A man hopped in a cab in Toronto, and said, "Get me to Yonge Street, pronto!" "I'll need more detail, it's a matter of scale, that road cuts forty miles thru Toronto."
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Tallinn Limerick
There was a heavy drinker from Tallinn who drank Vana Tallinn by the gallon. You've caught the great lie I laxly let fly: It comes in liters in metric Tallinn.
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Helsinki Limerick
There was a fussy man from Helsinki who loved his town wasn't dirty or stinky, but covered in snow and twenty below the place is pristine, but also quite inky.
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Beijing Limerick
A man named Shen Wang from Beijing, his cellphone would constantly ring - always a wrong number, but that was no wonder, there're two million Wangs in Beijing.
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Prague Limerick
There was a clockmaker of Prague, master of the spring, gear, and cog. To thwart a reprise, they poked out his eyes, that mean Old Town Council of Prague.
Note: There is some disagreement as to whether this actually happened, but it makes an intriguing story. i.e. The town government blinding a craftsman with red-hot pokers to prevent him from building a more beautiful clock for another town. [It reminds me of a similar story (or, possibly, old wives’ tale) about Shah Jahan ordering the Taj Mahal craftsmen’s hands cut off so that they could never eclipse that structure’s beauty.] The rest of the Prague clockmaker’s story is that he returned to his creation and, despite his blindness, smashed up the mechanisms so badly that they couldn’t be repaired.
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Montreal Limerick
There was a hungry man from Montreal who ate Poutine 'til he could only crawl the snack in question gave him indigestion, and sealed his colon like a stonewall.
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Phnom Penh Limerick [PoMo Day 7: Limerick]
There was an old woman from Phnom Penh who liked to canoe now and again, but boating Tonlé Sap -- despite compass and map -- she'd forget which way it flowed, now-and-then.
[Note: The Tonlé Sap is one of the few rivers in the world that changes its flow each year due to the rainy season surge. (As opposed to owing to daily tidal surges — which are more common.)]
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Belize City Limerick
There was a salesman from Belize City
who called it: “where noir meets gritty,”
which means a crap-hole
that’ll suck out your soul.
Move on, the rest of the country is so pretty.
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Viennese Limerick
There was a lovely lass from Vienna
who couldn’t attend balls without a duenna.
Men wooed like gangbusters,
but dad didn’t trust her.
So, her’s was the meanest duenna in Vienna.
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A Limerick of Zambia
There was a young woman from Zambia
who developed an instant phobia.
She’d suffered a trauma,
finding two Black Mamba
curled up in her corner of Zambia.
Tiger Riding for Beginners 