The World's Best Dirty Limericks

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Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions. The 4th line of the 1st limerick above, for example, you need to emphasize ‘me’, which isn’t very natural. Choice of paint is a crucial decision—potentially elevating a room from the merely functional to the inviting and comely. The limerick form was popularized by Edward Lear in his first A Book of Nonsense (1846) and a later work, More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc. Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy.

It was customary at the time for limericks to accompany an absurd illustration of the same subject, and for the final line of the limerick to be a variant of the first line ending in the same word, but with slight differences that create a nonsensical, circular effect. The poem might belong to some old-fashioned, run-down pantomime show, with a brilliantined emcee wagging an extended index finger at his squirming middle-aged male patrons: “Ooh, you naughty boys, what were you thinking? To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies.These days, unlike the days of my youth, you very seldom find a men’s room stall darkly scribbled with lubricious verses. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Grown clear-sighted with time, they now recognize that life’s ultimate rewards are few and fleeting. An idiosyncratic contract is quickly drawn up, whereby the reader is promised a pun—the more flagrant the better—in the last line of each quatrain.

Prose has, the story reminds us, its own gorgeous and powerful concisions, but nothing to compare with the reach belonging to verse. Lack of subtlety: A smart limerick can be dirty through suggestion and innuendo, rather than being blunt and obvious.Anybody who has ever taught a poetry class has encountered the exasperated student inquiring, “ Why can’t poets just say what they mean? Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).

What’s more, even in this plainspoken moment, doublespeak may have insinuated itself with a buried pun: ( Right it! It’s built right into the poem, so that a failure to pun, or to arrive at a particular bawdy rhyme in a particular place, feels less like a thematic and more like an operational failure.No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins.

com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US. When Edward Lear brought the limerick to public attention with his Book of Nonsense in 1846, it was more like a collection of nursery rhymes, intended for a very young audience. On the other hand, Housman did have the compensation (not given to the rest of us) of knowing he’d composed one of the most heartbreaking tiny poems in the language. Unfortunately rather than being hardcover as described at time of sale, it was a paperback but it is in good condition . I enjoy this quotation so much that I’ve never dared to confirm it; how lovely to think that words so wise, so helpful and constructive, issued from the mouth of somebody who back in the fifties was regularly referred to (without irony or self-consciousness) as a “sex bomb.Consider the charming, nubile Nan from Nantucket of an anonymous American limerick that first appeared in The Princeton Tiger in 1902. What perhaps most sharply separates the poet from the lawyer is an embrace of, rather than a frequent struggle against, linguistic squishiness.