I don't get it

Jessie · Post by **Jessie** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 10:42 pm

I thought I would start a post about jokes we heard but forgot and maybe someone can fill it in or maybe you only know half or part of the joke and someone can help with the rest.

Like I was talking with a fellow employ today and we could not figure out the. There once was a man from nantuket (sp?) what is the rest of the joke and why is it so funney?

Post by **DonnaT** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 11:06 pm

Who couldn't carry a tune in a bucket.

Connie · Post by **Connie** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 11:17 pm

There once was a man from nantuket (sp?) what is the rest of the joke and why is it so funney?

This is the start of a limerick (a type of poetry actually) consisting of 5 lines and a specific rhyming scheme and meter. such as:

There once was a man from Nantucket
who kept all his cash in a bucket.
His daughter named Nan,
ran away with a man,
And as for the bucket, Nan took it.

The really "good" ones will use a play on words for the last line, often misspelling the final word to fit the rhyme and often involves an obscenity. The "humor" of the "man from Nantucket" I always took to be the ease which it would rhyme with a word which is not allowed on this forum.

And sorry Donna, that's too many syllables.

Connie

Post by **DonnaT** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 11:27 pm

You mean something like:

There once was a T-girl from Millon
Who flew into the local salon
She cried with a plea
"You've got to help me!
These nails are superglued on."

Lorna · Post by **Lorna** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 3:30 am

Oh - I love limmericks!!

Sally · Post by **Sally** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 11:13 pm

What is a limerick, Mother?
It's a form of verse, said brother,
In which lines one and two
Rhyme with five when it's through
And three and four rhyme with each other.

A flea and a fly in a flue
Were imprisoned, so what could they do?
Said the fly, "let us flee!"
"Let us fly!" said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

There was a young woman named Bright
Whose speed was much faster than light.
She set out one day
In a relative way,
And returned on the previous night.

Loretta Ann · Post by **Loretta Ann** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:40 am

There was a cross dresser or two
Who wanted to become known as Sue.
So hidden among the droves
They found all their clothes
And appeared right out the blue.

Post by **DonnaT** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:02 am

A sissy who lived in Kalzume
Took another sissy up to his room
And they argued all night
Over who had the right
To do what, and with which, and to whom.

Were there others, I wondered, like me
Who liked how a skirt set me free
I was lucky when I met
Trannies in the net
Because that is when I became DonnaT