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Everybody Likes Limericks
There was a young man from Wheeling
Endowed with such delicate feeling,
When he read, on the door,
"Don't spit on the floor,"
He jumped up and spat on the ceiling!
There was an old man of Cadiz
Who affirmed that life is what it is;
For he early had learnt
If it were what it weren't
It could not be that which it is!
There was a young fellow named Wier
Who hadn't an atom of fear.
He indulged a desire
To touch a live wire.
(Most any last line will do here!)
A flea and a fly in a flue
Were imprisoned, so what could they do?
Said the fly, "Let us flee!"
Said the flea, "Let us fly!"
So they flew through a flaw in the flute!
As a beauty I am not a star,
There are others more handsome by far;
But my face - I don't mind it,
Because I'm behind it;
It's the people in front that I jar!
There was a young man so benighted,
He never knew when he was slighted;
He would go to a party,
And eat just as hearty,
As if he'd been really invited!
A painter, who lived in Great Britain,
Interrupted two girls with their knittin',
He said, with a sigh,
"That park bench - well I
Just painted it, right where you're sittin'!"
There was a young salesman of Leeds
Rashly swallowed six packets of seeds.
When a month came to pass
He was covered with grass,
And he couldn't sit down for the weeds!
- Limericks from the Jumbo Fun Book -
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