[I offer in advance my apologies to those of you for whom the footnotes appended to the last three limericks are not necessary, and congratulate you on your erudition; I had to double-check two of them to be certain that I understood them correctly.]
A bottle of perfume that Willy sent
Was highly displeasing to Millicent.
Her thanks were so cold
That they quarrelled, I’m told,
Through that silly scent Willy sent Millicent.
There was a young lady of Ryde
Who ate some green apples and died.
The apples fermented
Inside the lamented,
And made cider inside her inside.
A fly and a flea in a flue
Were wondering what they could do.
Said the fly, “Let us flee!”
“Let us fly!” said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
There was a young fellow named Fisher
Who went fishing for fish in a fissure.
A cod, with a grin,
Pulled the fisherman in…
Now they’re fishing the fissure for Fisher.
There was a young girl in the choir
Whose singing rose hoir and hoir.
It reached such a height
It was clear out of seight,
And they found it next day on the spoir.
She frowned and called him Mr.
Because he fondly kr.
And so for spite
That very nite
That Mr. kr. sr.
A girl who weighed many an oz.
Used language I dare not pronoz.
When a fellow unkind
Pulled her chair out behind
Just to see, so he said, if she’d boz.
['oz.' is the abbreviation of 'ounce']
A mosquito cried out in pain:
“A chemist has poisoned my brain!”
The cause of his sorrow
was para-dichloro
diphenyltrichloroethane
[better known as DDT]
There was a young lawyer named Rex
Who had very small organs of sex.
When charged with exposure
He said with composure
“De minimis non curat lex”
["The law does not concern itself with trifles"]