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The Great British Limerick Book: Filthy Limericks for (Nearly) Every Town in the UK Paperback – April 16, 2015

3.6 out of 5 stars 20 ratings

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Surely it can’t be done. But it has been done. For the first time in the history of mankind someone has been dedicated enough and fool enough to write a filthy limerick for every town in the UK which unlike Leeds or Devizes doesn’t already have a classic filthy limerick to call its own. From Land’s End to John o’ Groats, The Great British Limerick Book has a filthy limerick for your town, for your uncle’s town, for your cousin’s husband’s ex-wife’s town …. as long as it’s in the UK and as long as it isn’t one of those few places that are really impossible to find a rhyme for.

There are over 900 limericks in the book. A lot of them are hilarious. Most of them are very funny. All of them are filthy.

Guildford, Surrey

At McDonald's in Guildford in Surrey
I spilt coffee on my crotch in a scurry
I had to act quick
To cool down my dick
So I stuck it into my McFlurry

Nuneaton, Warwickshire

There was a young man from Nuneaton
Who really enjoyed being beaten
And squeezing his knackers
With a pair of nut crackers
And riding a bike with no seat on

Bath, Somerset

There was a professor from Bath
Who employed twenty-five research staff
To measure size and direction
Of his every erection
And to plot the results on a graph

The Isle of Skye, Scotland

When I was on the Isle of Skye
I overdid the old Spanish fly
I had a stiff member
From the fourth of December
Till Friday the tenth of July

Ashington, Northumberland

In Ashington there was a miner
Whose wife was a fashion designer
One night to his shock
She dressed him up as a cock
And herself as a six foot vagina

Hackney, Greater London

As a chemist I worked once in Hackney
And invented a treatment for acne
But one ingredi-ent
Was semen I’d spent
And they thought that good reason to sack me

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Corona Books UK
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 16, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0993247202
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0993247200
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.04 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.6 out of 5 stars 20 ratings

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They say to be a successful author you should pick one genre and stick to it. Lewis Williams hasn't exactly followed that advice: having written his first book on the singer Scott Walker, he followed that with a serious academic work on social policy, which he then followed with a trilogy of limerick books that were absolutely, categorically nothing remotely like his earlier books. He is now the editor of all four volumes of The Corona Book of Horror Stories series, with the first, third and fourth books also including short stories by him.

Lewis has two degrees in philosophy (which number might be considered two too many) and worked for a number of years for Oxford University before his ignominious departure from its employ. You can find out more about him by visiting his website www.lewiswilliams.com

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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2015
    Extremely clever, difficult to put down and very, very funny. Only for those in search of more open-minded humor - be careful not to recite them in the middle of the office!
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  • ceb
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very funny book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 22, 2015
    Hilarious and very clever! Not read them all, but we have been in hysterics all day over some of these limericks. Definitely not a book for children- but great for adults with a sense of humour, who are not easily offended.
  • Colin Jenkins
    3.0 out of 5 stars Struggled with rhyme
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 12, 2022
    Not very good would not consider a master of limerick
  • J.Mc.
    1.0 out of 5 stars No Not for me!!!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 18, 2020
    No, not for me!!!😞 now how do I delete this. This is scraping the barrel limerick wise. Let me out. 😊
  • caroline
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 16, 2016
    this really mae me laugh and great for conversation at a dinner party or with friends
  • montrachet
    2.0 out of 5 stars Ruder than expected
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 12, 2024
    Comprehensive but less suitable as a present than I had hoped.