Some Interesting Limericks

Some Interesting Limericks

 

The limerick is a humorous, nonsense verse consisting of a triplet and couplet, which results in the person creating a five line poem.
Often, limericks begins with "There once was" or "There was a."
Lines 1, 2, 5 are the triplet and rhyme; lines 3, 4 form a rhyming couplet.

 

1.     There was an old lady from Clyde
Who ate forty apples and died
The apples fermented
inside the lamented
and made cider inside her insides

 

2.     There was a young maid from Madras
Who had a magnificent ass;
Not rounded and pink,
As you probably think---
It was grey, had long ears, and ate grass.

 

3.     There once was a lady named Lynn
Who was so uncommonly thin,
that when she assayed
to drink lemonade,
she slipped through the straw and fell in!

 

4.     There once was a lady named Perkins
Who simply doted on Gherkins
They were so nice
She ate too much spice
and pickled her internal workin's

 

5. A mouse in her room woke Miss Doud
Who was frightened and screamed very loud
Then a happy thought hit her
To scare off the critter
She sat up in bed and just meowed

 

6.     There was a young lady one fall
Who wore a newspaper dress to a ball.
The dress caught fire
And burned her entire
Front page, sporting section and all.

 

7.     There once was a lady, Ilene,
Who lived on distilled kerosene,
But she started absorbin'
A new hydrocarbon
and since then she'd never benzene

 

8.     There once was an old man of Esser,
Whose knowledge grew lesser and lesser,
It at last grew so small
He knew nothing at all,
And now he's a college professor.

 

9.     The once was a woman named Pat
Who just ate butter and sat;
She withered away
Until one day
Nothing was left butter fat.

 

10. There was a golfer from Verdun
Who was not to be outdone.
To avoid glitches
He carried spare britches
In case he got a hole in one.

 

11.                         By beauty I am not a star.
There are others more handsome by far.
My face I don't mind it.
Because I'm behind it.
It's the people in front that I jar.

 

12.                         There was a young fellow of Leeds
Who swallowed six packets of seeds.
In a month, silly ass,
He was covered with grass,
And he couldn't sit down for the weeds.

 

13.                         A man called Fiddle, you see,
Was a student of divinity.
"When I graduate
'Twill be my poor fate
To be known as Fiddle D.D.!"

 

14.                         Once in the rain I saw a man,
Strolling with an umbrella in hand.
When I said it was insane
To walk in the rain,
He said "Well then, I'll just stand".

 

16. There once was a man from 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.