Comments on: With apologies to Theodor Geisel

By: DaveGI

DaveGI — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:38:42 +0000

Not a limmerick but it fits the subject:

In olden days when knights were bold
And toilets were not yet invented,
They dumped their loads along the roads
And walked away contented!

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:49:08 +0000

The first is snappy, clever and cute.

The second I’d hardly dare call doggerel. Ugh. What a mess.

By: CarnivorousPlants

CarnivorousPlants — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 05:38:02 +0000

There once was a man from Peru
Who had a awful time flushing his poo
It put up quite the fight
Would not flow out of sight
So he covered it with more tissue.

By: JK

JK — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 04:19:16 +0000

I’m guessing the cause of the potty problem was the green eggs and ham. If you listen to Sam I Am, you pay for it in the end with a little food poisoning.

By: Lita

Lita — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:53:59 +0000

Burgling toilets?

And all this time I thought it was the cat burglar.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:41:58 +0000

Flushing a toilet a thousand times per visit hardly seems environmentally friendly.

By: H for Toy

H for Toy — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:35:13 +0000

There once was a man from Kentucky
Whose toilet was awfully sucky
He flushed it once, twice
And then even thrice
If it worked, he thought he was lucky.

By: t-rex

t-rex — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:11:30 +0000

Alas, the toilet did break
A mess the toilet did make
A plunger no where to be seen
At work, now, I will only be peeing!

By: redheadwglasses

redheadwglasses — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:21:44 +0000

Being a Minnesotan, I can confidently state that all poetry must have rhyme and meter. None of that freeform stuff. Lutherans like order.

By: Oppan

Oppan — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:14:25 +0000

I’m not sure if you’re being facetious, really, so take this next bit with a grain of salt…

The swirling refers to the water in the toilet bowl, which on many toilets goes down in a swirling circular fashion when flushed.

Unless they’re the super-powerful kind, then they just blast water straight at the exit and this usually results in water flying all over the seat as well. While it gets the job done, it also makes it impossible to leave the seat water-free for the next person. Wipe it up, flush the paper in the bowl to dispose and…oh…water on the seat again…

Those toilets make everyone look their worst for the next user.

By: kermit

kermit — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:00:17 +0000

Maybe they’re from Boston. Or Minnesota.

By: The Elf

The Elf — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:47:30 +0000

Well, sometimes it takes a while. Coming up with poetry – even bad poetry – beats some other options.

By: Tesselara

Tesselara — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:47:28 +0000

Bad poetry–good point. If you have to push the handle down three times, there’s something wrong in Toiletland. Or maybe the toilet is on strike from being a poopburglar.

By: Dane Zeller

Dane Zeller — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:10:03 +0000

There was a young man from Nantucket,
Whose toilet he could not flush it.
The content of the Kohler one-holer,
would always flow the bowl over.
So he gave it to his mother-in-law in Pawtucket.