Limericks Anyone?

Question

Doesn't anyone here enjoy limericks? Limericks are five line poems where the 1st, 2nd & 5th lines rhyme and the 3rd & 4th lines rhyme. Usually they have a touch of humor.

Ex: 1.
There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!'

Ex: 2.
A flea and a fly in a flue
Were caught, so what could they do?
Said the fly, "Let us flee."
"Let us fly," said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

Ex: 3.
I'll tell you what you have in store,
A dozen of tips and much more,
But just do your best,
For there'll not be a test,
And you'll not get a grade or a score. !!

Common now, give it a try !

Answer 1

Thank you for this post, I love limericks. And that fly/flea/flue one is a favorite of mine....it's simply brilliant :)

Here are a few that made me smile:

Limerick 1:
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, Nan tuck it.


Limerick 2:
A poet possesses a curse
For he thinks in the madness of verse
My sanity's ample
For this small example
Is just an attempt to rehearse


Limerick 3:
Then the store checkout line is not fast.
So I change to line two. I'm aghast.
The first just got quicker
Line two was a trickster.
Yes, the last shall be first; the first, last.

Answer 2

There was a young man from Tibet
Who really hated to get wet
'Til a girl with a glower
Gave him a golden shower
Then he took one each chance he could get

Answer 3

1. There was a young man from Leeds,
who swallowed a packet of seeds.
great tufts of grass,
grew from his @ss,
and his b@lls were all covered with weeds!!!

2. There was a young lady called Sue,
who filled her fanny with glue,
she said to the guys,
who haggled for price,
If you pay to get in, you pay to get out, too!!

3. There was a young girl called Brat,
who bore triplets, Nat, Pat & Tat,
At the time of their feeding,
her heart felt like bleeding,
'cos she had no spare tit for Tat !!

Answer 4

There once was a man from yore
he wrote books of folk lore
books of folks and books of jokes
and books of much much more..