Posted by Melody on 1/29/05 1:18am
Msg #18710

Limericks for Brenda, Hugh, CaliNotary, & y'all

"You'll get rich quick" said the NNA.
Almost no work for lotsa Big Pay.
No need to study
You can be cruddy.
We could care less, by the way.

Give us your big bucks dues.
A book, a test: you are through.
"Certified" means zip.
It is all just lip.
You will see: we will win and you'll lose.

"Sounds good" said the gal with no clue.
I'll get rich even though I am new.
I've got a stamp
My ears are still damp.
3 weeks > I'll be "One of The Few."

"What happened?" said the new NSA.
I've enrolled in 300 SA's.
No one has called
I find I'm appalled.
"What happened?" I find I am dazed.

To be listed, big bucks I have paid.
I pretend that I'm not afraid.
123, NotRot, NSA,
GMN, what more can I say?
800 is all I have made.

A search for gals in my city
Found 300 NSA's - it's not pretty.
I was told there was work
I believed the NNA jerk
What a dupe: I don't warrant your pity.

They said I'd get One twenty five.
But with fifty, I'm hardly alive.
I've bought a computer
I couldn't be cuter.
Financially, I can hardly survive.

Signing Agents get Seventy Five
Signing, driving: the hours are five
Minus gas and toner
It's a math boner
That my hourly'll be round'bout Five.

I have had it. I admit it. Okay.
Now I'm happy to be selling Mary Kay.
I get far less flack
In my pink Cadillac.
Monkeys fly from my butt toward NNA.

Reply by ZLee_Califia on 1/29/05 2:57am
Msg #18712

Re: Limericks for Brenda, Hugh, CaliNotary, & y'all..Adding

Very clever...and nicely done, Melody. In the wee hours let me add a few lines of my own:

I took the classes, falling for all the hype;
noticing the hoards of test takers, did they give their blood type?

Starting this business... "you'll just need an investment small,"
only to find that was another exaggeration ten feet tall..
books galore on how they made it big;
depending upon them...you can forget the tree...be happy with a sprig;

Signing up on web sites...buying this, and buying that,
now I know why most in this business are more than fat;

Will I ever get out there and make a signing......?
Methinks instead I'll be a'spending some more time whining.

Reply by BrendaTX on 1/29/05 2:46pm
Msg #18755

Mel & ZLee - Thank Y'ALL for the grins - LOL nm

Reply by HisHughness on 1/29/05 4:40pm
Msg #18762

Iambic pentameter will never be the same

There once was an SA named Mel
Who raised lotsa NNA hel
Joined in her spree
By SA ZLee
They evidenced minds quite unwel

Reply by HisHughness on 1/29/05 6:27pm
Msg #18767

Re: Iambic pentameter will never be the same

Melody's essay into poesy reminded me of why I am now in the market for a bosomy widow with a trust fund, liquor store and bass boat.

I proposed to the woman who was to become my Beautiful & Talented Wife, now my Beautiful & Talented Estranged Wife and soon to be my B&T Ex-Wife, on Valentine's Day 1999 with a sonnet, which is an Italian form typically consisting of eight lines of thesis followed by six lines of antithesis. We were married later that year, and each Valentine's thereafter I wrote her a Valentine's sonnet. That is, I wrote her a sonnet each Valentine's until she told me that the sonnets were nice, but she would really rather I swabbed a toilet occasionally.

She didn't get any more sonnets, and now I'm swabbing a toilet once a week. In my own place.

Reply by mike mchenry on 1/29/05 6:40pm
Msg #18768

hey hugh

do they need to send you a picture of the bass boat??

Reply by HisHughness on 1/29/05 7:10pm
Msg #18774

Re: hey hugh

mike mchenry asks:

***do they need to send you a picture of the bass boat??**

That would be nice, so that I could see if it has a shapely stern.

Reply by Lee/AR on 1/29/05 9:29pm
Msg #18783

Re: hey hugh

You definitely have Arkansas blood in you somewhere.

Reply by HisHughness on 1/29/05 11:38pm
Msg #18787

Re: hey hugh

Lee/AR contends:

***You definitely have Arkansas blood in you somewhere.***

The one time I have ever been to Arkansas the Texas Legislature almost did not let me back into the state. Said that by leaving Texas and going to Arkansas, I had raised the IQ level in both states.

Reply by CaliNotary on 1/29/05 4:00pm
Msg #18758

Bravo!

Very funny, very well written, and very accurate. I'm quite impressed!