# Is there actually a limerick.......
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-actually-a-limerick/94684
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [November 22, 2001, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-actually-a-limerick/94684 "2001-11-22T00:54:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Frank\_O.Pinion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank_O.Pinion)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2001, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-actually-a-limerick/94684/1 "2001-11-22T00:54:12Z")
You know the limerick about the man from Nantucket? Is there really a limerick that goes with that, or is that just a gag? (I have a pretty good idea what the next line would be…)
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### Author:  [@Ikujinashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ikujinashi)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2001, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-actually-a-limerick/94684/2 "2001-11-22T00:58:01Z")
There is a limerick, I’m not sure who the author is, but it sticks with you once you’ve heard it.
There once was a man from Natucket,
whose d\*\*\* was so long he could suck it.
He said with a grin,
as he wiped off his chin,
“If my ear was a c\*\*\* I would f\*\*\* it.”
Censored for the current forum.
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### Author:  [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2001, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-actually-a-limerick/94684/3 "2001-11-22T00:59:51Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Ikujinashi \*
> \*\*There is a limerick, I’m not sure who the author is, but it sticks with you once you’ve heard it.
>
> There once was a man from Natucket,
> whose d\*\*\* was so long he could suck it.
> He said with a grin,
> as he wiped off his chin,
> “If my ear was a c\*\*\* I would f\*\*\* it.”
>
> Censored for the current forum. \*\*
_sniff_ Beautiful. Truly beautiful.
😃
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### Author:  [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2001, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-actually-a-limerick/94684/4 "2001-11-22T01:05:02Z")
[The original (clean) version.](http://www.yesterdaysisland.com/main_pages/limerick.html)
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### Author:  [@Frank\_O.Pinion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank_O.Pinion)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2001, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-actually-a-limerick/94684/5 "2001-11-22T01:15:45Z")
This is just one of those things that I know most people have wondered, but don’t care enough to ask for themselves. They use this as a gag so often, I started to wonder if there was really a limerick. How about the alternative; “There once was a man named Enis…”? (If there isn’t, somebody’s gonna make one up really quick. I just have that feeling…)
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### Author:  [@WEW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WEW)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2001, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-actually-a-limerick/94684/6 "2001-11-22T01:31:07Z")
There once was a young man named Enis
Who was blessed with a 30 inch penis
You may think it is great
But if you ask my mate
She say’s using it constitues meaness.
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### Author:  [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2001, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-actually-a-limerick/94684/7 "2001-11-22T01:39:01Z")
[Ye olde Master speaks!](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_183.html)
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### Author:  [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2001, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-actually-a-limerick/94684/8 "2001-11-22T01:58:57Z")
I-yi-yi-yi
Frenchmen never eat bully-bullybergers
So sing me another one
Just like the other one
And waltz me around again Willy.
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2001, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-actually-a-limerick/94684/9 "2001-11-22T03:34:32Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Spavined Gelding \*
> \*\*I-yi-yi-yi
> Frenchmen never eat bully-bullybergers
> So sing me another one
> Just like the other one
> And waltz me around again Willy. \*\*
That lost something in the translation there, **Spav**.
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### Author:  [@Bob\_Scene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Scene)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2001, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-actually-a-limerick/94684/10 "2001-11-22T03:49:20Z")
Here’s the obituary of the guy that wrote most of this stuff:
[http://www.viz.co.uk/archive/playgroundpoet/playgroundpoet.htm](http://www.viz.co.uk/archive/playgroundpoet/playgroundpoet.htm)
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### Author:  [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2001, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-actually-a-limerick/94684/11 "2001-11-22T05:32:44Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Fear Itself \*
> \*\*
>
> > [@](#):
> >
> > \*Originally posted by Spavined Gelding \*
> > \*\*I-yi-yi-yi
> > Frenchmen never eat bully-bullybergers
> > So sing me another one
> > Just like the other one
> > And waltz me around again Willy. \*\*
>
> That lost something in the translation there, **Spav**. \*\*
This is the choirs that follows each limerick. It was a traditional folk song among undergraduates of a great Midwestern state university in the early 1960s.
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### Author:  [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2001, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-actually-a-limerick/94684/12 "2001-11-24T05:37:12Z")
I can’t believe I’m posting this… ~grin~
This is the chorus as I know it…
I-yi-yi-yi.
In China they do it for Chile.
I’ll sing you a verse that is worse than the first.
Walz me around again Willy.
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### Author:  [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2001, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-actually-a-limerick/94684/13 "2001-11-24T06:08:35Z")
I have always heard “Walz me around by me willy,” with an appropriate accent. 😃
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### Author:  [@Shyabrick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shyabrick)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2001, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-actually-a-limerick/94684/14 "2001-11-24T21:34:56Z")
I-yi-yi-yi Your mother does squat-thrusts on fire hydrants Lets sing another one just like the other one, and waltz me around by my willy