A poem I memorized

There was a young lady from Riga,
who rode with a smile on a tiger,
they returned from the ride, with the lady inside
and a smile on the face of the tiger.

There was a lady from Revoltingstan
Who fried bacon in a big pan
Try as she might
She wasn't a sight
As she rang the bell, everyone ran

There was a young lady called Bright,
Who could travel much faster than light.
She set off one day,
In the relative way,
And came back the previous night.

Or an Oxford philosophical one (pace Bishop Berkeley)

There was a young man who said "God
must find it exceedingly odd,
when he see that this tree
just ceases to be,
when there's no one about in the quad."

Response:

"Dear Sir, your astonishment's odd.
I am always about in the quad.
So that's why this tree
continues to be, since observed by:

yrs faithfully,

GOD."

There must be millions of these limericks.............

exchemist said:

There must be millions of these limericks.............

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Literally! Even Isaac Asimov created some.

But the best (in my view) were from Edward Gorey. Two of his:

The once was a vicar whose brain
Was deranged through the use of cocaine
To a copse, dark and wilde
He lured a small child
And beat it to death with his cane.

There's a rather odd couple in Herts
Who are cousins (or so each asserts)
Their sex in is doubt
For they're never without
Their moustaches and long, trailing skirts.

There once was a place called RF,
Where people would go to address,
Theological theories,
And long-standing queries,
In regards to existence no less.

Evangelicalhumanist said:

Literally! Even Isaac Asimov created some.

But the best (in my view) were from Edward Gorey. Two of his:

The once was a vicar whose brain
Was deranged through the use of cocaine
To a copse, dark and wilde
He lured a small child
And beat it to death with his cane.

There's a rather odd couple in Herts
Who are cousins (or so each asserts)
Their sex in is doubt
For they're never without
Their moustaches and long, trailing skirts.

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Yeah, the second one doesn't really work though, as Herts (short for Hertfordshire) is pronounced HARTS, not HURTS.