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$10 limerick #14
There was a young lady named Skinner
Who dreamt that her lover was in her.
She woke with a start,
And let a loud fart,
Which was followed by luncheon and dinner.
Norman Douglas:
"Note the truthfulness of the last line. The accident occured at night, and if the poet had written "followed by dinner and luncheon" the meals would have been excreted in their wrong order – a feat which I defy anybody to perform.
The effects of these involuntary spasms are alluded to in another poem:
I dined with the Duchess of Lee,
Who asked: "Do you fart when you pee?"
I said with some wit:
"Do you belch when you shit?"
And felt it was one up to me.
A noble verse, and worthy of old England in its lack of polysyllables."
[Ed. note:
The tale of the Skinner family – perhaps a brother or cousin of the above accident victim – is further related in the following self-annotated gem:
Once a young fellow named Skinner
Took a lady to dinner to winner,
At a quarter past nine,
They started to dine,
At a quarter past ten, it was inner.
(The dinner, not Skinner.
Skinner was inner before dinner.)]
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