Limericks A




The Art of Coarse Music

In a piano concerto in A The cadenza went sadly astray. Getting back via China, F blunt, G flat minor And stations from Slough on the way.
Robert Taylor, LC Index


Her breast augmentation from "A"
To size "F" was a windfall, they say.
When things leaked, her friends chided,
And soon she decided
Give her ten mil and flat is O.K.


Ann Gasser, P Mar 95 on the Monthly theme - Transplants Index


Whenever he got in a fury, a
Schizophrenic from Upper Manchuria,
Had pseudocyesis,
Disdiadochokinesis,
And haemotoporphyrimuria.


EOP p76 Index


Both John Keats and Boccaccio tell a
Sad tale about Isabella
Who was worn to a frazzle
Weeping over some basil
That grew in the skull of her fella.


Joyce Johnson, EOP p133 Index


A limeraiku

In Arabia, baby, a Girl must get dust In her labia.
Gertrude Gerard, EOP p249

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I went to a meeting for AA,
To stand up and ask them to say
If there's any hope,
For my kind of dope,
Who wants to stitch both night and day?


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An avidly ambitious aardvark
Commenced a career as a card shark;
To the shouts of his foes
When he dealt with his nose
he said "smelling your ace was the hard part!"


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There once was a young man named Aaron,
At whom the ladies were starin'.
He was tall, dark and tan,
Quite the ladies man,
Then he woke up.


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Said a miserly peer at the Abbey,
"I fear I shall look rather shabby,
For I've replaced my ermine.
Infested with vermin,
With the fur of my dear defunct tabby."


Langford Reed Index


There was an adulterous Abbot,
As randy as any old rabbit;
He'd even been known
(Indeed, he was prone)
With neighboring nuns to cohabit.


Harold C. Bibby Index


A novice was told by the Abbot:
"Consider the goat and the rabbit.
While they roll in the hay,
You just stay home and pray.
You've got to get out of the habit.


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Euclid's Last (or Lost) Theorem

In a triangle called ABC, Pick a point on AB, call it P. Pick a Q on BC, Where BQ is BP. Ah the joys of pure geo-me-tree! On CA pick an R, oh please do, Where CR is exactly CQ, And now pick an S On AB, more or less, So that "AS is AR" is true. On BC the next letter is T, Where BT is BS, don't you see. On CA pick a U, And you'll know what to do, Next what's this? We've arrived back at P! Now some proofs were soon found close at hand, But it didn't turn out quite as planned, For though not very large (They would fit in the marg- in) regrettably, none of them scanned.
David Gale in Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol. 20, No. 4 p32 Index


A faggot who called himself Abel
Went cruising one day in a stable.
A stud of a horse
Fucked his ass with such force
That his bowels blew out of his navel.


Copyright H. Whelchel, Virginia Beach VA 23452 (Non-commercial reproduction and distribution rights granted freely provided accompanied by this notice.) Index


A young lady of fair Aberdeen,
Drank gallons of boiling caffeine.
Kept needing the loo
Oh! What a to do!
Inspired, dug a handy latrine.


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There was a young lady of Aberdeen,
Whose admirers were ever so keen
To grab hold of a piece
On a rent or a lease,
Though she'd rather her intellect preen.


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An old drunk from old Aberdeen,
Saw witches and ghosts on Halloween.
Couldn't sleep at night
Such was his fright;
Swore off booze, drank only gasoline.


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There was a young man of Aberdeen
Who on cycling and juggling was keen.
One day he tried both
Though his girl friend was loath;
Changed his name overnight to 'Doreen'.


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There was a young man from Aberdeen,
Who as a cool dude tried to be seen.
He walked the tight-wire,
Juggling golf clubs of fire;
Retired a frustrated has-been.


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There was a young man from Aberdeen,
Who invented a jerk[ing | -off] machine.
On the twenty-[fifth | third] stroke
The [God damn | fucking] thing broke,
And beat [both] his balls [to a | into] cream.


L1 680, another version: 'A little fore-flusher Miss Ream,/ Invented a machine that fucked like a dream./ On the 99th stroke,/ The crazy thing broke,/ And turned her insides to whipped cream. Also 'named Eugene'

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An heiress from Abergavenny,
Had offers of marriage full many.
She surveyed all the men,
Very gravely, and then,
Said, "Thanks, but I'm not having any."


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Abersquith - see Aberystwyth


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There was a young girl of Aberystwyth,
Who took grain to the mill to make grist with.
The miller's son, Jack,
Laid her on her back,
And united the organs they pissed with.

Remember those two of Aberystwyth,
Who connected the things that they pissed with?
She sat on his lap,
But they both had the clap,
And they cursed with the things that they kissed with.


Algernon C. Swinburne, EOP p30, L2 1, B-G p74, v.2 is L1 424, also Abersquith, Allawisquith, Aquistwith, Drisquith, Ipswich, Ipswith and Twistwith. Variants have 'a young man' and 'He found there a lass/ Whom he laid on her ass' . Another is 'There was a young pair of Aberistwith/ Who united the organs they kissed with./ But as they grew older/ They also grew bolder,' The pair also: 'Who had some friends they played whist with./ They were accustomed, when able,/ To reach under the table/ And tickle the ...' or 'One day they were found/ Lying flat on the ground/ Playing games with...' Index


A couple from old Aberystwyth,
United the organs they kissed with;
They enjoyed this sweet sharing,
And did nothing more daring,
And she said: 'You're a right one to tryst with.'


Stuart Woods, EOP p190 Index


There was a young girl from Aberystwyth,
Who screwed every man that she kissed with.
She tickled the balls
Of the men in the halls,
And pulled on the prongs that they pissed with.


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There was a young man from Aberystwith,
Who said to the girl that he kissed with,
"That hole in your crotch
Is for fucking and such,
And not just a gadget to piss with."


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Aberystwith - see Bistwith


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A Pair of Black Loafers

A pair of black loafers, abhorred, Are two rappers in total discord - An improvement might be Spell their rap with a "C" - Their names happen to be Boom and Roared.
F. Stop Fitzgerald, P Oct 94, a Spoonerick Index


To love her he just was not able
For he found her to be quite unstable.
Her faulty ingredient
Made their parting expedient;
Too bad girls don't come with a label.


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Each Friday his engines abort,
But Scotty is never caught short.
He fills his machines
With space-navy beans,
And farts the ship back into port.


A euphemism for Dilithium crystals? Index


abound - see Benares


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Don't gossip or bandy about
That my cousin smells like Brussels sprout.
His smell, I've opined,
Does bring to my mind
The smell of week-old sauerkraut.


Al Willis Index


There was an Old Man of th' Abruzzi,
So blind that he couldn't his foot see;
When they said, "That's your toe!"
He replied, "Is it so?"
That doubtful Old Man of th' Abruzzi.


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A matron who favored abstention,
Had breasts of unequal dimension.
When woo'd by her hubby,
She withheld the large bubby,
Thus causing domestic dissension.


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Her voice is so high it's absurd.
It's so shrill that you can't hear a word.
When she's something to say
She starts running away
So the pitch drops enough to be heard.


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A [novelist | new dramatist] of the Absurd
Has a voice that will shortly be heard;
I learn from my spies
He's about to devise
An unprintable three-letter word.


Ogden Nash, EOP p123 Index


To Spooner, an "ism" absurd -
It seemed that a very tall bird
When it defecated,
Perhaps constipated,
Those watching would see a ball turd.


Irving Superior, P Oct 94, on the monthly theme - Spoonericks - In observance of the 150 anniversary of the birth of the Reverend William Archibald Spooner, the greatest bird watcher of all times. Index


absurd - see Cannuck


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abuse - see sorrow


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These Idiots with SPAM are abusin'
A newsgroup I find most amusin'
I'd fill up their shorts
with explosives of sorts
then laugh when they blew up in confusion.

Your limerick is not lame
It is the name of the game
To even the score
Fill the spammer with C4
Then we will not even remember their name.


Chas deTampa, charlesr@cftnet.com, Re: $10,000 Cash Loan Within 30 Days...GUARANTEED!!!!! Reply by Paul D. Index


Said a doctor in far Abyssinia,
"From the grave I can't possibly win yer;
I'm frightfully sorry,
But the wheel of that lorry
Has made such a big-abyss in yer !"


Langford Reed, The Indiscreet Limerick Book: 200 New Examples, P Oct 94. Note by the author: It may, possibly, be of some interest to state that the whole of the specimens in this present collection were perpetrated as a result of that extraordinary morning, a few days before Christmas, 1927, when the ice-sheeted London streets caused many hundreds of casualties. Among other unfortunates, the author fractured his leg and dislocated his ankle and, in consequence, remained a broken Reed for a couple of months. The Abyssinia example, which is the opening "indiscretion" in this book, was composed to amuse his doctor, a few days after the accident and was so well received that the perpetrator was emboldened to spend the greater part of his convalescence in inventing others. Such censure, therefore, as they may provoke, should be laid on the head of the Clerk of the Weather for if that fickle gentleman (or possibly the Clerk is a lady one!) had not misbehaved himself, this volume would certainly not have been Compiled! Index


I fear I am accident-prone,
Though not by the breakage of bone:
I fall for a face -
I've fallen from grace -
Heart-broken, I do nothing but moan.


Laurence Perrine, P May 94 Index


I once had a checking account
And overdrew the amount.
I had a bad day -
The bank wouldn't pay -
When I learned bouncing checks make a mount.

Since then I've quit writing checks
But notice the gov' smart alecks
The lesson have spurned.
They still haven't learned
That rubber economy wrecks.


Copyright 1988 by Robert Grob Index


Said Mrs. Smith sadly, "J'accuse
Mr. Smith of what does not amuse.
He will start things all right
Any time of the night,
But almost at once blows his fuse."


Isaac Asimov Index


The verse that was posted by Ace
Fell instantly flat on its face
The misspelling of lamb
Can only be called ham
It lacked humour, rhyming and pace.


Prompted by: 'mary had a little lamp ,/ it followed her into a shop ,/ this of course was a big mistake ,/ cause the shop it was a butchers / an' the lamp became a steak' Ace Man, eh? Index


Achaeans - see Achilles


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The Homeric young fighter Achilles,
Was great with the fair Trojan fillies,
But Paris said, "We'll
Just aim at his heel."
Now Achilles is pushing up lilies.


Isaac Asimov Index


Limerick Iliadic

Sing, Goddess, the wrath of Achilles, Which gave the Achaeans the willies, And sent into Hades The numberless shades Of heroes laid under the lilies. Birds and doggies ate warriors, yea, To give Zeus in heaven his way: So zero in now And make the wild row Twixt King Ag. and Achilles your lay. . . Who was it started their quarrels? Apollo, the god with the laurels; Since Chryses they slighted The army was blighted And Ag. found his love-life in snarls. He came to the ships of th' Achaeans, Singing some prayers and some paeans; To ransom his daughter, He went all out and brought a Big ransom to the rash Europeans. Said Chryses "The god you will please If my dear daughter you would release, May you seize Priam's town, And win much renown, (And those are some good-looking greaves!) And then the Greeks cried out in favor To respect this entreating behavior, But Ag on that day Just sent him away With an order which made the priest quaver. Old Chryses was bad as his word He prayed, and Apollo he heard: So the god was displeased And the Argives diseased Because Ag. had done something absurd. Achilles and Aggie for Briseis engaged in some mighty fierce disses over who'd say he won her saved some of his honor, and got to enjoy all her kisses. To Achilles as he sat in his tent, Came an old king with clothing rent. Achilles said: "This guy Priam Is really like I am." So he finally agreed to relent.
1st trans. by Edwin E. Moise, 2nd by Peter Green, , 3rd by Elizabeth Vandiver, , 4th by Alexander Kozak, , 5th by Eric de Beus, , 6th by Scott Garner, , 7th by Brian Donovan, , 8th by David Sider, 9th by Kurt Bray Index


Lady Di said, "This is absurd!
[I'll show Charles just who | Charles always] has the last word!"
So to shake up the Brits,
She uncovered her tits
And flipped the Queen Mother the bird!


Ogden Nield, TP, P Jan '96 Index


When you sneeze and you cough and you're achin'
And you feel that your body is breakin'
Just try to recall
It's still only Fall;
Old man winter has yet to awaken. 


Lisa the Limerick Lady, TP Index


LEUCIPPUSERICKS & DEMOCRITUSERICKS:

On the world-view these thinkers acknowledged, All internal distinction's abolished. Throughout the world's areas, Only two things are various: A thing's size, and how smoothly it's polished. What are "things" then? - the Atomists quiz you. There's no question more suited to busy you! Well, to answer the riddle: They're all hard and quite little. And whirling so fast it would dizzy you. For the Atomists - should we go back to 'm - There's just "atoms" surrounded by vacuum. What they're made of, your query is? That remains quite mysterious: They alone are what seemed to be fact to 'm. Thus the Atomist's favorite theme: Things are never the same as they seem. Be they smooth or more spiny, Since they're all very tiny, Human eyes aren't permitted to see 'm. As for "fact," when our senses inform us, The distortion's no less than enormous. For what's seen's (per this wisdom) Just our own nervous system, After hordes of those little things storm us.
Rhyme or Reason: A Limerick History of Philosophy, P Apr 95

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acquirer - see sewer


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There was a young fellow of Acre,
Who took off his hat to a Quaker.
When the worthy man said,
"You are very well bred",
He replied, "Well, you see I'm a baker."


Langford Reed Index


Some girls are all talk and no action,
Giving men no satisfaction.
They don't do dick,
Have not touched a prick,
So where is there any attraction?


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A petite girl, when begged for some action,
Told a guy with a nine inch attraction:
"It would cause me dismay
If you went all the way -
But I'd settle," she smiled, "for a fraction."


PB Mar 85 Index


Don Reilly, the world's greatest actor!
His art! His use of M*x F*ct*r!
This freshman sensation
Induces elation
Much better than my chiropractor.


Janet Whaley Q. Why did Elizabeth Ard*n? A. Because M*x F*ct*r! Index


There once was a handsome young actor;
While filming he fell off a tractor.
Though not in his script,
He went to Egypt,
To visit the Cairo-practor.


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Our greatest American actor
Is DeNiro and clearly a factor
Behind this impression
Is his deep obsession
With being a pure malefactor.


Larry Dahl, or 'That leads to this notion/ Is constant devotion/ To playing the chief malefactor.' Index


A famous theatrical actress
Placed best in the role of malefactress;
Yet her home life was pure,
Except, to be sure,
A scandal or two just for practice.


B-G p95, EOP p109, Mc p45 Index


A young taxidermist from Ada,
Whose wife said he'd often betrayed her,
Was sued for divorce
For mounting a horse,
A moose and a goose and a 'gator.


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There was a young man of Adair
Who thought he would diddle a mare.
He climbed up a ladder
And jolly well had her,
With his backside a-wave in the air.


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There was a young man named Adair
Who tried to go down on a bear,
But the murderous brute
Took a swing at the fruit
And left nothing but buttons and hair.


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A nearsighted voyeur named Adair,
While peeping was struck by despair,
Though his nose pressed to the glass,
All he saw was blurred ass,
And he couldn't see what went in where.


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In the Garden of Eden lay Adam
[Complacently stroking | Caressing the tits of
| Disporting himself with | Stroking the thighs
of | Caressing the rump | And played with the
butt of | Fondling the breasts of] his madam,
And loud was his mirth
For he knew that on earth
There were only two balls - and he had 'em.


B-G p95, HHH p107, L2 126, CPV 117, EOP p180, Mc p11, also: 'No one else in creation/ Could enjoy such sensation'

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A sultan named Abou ben [Adam | Adhem],
Thus cautioned a travelling madam,
"I suffer from crabs
As do all us A-rabs,"
"It's alright," said the madam, "I've had 'em."


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Double Limerick

The first of all people was Adam, And out of his ribs appeared Eve; Her primary task was to pad 'em, The pain of her birth to relieve. She fed him with fruit, And attempted a suit, But God said: 'How crude! Though you cease to be nude, Never hope, my unfortunate madam, Your apronless state to retrieve.'
Moira Blyth, EOP p247 Index


Back in the days of old Adam,
The grass served as mattress for madam.
And they spent the whole day
On the sex that today
They would bounce on box springs, if they had 'em.


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An ardent debater named Adam
Loved to yak on the phone to a madam.
To be deprived of this pleasure
Was a fear beyond measure,
So you name the gadgets, he had 'em.


Maxine Stephen Index


There was a young fellow named Adam,
Who bedded a beautiful madam.
Later on in the dark,
She cried out "Oh, Mark",
"Not Mark!" he cried: "madamimadam".


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add - see Stein


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On Venus, where love's an addiction,
An orgasm's brought on by friction
Of toes against toes,
Or nose against nose,
And that's what I call science fiction.


Isaac Asimov Index


The limerick, like drugs, is addictive,
And it often is cruel and vindictive.
Backed by laws that are bold
It must needs be controlled
By a doctor's prescription restrictive.


Al Chaplin, P Aug 94 Index


A beheaded limerick

A certain young pate who was addle Rode a horse he alleged to be saddle, But his gust which was dis, For his haps which were mis, Sent him back to his lac which was Cadil.
Arthur Shaw, EOP p256 Index


A Nelsonian captain addressed
His men, on their duty, with zest.
History doesn't teach
What they thought of his speech,
But we think most of them were impressed.


Chandrama Index


A whimsical Arab from Aden,
His masculine member well laden,
Cried, "Nuptual joy,
When shared with a boy,
Is better than melon or maiden."


L2 332 Index


There was a young fellow named Ades
Whose favorite fruit was young maids.
But sheep, nigger boys, whores,
And the knot holes in doors
Were by no means exempt from his raids.


L3 499, Shouldn't that name be more appropriately Aids? Index


A beheaded limerick

A chap who was so pose that was adi And the butt of such nage that was badi. He solved that was re Not to lay that was de In taking steps cal that were radi.
Arthur Shaw, EOP p256 Index


Dear Sarah bid hubby adieu
'Cos he's not the right man for you
So shack up with me
And soon we will see
How long 'till you leave me, too.


Gideon Joubert Index


admirers - see surmise


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The selection was tough, I admit,
But it did not dismay him one bit,
Then, with ass thrown aloft
He suddenly coughed ...
And collapsed in a shower of shit.
(But it daunted our Spartan no whit)

His bunghole was blown back to Sparta,
Where they buried the rest of our farter.
With a gravestone of turds
Inscribed with the words,
"To the Fine Art of Farting, a Martyr."


HHH p81, L1 189

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Their ending was sad, we admit;
Their organs were shattered and split.
From the force that existed,
Both their assholes were twisted
And they died amongst spirals of shit.


Albin Chaplin, clearly not the first verse. Perhaps it joins on to one of the following:

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A corn husker with seizures admits
That a floozy with flux is the pits,
But if one has the hots
Banging broads with the trots
Is no worse than to shuck between fits.


Bob Giandomenico, P Oct 94, on the monthly theme - Spoonericks Index


Golf is a game I adore,
If only they didn't keep score.
My drives go acurving,
My putting's disturbing,
And "Fuck!" gives no warning like "Fore!"


Nick Scales Index


Two dykes from the far Adriatic,
Decided to be more pragmatic,
Having switched from mere handling
To mutual candling -
The result is they're waxing ecstatic.


PB, Apr 76 Index


Though at lying, my aunt is adroit,
I don't see what she hopes to exploit.
She claims she was "zood",
In Kalamascrood,
But I know it took place in Detroit.


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There were two consenting adults,
Who agreed that they would not repulse,
One another's advances,
But just take their chances,
And accept the result - or results.


John Ciardi Index


There once was a glider, Advanced,
Who's antics resembled a dance.
While not quite divergent,
The trim was convergent,
Somewhere near the seat-of-the-pants.


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Without Remorse...?

A choirboy seeking advancement Must use artificial enhancement: A paring most cruel Near the Family Jewel For the talent of vocal entrancement. But sensible people must wonder - What's the purpose behind such a blunder? Why - so soon in life - Renounce every wife By rending one's assets asunder?
CassandraK@aol.com, re: Farinelli the famous castrato of Handel's time (though he did not sing for him). Index


The Hardy Boys, on an adventure,
Both wanted to land in her center.
They opened her legs,
Inserted their pegs,
And debauched the young lass magenta!


Charlotte Index


Thank you all for the helpful advice
Now my limericks sound much more nice
Its all in the rhyming 
As well as the timing
And choosing a subject of vice

Does a limerick have to be crude
Or simply insightful yet rude 
I prefer politics
Over rhymes about d***s
But perhaps I'm a bit of a prude

So here's one I've posted before
Poking fun at BC and Al Gore
If you do not like it
Then you're free to strike it
And write me off now as a bore

There once was Clinton named Bill
Who lived up on Capitol Hill
He sold out the White House
And cheated on his spouse
Then tore up his knee in a spill

An orthopod fixed up the knee
While the Senate checked out DNC
Show me the money
These numbers look funny
Al Gore and your friend Hillary

Thank you so much for your time
As I close this rendition of rhyme
I know its quite silly
But alas, old slick Willie
Makes making fun much more sublime

Than dirty old men from Nantucket
And phraseology rhyming with bucket
That seems way too easy
And oft makes some queasy
Though admittedly all of us yuck it


Re: Questions for limerick purists. Frank gave some advice.

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There was a young woman of Aenos	
Who came to our party as Venus.
We told her how rude
'Twas to come there quite nude,
And we brought her a leaf from the greenh'us



Thomas Bailey Aldrich, B-G p53, EOP p193, Mc p62, L2 855 Index


Sass Mäaut;delein unter den Aestchen
Und spielt' mit dem Knäaut;bleinmäaut;stchen,
Dem niedlichen Zweck -
Bald is der Kranz weg:
Blieb nichts davon nur das Käaut;stchen.


L2 460

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One night a girl had an affair
With a fellow all covered with hair.
Then she picked up his hat
And realized that
She'd been had by Smoky the Bear.


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He was glad he had begun this affair,
As he bent her over the chair.
With her legs spread apart,
He could see that this tart
Was his favorite dessert, his eclair.


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affair - see tea


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One night a girl had an affair
With a fellow all covered with hair.
His enormous red whang
Gave her a wonderful bang -
She'd been diddled by Smokey the Bear.


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A CLINTONERICK - A Gary Hart Recycle

"Miss Jones," Clinton said with affection, "Oh, please won't you lick my erection." But Paula, so silly, Misunderstood Billy And thought he said, "Wreck my re-election."
Martin Wellborn, P Aug 94 Index


There was a man with an affinity
For having his daughter's virginity,
Who said, as he pressed her
And finally possessed her:
"To Hell with consanguinity!"


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The Rajah of Afganistan
Imported a Birmingham can
Which he set as a throne
On a great Buddha stone;
But he crapped out of doors like a man.



JR, B-G p95, CPV 47, L1 115 Index


How to Promote Tourism

In Texas a hunter afield Was arrested with weapon revealed. He was told: "While it's fun To carry a gun, The law says it must be concealed."
Cybergeezer, P Dec 95

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A sculptor remarked, "I'm afraid
I have fallen in love with my trade.
I'm too much elated
With what I've created,
And, chiefly, the women I've made."


B-G p95, EOP p161 Index


In the spring I am always afraid
For the honor of young man and maid.
I tremble with dread
Lest a lad be misled
And I shudder to see one miss laid!


Laurence Perrine, P Sep 94 on the monthly theme - Sex Education. 'A Limerick's Always a Verse' (Harcourt Brace, 1990) Index


Here's to it, and through it, and to it again,
To suck it, and screw it, and screw it again!
So in with it, out with it,
Lord work his will with it!
Never a day we don't do it again.


Robert Burns?, CPV 36, L1 103. Is this a Limerick? Another variant is: 'Here's to it and from it/ And to it again./ May the man who got to it/ And then didn't do it,/ May he never get to it/ To do it again.' Index


I'll never get drunk again,
For my head's full of pain,
And it grieves me to think
That by dint of good drink
I should lie with my Phillis in vain.


Star of Coventry Inn, on a window, 1712. Index


She said, "There you go!  False alarm again!
You bally old bounder, get calm again!
I once taught a starling
To answer to 'Darling,'
But I'm usually faithful to ptarmigan."


A. Crowley, L3 1194 Index


Daily Ditty 173 Sunday, 7 December 1997

Let's remember Pearl Harbor again And vow that we'll always make plain That we'll take no crap From Arab or Jap As we recently proved with Hussein ...
Copyright John Miller Talco TX 75487 Non-commercial reproduction and distribution rights granted freely provided accompanied by this notice.

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The court hadn't seen in an age
The king in so vicious a rage;
For the queen, so she said,
Went to read in her bed,
Where the king found her stuck to a page.


PB Aug 79 Index


All newspaper boardroom agenda
Since Murdoch, have had some addenda;
Must everyone plan
For the dirty old man
Who only wants female pudenda?


P. Jennings Index


A challenge for many long ages
Had baffled the savants and sages.
Yet at last came the light:
Seems old Fermat was right -
To the margin add 200 pages.



Paul Chernoff, From the net at location: http://www.fys.ruu.nl/ ~nienhuys/scijokes/sj14.txt

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There's a very hot babe at the Aggies,
Who's to men what to bulls a red flag is.
The Seniors go round
Hanging down to the ground,
And one extra-large Soph has to drag his.


Explanation of 'Aggies' supplied by Arthur Deex: In the last century a Federal law was passed in the US that created Agriculture and Mechanical Colleges in each state. These are named "(statename) Agriculture and Mechanical College." But for short they are called "(statename) A & Index


aglow - see Burdew


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Daily Ditty 150 Friday, 14 November, 1997

A dyslexic insomniac agnostic Lay awake thinking thoughts diagnostic With his mind in a fog Asking, "Is there a dog?" And other things nearly as caustic.
Copyright John Miller Talco TX 75487 Non-commercial reproduction and distribution rights granted freely provided accompanied by this notice.

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ago - see mire


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Some lives are so odd - you agree?
Well worthy of biography.
The limerick traces
Their trials and disgraces -
So different from you and from me.


EOP p199 Index


It took me some time to agree
To appear in a film about me,
And my various ex-wives
Detailing our sex lives,
But I did - and they rated it G.


John Ciardi Index


The ladies all had to agree
That Mort's penis was too small to see.
A whore named Louise
Sniffed, "Who will that please?"
Mort proudly submitted, "Just me!"


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On Health Plans, most planners agree
Expensive . . . and who'll pay the fee?
The only sure bet
Is who will forget
Democracy's motto - WHY ME?


Irving Superior, P May '94 on monthly theme - Health Care Plans Index


"Competition is keen, you'll agree,"
Said an ancient old [flapper from | hooker named] Dee.
So she dyed her gray tresses,
Chopped a foot [from | off] her dresses,
And her reason you plainly can see.


L2 462 Index


You Women's Lib gals won't agree,
But dependent on men you must be.
You'll still need a him
With a rod firm and trim,
To puggle your water-drains free!


L3 235 Index


I think that most students agree,
We really don't like chemistry.
Homework...There's tons.
And these seats hurt my buns,
And we'd rather be watching TV.


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Intelligent life, I agree
Might have signalled deliberately.
But before they said "Over"
Their home star went nova
And killed them, one million B.C.


Restricted, William J. Fraser, from the SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestial Intelligence) Isaac Asimov Memorial Limerick Contest Index


Intelligent life, I agree


William J. Fraser, from the SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestial Intelligence) Isaac Asimov Memorial Limerick Contest Index


There's a fabric spelled A-I-D-A,
That none of us know how to say.
So we asked our sales clerk,
'Bout this hard verbal quirk,
She said, "Buy linen, throw that shit away!"


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Mourned a limerick written by Aiken,
"Sometimes when at night I awaken,
And think but for Lear,
I wouldn't be here.
O how by that thought I am shaken."


Conrad Aiken. A self referential limerick!! Send it to Douglas Hofstadter. Index


Exposing his plate to the air,
Did its clever inventor declare:
'C'est venue - ma photo,
Complète - in toto -
C'est magnifique - "Je suis Daguerre!"'









Joyce Johnson, EOP p80 Index


Floating idly one day in the air,
A circus performer named Blair,
Tied a sizable rock
To the end of his cock,
And shattered a balcony chair.


L2 648 Index


air - see pre-Socratic


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Teenage Joanie has arrogant airs,
And her favorite expression's "Who cares?!"
She is known for her lip
And is rumored to rip
All the DON'T REMOVE! tags from new chairs.


William N. Nesbit, P Jan '96 monthly theme: Juvenile Delinquents Index


There is a young lady named Aird
Whose bottom is always kept bared;
When asked why, she pouts,
And says the Boy Scouts
All beg her to please Be Prepared.


B-G p96 Index


The bride went up the aisle
In traditional virginal style.
But they say she was nary
An innocent cherry,
But a whore from the banks of the Nile.


L2 463 Index


On the day that she walked down the aisle,
With love in her heart, she said, "I'll
Stop flirting with Ned   
And break off with Ed,
But I can't stop sleeping with Lisle."


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A man in the battle of Aix,
Had one nut and his cock shot [away | awaix].
But found out in this pickle,
His nose could still tickle,
Though he might get the snuffles some [day | daix].


L1 586 Index


There once were five guys named Al:
Kane, Kene, Kyne, de Hyde and Cohol.
Kane, Kene, Kyne were confused,
Al Cohol was abused,
And de Hyde was hung on de wall.


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Went to the movies, alack!
Took a front seat in the back.
Fell down, Ah me!
From the top balcony,
And broke a big bone in my back.


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A captain, exposed to alarms,
And much given to shivers and qualms,
Just couldn't keep warm
On a boat in a storm,
Without the first mate in his arms.


Isaac Asimov Index


A doctor said sadly, "Alas!
From the data that I can amass,
What causes male droop -
And I have all the poop -
Is the feminine excess of ass."


Albin Chaplin, L3 4 Index


There once was a girl from Alaska,
Who [would fuck whenever you'd ask | could, and she would, if you asked] her.
[But soon she grew | she thought she was] nice,
[And went up in | so high was her] price,
[And | That] no one could [touch | have] her [but | save] Jesus H. Christ
[Or possibly | (And, occasionally,] John Jacob Astor.[)]


L1 342, also 'Doncaster', 'Lancaster' and 'Master'. For other limericks with an extra line see 'Hunt' and 'Llewellyn'.

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Alaska - see beer


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There once was a chef from Alaska
Who cooked an unusual pasta
Made from snakes and from worms
It gave people the squirms
So only his wife eats it, she hasta!


David A. Naess <"dnaess@frontiernet.net"@frontiernet.net> improving on one that didn't rhyme or scan. Index


A Spaniard from old Albacete
Once fucked fifteen goats on a bet-a.
When asked how he felt,
He hitched up his belt,
And said, "I can't tell just as yet-a."


L3 1205a Index


A vicious old whore of Albania
Hated men with a terrible mania.
With a twitch and a squirm
She would hold back your sperm,
And then roll on her face and disdain ya.


L1 343 Index


An intelligent whore from Albania,
Read books and grew steadily brainier.
Yet it wasn't her science,
That brought her male clients,
But her quite uncontrolled nymphomania.


Isaac Asimov Index


On The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge

No, listen, there's this albatross, I shot him, he wasn't half cross. He had the crew cursed, he Made us feel thirsty. I'm ancient now. Tragic, eh, boss?
Bill Greenwell, EOP p135 Index


A bastard who came from Alberta
Said "My daddy is wanted for murder.
And nor did he bother
To tell my poor mother
After nookie that he would desert her."


shermbrucker Index


A trombonist from old Albuquerque
Found his slide had gone terribly jerky.
An inspection revealed
Two oranges, peeled,
Half a loaf and a10 kilo turkey.




Brian Bateman, LC Index


Limericks about alcohol

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There was a young lady called Alice
Who peed in a Catholic chalice.
The padre agreed
'Twas done out of need
And not out of [Protestant | sectarian] malice.



Probably qualifies as the limerick with the largest number of variations. JR, B-G p96, EOP p98, Mc p74, HHH p40 has '... in the Bishop's new chalice; But that worthy agreed...' CPV 78 has: 'Who was having a piss in a chalice./ "What a stunt," said a monk,/ "To twiddle your cunt,/ Not through need but through Protestant malice."' Yet another version: 'There was a young nun named Alice,/ Who was taking a piss in a chalice./ When a passing old vicar,/ Seized her to stick her,/ Not through lust, but through Protestant malice.' Two other vars on the middle lines are: 'It is my belief,/ It was done for relief', and (L2 416) 'She said, "I do this/ From a great need to piss.' Others: 'She committed the deed/ From a natural need', 'But it is the belief/ That she peed for relief.', 'But I hasten to mention/ From vesicular tension'

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There was a young lady named Alice,
Who purchased a hard-rubber phallus.
Since she learned its perfections,
She shuns doctors' inspections.
It is such an odd place for a callus.


L2 940 Index


[There was a young lady | A do-it-yourselfer] named Alice
Used a dynamite stick for a phallus;
[They found | She blew] her vagina
[In | To] North Carolina
And [[a bit | half | part] of her [ass down | pelvis] | her tits landed somewhere] in Dallas.

A cute friend of hers, Fanny Hill,
Used two dynamite sticks for a dil.
They found her vagina,
In South Carolina,
And part of her ass in Brazil.


HHH p51 has minor vars. An alternative first line (used in L1 587) is: 'Nymphomaniacal Alice'. And a last one is: 'And her [tits | ass-hole] in Buckingham Palace'. Sometimes the lady is anonymous but comes from Dallas and ends up in Buck. Pal. One version conflates the two verses: 'Old nymphomaniac Jill/ Tried a dynamite stick for a thrill/ they found her vagina / in North Carolina/ and bits of her tits in Brazil Index


There was a young lady named Alice,
Whose ass was as big as a palace.
Her dresses were tight,
And she made quite a sight,
To quicken the pulse of the callous.


L2 889 Index


When they asked a pert baggage named Alice,
Who'd been bedded and banged in the palace,
"Was he modest or vain?
Was he regal or plain?"
She replied, "He's a jolly good phallus!"


PB Oct 82 Index


There was a young virgin named Alice,
Who thought of her cunt as a chalice.
One night, sleeping nude,
She awoke feeling lewd,
And found in her chalice, a phallus.


L2 464 Index


My semi-demented Aunt Alice
Went to dine at the Archbishop's Palace;
But she fell into sin,
Drinking far too much gin
And pissed in his second-best chalice.

The Archbishop, surprised, said "O daughter!
You have done what you shouldn't have oughter;
And in cases like this,
While we don't call it `piss',
I'll be damned if it's quite `Holy Water'!


Martin Hubbard

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There once was a singer named Alice
Got a girl from his gig at the Palace
His strong manly heart
Stole the love of this tart
Or was it his prehensile phallus?


Mike Dale , who says: Alice Cooper maybe, but I'd like to seem him pick up loose change with it! Index


There was a young showgirl named Alice,
Could pick up loose coins with her phallus.
But it couldn't make change,
Which narrowed her range,
And kept her from playing the Palace.


Must have been a freak!!?? Index


A dolly in Dallas named Alice,
Whose overworked sex is all callous,
Wore the foreskin away
On uncircumsized Ray
Through exuberance, tightness, and malice.


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A beheaded limerick

A dashing young fellow from Alder, Used to spiel such a pure like of folder- O-leary-o-lie, Our maid would near die. But time passed and his dash became balder.
John Ciardi Index


Once a farmhand outside Alexander
Attempted to goose a big gander.
But the ganders got even -
Shat all over Stephen!
Moral: Don't rile a big gander's dander.


L3 1181 Index


The bishop of Alexandretta
Loved a girl and he couldn't forget her.
So he thought he'd enshrine her
As the Holy Vagina
In the Church of the Sacred French Letter.


L3 1084 Index


There once was this girl named Alexis,
Thought all big pricks came from Texas.
But she made a mistake,
When the man from Salt Lake,
Filled her cunt with his "Pecker Erectus!"


Lawrence Craft, Vol 1, 16 Index


A certain young lass of Algeria,
Was reduced to loud wails of hysteria,
When her escort one night
Said, "No, Miss, honor bright,
My motives are just not ulterior."


Isaac Asimov Index


There was an old Bey of Algiers
Who said to his harem, "My dears,
You may think it odd o' me
But I've given up sodomy."
["Aha!", said the ladies | Tonight there'll be fucking], "Loud cheers."



B-G p96, HHH p61 and EOP p278 give: 'Said the mythical King of Algiers/ To his harem assembled, "My dears,/ You may think it odd of me/ But [I'm tired of | I've given up] sodomy;/ Tonight's for you [ladies | girls]" (Loud Cheers!)' This is L2 398 as the third fit of a sequence sometimes given with a different Algiers. Other vars: '"There may be some joy/ In the arse of a boy,/ But I prefer women." - Loud Cheers', "I've given up sodomy,/ Boys no longer bodder me./ From now on we fuck," - Loud Cheers', 'Who said to his harem, "My dears,/ I know what you're expecting/ With your clitori erecting,/ But this morning 'twill be up your rears."', 'Outside there are urchins/ Who are waiting for virgins./ This is your day off." - Loud Sneers'

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The sore-peckered Bey of Algiers,
Told his harem next evening: "My dears,
Last night's round of screwing
Has proved my undoing,
So you may not get fucked for TEN YEARS!"


L3 504 Index


The randy old Bey of Algiers,
Who'd confined his cock-poking to queers,
Tried a cunt for a change,
And remarked, "It felt strange...
Just think what I've missed all there years!"


L3 503 Index


Then up spake the Bey of Algiers
"I've been knocking around for long years,
And my language is blunt;
A cunt IS a cunt
And fucking IS fucking" - (Loud cheers).



CPV 25, L2 gives another Algiers as the third 'fit' of this sequence. Alt: 'I'm old and well stricken in years'

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There was an old whore of Algiers
Who had bushels of dirt in her ears.
The tip of her titty
Was also quite [shitty | gritty],
She never had washed it in years.



L1 344, or 'The tail of her shirty/ Was also quite dirty' Index


A feminine queer from Algiers,
Loves to fondle small boys' chubby rears.
When finished with those,
Fucks himself with his toes,
Then douches his rear with two beers.


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Two fussy old queers from Algiers
Were flustered and almost in tears,
For the buggers had spent
What they needed for rent,
And their landlord had said, "No arrears!"


PB, Aug 75 Index


The long-peckered Bey of Algiers
Loved to spear chubby lads in their rears.
A demon for semen,
This buggersome he-man
Shot the chute till it seeped from their ears.


L3 927 Index


This two-balled old Bey of Algiers.
Sent his head eunuch shopping for queers.
"Mohammed," he smirked,
As he casually jerked,
"Just be sure they have overdrive rears!"


L3 928 Index


There was an old whore of Algiers,
Who found the whole lodge in arrears.
So she threatened to sue,
For the payments past due,
Or she'd cut off their peckers with shears.


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A farmer who lived in Algiers,
Once planted some corn in his ears.
When the temperature rose,
he leapt to his toes.
Now popping is all that he hears.


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This spermless old Bey of Algiers,
Said: "Back in my more potent years,
I begat brats by dozens
On my sisters and cousins,
Besides oiling the hips of fat queers."


L3 505 Index


"But alas!" said the Bey of Algiers,
"I've gone impotent now, it appears.
If the eunuchs won't suck you,
I'll have puppydogs fuck you,
So don't pee in your pants or shed tears."


L3 506 Index


Said the cunt-lapping Bey of Algiers,
In a cunt halfway up to his ears:
"This snatch is delicious,
And without doubt nutritious.
She's my best-tasting wife in ten years!"


L3 823 Index


A senora from old Alicante,
Whose morals were notably scanty.
"I'm not at my best,"
She said, "overdressed."
So she left off both brassiere and panty.


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Said Joe of a woman named Alison,
"That's a lady with whom I would dally, son.
For her body, you see,
Is indubitably
Where I'd like to deposit my phallus on."


Isaac Asimov Index


Daily Ditty 164 Friday, 28 November

She was pretty and young and alive She came by on a membership drive I invited her in And led her to sin - I had my own member to drive!
Copyright John Miller Talco TX 75487 Non-commercial reproduction and distribution rights granted freely provided accompanied by this notice.

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Remember that night in Algiers
When we polished off three dozen beers
And all eight ugly broads
At Fatima &


Martin Wellborn, P May 95 announcing the June theme - Beer Index


It's only human nature after all
If a fellow puts a girl against a wall
And puts his inclination
Into her accommodation
To increase the population
Of the rising generation -
Why, it's only human nature after all.


L1 104, alternatively: 'To line a pretty girl against the wall,/ To stick your continuation/ In her communication -/ It's human nature, taht's all.' Index


Poor Courtney - not happy at all;
Her house is becoming a mall
For fanatical fans
Using nails and hands
Scraping souvenirs from off the wall.


Refers to the suicide of Kurt Cobain

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all - see chagrin


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all - see Bundt



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Allawisquith - see Aberystwyth


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Don't copulate with alligators,
Expecially not in elevators.
But once in a while,
With a mild crocodile,
It's a sure cure for wild woman-haters.


L3 1182 Index


allow - see how


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There was a young fellow of Alltree,
Whose parts were but puny and paltry.
But he knew how to do
A neat gobbledegoo
[...............cetera desunt]


L2 649 Index


Alnwick - see Annick, Alnwicke


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There was a young lady of Alnwicke,
Whom a stranger threw into a panic.
For he frigged her and fucked her,
And buggered and sucked her,
With a glee hardly short of Satanic.


L1 482, The town (in Northumberland) is pronounced Annic and usually written Alnwick Index


An old maid in the land of Aloha
Got wrapped in the coils of a boa;
And as the snake squeezed,
The old maid, not displeased,
Cried: 'Darling! I love it! Samoa!'


B-G p96, HHH p88 Index


In his grass hut the chief lived alone.
His throne, stowed up high, down was blown.
He was hit on the head
And it left him quite dead.
In grass houses do not stow a throne.


Al Chaplin, P Oct 94, on the monthly theme - Spoonericks Index


alone - see heedin'


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When young Billy Bloggs was alone,
He'd sexually abuse his phone.
He'd take the handpiece
And cover it in grease
Then get hard to the sound of the tone.


Judd Index


Jean de Beaucaire, a creature aloof,
Liked to play violin on the roof.
He would fiddle the gig
In a large orange wig;
This was odd.  But then, he was a poof.


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The verses foregoing, alphabetical,
Could scarcely be reckoned ascetical;
And, what's even worse is,
The amorous verses
Are not even very poetical.

Many friends to my help gladly came;
They sought neither favor nor fame:
If, despite all this aid,
Mistakes have been made,
The author alone is to blame.


Harold C. Bibby, last verses

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There was a young [girl in Alsace | maiden named Frass]
Who was having her first piece of ass.
"Oh, darling, you'll kill me,
Oh, [dearest | darling], you thrill me,
Like Father John's thumb after mass."


CPV 105, L2 417 Index


There was a young girl from Alsace,
Who could pick up a dime with her ass.
As her muscles contracted,
Her chest was retracted,
And her teats both fell off in the grass.


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Alsace - see Cass


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A Frenchman who lived in Alsace,
Had sex with a virgin named Grace.
When he popped her cherry,
She made things real hairy,
By bleeding all over his face.


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Said a greedy old piggie, "Although
The sows leave when they've eaten enough,
I still squat in the slough
With my snout in the trough,
I will never admit I am through."


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There was a young maid of Altoona,
Who said to an ardent young spooner,
"It is simply no use,
Put me down, turn me loose.
Though I come pretty soon, you come sooner."


Isaac Asimov Index


Thus spake I AM THAT I AM:
"For the Virgin I don't give a damn.
What pleases Me most
Is to bugger the Ghost,
And then be sucked off by the Lamb"



L1 1, CPV 98

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I think that I think that I am,
Thought a Pentium processor, Sam.
If you take me apart
You will find no Descartes
Because cogito ergo, I'm Sam.


Larry Dahl Index


A young lady from old Amarillo
Mused, as she lay on her pillow,
If, and when, I give in,
Would it be a great sin
If it's only a small peccadillo?


Barrie Collins, TP, P Jan '96 Index


A charmer from old Amarillo,
Sick of finding strange heads on her pillow,
Decided one day
The to keep men away
She would stuff up her crevice with Br*llo.


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A trucker from down Amarillo
Kept in his cab a down pillow
So whenever his luck
Was up in his truck...
But it ain't, so it's still Armadillo!

While stumbling across Amarillo
I encountered a large armadillo
Without even thinking
(Because I'd been drinking)
I used him that night as a pillow.

A lady from down Amarillo
Had sex with a rusty old Brillo
She ruined her clit
And can't even sit
Unless she is using a pillow.

there once was a guy d'Amarillo
equipped with a huge Cigarillo,
his girlfriend once said, 
while cosy in bed,
"can i use it tonight as a pillow?"

A cowboy from west Amarillo,
Is walking quite bow-legged still, for
He got caught in the rain
And it was such a pain
When it rusted his codpiece of brillo!

That cowboy from west Amarillo,
The one with the codpiece of brillo?
He got run out of town
And he still wears a frown
From his last indiscreet pecadillo.

While driving toward Amarillo,
Sleep-driving was his peccadillo.
The trip was so boring
He found himself snoring
Without benefit of a pillow.


bpostma@ix.netcom.com (bpostma) wrote: I am issuing a challenge to create the first limerick with "Amarillo" as the end of the first line. Any takers? 1.Tim Main 2. lms07@aol.com (LMS07) 3. Bob Leclerc 4. & 5. jfl@mti.net (Joe Long) 6. Frank,

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A charmer from old Amarillo,
Sick of finding strange heads on her pillow,
Decided one day
That to keep men away
She would stuff up her crevice with Br*llo.


communicated by bigfish@pond.com Index


Genealogy does me amaze
As my ancestry I've tried to raise.
The enumeration
By decades in this nation 
Spells my name in quite disparate ways.



  Except for 1870


Loren C. Fitzhugh, P Oct 95 on the monthly theme - Genealogy Index


A reverse limerick in reply to one of Lear's

Don't thee think, Zurr, I be zo amazin' If ever thee's spoke With one of this folk Thee'd have quit this daft 'amlet of Basin' Fast as if all thine ricks be'd a-blazin'.
Elizabeth H. Lister, EOP p254

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A sleeper from the Amazon
Put nighties of his gra'mazon
The reason: That
He was too fat
To get his own pajamazon.


B-G p97 Index


A student once had the ambition
Of being a famous physician.
But med schools were strict,
She didn't get picked;
So instead she became a mortician.


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An ecology zealot's ambitions
To control atmospheric conditions
Caused the fellow to pay
For a lay every day
To reduce his nocturnal emissions.


PB Nov 77 Index


A quadratic function, ambitious,
Said, 'It's not only wrong, but it's vicious.
It's surely no sin
To have max. and min.;
To limit me so is malicious.'


Leo Moser, EOP p77

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Said a guy to his gal, quite ambitiously,
"I will screw you, my dear, expeditiously."
The lass simply smiled,
Said, "Delightful! Just Wild!"
And it all ended simply deliciously.


Isaac Asimov Index


A young thing with habits ambivalent,
Who treated the sexes equivalent,
Said, "It's not that I mix
Cunts up with pricks,
It's just that my psyche's resilient.


Glen F. Baker Index


A lush little lady of Amble
Went out for a casual ramble.
On a side road this maid
Was tipped up and laid -
But then, of course, all life's a gamble.


L3 5 Index


Cum Hilde autem ambulabat
Homo qui aedificabat
Dixit volebat. Debet et potebat,
Sic ille ducebat. Statim faciebat.
Sed virginem pine necebat.


L1 45

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Last night, a blind date phoned Amelia,
And said, 'I will wear a camellia.
If you need something more,
You'll be satisfied for
I'm the one who will try to feel ya.'



Isaac Asimov, It has been suggested that better scanning would be obtained with 'I'm the fella' who'll try hard to feel ya.' Index


Amelia - see Australia


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There was a young lady named Ames
Who would play at the jolliest games.
She was great fun to lay
For her rectum would play
Obbligatos, and call you bad names.


L1 116 Index


Are you tired of affaires d'amour?
Are they getting to be quite a bore?
 They do not last long.
It can't be that they're wrong.
In a week, you go through at least four.


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Il y a une jeune fille amoureuse
D'un homme qu'a une conduite honteuse.
Il la mene chaque soir
A son caveau noir
Et la bat avec plaintes crapuleuses.


Edward Gorey, roughly: 'There once was an amorous young girlfriend/Of a man with a disgusting colon./ He led her each night/ To his dark vault/ And bombarded her with villainous complaints.' Index


Said an angry old man of Amritsar,
"Have the goodness to mind where you shit, sir!
That last [shit | turd] of yours
Has besmirched my plus-fours,
You really aren't careful a bit, sir."


Langford Reed Index


There was a lady of Amsterdam,
She loved to breakfast on Westphalia ham;
After forty miles skating,
She did not like waiting
Long for her breakfast at Amsterdam.


from A PEEP AT THE GEOGRAPHY OF EUROPE Illustrated by Comic Figures of the Several Nations, London, Printed and Sold by E. MARSHALL,140 Fleet Street, Prom Aldermary Church-Yard, Price 1s. 6d., P Apr 94. This has really awful scansion. How about: 'A lady of Old Amsterdam/ Loved to breakfast on Westphalia ham;/ After 40 miles skating/ She did not like waiting/ For breakfast in Old Amsterdam' Index


KABOUTERS

The dwarf choir of old Amsterdam Had a drummer they named Onkel Sam. Those guys really could rock Long motets by Isaac As they nibbled on herring and Spam.
Trobador@AOL.COM (Joel Cohen)? Index


Said a certain young woman named Amy,
"I am seeking a fellow to tame me,
And teach me the newer
Mad routes to l'amour
For to stay virgin longer, will shame me."


Isaac Asimov Index


A guy met a girl in Anacostia
And said, 'Darling, dare I accost ya?
I got only a buck.
Is that good for a fuck?'
She replied, 'Not a fart will it cost ya.'


L1 345 Index


C'era un vecchio d'Anagni
Che camminava solo sui calcagni;
Quando chiedevano: 'Perché lo fai'
Non rispondeva néai né bai,
Quel misterioso vecchio d'Anagni.








Italian translation by Carlo Izzo, 1970, of Lear's old person of Deal

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On the slopes of Mount Ananias
A nun whom all thought highly pious,
Ran wild in the nude,
And was so soundly screwed,
That today her cunt lies on the bias.


L3 1137 Index


The limerick packs laughs anatomical
Into space that is quite economical.
But the good ones I've seen
So seldom are clean -
And the clean ones so seldom are comical.



HHH 5, EOP 21, B-G p21, Mc p5 Index


"The figure is not anatomical."
Said the Sitter, "the attitude's comical."
Said the Painter: "Quite true,
But looked at askew,
Both are seen to be sweetly symbolical."


Thomas Thorneley, EOP p161 Index


There was an Old Man of Ancona,
Who found a small Dog with no Owner,
Which he took up and down
All the streets of the town;
That anxious Old Man of Ancona.


Lear2 78 Index


A sailor at Bangor cast anchor,
With syphilis, buboes, and chancre.
All this, and some more,
He'd got from one whore,
So he wrote her a letter to thank her.


L1 427 has 'There was a young fellow Ð a banker/ Had bubo, itch, pox, and chancre./ He got all the four/ From a dirty old whore...' Also Bangkor, Casablanca and Salamanca. Index


There was an old fellow from Anchorage,
Who was riddled with fury and rancorage.
When he offered abusement,
The girls gave refusement,
And all he had left was the hankerage.


Isaac Asimov Index


A madam who came from the Andes,
Had rooms full of girls that were dandies.
And some girls in a ward,
If that's all you'd afford,
And some girls in a room for the standees.


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There was a young lady of Andover,
And the boys used to ask her to hand over
Her sexual favour,
Which she did (May God save her!)
For her morals she had no command over.


L2 465 Index


There was an old fellow called Andy,
Who was always continuously randy.
It was, I am told,
That he is really bold,
And he hangs around schools with candy.


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Andy - see Venus


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There was an Old Person of Anerley,
Whose conduct was strange and unmannerly;
He rushed down the Strand
With a pig in each hand,
But returned in the evening to Anerley.


Lear1 86 Index


Have you heard about poor Angelique?
She canoed up the river last week,
With some damn lumberjack.
And though they came back,
We're afraid she's been left up the creek.


John Ciardi Index


There was a young girl of Angina,
Who stretched catgut across her vagina.
From the love-making frock
(With the proper sized cock)
Came Toccata and Fugue in D minor.


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There was a young man from Angora
Who married for richer or poorer.
He'd not been long wed,
When he fell out of bed,
And said, "Damn, I have married a snorer!"


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A warlock who came from Anguilla,
Used to masturbate whilst his familiar,
Had sex with the dead.
It is called, so I've read,
"Vicarious necrophilia."


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Exuberant Sue from Anjou
Found that fucking affected her hue;
She presented the sight
Some parts pink, some parts white,
And others quite purple and blue.


B-G p97 Index


A young ballerina named Ann
Danced like a soft feathery fan;
But when she leaped and rose
She'd land, not on her toes,
But smack on her pink tutued can!


Evelyn Bogen, P Apr 94 on the Monthly theme - the Accident Prone Index


An expensive young harlot named Ann,
Just can't bear to say no to a man.
So for five bucks a week,
She allows us a peek,
On what she calls her lay-away plan.


John Ciardi Index


The genital area of Ann
Will accomodate any size man,
From the wee that cause titters
To the mighty twat-splitters,
That cause screams they [can] hear in Japan.


L3 237 Index


A round-the-world traveler named Ann,
Shacked up with a Tokyo man.
She was diddled and swived,
And her baby arrived
With its bottom stamped: MADE IN JAPAN.


L3 690 Index


There was a young lady named Anna
Who wanted a new grand pianna;
But her father said, "No,
I'll give you a po,
And then you can have a pee, Anna."



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There once was a lady called Anna,
In the choir she sang the soprana:
The choirmaster said,
As she stood on her head,
"Hosanna, you show your hose, Anna."


L. Williams Index


There was a young sapphic named Anna
Who stuffed her friend's cunt with banana,
Which she sucked bit by bit
From her partner's warm slit,
In the most approved lesbian manner.


L1 305 Index


In Chicago a lady named Anna
On her torso wore just a bandanna.
When she met some Fith Liners,
(They're much worse than Shriners)
She was last seen sprinting through Montana.


L3 502, Fifth Liners - limerick society in New York City, alt: 'Upon meeting some satyrs/ To whom only sex matters' Index


A sweet senorita named Anna
Had eyes for a guy from Montana.
Said Anna, "Que pasa?
Come round to mi casa.
I'll show you La Gloria Cubana."


Richard Nick Index


One day when a lady named Anne,
Went up to the sun-roof to tan,
A gent in a copter
Flew over and dropped her
Some ads for a crash-diet plan.


John Ciardi Index


Anne - see Rose


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An intelligent lass named Jo Anne,
Never lacked an admiring young man,
For her giant IQ
(Giant other things too!)
Was designed on a generous plan.


Isaac Asimov Index


Daily Ditty 8 Wednesday, 18 June

I once had a girl, Mary Anne, With a face just as flat as a pan She was covered with zits, Had lopsided tits - (But, Lordy! One beautiful tan) She was nasty and mean, Mary Anne: When the sane saw her coming, they ran. She was quick in her use Of verbal abuse (But when asked would reply, "Yes you can!") She was ugly and fat, Mary Anne; She sold crack from the back of her van She cheated and lied She was sneaky and snide (But she sure had a way with a man!) I was warned about you, Mary Anne, By my brother and sister and Gran; And by mother and Dad, They said you're all bad (You were good on the cot in the van!) She was bad, really bad, Mary Anne; Almost none could she claim as her fan; (But, because of her urgin' I ceased to be virgin - Take the good with the bad when you can!)
Copyright John Miller Talco TX 75487 Non-commercial reproduction and distribution rights granted freely provided accompanied by this notice.

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Anne - see surgeon


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There was a mechanic of Annick,
Whose feelings were anti-Germanic.
So when war had begun,
He constructed a gun,
Whose dimensions were simply titanic.


Should this be Alnwick (pronounced Annick)? Index


There was a young woman named Annie,
With erogenous zones in each cranny.
She found this was so,
With the help of her beau,
Who explored her from forehead to fanny.



Isaac Asimov Index


Sighed a cute little wench named Annie,
"I've the tits and the ass and the fanny.
But the men that I seek,
Will take barely a peek.
Could it be that I stink in my cranny?"


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[A wage-conscious | There once was a] floozy named Annie,
Whose prices were cosy, [and | but] canny:
A buck for a fuck,
Fifty cents for a suck,
And a dime for a feel of her fanny.


CPV 188, L1 346 Index


There was a young lady called Annie,
Who had fleas, lice, and crabs up her fanny.
To get up her flue,
Was like touring a zoo,
There were wild beasts in each nook and cranny.


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There was a young girl from Annister,
Who dated a lecherous mister.
He fondled her titty,
Got one finger shitty,
Then screwed up his courage and kissed her.


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There once was a girl quite annoyed,
By a tremendous, festering 'roid.
She lay on her tummy
While they whittled her bummy,
Now her sphincter is totally destroyed.


0Hambone Index


A lesbian lassie named Anny,
Desired to appear much more manny.
So she whittled a pud
Of mahogany wood,
And let it protrude from her cranny.


L1 588 Index


anoint - see Chaldees


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The most popular saint ever anointed
Had a tool that was centrally jointed.
The effect of the flexion
In his weapon's midsection
Left none of the girls disappointed.


Steve Pridgeon Index


One umbilical cord to another:
"I presume that of course you're my brother.
And as we are twins
And nobody wins,
I suggest we just stay here in Mother."


Conrad Aiken Index


another - see hair


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A contrite acolyte of Friar Ansel
Said, "Last night by mischance in the chancel,
Lured by carnal desires,
I had sex with Miss Myers.
Are there vows such a whimsy might cancel?"


L3 1085 Index


A tiger, by taste anthropophagous,
Felt a yearning inside his esophagus;
He spied a fat Brahmin
And growled, "What's the harm in
A peripatetic sarcophagus?"


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There was a young girl of Antietam,
Who liked horse turds so well she could eat 'em.
She'd lie on their rumps
And swallow the lumps
As fast as the beasts could excrete 'em.



L1 306 Index


A lady there was in Antigua
Who said to her spouse, 'What a pigua.'
He answered, 'My queen,
Is it manners you mean?
Or do you refer to my figua?'


B-G p97, EOP p187 Index


There was a young bride of Antigua,
Whose husband said, 'Dear me, how big you are!'
Said she 'I am not!
I've a sweet little little twat,
And a very nice, neat little figua!'


The Pearl - Issue No. 16 - October, 1880, L2 127 has 'said the girl, "What damn'd rot!/ Why, you've oft[en] felt my twot,/ My legs and my arse and my figua!"'.

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There was a young man from Antigua,
Who said to his girl, "What a prig you are!
Whenever we lay,
You refuse to display
The nethermost parts of your figuah!"


Note to L2 127

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Anheuser - see Heuser


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Limericks about animals

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Twin sisters: Awana, Anita,
Never swallow the cream from the meat-ah.
One chose to spit
When her mouth filled with it,
The other liked hers on a pita.


Artie Troll Index


"Dear Nephew;  We're in the Antilles.
Named after the island ant hillies.
With everywhere ants,
Must close now, Unc Hans,
'Cause one of them's now up Aunt Tillie's."


Irving Superior, P Nov 94 - on the monthly theme - Island Paradises Index


A wench from the Lesser Antilles
Says dog fashion gives her the willies.
Except big long cocks
That stay hard as rocks,
But it's seldom she's fucked by such dillies.


L3 508 Index


An amorous maiden antique
Locked a man in her house for a week.
He entered her door
With a shout and a roar
But his exit was marked with a squeak.


B-G p97, EOP p109 Index


Some day ere she grows too antique,
My girl's hand in marriage I'll seek;
If she's not a coquette
(Which I'd greatly regret)
She shall share my ten dollars a week.


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Said an old-fashioned god named Anubis,
"I know about pubes and boobies.
But I've no impression
About the Eustachian,
Or where the Fallopian tube is."


L1 763, Anubis - Jackal God of the dead in Egypt Index


When you fuck little Annie of Anza,
You get a great bosom bonanza.
Sucking Annie's soft tits
Makes her throw fifty fits,
And the fuck is a sextravaganza!


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Ther was an Old Man of Aosta,
Who possessed a large cow, but he lost her;
But they said, "Don't you see
She has rushed up a tree?
You invidious Old Man of Aosta!"


Lear1 109 Index


When in gangs, these teenagers go ape.
They rob and they pillage and rape.
Their minds are unglued,
And I must conclude
That I'd rather live with an ape.


Al Willis, P Jan '96 monthly theme: Juvenile Delinquents Index


An old maid hwo had a pet ape,
Lived in fear of perpetual rape.
His red, hairy phallus
So filled her mith malice,
She sealed up her snatch with Sc*tch Tape.


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It's amazing to see with aplomb
How revisionists decry "The Bomb"
But I've noticed for sooth
Some reveal by their youth
They can't fully recall Viet Nam.


Loren C. Fitzhugh, P Sep '95 Index


Getting Cheryl to shed her apparel
Is like shooting goldfish in a barrel.
But her genital area
Is so vast it'll scare ya,
And you venture inside at your peril.


L3 238 Index


appeal - see Vice-President


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There was a young man who appeared
To his friends with a full growth of beard;
They at once said, "Although
We can't say why it's so,
The effect is uncommonly weird."


Edward Gorey Index


A Spoonerick

A Perfect Example of Wilkin's Rule 

Said a gaily-garbed guy, "It appears My attire is causing loud jeers, Ever since, in pursuit Of a seersucker suit At Cox's, I wound up at Sears."   No limerick is ever improved by explaining it.
Bob Giandomenico, P Nov 94 Index


If Eve hadn't eaten the apple,
Mankind would [have no need | not have] to grapple
With sin and temptation,
And disapprobation
From ladies who worship at Chapel.


Wendy Cope, EOP p240 Index


Said Eve as she reached for the Apple,
And prepared for the primordial grapple:
"With the proper sales talk,
Adam surely won't balk,
For if anyone falls, why, that sap'll."


L3 7 Index


"After first having strictly apprised
My organ," the druggist advised,
"You must practice safe sex
And to save you perplex
These condoms, you see, Sir, come sized."


Bob Giandomenico, P Sep '95 Index


As tourists inspected the apse,
An ominous series of raps
Came from under the altar,
Which caused some to falter,
And others to shriek and collapse.


Edward Gorey, EOP p178 Index


There was an Old Man of Apulia,
Whose conduct was very peculiar;
He fed twenty sons
Upon nothing but buns,
That whimsical Man of Apulia.


Lear1 43 Index


Love and sex among mammals aquatic,
Is seldom, if ever, quite static.
When the giant sperm whale
Impales his female,
The results are both loud and dramatic.


Isaac Asimov Index


Aquistwith - see Aberystwyth


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There was a young chap in Arabia,
Who courted a widow named Fabia.
"Yes, my tongue is as long
As the average man's dong.'
He said, licking the lips of her labia.


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A wily old shiek of Arabia,
Said, "My eunuchs tell me there may be a
Great dearth of Circassians,
To surfeit my passions.
But my camel's here - labia are labia."


Isaac Asimov Index


There was a young girl from Arabia,
Who committed immodest behavia.
She sat in each class,
With her skirt round her ass,
And smooched at the prof with her labia.


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Arachnid - see Muffet


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A two-toothed old man from Arbroath
Gave vent to a terrible oath.
When one tooth chanced to ache,
By an awful mistake,
The dentist extracted them both.


B-G p97 Index


There was an abhorrent Archdeacon,
Who loved to find failings to sneak on;
His joy was profound
Whenever he found
A deacon his rancor to wreak on.


Harold C. Bibby Index


There was an old man from Arcola
Who didn't know shit from Shinola.
He pined and he pined,
For his shoes were unshined,
When a hernia stopped up his hole-a.


L3 1347 Index


There was a young lady of Arden,
The tool of whose swain wouldn't harden.
Said she with a frown,
'I've been sadly let down
By the tool of a fool in a garden.'



L2 2, or 'Do you call that a hard-on?' Index


There once was a lady from Arden
Who sucked off a man in a garden.
He said, "My dear Flo,
Where does all that stuff go?"
And she said, "(swallow hard) - I beg pardon?"


HHH p99, L2 265, also Barden, Bellardon, East Arden, Hardon, Varden, Vars.: 'Said the man, somewhat gruff,/ "Do you swallow that stuff?"', 'And when she was through/ He said, "Let's see the goo"', When he asked with a squirm,/ "What's become of the sperm?"', 'The sailor asked, "Punk,/ Do you swallow that junk?"', 'When asked what she did/ With that thumping big quid,/ She replied, "(Er-ug-gulp) I beg pardon?"' Index


Said McNee to his lady, Miss Arden,
As they strolled back and forth in the garden.
"Your reluctance to fuck
Is a bit of bad luck.
What a hell of a waste of a hardon."


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Arden - see perusing


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You'll never know how good you are
Till you try to make love in a car.
Many a man meets defeat
On a darkened back seat,
It's only the experts break par.


EOP p276, L3 8 Index


Of all the transplantings there are,
Most famous of all of by far -
From Ireland, the town
Of limerick renown
Transplanted to our Moffett, CA.


Irving Superior, P Mar 95 on the Monthly theme - Transplants Index


There was a young man from Argento
Who performed an experiment-o;
He was labeled perverted
When - gerbil inserted -
He was caught in flagrante rodento!


From jefo@ix.netcom.com, (The world's only known Gerbil-stuffing limerick.) Thank you very much. Comments? Responses?

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There once was a man name Arrhenius.
His actions were always spontaneous.
He plotted ln(k)
Against 1/T,
And now he's considered a genius.


Svante Arrhenius, Swedish Chemist and Astronomer. Nobel prize winner 1903. This refers, I think, to his theory of electrolytic dissociation. Index


A young lady born under Aries,
Consults the stars each time she marries.
Although she gets hope,
From each horoscope,
Her husbands turn out to be fairies.


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There's always some one around,
Who'd object if I rifted it with sound.
But out in the park,
At least after dark,
I can make the welkin resound.


L1 741, the welkin = the heavens Index


around - see Limerick


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around - see NG


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I was brought up on old Aristotle,
And won't change a jit or a tottle.
And that's saying a lot,
Not a jit, not a tot,
I won't alter - No, no, I'll nottle.


C.S. Cook, EOP p54 Index


There once was a man from Arkansas,
Who had secrets not everyone saw.
But it's still not evident
Even though he's president
That Clinton's not wanted by the law.


Lawrence Craft Index


Said an elderly whore named Arlene,
'I prefer a young lad of eighteen.
There's more cream in his larder,
And his pecker gets harder,
And he fucks in a manner obscene.'


L1 347 Index


A pederast living in Arles
Used to bugger the bung of a barrel,
But was heard to lament,
"In the old days I went
Up the blue-blooded bum of an Earl!"


L2 333 Index


There once was a man with no arm,
Who worked as a hand on a farm.
A boot found in the hay,
And he was heard to say,
"It's just my foot, there's no alarm."


Carrie Heath Index


When a fervent groom in Armenia
Had nibbled away his gardenia,
They just let him gaze
On the bridesmaids' bouquets,
To quiet the old neurasthenia.



Morris Bishop, EOP p40 Index


I lost my arm in the army,
I lost my leg in the navy,
I lost my balls
In Niagara Falls,
I lost my cock in a lady.


L1 483 Index


A Cambridge roué could arouse
Any girl that he liked, and carouse.
He'd have her in bed
With a nod of his head . . .
All - by simply just licking his brows.


Stu Lucas, P Dec 95 Index


Sakumbe, when full of arrack,
Slapped Cohen, his friend, on the back,
And cried, "You're all right!
Though your skin may be white,
At heart, you are thoroughly black."


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There was a young man of Arras,
Who stretched himself out on the grass.
And with no little trouble,
He bent himself double,
And stuck his prick well up his ass.


L2 334 Index


A courtier, in dazzling array,
Screwed the Queen (Anne Boleyn) one fine day.
He got little credit.
He was promptly beheaded,
For the clear crime of 'lays Majesté'.


Isaac Asimov Index


A half-Spanish Moor named Arribia
Engaged in some whoring in Libya,
And developed his joint
To the interesting point
Where is hung all the way to his tibia.


L3 239 Index


A young lady, unruly and arrogant,
Did the things that more proper girls daren't.
She hoped and expected
To go undetected,
But she's slowly becoming apparent.


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The Postmaster-General cried: 'Arsehole!
A pair of bull's balls in a parcel!
Stamped "I.R.A.",
With ninepence to pay,
And addressed to the King, Windsor Castle!'


Victor Gray, EOP p42 Index


Limerick writing's a very crude art.
You're allowed to say tit, bum and fart
And if really silly
Can even say willy:
Rhyme and scan's the compulsory part.


R. Frederick in Ruth Dudley Edwards' diary column, The Independent, 4th Sept. 1995 Index


It takes little strain and no art
To bang out an echoing fart.
The reaction is hearty
When you fart at a party,
But the sensitive persons depart.


L3 1350 Index


Her bush was a true work of art;
It was coiffed in the shape of a heart.
And just out of sight
Was another delight,
A twat with the taste of a tart!


Stan Index


There was an old fellow named Art,
Who awoke with a terrible start.
For down by his rump
Was a generous lump,
Of what should have been just a fart.


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It is true that the limerick's an art,
But I wonder just how you can start
To criticise, when
Your first line comes to ten
Syllables - Mr. Svensson, get smart!


Richard Lancashire commenting on Par Svensson's just criticism of some bad limericks.

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There was a young man had the art
Of making a capital tart
With a handful of shit,
Some snot and some spit,
And he'd flavor the whole with a fart.


The Pearl Issue No3 - September 1879, L1 307 Index


There was a young student of art,
Who made a strange anatomical chart;
In place of the chest,
A grease spot on the vest,
And in place of the asshole, a fart.


L1 742 Index


The Grecians were famed for fine art,
And buildings and stonework so smart.
They distinguished with poise
The men from the boys,
And used crowbars to keep them apart.


L3 926 Index


art - see sex


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There once was a fratboy named Artie,
Who always would ask, "Where's the party?"
A girl from the South
Said, "It's in my mouth,
And everyone's coming, you smarty!"


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A classical Master of Arts,
Told his wife he was still keen on tarts.
Said she, "That's just dandy,
To think you're still randy.
You still know your principal parts."


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MANIFESTO

A French hippie who lived on Aruba Liked to play Couperin on his tuba. "Authenticity's dead," He cried, rolling his head. "Viv' la modernité'! Scuba duba!"
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Lady Gwendolyn, skirts all a-rustle,
Resisted and put up a tussle,
But the wicked old earl,
With his fingers a-curl,
At last managed a pinch on her bustle.


Isaac Asimov Index


It cannot be easy to be as
Impossibly pi as Aeneas:
To the sins of the flesh
He was prone even less
Than a mule to the charms of a she-ass.


Cary Gilbart-Smith, Classical Association News, No. 14, June 1996 Index


ascertain - see horse


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A friend, who is not an ascetic,
Writes: "Ireland, my dear, is magnetic.
No snakes, lots of elves,
Who just OFFER themselves -
Rather small, but MOST sympathetic."


W.H. Auden Index


When you go to a store in Ascutney
There is no use to ask them for chutney.
You may plea, you may tease,
You may go on your knees:
It will do you no good, they ain't [got any | gotney]


Richard H. Field, B-G p98

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The monarch of old Asgalun,
Was said to be struck by the moon.
He leaped from his bed,
With his rump painted red,
And cried, "I'm a Kushite baboon!"


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Said a man to a maid in Ashanti,
"Can one sniff your twidget, or can't he?"
Said she with a grin,
"Sure, stick your nose in!
But presto, please - not too andante."


L2 266 Index


Shirley's face appears careworn and ashen,
And it's all due to sexual passion.
Though she knows it ain't right,
She shacks up day and night,
Like nookie might go out of fashion.


L3 510 Index


There was a young lass from Ashtabula
Who spent a night in the village cooler
For betting a Judge
A half pound of fudge
Twice his length wouldn't cover a ruler.


L3 240 Index


Dame Catherine of Ashton-on-Lynches
Got on with her grooms and her wenches:
She went down on the gents,
And pronged the girls' vents
With a clitoris reaching six inches.


L1 3 Index


There was a young lady of Asia,
Who had an odd kind of aphasia.
She'd forget that her cunt
Was located in front,
Which deprived her of most of the pleasure.


L2 650 Index


aside - see Burdew


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There was a mad genius named Asimov,
Who suffered a curious spasm of
Sublimerickitis.
Herewith the detritus
He has leaped an unfathomable chasm of.


Isaac Asimov? John Ciardi?

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A new volume of verse Asimovian,
That's replete with a humor that's Jovian,
Represents stimulation,
That will prove the occasion,
For a laughing response quite Pavlovian.


Isaac Asimov Index


askance - see Burdew


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An old linotype went askew,
With its naked machinery in view.
In this state of undress,
It made love to the press,
Saying gently, "Etaoin shrdlu."


Etaoin shrdlu = a way hot metal typesetters used to indicate an error to a proof reader Index


If the stuff in your stomach's askew,
And you think you are going to spew,
Buck up and don't mind,
Or you just might find
That everyone barfs just like you.


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There was a young girl with a pretty-ass,
And her habits were neat but invidious.
She would wipe with a taper
Of scented blue paper,
Since she was so very fastidious.

Then when she had wiped off her bung,
Of the clingers that thereunto clung,
She would singe off the hair
That had sprouted down there,
And would lick her twat clean with her tongue.


L2 799-800 Index


There wasn't a soul with a fatter ass,
Than a maiden who lived at Cape Hatteras.
When stroked, it would wiggle
And shiver and jiggle.
Men lined up, by the score, just to pat 'er ass.


Isaac Asimov Index


The hands, they were meant to assist
In supplying the features with grist.
There are only a few -
As a rule about two -
And are hitched to the end of the wrist.


Anthony Euwer, The Limeratomy, B-G p73

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assist - see chagrin


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Marie, the administrative assistant,
To passes is usually resistant.
Except for on Mondays
When she doesn't wear undies
And gives in if the boss is insistent.


Thomas G. Keller, P Aug 94, MONTHLY THEME: Hired Help Index


There once was a judge of Assize,
Whose bollocks were not the same size.
He'd look [at | to] the right
With a gasp of delight,
But the left one brought tears to his eyes.


EOP p281, L3 241 Index


Assizes - see Devizes


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Daily Ditty 188 Monday, 23 December 1997

OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY #10 The Department of Q.C. Assurance Was the one with the greatest endurance Their average score Was seven or more Plus perversions as extra insurance.
Copyright John Miller Talco TX 75487 Non-commercial reproduction and distribution rights granted freely provided accompanied by this notice.

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Ginger Rogers and suave Fred Astaire,
Made one hell of a fine dancing pair.
She had such sex appeal,
But did he cop a feel?
But of course not!  The Thirties were square!


Isaac Asimov Index


Astaire - see Kildare


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There was a young lady named Astor
Who never let any get past her.
She finally got plenty
By stopping twenty
Which certainly ought to last her.


L1 4, Mary Astor, a movie actress who published her diary as 'Twenty minutes - I don't know how he does it.' Index


While befuddled with booze, Mr. Astor
Made a pass at a statue of plaster,
When informed of his error
His mind filled with terror,
"What a blessing," he said, "I'm not faster."


PB, Oct '66 Index


There was a young woman named Astor,
Whose clothes fit her tight as a plaster.
When she happened to sneeze,
She felt a cold breeze,
And knew she had met with disaster.


Index


A young lady who lived in Astoria
Took a fancy to Fletcher's Castoria.
She partook of this drink
With her ass in the sink -
Now I ask you: ain't that foresight for ya?


L1 117, Castoria - a patent laxitive for babies. Index


Plastic surgery went badly astray,
To a poor silly lady's dismay,
Her medical hack
Put her boobs in the back,
Now she works in a sideshow  for pay.


A Vertech competition 'bearded lady' limerick. Index


There was a young girl of Asturias
Whose temper was frantic and furious
She used to throw eggs
At her grandmother's legs -
A habit unpleasant, but curious.


B-G p30 Index


There was a young girl of Asturias
With a penchant for practices curious.
She loved to bat rocks
With her gentlemen's cocks,
A practice both rude and injurious.


L2 651 Index


Cried Miss Pratt, "What are you staring at?
I know - you don't have to say that!
All you guys want of me
Is a poke where I pee,
And it's pounding my ass mighty flat!"


L3 242 Index


When you think of "A-Tisket, A-Tasket,"
Remember the woman named Haskett.
Who contrived a good stunt,
To put up a front,
And carried her tits in a basket.


Index


There was a man in Atchison,
Whose trousers had rough patchison.
He found them great,
He'd often state,
To scratch his wooden matchison.


Misprint here? Line 4 is peculiar. Index


To the shrine which was Pallas Athena's
Young Bito, (who'd learned about penis),
Brought her needles and thread
And scissors and said,
"You can stick them, I'm changing to Venus!"


L2 467 Index


A bucher there was at Athlone,
Whom a beggar once asked for a bone;
But he drove him away
With a blow of his tray -
O! his heart was as hard as a stone.


A15 Index


There was a young man of Atlanta,
Fell in love with a girl full of banter;
'I should just like to see
The man who'd make me.'
She remarked - and he made her instanter.


B-G p98 Index


A plump English prof from Atlanta,
Was bloated with bawdy, bold banter.
He'd sit on his ass,
And let fly his gas,
Whenever he sniffed a decanter.


L1 718 Index


It occurred when she crossed the Atlantic,
But the screw made young Mamie half frantic.
It wasn't losing her cherry
That upset her - not very,
But the aisle of a plane's not romantic.


EOP p211 Index


Said a hipshot young bride of Atlantic,
"This fucking is driving me frantic.
I hate to disparage
The sex side of marriage,
But a whole night of cock's unromantic."


L3 9, or 'Said a bride on the cruise ship "Atlantic"' Index


When an amorous youth from Atlantis
Removed an Amazon's panttiz
And dragged her to bed,
She cut off his head,
But he carried on just like a mantis.


C. Vita-Finzi, EOP p141 Index


Atol - see Bikini Atol


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Said John, "In my recent attacking,
Variety seems to be lacking.
Let's drop on the bed,
From the lamps overhead,
And however we land, let's get cracking."


Isaac Asimov Index


"Dear Ruth" as you last week attested,
Should suffice and not be misdirected,
But the casualness
Of informal address
Could give rise to a trout being molested!


M. Bradshaw in The Independent 4 Sept. 1995. Diarist Ruth Dudley Edwards had suggested readers addressing her by her first name. A reader had wondered if the pub The Old Trout commemorated Queen Victoria Index


Anita the filmstar attests
That she easily passed her screen tests,
With talent indeed,
A will to succeed,
And a pair of quite beautiful breasts.


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A cretin who lived in an attic
Was fallaciously rated as static;
But how little they knew -
His knob was not blue -
But hoary and necrophilatic.


CPV 95 - Under drugs when he wrote this one? Index


A Tutor came down from the attic,
With a formula, super quadratic.
He let out a sigh,
And solved it for Y
With detail and style, quite dramatic.


Versifier, P Jan '96 Index


There was an old cocksman from Attic,
Who suffered from spasms rheumatic;
So whether each thrust
Was lumbago or lust
Seemed always a bit problematic.


Harold C. Bibby Index


There once was a Hun called Attila,
Whose life was a genuine thrilla.
From village to village,
He'd rant, rape, and pillage,
Seldom spending two nights on one pilla.


L3 511

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When a woman in strapless attire
Found her breasts working higher and higher,
A guest with great feeling,
Exclaimed, "How appealing!
Do you mind if I piss in the fire?"


CPV 52, L1 118 Index


A whore, who much trade did attract,
Dropped dead in the midst of a pact.
Twenty men with no hitch,
Paid for screwing the bitch,
Before anyone noticed the fact.


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The limerick [verse] has its attraction,
The ribald may give satisfaction
But I never have fancied,
The nastily rancid
Or verses of sick putrefaction.


Harold C. Bibby, EOP 8 Index


Some women once had the audacity,
To impugn my erotic capacity.
I stilled all their doubts,
With erotical bouts,
And thus proved my colossal first-classity.


Isaac Asimov Index


The late poet Wystan Hugh Auden,
Left us poems never maudl'n but mod'n.
The first things he wrote
Struck a socialist note,
But increasingly, then he let God'n.


John Ciardi Index


There once was a King known as Augeas,
Whose oxen's consumption was orgy-ous.
Hercules said "I'm able
To clear out your stable
Until the whole place is quite gorgeous."


Clifford King in The Independent Diary, 25th Sept. 1995. The diarist, Ruth Dudley Edwards, had been accused of confusing Augeas with Aegeus. A reader, Dick Glover, sent a limerick ending: 'For a woman of wit/ to confuse sea with sh**,/ Ruth! The error is, frankly, plebeian.' Index


A delectable gal from Augusta
Vowed that nobody ever had bussed her.
But an expert from France
Took a bilingual chance,
And the mixture of tongues quite nonplused her.


Conrad Aiken Index


If Byron laid his half-sister Augusta,
'Twas but to give the gossip columns lustre,
And should not nowadays, in practice,
From his poetry, distract us -
Get on with reading Manfred, will you, Buster?


L3 804 Index


A modern monk nicknamed Augustin,
His penis a boy's bottom thrust in.
Then said Father Ignatius,
"Now really!  Good gracious!
You conduct is really disgusting."


L2 418

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There once was a blooming Great Auk,
Couldn't fly, and it hardly could walk.
The ignorant picts
Used to beat it with sticks,
For the pleasure of hearing it squawk.


Index


I gave to my old maiden aunt
A CD of Gregorian Chant.
She said: 'Sod those monks.
I prefer to hear hunks.'
So she put on some loud Robert Plant.


LC Index


The Emperor Marcus Aurelius
Said that when we feel, it's not really us.
Yet I rather suppose
That a smack on the nose,
He'd have thought was a bit contumelious.


Yorick, OEP p54 Index


One summer while visiting Austin,
A young man who came there from Boston,
Tripped over a rock
Which tore off his jock
So his balls fell out and he lost 'em.


Frank, fazed@spectra.net - Limericks about Texas Towns

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A lusty young sailor from Austin,
His amourous adventures, they cost him.
One day in a pinch,
He put his in a wench,
And with a gust of wind, he lost them.


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There was a young man of Australia
Who painted his [bum | ass] like a dahlia.
The colour was fine;
Likewise the design;
The aroma - ah, that was a failia



L2 652, B-G p98, EOP p50, Mc p94, or 'The drawing was fine, / The colour divine,/ But the scent - Ah! That was a failure.' or 'twopence a smell/ Went down very well/ But threepence a lick was a failure,' HHH p53 has other minor vars. Two vars in Legman are: 'The color was there/ The likeness quite fair,/ But the odor - my god, what a failure.' and 'It was rounded and rosy/ And looked like a posy,/ But the scent, on the whole, was a failure.'

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Those scared kangaroos in Australia
Can blame it on oversexed Thalia.
For they heard the babe screaming
When Tim started reaming,
In her bedroom on Cunt Street, Sedalia.


L3 513, unworthy Index


There was a young girl from Australia
Who went to a dance as a dahlia.
When the petals [uncurled | unfurled]
They revealed to the world
That as clothing the dress was a failia.


B-G p98, EOP p50, another version has 'a cute girl named Amelia'

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There once was a man from Australia
Who went on a wild bacchanalia.
He buggered a frog,
Two mice, and a dog,
And a bishop in fullest regalia.



L1 214 Index


A young bride and groom of Australia,
Remarked as they joined genitalia:
'Though the system seems odd,
We are thankful that God
Developed the genus Mammalia.


EOP p276 Index


An explorer returned from Australia,
Reported lost paraphernalia:
A Zeiss microscope,
And his personal hope,
Which had vanished with his genitalia.


L1 484 Index


There once was this man from Australia,
Who was hung with amazing paraphenalia!
On his honeymoon flight
His bride stayed-up all night
Exploring with his huge genitalia!


Lawrence Craft, Vol 1, 14 Index


A convict once, out in Australia,
Said unto his turnkey, "I'll tail ya."
But he said, "You be buggered,
You filthy old sluggard,
You're forgetting that I am your gaoler."


L2 335 Index


Said a snooty young thing from Australia,
"Now concerning the male genetalia,
Men brag of their size
Till you're sure you've a prize,
Then exhibit wee paraphenalia.


L3 243 Index


Said a passionate man from Australia,
"My darling, please let me unveil ya.
And then, on my own
If you'll kindly lie prone,
I'll endeavor, my sweet, to impale ya."


Isaac Asimov Index


"We refuse", said two men from Australia,
"Bestiality this saturnalia,
For now, we bethink us,
The ornithorhynchus
Is our down-under type of mammalia."


Isaac Asimov Index


There once was an eccentric Australian (Strine),
Whose speech was so sesquipedalian (sequipedine),
And his vowels so refined,
That their patience got strined,
And they treated him just like an alien (ine).


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Apples

We went to the orchard in autumn And out of the orchard we got'em. They were juicy and red And shaped like a head With a dimple on top and the bottom.
Bob Leclerc Index


Ave. B. - see Y.T.


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Connoisseurs of coition aver
That [the best British girls never | young British ladies don't] stir.
This condition, in Persia,
Is known as inertia.
[And it's not the | It depends which] response [ I | you] prefer.


EOP p276, Mc p36 Index


A lady who did aver,
Her distaste for hammered dulcimer,
Said, "It bothers me not,
If you play a lot,
As long as you play far from here."


Adele Everett Index


Oden the bardling averred
His muse was the bum of a bird,
And his Lesbian wife
Would finger his fife
While Fisherwood waited as third.



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There was an old man who averred
He had learned how to fly like a bird;
Cheered by thousands of people,
He leapt from the steeple -
This tomb states the date it occurred.


EOP p114

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There once was a fairy named Avers,
Who encircled his cock with lifesavers.
Though homos all claimed,
Their asses were maimed,
Sixty-niners all cheered the new flavors.


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PAPE MUSIQUE

When the Popes dined in old Avignon They would rarely ingest food alone. There were minstrels galore, An occasional whore, And some valets, to answer the phone. When the Pope crossed the Rhone to taste wine Many minstrels thought that was just fine. For they'd prance and they'd play From the bridge. On the way, The Pope chose the best one from a line. Back in Avignon, Pope Uc Castets Would enjoy isorhythmic motets Chanted by sisters three: One would sit on his knee While the others did wierd pirouettes. Certain minstrels, dressed in Papal hues Got to travel around the Vaucluse: To Venasque, late in May, For a quick, virile lai, Or to Chateauneuf, for bonks and booze.
Trobador@AOL.COM (Joel Cohen) Index


Two boys ran far far away;
I guess they had wanted to play,
Soccer or hockey.
They both had on jockeys,
I forget what I wanted to say...


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Two roosters were bragging away,
of their talent for waking the day.
As they stood there aghast,
Dawn sneaked quietly past
and was announced by a donkey's loud bray.


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A creature some lightyears away,


Knut Hunstad, from the SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestial Intelligence) Isaac Asimov Memorial Limerick Contest Index


Graceful - From The Tale of Peter Rabbit

With Mr McGregor away, Flopsy and Mopsy said, 'Hey! We'll ransack the place But first we'll say grace...' So they bowed bunny heads: 'Lettuce prey...'
Restricted, from Bluebird (Bktep@aol.com) Index


One miserable morn I awoke,
Crying "Someone come tell me a joke,
Or I'll wake up all gloomy, 
And torment my roomie,
And give my poor momma a poke."


From the 4th Great Vertech Limerick Contest Index


"America, the budget I'll axe.
Only evil rich folks will I tax."
"Honky-tonk us no more!
Your tune's spent, it's a bore!
Slick Willy, blow it out your sax!"


Jim re Clinton Index


A creature some lightyears away,
sent off a few signals one day.
at SETI they read,
the signals, but dread,
they said: "Ghi-re dfi ga yt zay!"


Restricted, Knut Hunstad, from the SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestial Intelligence) Isaac Asimov Memorial Limerick Contest Index


There was a young man from Axminster,
Whose designs were quite base and quite sinister.
His lifelong ambition
Was anal coition
With the wife of the French foreign minister.


CPV 114, L2 336 Index


There was a young man who said: 'Ayer
Has answered the atheist's prayer,
For a Hell one can't verify
Surely can't terrify -
At least till you know you are there.'


EOP p57 Index


There was a Young Person of Ayr,
Whose head was remarkably square:
On the top, in fine weather,
she wore a gold feather;
Which dazzled the people of Ayr.


Lear2 60 Index


The surrogate Bishop of Ayr
Was reduced to a state of despair
By the fact that his dreams
Contradicted the themes
Of his eloquent leadings in prayer



CTD 1981, TP, P Jan '96 Index


A light-fingered lady from Ayr
Had a certain intuitive flair
For unpicking the stitches
Of gentlemen's britches
And leaving their fundaments bare.



CTD 1981 Index


There was a young woman of Ayre,
Tried to steal out of church during prayer,
But the squeak of her shoes
So enlivened the pews
That she sat down again in despair.


Almost certainly should be 'Ayr' Index


The summers in Phoenix, AZ
Will cause me to search frantically
For that blessed spot
In a hot parking lot
Found under the shade of a tree.


mkolbe@goodnet.com, TP Gold Star Sept '95 Index


There once was a whore from the Azores
Whose [snatch | cunt | pussy] was [all] covered with sores.
The dogs in the street
[Used to lick the green | Would snap at the] meat
That hung [in festoons from | through the holes in] her drawers.


Communicated by Don Richards , L1 426 is a minor var. Another is: 'The slimy green cheese/ Hung down to her knees/ And congealed at the end of her drawers.' Index


There once was a young Aztec,
Who was fond of reading Steinbeck.
When asked where she read,
She said, "Always in bed,
Expecially when wearing Ko-tex."


L1 589 Index