Posted on Jan 4, 2005

Limericks

Amy wrote me a limerick. Ain’t she grand?

There once was a boy named Jason
Who wanted to be a freemason
He pledged to his brothers
Whom he wanted as lovers
Thus “brotherly love” he’s embracing!

I had to return the favor. I don’t think mine is quite as good.

There once was a girl named Amy,
Who tried to play games with me,
Smart like a rat,
She had a heart attack,
When I smashed her with a bat.

Hopefully I’ve inspired you to write something of your own. Get cracking and post your own!

11 Comments

  • dom says:

    There once was a boy named J
    And everyone thought he was gay
    But he proved to the guys
    He likes young girls’ thighs
    Thats why he’s in chat rooms all day
    And as for this guy
    He wrote the FBI
    And now they will take him away :-P

    * Just kidding J – You know i love you *

  • I think Dom’s is the best yet.

  • LOL, Dom! Good one! Although I don’t think it would be the FBI taking me away…

  • Amy says:

    *shakes fist at Dom* grrrr… ALWAYS having to outdo me! :-P

  • Meg says:

    I’m no good alimericks…. so I’ll just say “the cheese walks quietly in the forest” and hope it works.

    But yeah, I wanted to say good luck tomorrow! Feel better quick.

  • Daddio says:

    I couldn’t think of a limerick myself, so I’m posting this multi-stanza physics limerick I found on the web, by Bruce Elliot (with apologies to the author–I hope I’m not infringing on his copyright or anything). I just think this is so damn clever!

    A Brief History of Gravity
    by Bruce Elliot

    It filled Gallileo with mirth
    To watch his two rocks fall to Earth.
    He gladly proclaimed,
    “Their rates are the same,
    And quite independent of girth!”

    Then Newton announced in due course
    His own law of gravity’s force:
    “It goes, I declare,
    As the inverted square
    Of the distance from object to source.”

    But remarkably, Einstein’s equation
    Succeeds to describe gravitation
    As spacetime that’s curved,
    And it’s this that will serve
    As the planets’ unique motivation.

    Yet the end of the story’s not written;
    By a new way of thinking we’re smitten.
    We twist and we turn,
    Attempting to learn
    The Superstring Theory of Witten!

  • Amy says:

    Crap, I forgot about proper formatting for comments. It was supposed to read something like “I (insert heart symbol that screwed up the comment here) the gravitation one! (Of course, since I work in the Gravitational Wave community, I may be a tad bit biased!”

  • David Danger says:

    There was a young lad from Carney
    Who the doctors diagnosed as smarmy
    They quickly extracted
    His tonsils impacted
    And announced he is cured of his blarney.

  • If you want to put a heart in a comment… you’ll have to do it old-school script-kiddie like…

  • Tim says:

    J’aime le poeme de Dom. Il est tres inspire et creatif. Aussi, il decrit Jason precisement.