De zogenoemde ‘dirty limerick’ is in de VS al heel erg lang buitengewoon populair. De broer van de hoofdpersoon in ‘De zwever’ had de limerick over Cripps en zijn enorme cock inderdaad niet zelf bedacht. De volledige versie:

There was a young fellow named Cribbs
Whose cock was so big it had ribs.
They were inches apart,
And to suck it took art,
While to fuck it took forty-two trips.