# Loopy Limericks

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [February 8, 2015, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149 "2015-02-08T21:37:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 113

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**Author:** ![Orson\_Carte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Orson\_Carte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orson_Carte)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2015, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/2248 "2015-10-13T21:19:28Z")

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A young fossil hunter once found  
A specimen sure to astound.  
A 12 foot long bone,  
A femur, full-grown,

_(Hint: A ‘quintuple-A’ quintain was possible, so I kept the faith)._

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**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 13, 2015, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/2249 "2015-10-13T21:20:18Z")

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A young fossil hunter once found  
A specimen sure to astound  
A 12 foot long bone.  
And two balls made of stone

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**Author:** ![lottie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@lottie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lottie)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/2250 "2015-10-14T19:58:18Z")

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A young fossil hunter once found  
A specimen sure to astound.  
A 12 foot long bone,  
A femur, full-grown,  
A leg up from under the ground.  
Way back when I was just thirty,

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**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/2251 "2015-10-14T20:22:28Z")

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Way back when I was just thirty,  
My mind had thoughts that were just dirty

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**Author:** ![Orson\_Carte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Orson\_Carte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orson_Carte)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/2252 "2015-10-15T01:14:18Z")

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Way back when I was just thirty,  
My mind had thoughts that were just dirty.  
But now that I’m forty,

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**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/2253 "2015-10-15T01:31:32Z")

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Way back when I was just thirty,  
My mind had thoughts that were just dirty.  
But now that I’m forty,  
Thoughts trend child-support-y

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**Author:** ![WF\_Tomba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/2254 "2015-10-15T01:59:31Z")

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Way back when I was just thirty,  
My mind had thoughts that were just dirty.  
But now that I’m forty,  
Thoughts trend child-support-y  
Whenever a lady gets flirty.

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A dog with a sensitive nose

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**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/2255 "2015-10-15T02:12:10Z")

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A dog with a sensitive nose  
Was overcome by the stench from some clothes

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/2256 "2015-10-15T13:39:15Z")

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A dog with a sensitive nose  
Was overcome by the stench from some clothes  
He sneezed and then puked

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**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/2257 "2015-10-15T21:47:15Z")

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A dog with a sensitive nose  
Was overcome by the stench from some clothes  
He sneezed and then puked  
And he harshly rebuked

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**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 15, 2015, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/2258 "2015-10-15T22:09:28Z")

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A dog with a sensitive nose  
Was overcome by the stench from some clothes  
He sneezed and then puked  
And he harshly rebuked  
But just what he howled, no one knows.

A dentist had just pulled a molar

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**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/2259 "2015-10-16T00:22:48Z")

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A dentist had just pulled a molar  
In her ‘green’ office powered by solar

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**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/2260 "2015-10-16T00:52:05Z")

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## A dentist had just pulled a molar In her ‘green’ office powered by solar. But her patient opined

I think this one hangs together well - -

> [@WF\_Tomba](#):
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> Way back when I was just thirty,  
> My mind had thoughts that were just dirty.  
> But now that I’m forty,  
> Thoughts trend child-support-y  
> Whenever a lady gets flirty.

Nicely done.

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**Author:** ![Orson\_Carte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Orson\_Carte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orson_Carte)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/2261 "2015-10-16T01:32:15Z")

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A dentist had just pulled a molar  
In her ‘green’ office powered by solar.  
But her patient opined,  
'I think you will find

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**Author:** ![lottie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@lottie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lottie)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/2262 "2015-10-16T02:34:47Z")

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A dentist had just pulled a molar,  
In her ‘green’ office powered by solar.  
But her patient opined,  
‘I think you will find  
That you’ve left lipstick on my colar’.  
I dreamed of a night in white satin

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**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/2263 "2015-10-16T03:05:16Z")

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I dreamed of a night in white satin  
Interrupted by General Patton

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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 16, 2015, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/2264 "2015-10-16T04:10:50Z")

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I dreamed of a night in white satin  
Interrupted by General Patton  
Shouting, “What? A bordello?”

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**Author:** ![WF\_Tomba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/2265 "2015-10-16T06:10:44Z")

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I dreamed of a night in white satin  
Interrupted by General Patton  
Shouting, “What? A bordello?”  
While Abbott and Costello

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**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/2266 "2015-10-16T16:02:15Z")

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I dreamed of a night in white satin  
Interrupted by General Patton  
Shouting, “What? A bordello?”  
While Abbott and Costello  
Did their routines onstage and in Latin  
Said a young lad as I happened to walk past

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**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 16, 2015, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/2267 "2015-10-16T16:42:05Z")

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> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#):
>
> I dreamed of a night in white satin  
> Interrupted by General Patton  
> Shouting, “What? A bordello?”  
> While Abbott and Costello  
> Did their routines onstage and in Latin

Bravo!

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