In The Bad News Bears season 2 episode 12 "The Good Life" Tanner enters a poetry contest with "There once was a man from Nantucket." before the principal cuts him off.In That 70's Show season 2 episode 24, Hyde begins a joke with "There once was a girl from Nantucket.".The audience is aghast as he realizes he has the wrong sheet. Nickelodeon repeated this joke 14 years later in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Squidward's School for Grown-Ups", SpongeBob, impersonating an opera singer, begins his act by producing a sheet of paper and reading the same line. He begins to say, "There once was a man from Nantucket" before being shushed by Mr. In the Hey Arnold episode "New Teacher," Herold Berman volunteers to recite a poem for his schoolmates.On the Gilmore Girls season 3, episode 8, Lorelai Gilmore jokes about carving something dirty into a bathroom wall on a tour of Yale, saying, "What rhymes with Nantucket?".Garrison Keillor quoted the first line to laughter during his last episode of 42 years of hosting the radio show A Prairie Home Companion.The animated sitcom The Simpsons makes numerous references to the limerick, such as "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo", where Homer comments that he "once knew a man from Nantucket" but "the stories about him are greatly exaggerated".In Woody Allen's 1966 film What's Up, Tiger Lily?, the protagonist Phil Moskowitz reads the opening line of "ancient erotic poetry": "There once was a man from Nantucket".The poem has become a staple of American humor, both as an iconic example of dirty poetry and as a joking example of fine art, whose vulgarity and simple form provide a surprise contrast to an expected refinement.
And he said with a grin As he wiped off his chin, "If my ear were a cunt, I could fuck it." Recognition In popular culture There once was a man from Nantucket Whose dick was so long he could suck it. 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. Many variations on the theme are possible because of the ease of rhyming Nantucket with certain vulgar phrases. In the many vulgar versions, the Mythopoeia protagonist is typically portrayed as a well-hung, hypersexualized persona. The many ribald versions of the limerick are the basis for its lasting popularity. Then the pair followed Pa to Manhasset, Where he still held the cash as an asset But Nan and the man Stole the money and ran, And as for the bucket, Manhasset. Pa followed the pair to Pawtucket, The man and the girl with the bucket And he said to the man, He was welcome to Nan, But as for the bucket, Pawtucket. Of these, perhaps the two most famous appeared, respectively, in the Chicago Tribune and the New York Press: Other publications seized upon the "Nantucket" motif, spawning many sequels. But his daughter, named Nan, Ran away with a man And as for the bucket, Nantucket. He could give all the children some beer!The turkey did not turn out fine.So I thought I would break out the wine.The earliest published version appeared in 1902 in the Princeton Tiger: There once was a man from Nantucket Who kept all his cash in a bucket. Oh yeah, except for the she’s and to date her!Īs he sang them their favourite tune!!!!! Oh lordy to be a man, natural born Irish!
Who liked to eat Irish taters with a fork! Shamrocks or four leaf-clovers are green,Īnd left nothing for the rest of his kin. They say Patrick’s a Norse a Viking of course WHEN SHE HEARD HIM YELL "WATCH OUT FOR THE PUCK" SHE THOUGHT "WOW MY NIGHT'S GONNA BE GOOD" Who had three sons name Matt, Nat and Tat The following Limericks were submitted by friends of The Irish Gift House In fact, you could call him a deep friar! When the world’s dressed up in their green With green outfits, green hats and green sleeves She slipped through the straw and fell in. He could give all the children some beer!īut her glasses slipped down to her toes. In your heart though you may shed a tear.įor the kid's sake we'll put on some cheer And he cried, "It's been one of those days!"
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