oldfart

What've you guys got? Heard a funny one today:
"There is no need to light a night light on a light night like tonight".

sgallan

That is a tongue twister.

Limericks consist of five anapaestic lines.
Lines 1, 2, and 5 of Limericks have seven to ten syllables and rhyme with one another.
Lines 3 and 4 of Limericks have five to seven syllables and also rhyme with each other.

Here is one.....

There was an Old Man in a boat,
Who said, 'I'm afloat, I'm afloat!'
When they said, 'No! you ain't!'
He was ready to faint,
That unhappy Old Man in a boat.

That is the "G" version. Most of them are XXX.

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oldfart

Yeah, knew the second I titled it "limericks", I'd get nailed for the def. So, let's rename the post "limericks and tongue twisters." Whatever you got that's fun with words.

sgallan

No problem.... the only reason I knew that is because Limericks are the only poetry I ever 'had' any talent at.

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JensenS

There once was a man from Nantucket...

Spider

Okay, here's one of the few clean ones I know:

There once was a man from Calcutta
Who spoke with a terrible stutter.
At breakfast he said,
"Give me b b b bread
And b b b b b b butter."

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Spider

And one of the other kind:

There once was a man named McGruder
Who wooed a young nude in Bermuda.
The nude thought it rude
To be wooed in the nude,
So McGruder got ruder and scr***ed her.

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Spider

There was a young mom who begat
Three triplets named Nat, Pat and Tat.
It was fun in the breeding,
But hell in the feeding
When she found there was no tit for Tat.

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oldfart

Awesome job, Spider. I've got to remember the McGruder one, hilarious.

JeepCreep

There once were some rhymes they called limericks
Repeated by smart men and dimwits
They're easy to make
A real piece of cake
Until you get to the last line.

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