It may interest you that OED has a dirty limerick for its first citation for "numero uno". OED gives only the last three lines, but here is the whole thing:

An Argentine gaucho named Bruno
Said, "There is one thing that I do know:
Now, women are fine,
And sheep are divine,
But llamas are numero uno."

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Originally posted by shufitz:
It may interest you that OED has a dirty limerick for its first citation for "numero uno". OED gives only the last three lines, but here is the whole thing:

An Argentine gaucho named Bruno
Said, "There is one thing that I do know:
Now, women are fine,
And sheep are divine,
But llamas are numero uno."

Shu, I am surprised at you. The OED publishes nothing you could call 'dirty'! I can't imagine how you could put such a construction on an innocent little Limerick.

This was recently dug up from somewhere in the bowels of the Internet ...


A youthful accountant out west
Rated ratings by special request.
"'Okay' is quite good
In my neighborhood
But 'Número Uno' is best."

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Shu, I am surprised at you. The OED publishes nothing you could call 'dirty'! I can't imagine how you could put such a construction on an innocent little Limerick.

If you want the cleaned up version, here it is. But though it espouses high moral principles, I personally think it less clean and more explicit.

An Argentine gaucho named Bruno
Said, "There is one thing that I do know:
Fornication's perverse,
Beastiality's worse,
And chastity's numero uno."

I Googled around a bit and found this forum where they came up with a few other "Bruno" limericks. Currently the forum seems to be closed.

Interesting. That forum was part of the rock group Status Quo's fan site. The composition of poetry, even if 'only' limericks, is hardly your archetypal headbanger's activity, I'd have thought.

Although I suppose the band set a good example, being named after a Latin tag.