Re: looking for a limerick

In article <slrnfr15e1.325.olaf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Olaf Foellinger <olaf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>my English teacher sometimes told us a Limerick which I only partly
>remember:
>
>There was a ?young? lady of ??
>who wanted to catch the two-two.
>the ?clerk? said: "Don't worry,
>......
>It's one minute or two to two-two.
>
>Can someone help me with the mssing words?

Pure guesswork, as I hadn't seen it before:

There was a young lady of Looe
Who wanted to catch the two-two.
The clerk said: "Don't worry,
There's no need to hurry.
It's a minute or two to two-two."

Looe is the only British place name I could think of that rhymes with
"two".
-- 
John Hall
            "Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin"
            attributed to Sir Josiah Stamp,
            a former director of the Bank of England