text: can someone tell me what is the whole limeric of: there was an old man from nantucket.? every single sitcom that has that limeric starts it off and never finishes it. is it dirty? is it even real? who is this frigging old guy from nantucket??? ooh, i know this one!  it was published anonymously in the princeton tiger; it goes  there was an old man of nantucket who kept all his cash in a bucket but his daughter, named nan, ran away with a man-- and as for the bucket, nantucket.  ain't it awesome?  and what is scary: this came off the top of my head.