Yuck!

A parody of the English nursery rhyme Little Miss Muffet, which retains the charm and innocence of the original verse, but injects a little contemporary oomph.

Category

Witty and wry poems

Sub-category

Funny animal poems

Author

Little Miss

Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet
Eating a Big Mac and fries,
Along came a spider and sat down beside her,
'Yuck', it said, 'I prefer flies'.

More Nursery Rhyme Parodies

Writing nursery rhyme parodies can seem deceptively simple - swap the odd word here and there, tinker with the characterisation and bingo! In fact, nursery rhymes are almost sacred to the English and you parody them at your peril. So I've tackled a couple more NRPs - the perennial favourites Humpty Dumpty and Mary Had A Little Lamb - but I am neither as prolix as Paul, who has a rapidly growing collection of Rude Nursery Rhymes, nor as cerebral as Max, who writes parodies of high-brow poems and the odd nursery rhyme parody to boot.

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