There was an Old Person of Burton*,
Whose answers were rather uncertain;
When they said, “How d’ye do?”
He replied, “Who are you?”
That distressing Old Person of Burton.
-Edward Lear: “A Book of Nonsense” (1846), limerick 106
*Burton: Burton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton, is a market town on the River Trent, in East Staffordshire, Staffordshire, England.
Whose answers were rather uncertain;
When they said, “How d’ye do?”
He replied, “Who are you?”
That distressing Old Person of Burton.
-Edward Lear: “A Book of Nonsense” (1846), limerick 106
*Burton: Burton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton, is a market town on the River Trent, in East Staffordshire, Staffordshire, England.
