# 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:** 272

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**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/5430 "2025-01-17T19:03:08Z")

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I told her I had an excuse  
For all my toilet paper use.  
Where other men have one  
I in fact have three guns  
so my aim’s understandably diffuse

A man with three buttocks, its said,

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/5431 "2025-01-17T19:09:24Z")

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A man with three buttocks, it’s said,  
Has a hard time buttering his bread.

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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:** [January 17, 2025, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/5432 "2025-01-17T19:40:10Z")

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A man with three buttocks, it’s said,  
Has a hard time buttering his bread.  
So instead I use jam

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/5433 "2025-01-17T19:46:36Z")

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[rrghh I got distracted by a likely scam phone message, this was going to be my 3rd line:

What with his awful balance

So…]

A man with three buttocks, it’s said,  
Has a hard time buttering his bread.  
So instead I use jam  
And spread it on ham

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2025, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/5434 "2025-01-18T00:01:13Z")

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A man with three buttocks, it’s said,  
Has a hard time buttering his bread.  
So instead I use jam  
And spread it on ham  
And share with my buddy, named Fred.

Fred told me, when we were alone,

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2025, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/5435 "2025-01-18T00:30:16Z")

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Fred told me, when we were alone,  
He was one of those goobs flying a drone

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2025, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/5436 "2025-01-18T00:31:58Z")

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Fred told me, when we were alone,  
He was one of those goobs flying a drone  
Flew one over Virginia

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**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2025, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/5437 "2025-01-18T08:10:20Z")

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Fred told me, when we were alone,  
He was one of those goobs flying a drone  
Flew one over Virginia  
and ran it right in ta

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2025, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/5438 "2025-01-18T15:27:57Z")

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@Buck_Godot, I think your addition was unfinished there.

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**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2025, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/5439 "2025-01-19T03:39:53Z")

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No it’s as intended but I spelt “in to” as “in ta” vernacularly so it would pseudo rhyme with virginia

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2025, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/5440 "2025-01-19T04:03:39Z")

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OK then…

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Fred told me, when we were alone,  
He was one of those goobs flying a drone  
Flew one over Virginia  
and ran it right in ta  
The Space X rocket’s nose cone

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When the grey aliens came for me

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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:** [January 19, 2025, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/5441 "2025-01-19T04:07:43Z")

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When the grey aliens came for me  
I told them their probes would just bore me

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**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2025, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/5442 "2025-01-19T04:27:45Z")

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When the grey aliens came for me  
I told them their probes would just bore me.  
"But we do have to bore ya,  
_(as above, ‘ya’ used as a phonetic spelling for the vernacular form of ‘you’)_

_ **-“BB”-** _

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**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/5443 "2025-01-20T12:50:25Z")

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When the grey aliens came for me  
I told them their probes would just bore me.  
"But we do have to bore ya,  
It gives us euphoria

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/5444 "2025-01-20T14:44:05Z")

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When the grey aliens came for me  
I told them their probes would just bore me.  
"But we do have to bore ya,  
It gives us euphoria  
To drill into your bowels with glee

[bad form to rhyme with the same word there, **Fear\_Itself** …]

El Presidente told me to obey

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**Author:** ![Ferris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ferris/32/11573_2.png) [@Ferris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferris)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/5445 "2025-01-20T20:28:03Z")

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El Presidente told me to obey  
But as Kermit the Frog used to say…

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**Author:** ![RollOutTheBarrel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rolloutthebarrel/32/1649_2.png) [@RollOutTheBarrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RollOutTheBarrel)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/5446 "2025-01-20T20:47:51Z")

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El Presidente told me to obey  
But as Kermit the Frog used to say…  
“Be brave and be kind”

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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:** [January 20, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/5447 "2025-01-20T21:28:29Z")

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Not when the meter scans on “for me”. Many limericks rhyme that way.

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**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/5448 "2025-01-20T21:30:54Z")

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El Presidente told me to obey  
But as Kermit the Frog used to say…  
“Be brave and be kind”  
So I’m of the mind

_ **-“BB”-** _

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**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loopy-limericks/712149/5449 "2025-01-21T19:26:20Z")

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El Presidente told me to obey  
But as Kermit the Frog used to say…  
“Be brave and be kind”  
So I’m of the mind  
To sing all my troubles away

The Rainbow connection’s been lost

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