![]() More objectively, the rhythm is not as good. ![]() Gohst 12:05, 14 April 2006 (UTC) Reply Personally I don't like the new version. I don't know why, but I think its because it tells more of a story in the same time to read it. Main reason being, I think the few extra words make the poem better. With the possibility of being yelled at clear to me, I will alter the article to include the version of the poem here on the talk page. In my experience the variations are often local and are usually minor, like yours.- Cúchullain t / c 20:25, 15 March 2006 (UTC) Reply That's the one I heard too. This modern day bar joke has been told around the world by several famous comedians -Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.109.217.64 ( talk) 21:05, 4 January 2009 (UTC) Reply I don't think any particular version of that is better known. Is the following version of the obscene limerick not better known? At any rate, both versions seem to generate a similar amount of google hits, so it's probably a moot point.- Cúchullain t / c 20:25, 15 March 2006 (UTC) Reply The clean "Pa's bucket" version is the oldest I know of, but it doesn't mean the others evolved out of it. DavidWBrooks 14:59, 14 March 2006 (UTC) Reply I don't think it's fair to say either morphed out of the other. If the dirty version existed first and a clean version morphed out of it, then I would agree - but it appears to have been the other way around, so putting the dirty one first would seem to be unnecessarily titillating. Cúchullain t / c 08:09, 14 March 2006 (UTC) Reply "Prudish"? How about historically accurate? Some people may come to this article to giggle about finding "fuck" in an encyclopedia, only to be enlightened about the way the poem came into being. I don't care what order they're in, but I really don't think either version is slighted by being dealt with second. It's certainly the one with the longest history in print. Dirty Nantucket limericks as a whole are of course better known today, but I had been led to believe that no single example is better known than the clean one about Pa's bucket. Maw 00:00, 14 March 2006 (UTC) Reply I started this article, and the way it originally read was that this particular clean version was (probably) the single best known Nantucket poem. I have no problem with clean versions being included, but let's be realistic - people who come to this page aren't looking for the clean version. Ideally, the article would be structured thus: introduction, dirty version, clean historical versions. Putting the clean version first does come across as prudish. DavidWBrooks 17:01, 10 March 2006 (UTC) Reply ![]() I think the current article does a fine job, with historical information that indicates why the clean versions are where they are, yet not trying to ignore the dirty versions. As I asked when I edited the page, who is kidding whom here? Maw 01:23, 10 March 2006 (UTC) Reply What's wrong with putting the clean version first? Stoa 16:45, 10 March 2006 (UTC) Reply Presumably because some people heard the dirty version first and/or are titillated by it, they feel it is more important (and also assume that anybody who thinks otherwise is prudish, politically correct, or otherwise inferior). Why is the "clean" version first? I'd never heard or read any of these Box 626, Nantucket, MA 02554, or email them to us at And when you decide to visit Nantucket to see what all the fuss is about, plan your trip at 03:57, 1 March 2006 (UTC) Reply Limericks should have five lines that follow the rhythm in the examples below.) Send the limericks to us at P.O. Because of reader requests, we again issue the challenge to our readers to write their own ”chapters.“ (Only rhymes in the form of limericks will be accepted. Thirty ago, Yesterday’s Island began to encourage readers to continue the saga. The New York Exchange went one step further with the third rhyme, and the Pawtucket Times took over from there. It all began when the Princeton Tiger revived the then well-known limerick printed first below and the Chicago Tribune answered with the second limerick. The series of four limericks reprinted below first appeared in a Jedition of a Nantucket newspaper. But do you know where it all began? We do! We’ve all heard some version of this ditty, and not many of them can be repeated in polite company. ![]()
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