Limerick: Once a mincing Mrs from Mississippi

Limerick: Once a mincing Mrs.

 

Once a mincing Mrs. from Mississippi*

Went to a bank for a fiddle-d-dee

But her girdle got stuck

And the “SS” came unstuck

That’s why Missis ends as a double P..

 

·     * No aspersions cast on Mississippians here;

the term refers to the Paleozoic era in North America,

following the Devonian and preceding the Pennsylvanian,

of course.

 

© T. Wignesan  - Paris, 2013