Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/12/84; site mit-hermes.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!mit-hermes!jpexg From: jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA (John Purbrick) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Some limericks (A.T. please read) Message-ID: <2245@mit-hermes.ARPA> Date: Thu, 6-Dec-84 19:27:44 EST Article-I.D.: mit-herm.2245 Posted: Thu Dec 6 19:27:44 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 06:02:26 EST References: <1548@pur-phy.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: The MIT AI Lab, Cambridge, MA Lines: 34 > Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., IN > 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. {This limerick is printed unroted for purposes of discussion only} > There once was a fellow named Lancelot, > Upon whom the neighbors looked askance a lot, > For whenever he'd pass > A presentable lass > The front of his pants would advance a lot. Here is something said twice; hopefully it makes the object of this posting clear. A physicist from the Midwest Writes verses, but not of the best. He'd find they are neater If written with meter; He should go and look up "anapest". A limerick gallops along With a rhythm you mustn't get wrong. This fact, although true, Isn't taught at Purdue. They should teach them "two shorts, then a long".