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.d Subject: Limericks (A.T. from Purdue, please read) Message-ID: <2241@mit-hermes.ARPA> Date: Thu, 6-Dec-84 13:18:09 EST Article-I.D.: mit-herm.2241 Posted: Thu Dec 6 13:18:09 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 06:00:14 EST Distribution: net Organization: The MIT AI Lab, Cambridge, MA Lines: 40 > Subject: LimerickSubject: Limerick > 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 the something said three different ways; hopefully it's 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, polished and neat Has thirteen anapestical feet. Two in lines three and four, And only one more Makes lines one, two and five all complete. 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".