![]() ![]() To COVID 19 we say Bruce McBrearty, Osprey, FLĪnd the mysterious “Portly Bard” wrote 8 limericks for us. Wichita, KS (Edward Starbuck’s great-13 th grandson) – Laura Keane with credit to Craig D’AndreaĪnd we all end up back with “Our Tucket.”ĭuring the time of the plague on Nantucket, You’ll use the phrase in public, typically in an X-rated format, to tell someone that you don’t care about what they are saying or a task you are doing. It’s a story of a blessed man and his carefree attitude to life. There’s just one roll left, I must pluck it!Īll the shops of the Grey Lady have closedĪt least it’s Spring and no one has frozeįolks will be wiping their butts with a hose. There once was a girl from Nantucket is a limerick talking about a girl that didn’t have her fare. She called Faregrounds for delivery curbside. But his daughter, named Nan, Pa followed the pair to Pawtucket,: The man and the girl. I was in the shower thinking about the poem from spongebob 'there once was a man from peru. He woke with a fright in the middle of the night and found it was his friend named pucket. Who was all out of rice for her stir fry. There once was a man from Nantucket: Who kept all his cash in a bucket. There once was a man from nantucket, who dreamed of a dick and he sucked it. ![]() There once was a man from Nantucket Who’s dck was so big he could suck it. There is another one which is just as crude, but this time, about a rather well-endowed man. Who’s scallop knife was so sharp he could shuck it. Male Version This poem was not the original dirty Nantucket based limerick. Who loved clams so much he said shuck-it.Ĭuz he had his rusty old rake and his bucket. Who told the apocalypse it could “Suck it!” If you’d like to add to these, email your chapter to us at with the subject line of “Nantucket Limerick Challenge.” Remember: limericks should have five lines that follow the rhythm in the example below. We’re sharing these here at the very end of 2020, to give our readers something to smile about as we are about to start a new year. Spring of 2020, as we all stayed home and wondered what would happen next, the staff of Yesterday’s Island/Today’s Nantucket tried to lighten the moods of their readers with a new contest: pandemic versions of the Nantucket limericks. You can read them at along with more recent additions. The ORIGINAL limericks–not the ones that make us blush–were a back-and-forth contest in 1924. He decided to have a sex change into a woman. Then he decided that he can’t do this no more No one appreciates me doing this hard chore. The road to the river was a hell of a long ways And he had to do this for most of his days. For decades the island guide Yesterday’s Island/Today’s Nantucket has challenged readers to add to the original limericks written about Nantucket. There once was a man from Nantucket Who had to fetch all his water in a bucket.
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