IceKarma
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Mar 3, 2026 5:13 PM
IceKarma
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BadPunsAplenty
There once was a girl from St. Paul
Wore a newspaper dress to the ball
But a dirty old liar
Set it on fire
And burned it up, sports page and all.
pt2016
Any student from Kent here?
TheMurderousCricket
There once was a man from Venice
Who had an extremely large house
1yamia1
OhIfIMust
On the chest of a barmaid in Sale
Were tattooed the prices of ale.
Whilst on her behind, for the sake of the blind
Was precisely the same, but in Braille!
UnpinionedPoplars
There once was a boy from Peru
Whose limericks stopped at line 2
Sebastopol140
2112eric5772
My friend with defective gray matter
Was sick of his internal chatter
With a nod and some shrugs
He downed some good drugs
No longer as mad as a hatter!
DrewThe3DPrinterGuy
NZSheeps
shehdbeuebw738373
There once was a vampire called Mabel
Whose periods were really quite stable
At every full moon
She'd take out her spoon
And drink herself under the table
Boyintinicatse
Why the fuck don’t they use a cow?
igglebotato
moo ≠ µ
mew = µ
mpoc1958
Thank you! In these trying times . . . :)
ChelChehalem
A king who was mad at the time
Made writing Lim'ricks a crime
So late in the night
All the poets would write
Verses without any rhyme or meter
peridotstar
You're a poetry terrorist and I love it xD
massdefect3
"Control is intriguing enough
With its mysterious, inscrutable stuff,
But the combat is cloying
And about as annoying
As a limerick that doesn't end properly."
-Yahtzee Croshaw
JudgeMentaI
There was a young lady from Venus, whose body was shaped like a...
ropetopus
Rebus
RobertAG25772
How’s that Greek letter pronounced??
RobertAG25772
“Mew”. Uh-huh!
LoftheDesert
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(letter)
for those wondering. Pronounced "myu"
DutchBoeremeisie
Thank you, kind Imgurian.
gronzilla
Fun fact, only anglophones pronounce it that way
Wapusk
One day Zarathud took his students to a pleasant pasture and there he confronted The Sacred Chao while She was contentedly grazing.
"Tell me, you dumb beast." demanded the Priest in his commanding voice, "why don't you do something worthwhile. What is your Purpose in Life, anyway?"
Munching the tasty grass, The Sacred Chao replied "MU".
Upon hearing this, absolutely nobody was enlightened. Primarily because they did not understand Chinese.
swofromtherock
For those still wondering, "myu" is pronounced "mew." Like the Pokemon.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a6/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-Mu.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-Mu.wav.mp3
DVSBSTrD
Fun fact: That is also the Ancient Egyptian word for "cat".
kraeftig
Related kinda interesting fact, sort of similar sound... Mao (māo) is the chinese word for Cat. Which also, as best I understand the etymology of it, was originally "miao" and became "māo" over time. Some cats make noises that do sound like "māo" as well - I've had cats that do.
nation543
Ancient Egyptian: *sees a cat for the first time* What the fuck are YOU?
Cat: Mew
Ancient Egyptian: Well alright, then...
SebastianCrab
My guess is that it is an onomatopoeia name.
CrisprCAS
There once was a man from Nantucket
Who forgot how limericks work
PiercedViking
Who's there?
emertonom
You know, I once knew a man from Nantucket. Let's just say the stories about him were greatly exaggerated. --Homer Simpson
Condor3615
There once was a man from Nantucket. Who kept all his wealth in a bucket. His wife met a man. They ran off to Iran. And as for the bucket...
NinjaCongo
There once was a man named Enis,
CrisprCAS
Who liked watching the planet of Venus,
obzervr
He saw two green men
Who whistled and then
Said "my, what an enormous telescope)
DragonThunderUndertaking
CrisprCAS
'green, and girls are pretty' works fine
MrGrundy
Green, girls are pretty"
CrisprCAS
Green girls are pretty.
igglebotato
There was a young man
from Cork who got limericks
and haiku confused
peridotstar
Hey, this was clever xD
igglebotato
It's great, even if I stole it from elsewhere
sfrinlan
I always say it with Peru so that it kind of rhymes with "confused", and then when you stop, it takes people a little longer for the realization of what you did to sink in, which amuses me.
glamdring1
Thats fun but doesn't it mess up the syllable count?
igglebotato
not if you get rid of "young"
sfrinlan
Haven't told it in a while, but I think I tell it as
"There once was a man
from Peru who got limericks
and haiku confused"
In my dialect / pronunciation, it's "lim-ricks" as two syllables, so that might affect things