![]() The following collection contains all of the above, so stop right here if you’re easily offended by the graphic and off-color use of language.įamous limericks (not for the faint of heart) The best of them employ clever wordplay and surprising twists, although we almost always know what direction they’re heading in. The most famous limericks revolve around matters of sexual innuendo and downright indecency. But it wasn’t until the late 1800s that limericks gained their current name and developed their notoriously saucy reputation. Edward Lear can really take credit for popularizing the genre in his Book of Nonsense, a children’s book published in 1846. Some say that the French troubadours started reciting limericks as far back as the Middle Ages. The five-line limerick is a poetic form that dates back at least a couple centuries. But a lot of visitors have been coming here looking for examples of those well-known limericks of the lewd and tawdry variety. pp.Since launching my website last year, I’ve already shared several hundred of my own original limericks covering topics as diverse as Moby Dick, metempsychosis and the DSM. Yesterday's Island "Limerick Challenge"."There once was a man from Nantucket." but whispers the remaining joke in her ear. In season 1 episode 5 of The Wayans Brothers "My Fair Marlon", Marlon recites the beginning of this poem at to Lisa's friend Jane.In Main Street and the Newfangled Four’s Coney Island Washboard Roundelay Joey starts one of the jokes with "There once was a man from Nantucket." before the rest of the two quartets cut him off.In The Bad News Bears season 2 episode 12 "The Good Life" Tanner enters a poetry contest with "There once was a man from Nantucket." before the principal cuts him off.In That 70's Show season 2 episode 24, Hyde begins a joke with "There once was a girl from Nantucket.".The audience is aghast as he realizes he has the wrong sheet. Nickelodeon repeated this joke 14 years later in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Squidward's School for Grown-Ups", SpongeBob, impersonating an opera singer, begins his act by producing a sheet of paper and reading the same line. He begins to say, "There once was a man from Nantucket" before being shushed by Mr. ![]()
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