[AnAmericanMother]

I knew that limerick but had forgotten it! (My father was the Limerick Champion of the St. Philips (Episcopal) Cathedral Choir. Every year at the annual choir party there was a round-robin limerick tournament. If you couldn't come up with one in 20 seconds or repeated yourself, you were out. It usually came down to Dad and Big Jim Griffeth, who used to be a pro linebacker. It was quite the event.)

But apparently falling down the privy was not uncommon at all - back in the days before sewer systems, a newspaper estimated that at least one person died every week in Cincinnati along of falling into the jakes . . .

Cincinnati's Outhouses

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I know quite a few limericks, but never competed. My dad (from whom I learned the one I posted) once told me about a classmate in medical school who could reel them off for hours.