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Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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There was once a man from Nantucket whose dick was so long he could suck it.
There was an old man from Nantucket,
Who kept all his cash in a bucket.
His daughter, named Nan,
Ran away with a man.
And as for the bucket, Nantucket
He followed the pair to Pawtucket,
The man and the girl and the bucket.
Paw said to the man,
He was welcome to Nan.
But as for the bucket, Pawtucket.
There once was a fellow from Perth
Who was born on the day of his birth
He was married, they say,
On his wife’s wedding day,
And he died on his last day on Earth.
I was a little boy watching the Animaniacs in the hotel on a trip with my dad, and Dot asked Yakko to tell her a bedtime story.
Yakko begins, “There once was a man from Nantucket . . .”
Dot says something like, “No, not that one!”
And my dad laughed really hard and promised to tell me the joke when I was older. I ended up hearing it from someone else, but I always remember that moment when I hear this joke.
There once was a lady from China
She put a popsicle in her vagina.
Being quite old, and shocked from the cold…
…she promptly died of angina.
Wait till you hear about the lady from China,
and where she would keep her popsicles.
The line immediately identifies that what will follow will be a limerick that is intentionally lowbrow and explicitly sexual.
There have been so many limericks following that intro that it’d be tough to identify a specific version that it intends to refer to.
There once was a man of great class, whose testes were made out of glass; when they tinkled together, they played Stormy Weather, and lightning shot out of his ass!
So, it didn’t start out bad. People just kept reusing the starting line and it got increasingly vulgar over time. What you called the Family friendly version is the ogÂ
There are many versions of this limerick, including many sexually explicit ones.
On one fine day in the middle of the night, two dead men got up to fight, back to back they faced one another, raised their swords and shot each other.
I no understand
Lambert lambert, what a prick
A zookeeper named Harry McGraffe
Once tried to fellate a giraffe
But the orgasmic splatter
Knocked him from his ladder
So this is his epitaph.
There once was a dude from Kentucky…
There once was a mouse named Keith,
Who circumcised men with his teeth.
It wasn’t for pleasure, or sexual measure,
He just wanted the cheese underneath.
I keep picturing the Crown with Princess Margaret at the White House. Lol. May not be historically accurate, but hey, funny.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ExUN7t5mtGM&pp=ygUSdGhlIGNyb3duIGxpbWVyaWNr
Everyone, lol.
There once was a hermit named Dave
Who kept a dead hooker in his cave
You have to admit
It smelled like shit
But look at the money he saved
My favorite one that I’ve seen is a pair of limericks:
There once was a man from Peru
Whose limericks stopped at line two
And
There once was a man from Verdun
those who know :💀💀💀