Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site pur-phy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:pur-phy!act From: act@pur-phy.UUCP (Alex C. Tselis) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Some limericks Message-ID: <1548@pur-phy.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 22:28:15 EST Article-I.D.: pur-phy.1548 Posted: Mon Dec 3 22:28:15 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 09:11:21 EST Distribution: net Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., IN Lines: 17 Here are a few limericks, some of which may be well known. For those who are a little conversant with relativity theory: There was once a fellow named Fisk Whose fencing was exceedingly brisk So fast was his action That the Fitzgerald contraction Reduced his rapier to a disk. For those who like mathematical limericks: There was once a young scholar at Trinity Who tried taking the square root of infinity But the number of digits Gave him the fidgets So he dropped maths and took up divinity.