Lecherous Limericks

Lecherous Limericks (1975) is the first of several compilations of dirty limericks by celebrated author Isaac Asimov (1920-1992). The book contains 100 limericks.

The first of them is as follows:

There was a sweet girl of Decatur

Who went to sea on a freighter.

She was screwed by the master

-An utter disaster-

But the crew all made up for it later.

Asimov comments,

This one marked the beginning. I composed it on the Queen Elizabeth II when returning from a visit to Great Britain in June, 1974. When I recited it, everyone laughed. Since that time I have been writing down limericks. I wasn't going to let myself forget them and lose laughs.

Subsequent limerick books by Asimov

• More Lecherous Limericks (1976), ISBN 0-802-77102-5
• Still More Lecherous Limericks (1977), ISBN 0-802-77106-8
• A Grossery of Limericks, with John Ciardi (1981), ISBN 0-393-33112-1
• Limericks, Two Gross, with John Ciardi (1985), ISBN 0-393-04530-7