The World's Best Dirty Limericks

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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? For it seems the deepest truths, those of the heart that are the poet’s lifeblood, are often incompatible with straightforward expression. Nor does he seem to use any alliteration or internal rhyming, devices that can add a little something extra to the limerick.

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Not every one of Isaac Asimov’s dirty limericks is truly terrible, but to summarize, here are the five things I like least about them. In the 1200s, in northern Italy, along the Arno, an ambitious tower was steadily erected on unsteady ground. The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal.These days, unlike the days of my youth, you very seldom find a men’s room stall darkly scribbled with lubricious verses. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. But rather than alluding to the conjugal act with clever innuendo, these dull and dirty limericks display zero sense of subtlety. ADD TO THE COLLECTION - Filled with 144 pages of hilarious, crazy, dirty and cheeky rhymes and illustrations, this is a great naughty addition to any 18+ book shelf! Plus, the ladies love them, and you’ll be a hit at pandemic Zoom parties for your wit and originality.

What binds together Miss Susie’s escapades isn’t, Lord knows, meter or rhyme, but wordplay in a structural sense; a naughty play on words staples each stanza to the next.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. These constructions are miles away from the modern-day “dirty limerick,” the sort one used to encounter with dependable regularity on the unwashed walls of public men’s rooms. The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went.

It’s also to traffic in a language of ambivalence more emotionally authentic—truer to one’s own forever irreconcilably mixed outlook on life—than any simpler utterance. Prose has, the story reminds us, its own gorgeous and powerful concisions, but nothing to compare with the reach belonging to verse. HOT AND BOTHERED - Get dirty with this comedy book of rhymes and limericks that are definitely NSFW, with this hilarious inappropriate children's book for adults!You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.