You’re messing with the structure and formula.

I had to do it.

It was beautiful.

In the middle.

That was beautiful.

Okay, here’s the next one.

Peekaboo’s really his thing, and they carry him now in a sling, but this cute British baby, in a couple years maybe, has a pretty good chance to be…

King.

That’s him.

Here’s one for Prince George.

That’s one for Prince George.

Hey, Georgie.

He’s got some controversial stances on social issues, capitalistic finances. He sneaks in disguise just to visit poor guys.

Is that priest there behind you?

Pope Francis.

Pope Francis?

Could be.

We don’t know.

I heard he’s sneaking out of the Vatican to visit the poor.

That’s pretty cool.

Okay, here’s the last one.

Boston fans joyously cheered, but lots of folks found it quite weird that such World Series wins were eclipsed by their chins. If you’re a Red Sox, you’re sporting a beard.

Beard, yes.

Did you see those guys?

Yeah, sure.

They are amazing.

The power of the beard.

Barbarous.

So those are some of my limericks for things that have recently gone by.

Those were clever.

Thanks, John.

Outstanding.

Thank you very much.

We’ll talk to you again next week, all right?

Talk to you then. Take care.

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