Reading "The Dictionary of Lost Words" last night, I came across this gem, which I've cleaned up for posting:
There was a young harlot from Kew.
Who filled herself up with glue,
She said with a grin, :They pay to come in,
They can pay to get out again, too!"
A Humourous Harlot
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Pure poetry, that is.
Brian
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Lionel Ritchie sang "Stuck on you" Did he meet the lady in question?
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Nigel²
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Was that by Edward Leer
Simon
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The answer? A GPWS ( Glued Pussy Warning System)—-‘Pull Out! Pull Out!’ EricT
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Some amusing contributions, gentlemen!
The limerick was supposedly spoken by a very wordly market stallholder, in the 1800s, to illustrate the use of a word. (which I changed in the above to avoid being banned here.)
The only Leer I could find in this regard was not Edward, but a gent who apparently promoted clean limericks, which was (again, apparently) against the general idea behind them.
No originator quoted in the book, Simon.
The limerick was supposedly spoken by a very wordly market stallholder, in the 1800s, to illustrate the use of a word. (which I changed in the above to avoid being banned here.)
The only Leer I could find in this regard was not Edward, but a gent who apparently promoted clean limericks, which was (again, apparently) against the general idea behind them.