# There once was a man from Nantucket ...... SDMB Limericks

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 19, 2002, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-a-man-from-nantucket-sdmb-limericks/143882 "2002-12-19T20:26:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![december](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@december](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/december)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-a-man-from-nantucket-sdmb-limericks/143882/21 "2002-12-20T03:33:21Z")

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I suffer a commonplace quirk.  
Of wanting to not do my work.  
It’s more fun to post  
With the message board host,  
And when I don’t post, I might lurk.

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**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-a-man-from-nantucket-sdmb-limericks/143882/22 "2002-12-20T12:44:30Z")

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Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah  
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah  
Blah blah blah blah  
Blah blah blah blah  
And then he blew his head right off.

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**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-a-man-from-nantucket-sdmb-limericks/143882/23 "2002-12-20T12:51:14Z")

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There was a young woman named Alice  
Who used a stick of dynamite for a phallus  
They found her vagina  
In South Carolina  
And part of her anus  
In Dallas

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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-a-man-from-nantucket-sdmb-limericks/143882/24 "2002-12-20T12:58:43Z")

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This isn’t mine, but I loved it. It came from a contest to use Lewinsky, Kazinsky, and Clinton in a limerick.

_Clinton and Lewinsky have shown  
What Kazinsky must always have known  
That an intern is better  
Than a bomb in a letter  
Given the choice of how to be blown._

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**Author:** ![december](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@december](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/december)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-a-man-from-nantucket-sdmb-limericks/143882/25 "2002-12-20T14:17:57Z")

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The membership here is quite varyin’  
Including a free **Libertarian**  
A veterinarian  
Rural agrarian  
Sextegenarian  
German-born Aryan  
And **Hentor the** savage **Barbarian**

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**Author:** ![TelcontarStorm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@TelcontarStorm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TelcontarStorm)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-a-man-from-nantucket-sdmb-limericks/143882/26 "2002-12-20T16:58:53Z")

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Not doper related but a favorite I’ve posted before.

There once was a fellow named Dirkin  
Who was fond of jerkin’ his gherkin  
Said his wife the Dirkin  
From jerkin’ yer gherkin  
You benn shirkin’ yer furkin’. Ya Bastard!

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**Author:** ![IThinkNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ce73a5/32.png) [@IThinkNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IThinkNot)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-a-man-from-nantucket-sdmb-limericks/143882/27 "2002-12-21T01:33:49Z")

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JohnnyPhebs:

Oh. Okay. I quite honestly was not expecting something like that, but thanks anyway… I think…

\<IThinkNot grimaces, kicking herself for asking such a retarded question like that\>

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**Author:** ![Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raymond_luxury_yacht/32/4099_2.png) [@Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raymond_Luxury_Yacht)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-once-was-a-man-from-nantucket-sdmb-limericks/143882/28 "2002-12-21T07:13:22Z")

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Ask a guy from Nantucket  
As a thread it’s better to duck it  
No more of these  
I’m begging you please  
Like Creosote I might need a bucket  
😉

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