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[TimF] (According to a Youtube comment, not verified) - Two Dutch gunboats participated...

TimF — 8/25/2022 12:28:12 AM

(According to a Youtube comment, not verified) - Two Dutch gunboats participated in Operation Neptune, the naval effort supporting D-Day/Overlord. One of them almost didn't make it because of maintenance issues. To get quicker attention to the ships problems the sent in the maintenance request as a limerick.

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Dr. Quintus van Galen 15 hours ago

One of the Dutch gunboats Drach mentions, HrMs Soemba, only made D-day by the skin of her teeth, as she had worn out most of her guns during her time in the Mediterranean. In order to make the repair request stand out amongst the flurry of despatches send to the Emergency Repair Section of the navy, capt. Nicholl (RN) decided to send it in verse

"A report has come in from the Soemba
That their salvoes go of like a Rhumba
Two guns, they sound fine, But the third five point nine,
He am bust and refuse to go Boomba."

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[TimF] There once was a Marxist called Lenin Who did two or three million men in. Tha...

TimF — 11/27/2017 1:17:09 PM

There once was a Marxist called Lenin
Who did two or three million men in.
That’s a lot to have done in
But where he did one in
His follower Stalin did ten in.
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[Stephen O] A nun in Italy has just given birth. This limerick was in the Daily mail. Ther...

Stephen O — 1/23/2015 4:05:13 PM

A nun in Italy has just given birth. This limerick was in the Daily mail.
There was young lady from nod,
who wanted a baby from God,
but it wasn't the almighty that went up her nightie,
but the vicar - the dirty old s__ !

[Stephen O] There once was a Conquistador named Bruno, Who said of sex I do know, A woman ...

Stephen O — 12/4/2014 1:05:13 PM

There once was a Conquistador named Bruno,
Who said of sex I do know,
A woman is fine,
A boy is divine,
But a llama is numero uno.

[TimF] There once was a fellow McSweeny Who spilled some gin on his weenie Just to be...

TimF — 3/31/2012 10:09:16 PM

There once was a fellow McSweeny
Who spilled some gin on his weenie
Just to be couth
He added vermouth
Then slipped his girlfriend a martini

A pirate, history relates
Was scuffling with some of his mates
When he slipped on a cutlass
Which rendered him nutless
And practically useless on dates

[TimF] There was a young man from Peru Whose limericks all stopped at line two There w...

TimF — 3/31/2012 10:05:47 PM

There was a young man from Peru
Whose limericks all stopped at line two

There was an old maid from Verdun

I can't type out the lymric about the Emperor Nero...