Early Limericks

Here's an early sample of rhyme
For you to watch for a time
Though of course if you slipped
And that red button clicked
I would be grateful... ine

[@Hani-be2ww]

1:40 ... ok that was epic

[@tylersims6937]

Wait, you didn't know people were... fabulous 🧚‍♂️👯‍♂️back then too?!??🐩🦩🍌🥒🍆🐓🍭🎊🏸🩰🎯🛼🎭🪢👒👜💄👠👡💊🔩🔔⚱️❗🔃🔛🔝🆗🆒🚹🚹▫️🏳️‍🌈🇮🇲🇺🇸

[@theskychild2594]

It sounds so British... lovely!

[@rodrigoadrianrodriguezaedo4477]

That's because AB is British

[@ABAlphaBeta]

@@rodrigoadrianrodriguezaedo4477 Yo am soy castalanho actualamente

[@livedandletdie]

@@ABAlphaBeta There once was a man from Castille, whose rhyme doth appeal, his word myne ear soothe, a bard yet no lute, with that info do what you will.

[@borismedina8818]

@@ABAlphaBeta Me hueles que eres más un guiri que "castalanho"

[@scouttyra]

A more modern one (and quite nerdy) There was a young lady called Wight Whose speed was faster than light She set out one day In a relative way And came home the previous night

[@BuildingCenter]

Most of these must be 2nd-generation or later, after the initial limericks were panned for repeating the first line as the final, as happens here at least once. In the aftermath, actual humor invaded the formerly unadorned form, leaving some of these silly gems. Great reading -- just enough disgust and disdain, as the writers surely intended. ;-)

[@livedandletdie]

I am gai, I am poet, I dwell, Rupert Street, at the fifth. I am Svell. And I love my mamma, and I sing tralala, and the English I speaks him quite well. Sounds like a good mockery by the French.

[@cadr003]

The last one gave me the giggles

[@ShaddySoldier]

The man from Japan one has me laughing

[@DiogenesOfDelaware]

I'm from Smyrna, Delaware.... that first one hit different.

[@bigcheese2128]

The baby one was really funny

[@livedandletdie]

There once a man who doth rhyme. Maybe once or twice at a time. Not a fortunate lot, got drowned in a pot, and seasoned and served with some thyme.

[@Wojak_who_games]

now this video is good

[@Pawn2e4]

Here's an early sample of rhyme For you to watch for a time Though of course if you slipped And that red button clicked Then my ad-revenue would surely climb

[@ABAlphaBeta]

You do realise the ad revenue doesn't depend on subcount

[@Pawn2e4]

@@ABAlphaBeta You do realise sub count and video views are correlated right?

[@ABAlphaBeta]

@@Pawn2e4 touché

[@cebonvieuxjack]

that's top quality videos right there

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

On the breasts of a barmaid in Sale, Were tattooed the prices of ale. And on her behind, For the sake of the blind, Was the same information...in Braille. There was an old man who’s a sickun. Had a dozen hens ripe for the pickin. He’d chase them around, With his trousers pulled down, Saying “What’s wrong girls? Are ya’ chicken?” There once was a fellow, McSweeny, Who spilt some gin on his weenie. Just to be couth, He added Vermouth. And gave his wife a Martini. There was a young farmhand, called Kull, Who mistakenly was milking a Bull. When the farmer said, “Son, You’ve milked the wrong one!” He replied, “But me buckets half full!”

[@AJ-vs3yz]

You dirty bastard

[@katiedobug]

love it!

[@ovechai1533]

👀👀

[@MrLivingsworth]

THAT'S CALLED MOTHER FUCKIN BAAARRS

[@sean668]

Interesting how some of them follow the rhyme scheme all the way through, and others end with a repetition of the same word. I wonder if that was seen as a cop-out or just another way to conclude

[@ABAlphaBeta]

Early 1st gen style vs a slightly later early style

[@TenOrbital]

Bicester?

[@JustWill6969]

I must say the girl in your profile pic is a babe of antiquity.

[@blueity.]

Hey what language 0:05

[@blueity.]

@Basil II no, is british english scottish

[@ABAlphaBeta]

@@blueity. What?

[@henrik3775]

@@blueity. its english of england

[@Polyglot_English]

🤙 Determinism is Freedom 🤙

[@oaksage3293]

Get someone else to read those

[@ABAlphaBeta]

um

[@annad.9156]

why tho

[@timyingus5681]

no

[@ihmejakki2731]

Rude

[@nehiryalcndag4031]

Um