#wet Sunday afternoons in Wales are exactly as imagined

[cydrhos]

Nantucket

I’ve recently been making my way through Tom Scott’s youtube canon documenting his approach to completing all achievements, side-quests and map exploration in the game of life... where was I? Oh yes... and found a piece on why Shakespeare could never have been French.

It contains the first line of a limerick, to which I will shortly return.

Wikipedia has this in its article on limericks: ‘... the true limerick as a folk form is always obscene... describing the clean limerick as... rarely rising above mediocrity".’

Scott’s YT thumbnail shows the words ‘There once was a man from Nantucket’, which line has its own Wikipedia entry. I implore you to read the article (it’s a short one) as it illustrates perfectly the criticism above.

Put down your coffee before you start reading because it’s also a good illustration of a punchline.