With apologies to Gene Roddenberry
The Klingons were cunning and clever
But no match for old Archie Bunker
Get out of my chair, Meathead
I’ve called in the Dingbat instead
She’ll go after them ‘gons like a Doberman Pincher
Jean played Archie Bunker's wife
She was there to share his life
When they had a spat
He called her dingbat
Which would begin the strife
Lucille Ball
Made us laugh, playing hardball
With dingbat displays
And clever, nonsensical ways!
Desi Arnaz
Caused mayhem with pizzazz
Zaniness we loved to view
As he broadened the hullabaloo!
September 30, 2021
Contest: Your Pick
Sponsor: Brian Strand
TV Show: I Love Lucy
Today’s Soapbox Opinion
Written: by Tom Wright
6/27/2019
Ambition, to politicians, is like powerful drugs,
We’re shown clean hands but most resemble slugs.
Seems It’s more of the same with every election,
And this years field typifies a dingbat collection.
Catering to lobbyist while with voters patronizing,
They can’t seem to agree on where the sun is rising.
Each has an agenda and firmly set in these ways,
A socialist wants free stuff and the wealthy pays.
America is a country where opportunity is rife,
We’ve become a fractured nation, thus inducing strife.
“Well done is better than well said”
Benjamin Franklin
Lucy And Ricky
That old TV show, 'I Love Lucy', was fun!
With style, Lucy made us all laugh at each one
of her silly faces and 'dingbat' displays.
But yet, she was clever and smart in her ways.
And Ricky, her hubby, was always right there
engaging in mishaps that would cause a flare,
and form such a comedy we loved to view.
As goader, he broadened the hullabaloo!
January 12, 2019
Contest:
Sponsor: Joseph May
TV Show: I Love Lucy
Edith was a saint in every sense of the word.
Things she endured today would be considered absurd.
Edith was a homemaker who stood by her man so near.
She tried to make Archie happy and keep him with a beer.
Archie was an old school, hard working type of man.
He didn't take to change and few people he could stand.
Archie was abrasive as sandpaper, Edith gentle as a dove.
Archie was a bigot that only a naive dingbat could've loved.
1/11/19
In Afghanistan, understand there was a young yank,
Who from that awful country President tried to yank;
From where we sat,
He is a total dingbat,
And do presume that this is another foolish prank.
Jim Horn
I'm a poet and they're saying I got my own style,
I'm wild and vile in how I lay out the tile, no denial.
singers like Elvis Pressley, there was only one,
only one Michael Jackson, a one not some.
so do it your own way and impress thee,
don't stress if you're not how the rest be.
there's only one Eminem and 2Pac,
the rest just couldn't do that.
I'm a singular impact,
singing like a dingbat.
now on a roll, a male Marilyn Monroe,
head to toe, I'm like no one you know,
rolling rhyme rules and I'm holding the flow.
I'm Nick Trim they took the mickey,
I seemed dim they made me seem silly,
but look at me now..... look at my big willy,
a witty wise guy born and raised in Bath City.
Trump Fraud We Should Shod
Trump himself does like to laud;
Not only that thinks he is a god;
While he sat,
A dingbat,
While he lies and commits fraud.
Jim Horn
shot down and abused
misled and used
shed blood and felt pain
lose more than i gain
turned mad green and so sad blue
i can't help myself, so how can i help you
malnourished and underfed
followed blindly and been misled
drank from the wrong cup
went down but could not get up
put on my clothes inside out and on each foot the wrong shoe
i can't help myself, so how can i help you
been called a dingbat
kicked like an alley cat
two seconds from getting laid
solo silhouette on the shade
i am considered a 'man' only by a chosen few
i can't help myself, so how can i help you
rip van winkle old
igloo eskimo cold
oblivious and forgotten
vagabond and downtrodden
i am a hundred miles away from reconstructed brand new
i can't help myself, so how can i help you
< once Edith laid her hot iron flat
husband Archie called her his dingbat
then son-in-law ~ meathead
put iron on dam bed
boy fire did make Jefferson scat
Written By
Katherine Stella 10/30/11
Entry For Techno - Limericks Contest
To Be Co-Judge G.L. All
Just Gotta Love That Archie LOL
Note Please Never Leave Your Iron On
Can Really Ruin Your Day Yikes
A special ding
That is a bat
A wondrous thing
As nice as that
Russell Sivey
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