Rowan, my Mom learned another version of the limerick above.

There was a young girl named Malarkey
Who had an affair with a darkie.
The result of her sins
Was quadruplets, not twins:
One black, and one white, and two khaki.


In another thread, Guest Annraoi posted a version in which one "Starkey" had triplets. Farther down Penny S mentions its more usual Punnet Square punch line. (That's how I located it by Mudcat Search for "two khaki".)

(Does it matter whether there's an e in Malarky or Malarkey? Guess not.)


With the rhyme in which one of the couple ends up IN the baby carriage, at my Canadian elementary school in the '70s, we children knew that "with a baby carriage" was the real lyric, but "in" made a far more ludicrous image.