# Post your fave Limerick **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 16, 2007, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-fave-limerick/426660 "2007-11-16T08:48:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-fave-limerick/426660/81 "2007-11-20T08:54:15Z")
An overweight lass from Calcutta One day was heard to mutter It’s so blasted hot The sweat from my motte Is forming large pools in the gutter ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-fave-limerick/426660/82 "2007-11-20T16:38:16Z")
She frowned and called him Mr Because he never kr And so, in spite That very night, This Mr kr sr! There once was a lady from Worcester Who ussessed to crow like a roosesster She ussessed to climb Two trees at a time, But her sissister ussessed to boossesster! There once was a gourmet of Crediton Who took pate de foie gras and spread it on A chocolate biscuit Then murmured, “I’ll risk it!” His tomb bears the date that he said it on. I feel as though I should apologize for the cleanliness… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![beanpod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9adbd/32.png) [@beanpod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beanpod)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-fave-limerick/426660/83 "2007-11-20T16:50:35Z")
Well, it’ s not dirty or anything, but it was the first one I learned: There once was a man from Black Heath who sat on his set of false teeth. Cried he, with a start, Oh Dear! Bless my heart, I’ve bitten myself underneath! My dirty-old-army-sergeant-grandpa taught it to me when I was 8. He almost taught me the one about the girl from Nantucket, but my grandma apprehended him first. ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-fave-limerick/426660/84 "2007-11-20T17:32:23Z")
There was an old maid from Duluth Who wept when she thought of her youth And all of the chances She missed at school dances And once in a telephone booth ---
**Author:** ![KC\_Bravelens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eb8c5e/32.png) [@KC\_Bravelens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KC_Bravelens)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-fave-limerick/426660/85 "2007-11-20T23:01:37Z")
there was an old girl from salecia who said if my c%nt doesn’t please ya you may as well cum up my slimy old bum but be careful my tapeworm don’t seize ya ---
**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:** [November 21, 2007, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-fave-limerick/426660/86 "2007-11-21T01:19:42Z")
From matt\_mcl: There was a young girl of Vancouver, Who, when told it was not ‘horses doover,’ Found she hadn’t the nerve To ask for _hors d’oeuvres_, So had soup as a saving manoeuvre. More Asimov: A woman from North Carolina Stretched fiddle strings 'cross her vagina And with proper size cocks What was sex became Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-fave-limerick/426660.md?page=4)