Most limericks aren't taught in school.
They're mainly a tool for a fool.
To play with a pun
Or poke ribald fun.
They're certainly not meant to be cruel!

Five rhymey lines is the trick
To writing a fair limerick.
The subjects are great.
All fish freaks first rate!
Let's find out what makes our MAS tick!

Our Polish fish-freak cool Rich
Found breeding tough cichlids his niche!
It's not tough, he'll explain
To spell his last name.
Just saying it - to us - is the glitch!

An ex-presidente named Rodger
Is the MAS fishroom artful dodger.
"If I play this just right,
And stall day and night,
When it's done, I'll be an old codger!"

A displaced Texan is kickin'
When fish-breeding or politickin'!
With nasal flarin',
He snorted "livebearin'!
If it lays eggs, I might raise a chicken!"

I think I've one of the clues
To scoring a prize from Den Drews.
It's not to buy big or small;
That doesn't matter at all!
It's to more often visit His pews!

And here we have Timmy Rutz,
Who's Apistos were driving him nuts!
With dither tetras rare,
He put them in there.
The tetras did the breeding! The klutz!

A fish store owner named Nab
Said his business turned him into a crab.
This next part is scary -
He decided to marry
And raise kids as a form of rehab!

Our European connection ho-hums,
"Over there, we're the elite - not fish bums!"
Sigi says "Oh, my dear,
I can't believe that here
You can't even buy Convict Condoms!"

Our club's losing "Hollow-Leg Bob."
This man can out-eat a mob!
Resech says, "Food
Puts me in the fish-breeding mood"
He'll make Calgary's caterers sob!

There was a fish nut named Jolivette
With a siphon, a mouthful's the bet!
Said he with chagrin,
And fish poop on his chin,
"I can't tell when I need the bucket!"

A tight-fisted fish head named Carey
Fostered a scheme pretty hairy!
He went to bed
With a piranha head
Saying, "I'm gonna break the Tooth Fairy!"

Another Cary I know
Will probably say "It ain't so!"
But I heard him wish,
"I don't want no fish,
Unless it's an ANGFA rainbow!"

And then you have Willie Loh.
Off to the ACA he would go.
He said with a cichlidian snap,
"We don't need no stinkin' map!"
How he found the fish, we don't know!

Our lovely Ms Engelking
Is game for 'most anything!
If you hear a swish,
She's not chasing a fish -
She's giving an airplane a fling!

If this stanza doesn't mean boo,
Maybe Robin will give you a clue!
I'll give you this tip:
Join here and pals on a trip,
And you can pander with "Fishdom's Who's Who!"

Brad and Nancy are great!
They're fish people-workers first rate!
But Nan says the plan
Is - "There isn't a law
To keep Brad from being forever late!"

Auctioneer Nordby's the hoots.
He stands five foot three in his boots.
With a mischievous leer,
He says, "From down here,
I can really see those good roots!"

Jenny likes native fish-"tons"!
But she slipped on one of the runs.
She came up all wet
With a fish in the net
Saying, "Fishkeeping is cold on the buns!"

Our editor had this to relate.
The "Aqua News" was going to be late!
Dava was in a position
To run a special edition -
A baby boy, David - that's great!

Mr. Mathis just likes to tease -
And uses some nouns to displease!
"I took a 'boy' and a 'girl'
And gave them a whirl
And now I've got 'babies' - a breeze!"

My rhymer has run out of gas,
So, on the rest of you, I'll have to pass!
If you're not on the list,
Please, don't be remissed!
In the future, I'll give you some sass!