Limericks

Submitted by Dozy on Tue, 05/06/2008 at 1:11pm.

In 1948 when George Orwell invented Newspeak he could never have believed that the idea would actually find a way into commmon usage, but it daily grows stronger as political correctness.

Back in the days when the air was clean and sex was dirty there was a politically incorrect limerick about a young gentleman of doubtful preferences who found himself alone with a young lady who normally preferred to have nothing whatever to do with people of the masculine persuasion. (It's well-known and I won't quote it on a family-friendly web site. Message me if you want to know what it is.)

But suppose they had gone to his room for a completely innocent purpose. Maybe the limerick would have read like this:

A chess player living in Broome

Took a bridge player up to his room;

But cried in distress

As he set up the chess,

Who's to do what, and with which, and to whom?

Anybody have any limericks they want to share?

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Comments:

by Dozy - 49 days ago
Blue Mountains Australia

Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 595

Clever one, vj. Most of the limericks I know are pretty scandalous (especially those I've written myself). I'm just not a nice person.

Bill Wall, on the other hand has put together a whole collection of chess limericks. Here's one of them:

            There once was a girl in the nude,
            Who played chess with some dude;
            She announced to her date,
            She was ready to mate,
            But her meaning was quite misconstrued.

You can find the rest of them here: http://www.chess.com/article/view/limericks