Help me with a limerick

[Dave]

Okay, I know this is weird, but I want a limerick that starts with the old "There once was a man from Nantucket..." but ends nicer. Next week is my Nihsen family reunion and I am going to MC and run the thing. I want to start it out like I'm going to read a nice poem about families and then throw out that first line. After playing it up a bit I want to finish the limerick but instead of something dirty it's something nicer and family-oriented.

 

[Bubble181]

There once was a man from Nantucket
Who climbed all the way to the summit
of a mighty big tower
where a lion did cower
He decided to kill it and stuff it.


...What? I'm no good at rhyming in another language :-P

 

[filmfanatic]

There once was a man from Nantucket
Who stopped and peered into a bucket
What he saw was a chicken
With a watch that was tickin'
Who looked at him and said, "cluck it".

 

[Philosopher B.]

There once was a man from Nantucket
Who liked to keep rabbits in a bucket
They flopped about
But didn't come out
On account of a cage is where he stuck it

Edit: DAMMIT I WANTED BUCKET.

Double edit all the way across the sky:

There once was a man from Nantuckeck
Whose car rattled when he struck it
He took it for repairs
But up and despaired
When it turned out he had to chuck it

 

[Element 117]

There once was a man from 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.

 

[Officer_Charon]

Not sure how to follow Amy, but I'll give it a shot.

There once was a man from Nantucket
Bought a banjo and learned how to pluck it.
He strummed and he hummed
But his family was stunned
When he took the banjo and chucked it.

There once was a man from Nantucket
Who went fishing one day with a bucket.
The fish, they were thumping
In the pail; one was jumping
So high that he had to duck it.

 

[Officer_Charon]

Bonus sleep-depped limerick!

There once was a girl named Gertrude
Who was really rather a prude.
She said "I'm glad I'm the sex
That's concave, not convex
For I like not the things that protrude."

 

[Dave]

Okay, let me try and explain this again...

I want to start with the first line and end with something that is a statement about families.

There once was a man from Nantucket
who took a chance to luck it
He was only one man
but he started a clan
Now they stretch from here to Pawtucket!


Something like that. "Luck it" is a real term (verb) but it doesn't flow and sound like I'm forcing it.

I'm willing to change the first line as long as it's a famous limerick beginning that is associated with a normally dirty rhyme.

 

[Disconnected]

RANDOM NECRO!

There once was a gal from Boston
she opened her heart once to often
and before she new it
she had a family unit
with a combined weight over 2 tons!