My post relates only to [off-color] limericks in general.
Robert Conquest has written some of the funniest limericks - many of them dashed off in correspondence. Zachary Leader's Letters of Kingsley Amis contains hilarious examples, along with equally funny efforts by Amis and Larkin. Many of Conquest's are in dialect:
A Welsh rugby player named Jeffrey
Said 'it's a pity that effry
Time we've a scrum
There's a prick up my bum,
I'm thinking of telling the refree.'
I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Conquest a few months ago, and he shared 2 lines of a limerick he'd never completed. I took the liberty of adding to it, and he was gracious enough to say he liked the result:
There once was a man from New Yawk
Who said 'If my ballocks could tawk,
What a tale they would tell
For I've put them through hell,
By harpooning for crabs with a fawk.'
-- Frank
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