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$10 limerick #6
There was a young man of Belgravia
Who cared neither for God nor his Saviour.
He walked down the Strand
With his balls in his hand,
And was had up for indecent behaviour.
Norman Douglas:
"This is the first limerick I ever learnt, at the age of ten; it has remained fixed in my memory. How many other things have been forgotten! I print it chiefly to show that even at this early period our absurd London street-regulations were already in force. Are they never going to be repealed?
"Belgravia in those days was a fashionable quarter, in contradistinction to the neighbouring Pimlico, though an equal amount of copulation went on in both of them. Yet the Pimlico standard was unquestionably lower:
There was a young lady of Slough,
Who said that she didn't know how.
Then a young fellow caught her
And jolly well taught her –
She lodges in Pimlico now.
"And so do a good many others of her kind."
(Ed.note:
And there's the maritime version, which results in the same disciplinary action:
The mate on the S.S. Belgravia
Didn't care for his God or his Savior;
He walked on the decks,
Proudly waving his sex –
And was brigged for indecent behavior.)
Or Take Your Pick:
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