Это, конечно, все знают:
There was a young man from Peru
Whose limericks stopped at line two.
СЯУ ("Сегодня Я Узнала", аббревиатура заимствована у
avva), что у этого лимерика есть вот такой извод:
There was an old maid from Verdun
The joke being that "Verdun" rhymes with one, so it can be inferred that if there was a second line, it would say "Whose limericks all stopped on line one."
(and even with an explanation that the narrator knows an unrecitable limerick about Emperor Nero)
There was a young man from Peru
Whose limericks stopped at line two.
СЯУ ("Сегодня Я Узнала", аббревиатура заимствована у
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There was an old maid from Verdun
The joke being that "Verdun" rhymes with one, so it can be inferred that if there was a second line, it would say "Whose limericks all stopped on line one."
(and even with an explanation that the narrator knows an unrecitable limerick about Emperor Nero)