Originally posted by coquetteA regular poster, coquette,
there once was a poster named uzless
whose postings were always useless
funny they were not
and always filled with rot
but in the end he was still uzless
decided (when offered a bet).
To clean up the forum,
so drummed up a quorum,
to send uzless to the vet.
Originally posted by Frank BurnsFrank, this one's about as far from Nantucket as you can get. It's a
Excellent, unfortunatly the thread has opened itself up to the usual "There once was a man from Nantucket...."
Hoping others can match you and G. Bobby.
'send up', so to speak, by W.S. Gilbert who was probably fed up with
the spate of cookie cutter limericks making the rounds at the time:
"There was a young man fom Tralee
Who was horribly stung by a wasp.
... When they said, 'Does it buzz?'
... He replied, 'Yes, it hurts,
It's a horrible brute of a hornet.'"
😀
I hope you folks don't want original limericks -- the only one I wrote for a contest and came in third was really bad. But this one was my father's favorite and mine, too. It's about Einstein's theory of relatives, you see.
There was a young lady named Bright
Whose speed was much faster than light.
She set out one day,
in a relative way,
And returned on the previous night.