Ribh's D'Coopage

[Ribh]

Such a wonderful assortment of crazies. I love it. ❤

Yes, they don't get too many treats but they usually benefit when I sort out the fridge.

 

[MaryJanet]

This is true...but I wasn't expecting it too be quite soo...graphic.

I think the word Nantucket gives rather a strong hint at how the next line will end

Could've been bucket i suppose

 

[MaryJanet]

There once was a man from Nantucket
Who had a green and blue bucket
It held a huge pear
Which he carried to share
With folks on very tight budgets.

 

[RoyalChick]

There once was a man from Nantucket
Who had a green and blue bucket
It held a huge pear
Which he carried to share
With folks on very tight budgets.

Brilliant!

 

[RoyalChick]

It's a lovely language. So cosmopolotian. It'll borrow words from anywhere. It'll even invent new ones if you like. And it gives you so many choices about how you say something ~ or describe something. That doesn't make it easy for non native speakers but it did give us a Shakespeare.

 

[BY Bob]

There once was a man from Nantucket
Who had a green and blue bucket
It held a huge pear
Which he carried to share
With folks on very tight budgets.

Well played.

 

[bruceha2000]

My daughter lives in Detroit, MI.

Talk about a destination wedding! Not to insult anyone but I think I'd rather live on a cliff in Italy than in Detroit.

I think the word Nantucket gives rather a strong hint at how the next line will end

Depends if your mind lives in the gutter or not!
Your version is quite clever.

 

[RoyalChick]

Talk about a destination wedding! Not to insult anyone but I think I'd rather live on a cliff in Italy than in Detroit.


Depends if your mind lives in the gutter or not!
Your version is quite clever.

Well, well. According to Wikipedia .....

The earliest published version appeared in 1902 in the Princeton Tiger written by Prof. Dayton Voorhees:[1][2][3]

There once was a man from Nantucket
Who kept all his cash in a bucket.
But his daughter, named Nan,
Ran away with a man
And as for the bucket, Nantucket.

 

[bruceha2000]

Who knew it was originally clean! I wonder who modified it to the version all of us gutter minded people know.

 

[RoyalChick]

Who knew it was originally clean! I wonder who modified it to the version all of us gutter minded people know.

According to Wikipedia the answer to that is:

The following example comes from Immortalia: An Anthology of American Ballads, Sailors' Songs, Cowboy Songs, College Songs, Parodies, Limericks, and Other Humorous Verses and Doggerel, published in 1927.
[and what follows is the version you are all thinking of but no, I am not going to type it out here and be the person who posted that in a family-friendly forum!]

I meant to post that with my earlier post but was so carried away by the bucket version that I pressed 'post' too soon!