LIMERICKS

Related Subjects: Humor, Nonsense, Poets and Poetry

1. There was an old man of Nantucket
   Who kept all his cash in a bucket;
   But his daughter, named Nan,
   Ran away with a man—
   And as for the bucket, Nantucket.—Anonymous
   

2. There once was a brainy baboon
   Who always breathed down a bassoon,
   For he said, "It appears
   That in billions of years
   I shall certainly hit on a tune.—SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON
   

3. There are three kinds of limericks; limericks to be told when ladies are present; limericks to be told when ladies are absent but clergymen are present;—and limericks.—DON MARQUIS
   

4. There was a young lady named Bright
   Whose movements were faster than light;
   She ran off one day
   In a relative way,
   And returned on the previous night.—Limerick on the Einstein Theory of Relativity