# Limericks with a twist

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limericks-with-a-twist/769896>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 28, 2016, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limericks-with-a-twist/769896 "2016-10-28T00:27:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limericks-with-a-twist/769896/21 "2016-10-30T03:35:03Z")

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There once was a man from Darfur  
Whose limericks all ended at line four.  
When asked why this was,  
He just said “Because.”

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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limericks-with-a-twist/769896/22 "2016-10-31T04:51:05Z")

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> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#):
>
> I think it was Isaac Asimov who relayed three of them:
> 
> 1. There once was a man from Peru  
> Whose limericks would end at line two.
> 
> 2. There once was a man from Verdun
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> 3.

I read those long ago in Martin Gardner’s column in Scientific American. I’m glad you included #3; it’s one of my favorites. It perfectly describes the young man from Nepal who never wrote any limericks.

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