There was a young man of Kildare
Who was having a girl in a chair.
At the sixty-third stroke
The furniture broke,
And his gun went off in mid-air.
Norman Douglas:
"It was presumably one of those cheap Vienna chairs which are exported in great quantities to Kildare and other Irish towns, and which should never be used for such purposes. But the young man was also to blame for being so long about the business. Sixty-three strokes! Even London chairs, excellent as they are, will feel that strain.
"People with such deliberate methods should stick to the floor, where a rug, or preferably the fur of some animal, will be found a welcome adjunct."