# Jokes you didn't get as a kid, but do now... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 20, 1999, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-you-didnt-get-as-a-kid-but-do-now/9708 "1999-10-20T01:43:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CatInHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CatInHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatInHat)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 1999, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-you-didnt-get-as-a-kid-but-do-now/9708/21 "1999-10-20T22:14:00Z")
Actually, there’s a clean version of the Nantucket limerick. It goes like this: There once was a man from Nantucket, Who kept all his cash in a bucket. His daughter named Nan Ran off with a man And as for the bucket, Nantucket. Awful pun, but suitable for mixed company (except for the severely humor-impaired). * * * The Cat In The Hat ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 1999, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-you-didnt-get-as-a-kid-but-do-now/9708/22 "1999-10-20T22:43:00Z")
The Nantucket/bucket version dates back to at least 1924, with this second stanza: But he followed the pair to Pawtucket, The man and the girl with the bucket; And he said to the man, He was welcome to Nan, But as for the bucket, Pawtucket. This continues, ad nauseum for many stanzas; in it’s entirety: [Nantucket/bucket limerick](http://www.yesterdaysisland.com/limerick.html) * * * TT “Believe those who seek the truth. Doubt those who find it.” --Andre Gide ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 1999, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-you-didnt-get-as-a-kid-but-do-now/9708/23 "1999-10-20T22:43:00Z")
Just for closure: (“Hands up! We’re taking this thread to Nantucket!”) He followed the pair to Pawtucket. Nan and the man and the bucket. He said to the man You’re welcome to Nan. But as for the bucket, Pawtucket. ## I thought there was only one more (Manhasset), but apparently there are a zillion: [http://www.nantucket.net/YI/limerick/](http://www.nantucket.net/YI/limerick/) “The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere.” Dorothy L. Sayers _Clouds of Witness_ ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 1999, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-you-didnt-get-as-a-kid-but-do-now/9708/24 "1999-10-20T22:44:00Z")
Thufferin – GMTA! ---
**Author:** ![Boris\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@Boris\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boris_B)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 1999, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-you-didnt-get-as-a-kid-but-do-now/9708/25 "1999-10-20T22:51:00Z")
Anybody remember how the “Young Lady from Exeter” limerick from the movie _Magic Christian_ went? I remember not getting it as a kid, but giggling a lot anyway just because I knew it was dirty. ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 1999, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-you-didnt-get-as-a-kid-but-do-now/9708/26 "1999-10-20T22:58:00Z")
You can find **anything** ] on the internet: > [@](#): > > There was a young lady of Exeter, > So pretty, that men craned their necks at her. One was even so brave As to take out and wave The distinguishing mark of his sex at her. Expect a simultaneous post from ThufferinThuccotash! ---
**Author:** ![Dirty\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Dirty\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Devil)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 1999, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-you-didnt-get-as-a-kid-but-do-now/9708/27 "1999-10-20T23:29:00Z")
Well, mine’s not dirty, but I guess it still counts. I remember watching Rocky & Bullwinkle growing up and not getting a lot of the stuff. One in particular was a reference to the “_Ruby Yacht_ Of Omar Khayyam” (they had this little model boat covered in red jewels). Of course it’s a play on the famous book “_Rubaiyat_ Of Omar Khayyam”, but how in the hell is a 7 year-old supposed to know that? Brilliant, that show. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 1999, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-you-didnt-get-as-a-kid-but-do-now/9708/28 "1999-10-21T01:24:00Z")
If memory serves, there was also a ROcky and Bullwinkle gag in which they went to a junkyard called “Oedipus Wrecks.” Oh, man…thanks to Tom Lerher I got that even as a child. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 1999, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-you-didnt-get-as-a-kid-but-do-now/9708/29 "1999-10-21T03:45:00Z")
I was driving with my brother once when we were teens and the Kinks’ song _Lola_ started playing on the radio. He was singing along to the chorus and I asked him if he had ever really listened to all the words. He did so and I still remember the look on his face as he figured out what the song was about. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 1999, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-you-didnt-get-as-a-kid-but-do-now/9708/30 "1999-10-21T15:48:00Z")
The folks saying that they were wrestling. ---
**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 1999, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-you-didnt-get-as-a-kid-but-do-now/9708/31 "1999-10-21T18:31:00Z")
It was just a few years ago that I realized Boris Badenov’s all-purpose expression of alarm or annoyance, “Raskolnikov!” was the name of the guy in _Crime and Punishment_. It seem to me the Three Stooges shorts were littered with jokes and references that went right over my head as a kid. Larry: “I can’t die yet - I haven’t seen _The Jolson Story_!” * * * Bluecher! ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 1999, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-you-didnt-get-as-a-kid-but-do-now/9708/32 "1999-10-21T23:09:00Z")
Ah, who could forget this one line and how it made such a look of scorn and laughter appear? “There once was a man from Nantucket,” Who’s dick was so big he could suck it, He said with a grin, As he was wiping his chin, If my asshole was a pussy I could fuck it! ---
**Author:** ![Otis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e47774/32.png) [@Otis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otis)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 1999, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-you-didnt-get-as-a-kid-but-do-now/9708/33 "1999-10-21T23:59:00Z")
In fourth grade I was walking back from the school library with some chums. For some reason they couldn’t stop snickering at my book selection: “World’s Funniest Boners.” Thankfully one of my friends (I think it was Beavis) ended my ignorance on the subject. Does anyone use the term “Boner” to mean a screwup anymore? * * * “Stop the rope and let me in or I’ll go out and get some gin” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-you-didnt-get-as-a-kid-but-do-now/9708.md?page=1)