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$10 limerick #9

There was a young man of Devizes
Whose balls were of different sizes.
     One was so small
     It was nothing at all;
The other took numerous prizes.

Norman Douglas:
"If one of his testicles was 'nothing at all,' then this young prize-winner was monorchous. Such people were credited in antiquity with great sexual vigour, and the three or four of them whom it has been my privilege to know certainly corroborated the old belief. But they are up a tree when their single testicle has to be removed by a surgical operation, whereas most of us have a second one in reserve. Even that is doomed to extraction all too frequently!

"The fact is, these objects in their present situation are exposed to so many risks that we may well envy the whales, and in a booklet entitled 'Hints for God' I make bold to suggest that, at the next creation of the world, they be located in a position of greater security. If He agrees to my proposal He will earn the gratitude of all save a few little boys whose testicles remain hidden upstairs, and are anyhow too small to be taken seriously.

"Whoever wishes to see what this organ can do in the way of size should go to Pernambuco, where it is nothing out of the way to see a man wheeling his testicles in front of him on a barrow. I suspect the disease (elephantiasis) was imported by Africans."

$10 Limerick No.10

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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