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* ComicBook/{{Etrigan}} is a rhyming demon who will occasionally [[RuleOfFunny break his station for comedic effect]].
** This:
--->'''Etrigan:''' Our heroes, quite noble, have fallen to hell;\\
may they curse their eternal foul luck.\\
And while these champions may triumph o'er street crime quite well,\\
down here with the demons they're totally doomed.\\
'''Blue Beetle:''' That didn't rhyme!\\
'''Etrigan:''' So sue me.
** In ''The Demon Annual'' #2, after Etrigan pounds his opponent through the pavement into a sewer:
--->'''Etrigan:''' By my dearest brother Goat--\\
Who'd've thought the oaf would float?\\
Down that sewer all so dank and dimly lit?\\
But just watch the fellow hurry\\
Through that mass of noxious slurry...\\
He really seems at home in all that--\\
'''Policeman:''' Freeze!
* ''Comicbook/TheMaxx'' falls asleep watching cartoons in issue #5 and enters a [[ArtShift surreal]] [[DreamSequence dream land]] where everyone talks and thinks in rhyme, including him. Upon his escape he discovers he can speak normally again, expressing this with a somewhat forced rhyme subversion:
-->'''The Maxx''': It is different somehow, this land isn't mine! And my brain has been freed! I'm not thinking in... poetry stuff.
* Somewhere in "Marvel What The..." Dr. Strange's silly assistant plays the ''Name Game'' with the magic formulas. Even with "Chuck", and as you know, you shouldn't do that. Dr. Strange violently cuts him short at the end and just a hurt "-uck!" results. Rhyme (and ears of the readers) saved.
* ''ComicBook/TheMuppetShowComicBook'':
** In one of writer and artist Roger Langridge's [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppets]] strips intended to be published in ''Magazine/DisneyAdventures'' prior to the magazine's cancellation, which were included in a preview issue of ''The Muppet Show Comic Book'' as well as the omnibus collection of the entire comic, one scene has Sweetums serenade to a BoundAndGagged Miss Piggy.
--->'''Sweetums:''' Me live in dumb old hut\\
And shirt am torn and cut--\\
But nothing so ace as your fat old face\\
And pimples on your--
** The "Winter" issue of the ''Four Seasons'' arc has Rizzo the Rat write a poem for Gonzo to express his anger at Gonzo's latest stunt destroying the refrigerator.
--->'''Rizzo''': Roses are brown...\\
So is a nut.\\
Gonzo the Great is a pain in the...
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* ComicBook/{{Etrigan}} is a rhyming demon who will occasionally [[RuleOfFunny break his station for comedic effect]].
** This:
--->'''Etrigan:''' Our heroes, quite noble, have fallen to hell;\\
may they curse their eternal foul luck.\\
And while these champions may triumph o'er street crime quite well,\\
down here with the demons they're totally doomed.\\
'''Blue Beetle:''' That didn't rhyme!\\
'''Etrigan:''' So sue me.
** In ''The Demon Annual'' #2, after Etrigan pounds his opponent through the pavement into a sewer:
--->'''Etrigan:''' By my dearest brother Goat--\\
Who'd've thought the oaf would float?\\
Down that sewer all so dank and dimly lit?\\
But just watch the fellow hurry\\
Through that mass of noxious slurry...\\
He really seems at home in all that--\\
'''Policeman:''' Freeze!
* ''Comicbook/TheMaxx'' falls asleep watching cartoons in issue #5 and enters a [[ArtShift surreal]] [[DreamSequence dream land]] where everyone talks and thinks in rhyme, including him. Upon his escape he discovers he can speak normally again, expressing this with a somewhat forced rhyme subversion:
-->'''The Maxx''': It is different somehow, this land isn't mine! And my brain has been freed! I'm not thinking in... poetry stuff.
* Somewhere in "Marvel What The..." Dr. Strange's silly assistant plays the ''Name Game'' with the magic formulas. Even with "Chuck", and as you know, you shouldn't do that. Dr. Strange violently cuts him short at the end and just a hurt "-uck!" results. Rhyme (and ears of the readers) saved.
* ''ComicBook/TheMuppetShowComicBook'':
** In one of writer and artist Roger Langridge's [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppets]] strips intended to be published in ''Magazine/DisneyAdventures'' prior to the magazine's cancellation, which were included in a preview issue of ''The Muppet Show Comic Book'' as well as the omnibus collection of the entire comic, one scene has Sweetums serenade to a BoundAndGagged Miss Piggy.
--->'''Sweetums:''' Me live in dumb old hut\\
And shirt am torn and cut--\\
But nothing so ace as your fat old face\\
And pimples on your--
** The "Winter" issue of the ''Four Seasons'' arc has Rizzo the Rat write a poem for Gonzo to express his anger at Gonzo's latest stunt destroying the refrigerator.
--->'''Rizzo''': Roses are brown...\\
So is a nut.\\
Gonzo the Great is a pain in the...
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* An OverprotectiveDad has three daughters and all of them are going on dates on the same night. He waits on the porch with a shotgun. The first boy comes and says, "Hi, I'm Joe, I'm here for Flo, we're going to see the show, is she ready to go?" The dad lets them go. The second boy comes and says, "Hi, I'm Eddy, I'm here for Betty, we're gonna go eat spaghetti, is she ready?" The dad also lets them go. The third boy comes and says, "Hi, I'm Chuck--" and gets shot.
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* An OverprotectiveDad A BoyfriendBlockingDad has three daughters and all of them are going on dates on the same night. He waits on the porch with a shotgun. The first boy comes and says, "Hi, I'm Joe, I'm here for Flo, we're going to see the show, is she ready to go?" The dad lets them go. The second boy comes and says, "Hi, I'm Eddy, I'm here for Betty, we're gonna go eat spaghetti, is she ready?" The dad also lets them go. The third boy comes and says, "Hi, I'm Chuck--" and gets shot.
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* The ''Series/SesameStreet'' sketch "The King of Eight" has a rare variant where a rhyme is given, but is clearly not what the speaker intended to say.
-->'''King of Eight:''' I love eight, eight is great, eight is the number I do not--\\
'''Jester:''' Wait!
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* The ''Series/SesameStreet'' sketch "The King of Eight" has a rare variant where a rhyme is given, but is clearly not what the speaker intended to say.
-->'''King of Eight:''' I love eight, eight is great, eight is the number I do not--\\
'''Jester:''' Wait!
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* Website/TFWikiDotNet notes in it’s entry for [[TheScrappy Wheelie]] that “(he’s) [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff popular in Japan]], but hey that’s no crime. It’s all because he doesn’t… [[BuffySpeak talk poetry]].
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* The German variant of the Lady of Brunt and the raising tide would be the joke with the angler who is fishing for bass. (No translation required, as it works identically in English.)
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* Website/TFWikiDotNet notes in it’s entry for [[TheScrappy Wheelie]] that “(he’s) [[GermansLoveDsvidHasselhoff popular in Japan]], but hey that’s no crime. It’s all because he doesn’t… [[BuffySpeak talk poetry]].
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* Website/TFWikiDotNet notes in it’s entry for [[TheScrappy Wheelie]] that “(he’s) [[GermansLoveDsvidHasselhoff [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff popular in Japan]], but hey that’s no crime. It’s all because he doesn’t… [[BuffySpeak talk poetry]].
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* An OverprotectiveDad has three daughters and all of them are going on dates on the same night. He waits on the porch with a shotgun. The first boy comes and says, "Hi, I'm Joe, I'm here for Flo, we're going to see the show, is she ready to go?" The dad lets them go. The second boy comes and says, "Hi, I'm Eddy, I'm here for Betty, we're gonna go eat spaghetti, is she ready?" The dad also lets them go. The third boy comes and says, "Hi, I'm Chuck-- " and gets shot.
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* An OverprotectiveDad has three daughters and all of them are going on dates on the same night. He waits on the porch with a shotgun. The first boy comes and says, "Hi, I'm Joe, I'm here for Flo, we're going to see the show, is she ready to go?" The dad lets them go. The second boy comes and says, "Hi, I'm Eddy, I'm here for Betty, we're gonna go eat spaghetti, is she ready?" The dad also lets them go. The third boy comes and says, "Hi, I'm Chuck-- " Chuck--" and gets shot.
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* An OverprotectiveDad has three daughters and all of them are going on dates on the same night. He waits on the porch with a shotgun. The first boy comes and says, "Hi, I'm Joe, I'm here for Flo, we're going to see the show, is she ready to go?" The dad lets them go. The second boy comes and says, "Hi, I'm Eddy, I'm here for Betty, we're gonna go eat spaghetti, is she ready?" The dad also lets them go. The third boy comes and says, "Hi, I'm Chuck-- " and gets shot.
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* An OverprotectiveDad has three daughters and all of them are going on dates on the same night. He waits on the porch with a shotgun. The first boy comes and says, "Hi, I'm Joe, I'm here for Flo, we're going to see the show, is she ready to go?" The dad lets them go. The second boy comes and says, "Hi, I'm Eddy, I'm here for Betty, we're gonna go eat spaghetti, is she ready?" The dad also lets them go. The third boy comes and says, "Hi, I'm Chuck-- " and gets shot.
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* One episode of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', "Hassle in the Castle", has Team Rocket doing this with their motto.
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{{Subverted Rhyme|EveryOccasion}}s in other media.
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[[folder:Advertising]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-_6VO7DIFU A commercial]] for Creator/TheWB featuring [[WesternAnimation/OneFroggyEvening Michigan J. Frog]] features this twice:
-->''Your love life is in a rut\\
you're sitting there on your... uh hey nice sofa''
** And:
-->''I'm wanted by every lass\\
trust me it's a pain in the..\\
as for the WB[...]''
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* A famous ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'' fanart piece released just after the {{Macekre}} of the English dub does the "cut off" version:
-->'''Ichigo:''' Mew Mew Power, I think I'll pass, your Mew Mew Power can kiss my a--
-->'''Minto:''' Ichigo!
* The ''Anime/SamuraiPizzaCats'' closing does this:
--> '''Announcer:'''
--> So, hail to thee, O Pizza Cat! Please ring your little bell!
--> Although you may be pen and ink, we know you'll fight like --
--> '''The Pizza Cats: (in unison)''' PIZZA CATS!
* One episode of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', "Hassle in the Castle", has Team Rocket doing this with their motto.
-->'''Jessie:''' To protect us from all that chafing and itching!
-->'''James:''' It might finally stop all of Jessie's...complaining!
* A commercial for ''Anime/SailorMoon'' aired on the Canadian youth programming channel Creator/{{YTV}} did this:
-->"And Sailor Venus
-->which rhymes with....I can't say that on TV!"
* The English version of ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' gives us this gem from the cheerleader trio in volume 1.
-->"Rickum, rackum, ruckum, ruckum!
-->Throw that ball and really f...[[LastSecondWordSwap fight]]!"
* From ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'':
-->"Rah rah ree,
-->Kick em in the knee
-->Rah rah rut,
-->Kick em in the...other knee"
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ComicBook/{{Etrigan}} is a rhyming demon who will occasionally [[RuleOfFunny break his station for comedic effect]].
** This:
--->'''Etrigan:''' Our heroes, quite noble, have fallen to hell;\\
may they curse their eternal foul luck.\\
And while these champions may triumph o'er street crime quite well,\\
down here with the demons they're totally doomed.\\
'''Blue Beetle:''' That didn't rhyme!\\
'''Etrigan:''' So sue me.
** In ''The Demon Annual'' #2, after Etrigan pounds his opponent through the pavement into a sewer:
--->'''Etrigan:''' By my dearest brother Goat--\\
Who'd've thought the oaf would float?\\
Down that sewer all so dank and dimly lit?\\
But just watch the fellow hurry\\
Through that mass of noxious slurry...\\
He really seems at home in all that--\\
'''Policeman:''' Freeze!
* ''Comicbook/TheMaxx'' falls asleep watching cartoons in issue #5 and enters a [[ArtShift surreal]] [[DreamSequence dream land]] where everyone talks and thinks in rhyme, including him. Upon his escape he discovers he can speak normally again, expressing this with a somewhat forced rhyme subversion:
-->'''The Maxx''': It is different somehow, this land isn't mine! And my brain has been freed! I'm not thinking in... poetry stuff.
* Somewhere in "Marvel What The..." Dr. Strange's silly assistant plays the ''Name Game'' with the magic formulas. Even with "Chuck", and as you know, you shouldn't do that. Dr. Strange violently cuts him short at the end and just a hurt "-uck!" results. Rhyme (and ears of the readers) saved.
* ''ComicBook/TheMuppetShowComicBook'':
** In one of writer and artist Roger Langridge's [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppets]] strips intended to be published in ''Magazine/DisneyAdventures'' prior to the magazine's cancellation, which were included in a preview issue of ''The Muppet Show Comic Book'' as well as the omnibus collection of the entire comic, one scene has Sweetums serenade to a BoundAndGagged Miss Piggy.
-->'''Sweetums:''' Me live in dumb old hut\\
And shirt am torn and cut--\\
But nothing so ace as your fat old face\\
And pimples on your--
** The "Winter" issue of the ''Four Seasons'' arc has Rizzo the Rat write a poem for Gonzo to express his anger at Gonzo's latest stunt destroying the refrigerator.
-->'''Rizzo''': Roses are brown...\\
So is a nut.\\
Gonzo the Great is a pain in the...
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[[folder:Electronics]]
* The voice sample for the "Boing" synthesized voice in Mac OS uses a classic example of this:
-->Spring has sprung\\
Fall has fell\\
Winter's here\\
And it's colder than usual.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''FanFic/LatiasJourney'': Crawdaunt used [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TywmpMQYojs The Assumption Song,]] by Arrogant Worms!
-->[..]''And then she'd bend over and suck on his\\
Candy, so tasty, made of butterscotch,\\
And then he'd spread whipped cream all over her\\
Cookies that she had left out on the shelf\\
If you think this is dirty, [[SubvertedTrope you can go]] [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] [[LampshadeHanging yourself!]]''
* ''WebAnimation/TurnaboutStorm'': [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Derpy's]] poem about what she saw on the trial ends with this little verse regarding the prosecutor, [[{{Jerkass}} Trixie]]:
-->''The prosecutor's put downs were quite rich\\
But honestly, she was being a big stuck-up...\\
...Meanie.''
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-aWgyUHLbk "Red Spy,"]] a ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' {{machinima}} parody of "[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Babs Seed]]".
-->''First we thought that Spy was so really really sweet,''
-->''Another boy to have and a fine piece of [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday work]].''
* Happened once to Chloe during episode 8 of ''FanFic/PrettyCurePerfumePreppy''. Naturally, she was the [[WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans Austicles]] parody.
-->'''Chloe:''' Whoa! I look like I took one heck of a sunburn. ''(twirls about)'' I mean, I'm cherry-red even when I-- ''(covers mouth in shock)'' Xi. I was about to rhyme.
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* One of the theme songs for the 1999 stable known as the West Texas Rednecks (made up of Wrestling/CurtHennig, Bobby Duncum, Jr., Wrestling/BarryWindham, and Kendall Windham) was "Good Ol' Boys," which contained the following lyric:
-->We got an old hound dog and a pick up truck;/We like long legged country girls that know how to ''love''...
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[[folder:Radio]]
* A ''Radio/TheNowShow'' example from someone other than Mitch; Marcus Brigstocke's Dr Seuss poem about the Copenhagen summit has Gordon Brown taking a stand:
-->He suggested the EU should lead from the front\\
So the [[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers Mail and Telegraph]] called him something very unpleasant indeed
** Laura Shavin:
-->Twenty years ago, John Gray, [[SarcasmMode a genius]],\\
Wrote ''MenAreFromMarsWomenAreFromVenus'',\\
A book all about the differences between us,\\
And he didn't say it was just that men have got...a Y-chromosome...it's Radio 4...not sure we can say [[SubvertedTrope penis]].
* At least one Creator/AbbottAndCostello radio episode featured these.
* Played straight and subverted on ''Radio/HowGreenWasMyCactus'' when Little Johnny Howler and John Fosters (the Cactus Island counterparts of Liberal party politicians John Howard and John Elliot) appeared as [[Series/TheTwoRonnies The Two Johnnies]], and Fosters demonstrated that he had no understanding of what actually made the gag work:
-->'''Fosters:''' A brawl broke out outside Parliment House last night, during which Seanator Ros Kelly was punched in the belly...\\
'''Howler:''' ...the Honorable Barry Jones broke a few bones...\\
'''Fosters:''' ...and Senator Steele Hall was kicked in the carpark. ''(pause)'' Shouldn't that have been 'balls'?
* In one episode of ''Radio/JustAMinute'' the panellists were given the topic "Why poems should rhyme". After the subject changed hands several times, Rick Wakeman finished it with the following (in the rhythm of a limerick):
-->There once was a man from Dundee
-->Who was stung on the leg by a wasp.
-->When asked if it hurt,
-->He said not very much,
-->It can do it again, if he likes.
:: (Variants on this limerick have been attributed to a number of comedians, including WS Gilbert of Gilbert & Sullivan fame. So this one was written 'about a century since'.)
* In an episode of ''Radio/ImSorryIHaventAClue'', Mrs Trellis celebrated the release of ''ISIHAC: The Official Limerick Collection'' by sending in a limerick of her own, which she wanted Humph to be the first person to read out loud:
-->There was a young woman from Slough[[note]]rhymes with "bough"[[/note]]
-->Who was laid in bed with a cough\\
She wasn't to know\
It would last until now\\
Let's hope that the poor girl pulls through
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[[folder:Standup Comedy]]
* German comedian Otto Waalkes loves this trope. Sometimes it falls under this trope, sometimes not. An example would be the kick into the [[GroinAttack "Eieieiei...eingeweide"]].[[note]] Eier=balls, Eingeweide=intestines[[/note]]
* Barry Cryer and Ronnie Golden's act includes Barry singing about how he wants to be a mime, and describing all the things he would mime, until...
--> I can paint a picture,
-->Just like Jackson Pollock's.
-->Till suddenly I realise,
-->It's all a complete waste of time.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* In the TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}} module ''We Be Goblins'', the four preset characters each have a little four-line song to them. The Cleric's is a bit...different.
-->''Poog say Zarongel is the best''\\
''He help burn things and heal the rest''\\
''Zarongel’s favor makes Poog blessed''\\
''And Poog also stab you with knife if you make fun of how he isn’t good at riding animals.''
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[[folder:Toys]]
* ''Skelanimals'':
** Ellie's story:
--->The natives grabbed their spears, tired of her sass. \\
They let her have it and stabbed her in the... tail.
** Foxy's story:
--->But one run too many she found herself trapped.\\
Now she’s displayed in a museum with all sorts of... animals.
** Tristan's story:
--->But he forgot there was one more obstacle: A pit.\\
And he fell inside, and was covered in... stuff.
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[[folder:Miscellaneous]]
* From a birthday card, with the last word on the inside:
-->Jack wasn't nimble. Jack wasn't quick.\\
He sat on your cake and burned his...corduroys.
* Inspired by the classical nursery rhyme:
-->Mary had a little lamb\\
and she also had a duck,\\
she put them on the mantelpiece\\
to see if they would f[[spoiler:all off]]
** A similar rhyme:
-->Mary had a little lamb\\
She kept it very well\\
One day she fed it dynamite\\
And blew it all to...pieces
** And another one
-->Mary had a little lamb\\
She kept it in a bucket\\
And every time the lamb got out\\
The sheepdog tried to...put it back in again
** Also
-->Mary had a little skirt,\\
A slit went up its side.\\
And every time she wore the skirt,\\
The boys could see her thigh.\\
Mary had another skirt,\\
The slit went up its front.\\
But she didn't wear that one very often.
* An alliterative example: [[TextbookHumor A number of popular science writers]] are fond of describing the basic drives of all animals (including humans) as involving the "Four F's: Feeding, Fighting, Fleeing, and Reproducing."
* ''Roses are red'' \\
''Violets are blue'' \\
''I'm schizophrenic'' \\
''So am I!''
** ''Roses are red'' \\
''Violets are blue'' \\
''I've got Multiple Personality Disorder''\\
''And so do we!''
*** ''Roses are red'' \\
''Violets are blue'' \\
''I've got Dissociative Identity Disorder''\\
''For goodness' sake settle on a bloody name for what we've got already!''
** ''Roses are red'' \\
''Poppies are red'' \\
''The grass is all red'' \\
''[[Series/MockTheWeek SHIT THE GARDEN'S ON FIRE!]]''
*** ''Violets aren't blue'' \\
''These poems are lazy'' \\
''Political correctness''\\
''Is driving us mad.''
*** ''Roses are red''\\
''Violets are blue''\\
''Most poems rhyme''\\
''This one does not''
** ''Roses are red''\\
''Violets are blue''\\
''Now you know your flowers!''
** ''Roses are grey''\\
''Violets are grey''\\
''I am a dog''
** ''Roses are red''\\
''Violets are blue''\\
''This poem's too short.''\\
''The end.''
** ''Roses are red''\\
''Violets are blue''\\
''I have a gun''\\
''Get in the van''
* A piece of bathroom graffiti, riffing on a classic piece of bathroom graffiti.
--> ''Here I sit,''\\
''Broken-hearted,''\\
''Came to shit,''\\
''But my girlfriend dumped me.''
* Songs that avert naughty words in this manner are called "teasing songs". Yet another example:
-->[[http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/drinkingsongs/mp3s/field-work/other-collections/mcwilliam-collection/04-songs-3-foul/violets3.txt Suzanne was a lady]] with plenty of class
-->Who knocked the boys dead when she wiggled her
-->Eyes at the fellows as girls sometimes do
* Here's a limerick:
-->There once was a lady from Brunt
-->Who stood in water up to her knees
-->This poem doesn't rhyme yet
-->But wait 'til the tide comes in
* Another one:
-->There once was an old man named Chuck
-->Who loved a lady from Innsbruck
-->"She's too pretty for me,"
-->He said morosely,
-->"But I wish I could get her to go on a nice walk down the road so we could really get to know each other."
* A non-limerick by Trad (or his brother Anon)
-->There was a young lady from Bude\\
Who went for a swim in a pond\\
A man in a punt\\
Stuck his pole in the water\\
And said "you can't swim here, it's private".
* Or how about:
-->There was a young poet of Mainz\\
Whose limericks had no last lines.\\
When asked why this was,\\
He said "it's because
* In a similar vein:
-->There was a young man of Arnoux\\
Whose limericks stopped at line two.
* And taking this train of thought until it hits the buffers:
-->There was a young man of Verdun,
* Of course, we won't even mention the limerick about Emperor Nero.
* Similar:
-->There was a man from Rome\\
Who daily composed a poem\\
Try as he might\\
He just couldn't quite\\
Stop from putting too many words in the last line, it sounded awful.
* Subverted rhyme, HeavyMeta, and SophisticatedAsHell:
-->The limerick, peculiar to English\\
Proved exceedingly hard to extinguish\\
When Congress in session\\
Decreed its suppression\\
People got around it by writing the last line without any rhyme or meter.
* [[http://skribenten.tripod.com/songs/Florence.html Going with the Florence]] (second verse)
* [[http://www.dragon-realms.com/index.php?board=7;action=printpage;threadid=584 The Dragon's Lamentable Love]]
* A camp song:
-->Little Miss-Miss, went out to pi--
-->--ck, some flowers;
-->She waded in grass, up to her aaa--
-->--nklebones;
-->She went to the coop, to take a pooo--
-->--rr, little chicken out;
-->Little Miss-Miss, went out to pick, some flowers.
* Then of course, there was the song about the 'Three Jolly Fishermen', and one verse has them,
-->'All going down to Amster--SHHH!
-->We must not say that naughty word;
-->Must not say that naughty word;
-->They all went down to Amster--SHH!!!'
** Gleefully subverted in the next verse, however:
-->'We're gonna say it anyway;
-->Gonna say it anyway;
-->Amster-Amster--damndamndamn!!
-->Amster-Amster--damndamndamn!!
-->They all went down to Amster-damn!!!'
* There are many Russian kids' songs (made ''by'' kids, not ''[[MoralGuardians for]]'' kids, of course) of this kind, with a varying grade of obscenity. The basic translation of one here:
-->There's a statue on a rock,
-->And that statue has no--
-->''EYES!!!''
-->[[DoubleSubversion Don't you dare to spoil my rhymes!]] (Note: in Russian it rhymes better)
-->That one statue has no COCK!
** Translated another one:
-->Lo! The bushes are a-wagging!
-->What're they doing in there? --
-->''[[SubvertedTrope SHAGGING!]]''
-->Don't you dare to spoil the merries!
-->There's a bear searching for berries!
** There are also many rhymes/songs of the following type; for example:
-->I'm a di--
-->I'm a di[[spoiler:gnified young troper,]]
-->I have fu--
-->I have fu[[spoiler:n writing this song.]]
-->I like boo--
-->I like boo[[spoiler:ze and Creator/TerryPratchett,]]
-->Yes, my co--
-->Yes, my co[[spoiler:mment skill is huge]] ;)
-->And my ba-
-->And my ba[[spoiler:dger ate a pickle.]]
-->Then my nu-
-->Then my nu[[spoiler:tball grandpa died. (What, you thought it would make sense?).]]
** There are also so called "Eve Verses". A bit hard to translate (or, rather, compose new ones), but here is an attempt:
-->Old Lady Jill was out of luck
-->She looked for someone young to...''dance''
-->But they were no type for romance
-->They only cared for smoking crack.
* A cheer that goes like this:
--> Rah Rah Ree!
-->Kick 'em in the knee!
-->Rah Rah Ras!
-->Kick 'em in the [[spoiler:other knee]]!
** And similarly:
-->Cigarette ashes! Cigarette butts!
-->We've got your team by the [[spoiler:knees]]!
** And yet again:
-->We like warm beer and cold duck!
-->But most of all we like to fffffff[[spoiler:ight, team, fight!]] (The drawn-out "fffffff" is essential for maximum amusement of the juvenile minds performing the cheer.)
* That playground classic "Charlie had a Pigeon":
-->Charlie had a pigeon,
-->A pigeon, a pigeon.
-->Charlie had a pigeon,
-->A pigeon he had.
-->It flew in the morning,
-->It flew in the night,
-->And when it came home
-->It was covered in Sh-
-->-Charlie had a pigeon...
* 30 Days hath Septober
--> April, June and No-wonder
--> All the rest have peanut butter
--> Except Grandma
--> 'Cus she rides a tricycle
* Australian comedy group Music/TheAxisOfAwesome, in their song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKmh-0E5BjU "What Would Jesus Do?"]]
-->Can you heal a leper
-->Or feed a crowd with fish and bread?
-->Can you walk on water?
-->Did you rise from the dead?
-->Did you give your life up to save humans from bad luck?
-->Were you born a virgin birth or did your parents[[{{Beat}} --]]have sex?
* The Scared Weird Little Guys do a similar thing with their comedic song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Mt1iQQVCZs&feature=related Christmas Day]] At least until the very end...
* A Lipton ice tea commercial featuring a singing fish has a great averted rhyme.
-->Now you can make a tasty ''dish''
-->'Cause tea with citrus goes great with--''chicken''
* We must not forget:
-->Ms. Lucy had a steamboat
-->The steamboat had a bell
-->Ms. Lucy went to Heaven
-->The steamboat went to -
-->Hello Operator,
-->Please give me number nine
-->And if you disconnect me
-->I'll chop off your -
-->Behind the 'fridgerator
-->There was a piece of glass
-->Ms. Lucy sat upon it
-->And broke her little -
-->Ask me no more questions...
:: And so on.
* Popular jump rope game a while ago;
-->There was a man named Tiger Woods.
-->He had the cash, he had the goods.
-->Tiger Woods had all the luck.
-->How many women did he...HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH?
* An older jump rope rhyme:
--> "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_J._Beachey Lincoln Beachey]] thought it was a dream \\
To go up to heaven in a flying machine. \\
The machine broke down, and down he fell, \\
Instead of going to heaven he went to-- \\
Lincoln Beachey thought it was a dream..."
* There is a Dutch poem which for the whole of the poem actually changes words to rhyme with the previous line. It's about a knight going to rescue a damsel from a dragon. The dragon agrees to let her go if the knight composes a verse on them - he doesn't get her: he can't rhyme.
* The Alphabet Song, if [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtFXYvNIxws the singer pronounces "zee" as "zed"]].[[note]]Or pronounces "zed" correctly.[[/note]] Also, in the final part of the song, "[=ABCs=]" doesn't rhyme with "me" or "zee".
--> Q, R, S, \\
T, U, V, \\
W, X, \\
Y, and ''zed''.
* The playground Spanish song "Pican, pican los mosquitos" starts always with the same four verses, and then it's up to the singer. The song is very popular, and has been covered by several artists:
--> Pican, pican los mosquitos[[note]]The mosquitos bite and bite[[/note]]
--> Pican con gran disimulo[[note]]They bite with great dissimulation.[[/note]]
--> Unos pican por delante (o 'en la cara')[[note]]Some of them bite on the front of your body (or 'on your face')[[/note]]
--> Y otros pican en el cu... ando...[[note]]And some of them bite on your... And then the following word starts with "Cu" (usually Cuando (when)), as the word in Spanish for "butt".[[/note]]
* The military cadence known as "Swing With Lulu" contains the following verses, among others:
-->Lulu's got a boyfriend
-->Her boyfriend's got a truck
-->Lulu shifts the gears
-->Her boyfriend likes to... steer
-->Some folks like the fishin'
-->Some folks like to hunt
-->When I am with Lulu
-->I'm always in her... car
* At a certain public university in a certain eastern state, the men's glee club there maintained a deep repertoire of old and creatively dirty songs, one of which -- called "High Above a Coopie's Garter" -- employed an unusual version of this trope. The eight-line first verse, which the rhyme scheme clearly indicates should build toward the final word "...ass," instead ends with "...hmmmm." The second verse is then eight lines of humming, until the final word -- "...''ass''."
* A rare and unusual CCG instance: In ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', there are a group of creatures within the Fungus tribe, called Thallids, that collect spore counters and use them to produce Saproling tokens. The game has a wide variety of thallids, including the original [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=184711 Thallid]], [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=128944 Psychotrope Thallid]], [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=106643 Savage Thallid]], [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=116743 Deathspore Thallid]], and [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Discussion.aspx?multiverseid=124508 Pallid... Mycoderm]].
* The German variant of the Lady of Brunt and the raising tide would be the joke with the angler who is fishing for bass. (No translation required, as it works identically in English.)
* Zigzagged in a German children singing game: In the first pass you may not speak the (usually identical) rhyme, in the second you must, e.g.
--> Jetzt fahrn wir übern See, übern See,
--> jetzt fahrn wir übern ({{Beat}}!)
--> Jetzt fahrn wir übern See, übern See,
--> jetzt fahrn wir übern See
Violator is out, must give a deposit or whatnot. (Countless variations.)
* On one birthday card, there's a frog saying a rhyme, "Your birthday's a day that can never be missed. Have fun with your friends and get yourself--" then inside, the champagne is going, "Psssst!".
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[[folder:Advertising]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-_6VO7DIFU A commercial]] for Creator/TheWB featuring [[WesternAnimation/OneFroggyEvening Michigan J. Frog]] features this twice:
-->''Your love life is in a rut\\
you're sitting there on your... uh hey nice sofa''
** And:
-->''I'm wanted by every lass\\
trust me it's a pain in the..\\
as for the WB[...]''
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* A famous ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'' fanart piece released just after the {{Macekre}} of the English dub does the "cut off" version:
-->'''Ichigo:''' Mew Mew Power, I think I'll pass, your Mew Mew Power can kiss my a--
-->'''Minto:''' Ichigo!
* The ''Anime/SamuraiPizzaCats'' closing does this:
--> '''Announcer:'''
--> So, hail to thee, O Pizza Cat! Please ring your little bell!
--> Although you may be pen and ink, we know you'll fight like --
--> '''The Pizza Cats: (in unison)''' PIZZA CATS!
* One episode of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', "Hassle in the Castle", has Team Rocket doing this with their motto.
-->'''Jessie:''' To protect us from all that chafing and itching!
-->'''James:''' It might finally stop all of Jessie's...complaining!
* A commercial for ''Anime/SailorMoon'' aired on the Canadian youth programming channel Creator/{{YTV}} did this:
-->"And Sailor Venus
-->which rhymes with....I can't say that on TV!"
* The English version of ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' gives us this gem from the cheerleader trio in volume 1.
-->"Rickum, rackum, ruckum, ruckum!
-->Throw that ball and really f...[[LastSecondWordSwap fight]]!"
* From ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'':
-->"Rah rah ree,
-->Kick em in the knee
-->Rah rah rut,
-->Kick em in the...other knee"
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ComicBook/{{Etrigan}} is a rhyming demon who will occasionally [[RuleOfFunny break his station for comedic effect]].
** This:
--->'''Etrigan:''' Our heroes, quite noble, have fallen to hell;\\
may they curse their eternal foul luck.\\
And while these champions may triumph o'er street crime quite well,\\
down here with the demons they're totally doomed.\\
'''Blue Beetle:''' That didn't rhyme!\\
'''Etrigan:''' So sue me.
** In ''The Demon Annual'' #2, after Etrigan pounds his opponent through the pavement into a sewer:
--->'''Etrigan:''' By my dearest brother Goat--\\
Who'd've thought the oaf would float?\\
Down that sewer all so dank and dimly lit?\\
But just watch the fellow hurry\\
Through that mass of noxious slurry...\\
He really seems at home in all that--\\
'''Policeman:''' Freeze!
* ''Comicbook/TheMaxx'' falls asleep watching cartoons in issue #5 and enters a [[ArtShift surreal]] [[DreamSequence dream land]] where everyone talks and thinks in rhyme, including him. Upon his escape he discovers he can speak normally again, expressing this with a somewhat forced rhyme subversion:
-->'''The Maxx''': It is different somehow, this land isn't mine! And my brain has been freed! I'm not thinking in... poetry stuff.
* Somewhere in "Marvel What The..." Dr. Strange's silly assistant plays the ''Name Game'' with the magic formulas. Even with "Chuck", and as you know, you shouldn't do that. Dr. Strange violently cuts him short at the end and just a hurt "-uck!" results. Rhyme (and ears of the readers) saved.
* ''ComicBook/TheMuppetShowComicBook'':
** In one of writer and artist Roger Langridge's [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppets]] strips intended to be published in ''Magazine/DisneyAdventures'' prior to the magazine's cancellation, which were included in a preview issue of ''The Muppet Show Comic Book'' as well as the omnibus collection of the entire comic, one scene has Sweetums serenade to a BoundAndGagged Miss Piggy.
-->'''Sweetums:''' Me live in dumb old hut\\
And shirt am torn and cut--\\
But nothing so ace as your fat old face\\
And pimples on your--
** The "Winter" issue of the ''Four Seasons'' arc has Rizzo the Rat write a poem for Gonzo to express his anger at Gonzo's latest stunt destroying the refrigerator.
-->'''Rizzo''': Roses are brown...\\
So is a nut.\\
Gonzo the Great is a pain in the...
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[[folder:Electronics]]
* The voice sample for the "Boing" synthesized voice in Mac OS uses a classic example of this:
-->Spring has sprung\\
Fall has fell\\
Winter's here\\
And it's colder than usual.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''FanFic/LatiasJourney'': Crawdaunt used [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TywmpMQYojs The Assumption Song,]] by Arrogant Worms!
-->[..]''And then she'd bend over and suck on his\\
Candy, so tasty, made of butterscotch,\\
And then he'd spread whipped cream all over her\\
Cookies that she had left out on the shelf\\
If you think this is dirty, [[SubvertedTrope you can go]] [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] [[LampshadeHanging yourself!]]''
* ''WebAnimation/TurnaboutStorm'': [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Derpy's]] poem about what she saw on the trial ends with this little verse regarding the prosecutor, [[{{Jerkass}} Trixie]]:
-->''The prosecutor's put downs were quite rich\\
But honestly, she was being a big stuck-up...\\
...Meanie.''
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-aWgyUHLbk "Red Spy,"]] a ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' {{machinima}} parody of "[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Babs Seed]]".
-->''First we thought that Spy was so really really sweet,''
-->''Another boy to have and a fine piece of [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday work]].''
* Happened once to Chloe during episode 8 of ''FanFic/PrettyCurePerfumePreppy''. Naturally, she was the [[WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans Austicles]] parody.
-->'''Chloe:''' Whoa! I look like I took one heck of a sunburn. ''(twirls about)'' I mean, I'm cherry-red even when I-- ''(covers mouth in shock)'' Xi. I was about to rhyme.
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* One of the theme songs for the 1999 stable known as the West Texas Rednecks (made up of Wrestling/CurtHennig, Bobby Duncum, Jr., Wrestling/BarryWindham, and Kendall Windham) was "Good Ol' Boys," which contained the following lyric:
-->We got an old hound dog and a pick up truck;/We like long legged country girls that know how to ''love''...
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[[folder:Radio]]
* A ''Radio/TheNowShow'' example from someone other than Mitch; Marcus Brigstocke's Dr Seuss poem about the Copenhagen summit has Gordon Brown taking a stand:
-->He suggested the EU should lead from the front\\
So the [[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers Mail and Telegraph]] called him something very unpleasant indeed
** Laura Shavin:
-->Twenty years ago, John Gray, [[SarcasmMode a genius]],\\
Wrote ''MenAreFromMarsWomenAreFromVenus'',\\
A book all about the differences between us,\\
And he didn't say it was just that men have got...a Y-chromosome...it's Radio 4...not sure we can say [[SubvertedTrope penis]].
* At least one Creator/AbbottAndCostello radio episode featured these.
* Played straight and subverted on ''Radio/HowGreenWasMyCactus'' when Little Johnny Howler and John Fosters (the Cactus Island counterparts of Liberal party politicians John Howard and John Elliot) appeared as [[Series/TheTwoRonnies The Two Johnnies]], and Fosters demonstrated that he had no understanding of what actually made the gag work:
-->'''Fosters:''' A brawl broke out outside Parliment House last night, during which Seanator Ros Kelly was punched in the belly...\\
'''Howler:''' ...the Honorable Barry Jones broke a few bones...\\
'''Fosters:''' ...and Senator Steele Hall was kicked in the carpark. ''(pause)'' Shouldn't that have been 'balls'?
* In one episode of ''Radio/JustAMinute'' the panellists were given the topic "Why poems should rhyme". After the subject changed hands several times, Rick Wakeman finished it with the following (in the rhythm of a limerick):
-->There once was a man from Dundee
-->Who was stung on the leg by a wasp.
-->When asked if it hurt,
-->He said not very much,
-->It can do it again, if he likes.
:: (Variants on this limerick have been attributed to a number of comedians, including WS Gilbert of Gilbert & Sullivan fame. So this one was written 'about a century since'.)
* In an episode of ''Radio/ImSorryIHaventAClue'', Mrs Trellis celebrated the release of ''ISIHAC: The Official Limerick Collection'' by sending in a limerick of her own, which she wanted Humph to be the first person to read out loud:
-->There was a young woman from Slough[[note]]rhymes with "bough"[[/note]]
-->Who was laid in bed with a cough\\
She wasn't to know\
It would last until now\\
Let's hope that the poor girl pulls through
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[[folder:Standup Comedy]]
* German comedian Otto Waalkes loves this trope. Sometimes it falls under this trope, sometimes not. An example would be the kick into the [[GroinAttack "Eieieiei...eingeweide"]].[[note]] Eier=balls, Eingeweide=intestines[[/note]]
* Barry Cryer and Ronnie Golden's act includes Barry singing about how he wants to be a mime, and describing all the things he would mime, until...
--> I can paint a picture,
-->Just like Jackson Pollock's.
-->Till suddenly I realise,
-->It's all a complete waste of time.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* In the TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}} module ''We Be Goblins'', the four preset characters each have a little four-line song to them. The Cleric's is a bit...different.
-->''Poog say Zarongel is the best''\\
''He help burn things and heal the rest''\\
''Zarongel’s favor makes Poog blessed''\\
''And Poog also stab you with knife if you make fun of how he isn’t good at riding animals.''
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[[folder:Toys]]
* ''Skelanimals'':
** Ellie's story:
--->The natives grabbed their spears, tired of her sass. \\
They let her have it and stabbed her in the... tail.
** Foxy's story:
--->But one run too many she found herself trapped.\\
Now she’s displayed in a museum with all sorts of... animals.
** Tristan's story:
--->But he forgot there was one more obstacle: A pit.\\
And he fell inside, and was covered in... stuff.
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[[folder:Miscellaneous]]
* From a birthday card, with the last word on the inside:
-->Jack wasn't nimble. Jack wasn't quick.\\
He sat on your cake and burned his...corduroys.
* Inspired by the classical nursery rhyme:
-->Mary had a little lamb\\
and she also had a duck,\\
she put them on the mantelpiece\\
to see if they would f[[spoiler:all off]]
** A similar rhyme:
-->Mary had a little lamb\\
She kept it very well\\
One day she fed it dynamite\\
And blew it all to...pieces
** And another one
-->Mary had a little lamb\\
She kept it in a bucket\\
And every time the lamb got out\\
The sheepdog tried to...put it back in again
** Also
-->Mary had a little skirt,\\
A slit went up its side.\\
And every time she wore the skirt,\\
The boys could see her thigh.\\
Mary had another skirt,\\
The slit went up its front.\\
But she didn't wear that one very often.
* An alliterative example: [[TextbookHumor A number of popular science writers]] are fond of describing the basic drives of all animals (including humans) as involving the "Four F's: Feeding, Fighting, Fleeing, and Reproducing."
* ''Roses are red'' \\
''Violets are blue'' \\
''I'm schizophrenic'' \\
''So am I!''
** ''Roses are red'' \\
''Violets are blue'' \\
''I've got Multiple Personality Disorder''\\
''And so do we!''
*** ''Roses are red'' \\
''Violets are blue'' \\
''I've got Dissociative Identity Disorder''\\
''For goodness' sake settle on a bloody name for what we've got already!''
** ''Roses are red'' \\
''Poppies are red'' \\
''The grass is all red'' \\
''[[Series/MockTheWeek SHIT THE GARDEN'S ON FIRE!]]''
*** ''Violets aren't blue'' \\
''These poems are lazy'' \\
''Political correctness''\\
''Is driving us mad.''
*** ''Roses are red''\\
''Violets are blue''\\
''Most poems rhyme''\\
''This one does not''
** ''Roses are red''\\
''Violets are blue''\\
''Now you know your flowers!''
** ''Roses are grey''\\
''Violets are grey''\\
''I am a dog''
** ''Roses are red''\\
''Violets are blue''\\
''This poem's too short.''\\
''The end.''
** ''Roses are red''\\
''Violets are blue''\\
''I have a gun''\\
''Get in the van''
* A piece of bathroom graffiti, riffing on a classic piece of bathroom graffiti.
--> ''Here I sit,''\\
''Broken-hearted,''\\
''Came to shit,''\\
''But my girlfriend dumped me.''
* Songs that avert naughty words in this manner are called "teasing songs". Yet another example:
-->[[http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/drinkingsongs/mp3s/field-work/other-collections/mcwilliam-collection/04-songs-3-foul/violets3.txt Suzanne was a lady]] with plenty of class
-->Who knocked the boys dead when she wiggled her
-->Eyes at the fellows as girls sometimes do
* Here's a limerick:
-->There once was a lady from Brunt
-->Who stood in water up to her knees
-->This poem doesn't rhyme yet
-->But wait 'til the tide comes in
* Another one:
-->There once was an old man named Chuck
-->Who loved a lady from Innsbruck
-->"She's too pretty for me,"
-->He said morosely,
-->"But I wish I could get her to go on a nice walk down the road so we could really get to know each other."
* A non-limerick by Trad (or his brother Anon)
-->There was a young lady from Bude\\
Who went for a swim in a pond\\
A man in a punt\\
Stuck his pole in the water\\
And said "you can't swim here, it's private".
* Or how about:
-->There was a young poet of Mainz\\
Whose limericks had no last lines.\\
When asked why this was,\\
He said "it's because
* In a similar vein:
-->There was a young man of Arnoux\\
Whose limericks stopped at line two.
* And taking this train of thought until it hits the buffers:
-->There was a young man of Verdun,
* Of course, we won't even mention the limerick about Emperor Nero.
* Similar:
-->There was a man from Rome\\
Who daily composed a poem\\
Try as he might\\
He just couldn't quite\\
Stop from putting too many words in the last line, it sounded awful.
* Subverted rhyme, HeavyMeta, and SophisticatedAsHell:
-->The limerick, peculiar to English\\
Proved exceedingly hard to extinguish\\
When Congress in session\\
Decreed its suppression\\
People got around it by writing the last line without any rhyme or meter.
* [[http://skribenten.tripod.com/songs/Florence.html Going with the Florence]] (second verse)
* [[http://www.dragon-realms.com/index.php?board=7;action=printpage;threadid=584 The Dragon's Lamentable Love]]
* A camp song:
-->Little Miss-Miss, went out to pi--
-->--ck, some flowers;
-->She waded in grass, up to her aaa--
-->--nklebones;
-->She went to the coop, to take a pooo--
-->--rr, little chicken out;
-->Little Miss-Miss, went out to pick, some flowers.
* Then of course, there was the song about the 'Three Jolly Fishermen', and one verse has them,
-->'All going down to Amster--SHHH!
-->We must not say that naughty word;
-->Must not say that naughty word;
-->They all went down to Amster--SHH!!!'
** Gleefully subverted in the next verse, however:
-->'We're gonna say it anyway;
-->Gonna say it anyway;
-->Amster-Amster--damndamndamn!!
-->Amster-Amster--damndamndamn!!
-->They all went down to Amster-damn!!!'
* There are many Russian kids' songs (made ''by'' kids, not ''[[MoralGuardians for]]'' kids, of course) of this kind, with a varying grade of obscenity. The basic translation of one here:
-->There's a statue on a rock,
-->And that statue has no--
-->''EYES!!!''
-->[[DoubleSubversion Don't you dare to spoil my rhymes!]] (Note: in Russian it rhymes better)
-->That one statue has no COCK!
** Translated another one:
-->Lo! The bushes are a-wagging!
-->What're they doing in there? --
-->''[[SubvertedTrope SHAGGING!]]''
-->Don't you dare to spoil the merries!
-->There's a bear searching for berries!
** There are also many rhymes/songs of the following type; for example:
-->I'm a di--
-->I'm a di[[spoiler:gnified young troper,]]
-->I have fu--
-->I have fu[[spoiler:n writing this song.]]
-->I like boo--
-->I like boo[[spoiler:ze and Creator/TerryPratchett,]]
-->Yes, my co--
-->Yes, my co[[spoiler:mment skill is huge]] ;)
-->And my ba-
-->And my ba[[spoiler:dger ate a pickle.]]
-->Then my nu-
-->Then my nu[[spoiler:tball grandpa died. (What, you thought it would make sense?).]]
** There are also so called "Eve Verses". A bit hard to translate (or, rather, compose new ones), but here is an attempt:
-->Old Lady Jill was out of luck
-->She looked for someone young to...''dance''
-->But they were no type for romance
-->They only cared for smoking crack.
* A cheer that goes like this:
--> Rah Rah Ree!
-->Kick 'em in the knee!
-->Rah Rah Ras!
-->Kick 'em in the [[spoiler:other knee]]!
** And similarly:
-->Cigarette ashes! Cigarette butts!
-->We've got your team by the [[spoiler:knees]]!
** And yet again:
-->We like warm beer and cold duck!
-->But most of all we like to fffffff[[spoiler:ight, team, fight!]] (The drawn-out "fffffff" is essential for maximum amusement of the juvenile minds performing the cheer.)
* That playground classic "Charlie had a Pigeon":
-->Charlie had a pigeon,
-->A pigeon, a pigeon.
-->Charlie had a pigeon,
-->A pigeon he had.
-->It flew in the morning,
-->It flew in the night,
-->And when it came home
-->It was covered in Sh-
-->-Charlie had a pigeon...
* 30 Days hath Septober
--> April, June and No-wonder
--> All the rest have peanut butter
--> Except Grandma
--> 'Cus she rides a tricycle
* Australian comedy group Music/TheAxisOfAwesome, in their song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKmh-0E5BjU "What Would Jesus Do?"]]
-->Can you heal a leper
-->Or feed a crowd with fish and bread?
-->Can you walk on water?
-->Did you rise from the dead?
-->Did you give your life up to save humans from bad luck?
-->Were you born a virgin birth or did your parents[[{{Beat}} --]]have sex?
* The Scared Weird Little Guys do a similar thing with their comedic song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Mt1iQQVCZs&feature=related Christmas Day]] At least until the very end...
* A Lipton ice tea commercial featuring a singing fish has a great averted rhyme.
-->Now you can make a tasty ''dish''
-->'Cause tea with citrus goes great with--''chicken''
* We must not forget:
-->Ms. Lucy had a steamboat
-->The steamboat had a bell
-->Ms. Lucy went to Heaven
-->The steamboat went to -
-->Hello Operator,
-->Please give me number nine
-->And if you disconnect me
-->I'll chop off your -
-->Behind the 'fridgerator
-->There was a piece of glass
-->Ms. Lucy sat upon it
-->And broke her little -
-->Ask me no more questions...
:: And so on.
* Popular jump rope game a while ago;
-->There was a man named Tiger Woods.
-->He had the cash, he had the goods.
-->Tiger Woods had all the luck.
-->How many women did he...HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH?
* An older jump rope rhyme:
--> "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_J._Beachey Lincoln Beachey]] thought it was a dream \\
To go up to heaven in a flying machine. \\
The machine broke down, and down he fell, \\
Instead of going to heaven he went to-- \\
Lincoln Beachey thought it was a dream..."
* There is a Dutch poem which for the whole of the poem actually changes words to rhyme with the previous line. It's about a knight going to rescue a damsel from a dragon. The dragon agrees to let her go if the knight composes a verse on them - he doesn't get her: he can't rhyme.
* The Alphabet Song, if [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtFXYvNIxws the singer pronounces "zee" as "zed"]].[[note]]Or pronounces "zed" correctly.[[/note]] Also, in the final part of the song, "[=ABCs=]" doesn't rhyme with "me" or "zee".
--> Q, R, S, \\
T, U, V, \\
W, X, \\
Y, and ''zed''.
* The playground Spanish song "Pican, pican los mosquitos" starts always with the same four verses, and then it's up to the singer. The song is very popular, and has been covered by several artists:
--> Pican, pican los mosquitos[[note]]The mosquitos bite and bite[[/note]]
--> Pican con gran disimulo[[note]]They bite with great dissimulation.[[/note]]
--> Unos pican por delante (o 'en la cara')[[note]]Some of them bite on the front of your body (or 'on your face')[[/note]]
--> Y otros pican en el cu... ando...[[note]]And some of them bite on your... And then the following word starts with "Cu" (usually Cuando (when)), as the word in Spanish for "butt".[[/note]]
* The military cadence known as "Swing With Lulu" contains the following verses, among others:
-->Lulu's got a boyfriend
-->Her boyfriend's got a truck
-->Lulu shifts the gears
-->Her boyfriend likes to... steer
-->Some folks like the fishin'
-->Some folks like to hunt
-->When I am with Lulu
-->I'm always in her... car
* At a certain public university in a certain eastern state, the men's glee club there maintained a deep repertoire of old and creatively dirty songs, one of which -- called "High Above a Coopie's Garter" -- employed an unusual version of this trope. The eight-line first verse, which the rhyme scheme clearly indicates should build toward the final word "...ass," instead ends with "...hmmmm." The second verse is then eight lines of humming, until the final word -- "...''ass''."
* A rare and unusual CCG instance: In ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', there are a group of creatures within the Fungus tribe, called Thallids, that collect spore counters and use them to produce Saproling tokens. The game has a wide variety of thallids, including the original [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=184711 Thallid]], [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=128944 Psychotrope Thallid]], [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=106643 Savage Thallid]], [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=116743 Deathspore Thallid]], and [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Discussion.aspx?multiverseid=124508 Pallid... Mycoderm]].
* The German variant of the Lady of Brunt and the raising tide would be the joke with the angler who is fishing for bass. (No translation required, as it works identically in English.)
* Zigzagged in a German children singing game: In the first pass you may not speak the (usually identical) rhyme, in the second you must, e.g.
--> Jetzt fahrn wir übern See, übern See,
--> jetzt fahrn wir übern ({{Beat}}!)
--> Jetzt fahrn wir übern See, übern See,
--> jetzt fahrn wir übern See
Violator is out, must give a deposit or whatnot. (Countless variations.)
* On one birthday card, there's a frog saying a rhyme, "Your birthday's a day that can never be missed. Have fun with your friends and get yourself--" then inside, the champagne is going, "Psssst!".
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