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In the 1938 film "Bringing Up Baby," Cary Grant's character, David Huxley, recites a limerick about a young lady from Nantucket. What was the punchline of this limerick?
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She had a wooden leg and a rubber toe.
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The limerick in the film goes like this: "There was a young lady from Nantucket, Whose clothes were so awfully scant, That when she sat down on a hot summer's day, In the park, they all blew away. And she showed her wooden leg and her rubber toe."