My son (7) and I have been having a lot of fun composing limericks together this afternoon. We're trying out ones that begin with "The thing that..." (He likes monsters.) Any good ideas for us?
Here are ours. OK, I helped a lot with the rhymes, but my son knows all of them by heart and he can hardly wait to see what you come up with!
--The thing that lived under the stairs
was covered with wiry black hairs.
At night, while asleep
Through the house it would creep
And gnaw on the dining-room chairs.
--The thing that devoured the maid
Washed her down with some pink lemonade.
Then, ashamed of itself,
it crawled up on a shelf,
And there, softly whining, it stayed.
--Perhaps it escaped from a lab; it
had ears and big teeth like a rabbit.
The cook had a taste
like stale wallpaper paste,
but it ate him from sheer force of habit.
Give us your best ideas! Have fun, and thanks.
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The thing I hate about you the most,
Is when you're silent like a ghost,
It's hard for me to imagine it,
When your love starts to quit,
As you left for the West Coast.
The thing that escaped from the zoo
Was beat by my dad black and blue
It was grabbed by its hairs
And was thrown down the stairs
And I had a whack at it too
The thing that now full of food
Went back to the stairs as it should.
He let out a sigh
Because morning was nigh,
Then slept like a monster would.
haha, and that's the end of the story 
Feel like finishing a limerick?
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