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$10 limerick #3

There was a young girl of Pitlochry,
Who was had by a man in a rockery.
     She said: "Oh! You've come
     All over my bum;
This isn't a f**k – it's a mockery."

Norman Douglas:
"There are several fine country seats near Pitlochry and a good many of them may have rockeries in their grounds, but the text, as it stands, does not allow us to decide in which of them this event took place.

"To make it intelligible, we must suppose that it took place during a dance; at night, therefore, when one gropes about and is less sure of one's position than by daytime. We must remember, too, that it happened in a rockery, whose uneven surface is not conducive to successful copulation. The fiasco may not have been the man's fault altogether, though the lady's resentment is perfectly justifiable.

"They will know better next time. They will realize that rockeries are built for ferns and not for f**ks."

(Ed. note:
Another Pitlochry-based limerick is seemingly only distantly related, but who knows? It's a small town:

There was a young man of Pitlochry
Whose morals were simply a mockery,
     For under the bed
     He'd a woman, instead
Of the usual item of crockery.)
$10 Limerick No.4

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man of Peru man of Belgravia Royal Marine lady at sea
man of Devizes man of Australia man called McLean lady of Kew
man of the Cape lady named Skinner man of Kildare man of Cape Horn
Dean of Saint Paul's lady called Wylde student of John's man of Loch Leven