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• PaulTon 10,731 Posts

  Tue, Aug 2 2016 3:06 PM

  "There once was a man from Nantucket..."

  Was there ever an original limerick beginning like this or, as I suspect, was it invented purely as a comedic device where the listener fills in the first line themselves?

  If I'm right it's got to be in contention for being the shortest joke ever.

  Enquiring minds (all of them in my own head) need to know!

  I could google this but where's the fun in that?

• fatdan 3,379 Posts

  Tue, Aug 2 2016 3:26 PM

  There was an original I believe, and perhaps the only clean one...

  The only reason I have any clue is, around 2012 it was talked about on the TV show Jeopardy or one like it!

• lonniescott711 4,204 Posts

  Tue, Aug 2 2016 3:31 PM

  Ther are 2 versions one clean and the other for grown ups only .The clean version was first printed 1902 by Professor Dayton Voorhees Princeton Tiger . You can start with the original lyrics and build from there .

  Check your email Paulie couldnt post it on your wall without it being censored .

• PaulTon 10,731 Posts

  Tue, Aug 2 2016 3:51 PM

  Wow that's a bit racy and funny as hell. Thanks for that Lonnie.

• PaulTon 10,731 Posts

  Tue, Aug 2 2016 3:55 PM

  lonniescott711:

  .The clean version was first printed 1902 by Professor Dayton Voorhees

  His brother Jason is more famous -

   

• craigswan 31,554 Posts

  Fri, Aug 5 2016 9:57 AM

  A young man named Paul late one night
  woke up with a terrible fright
  At the end of his bed
  Stood a ghost with no head
  His pants he filled right up with shite 

• adaputter 1,954 Posts

  Fri, Aug 5 2016 10:19 AM

  There was a lady who triplets begat
  Nat, Pat and Tat
  It was fun breeding
  But trouble feeding
  Cause she didn't have a tit for Tat.

• craigswan 31,554 Posts

  Fri, Aug 5 2016 10:25 AM

   

  
  

   

  Beware of Little Lonnie!
  I’m not being funny!
  Little Lonnie  has a disease
  That forever makes him sneeze,
  Trapping you in his so-called sticky, green honey

• craigswan 31,554 Posts

  Fri, Aug 5 2016 10:27 AM

  There once was a man named fatdan.
  He once ate beans from a can
  His colon swelled
  his wife said oh well
  and what rhymes with dan and can?

• nickelll 120 Posts

  Fri, Aug 5 2016 12:44 PM

  craigswan:

  There once was a man named Fat Dan
  He once ate beans from a can
  His colon swelled
  his wife said oh well
  and what rhymes with dan and can?

  Legend