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That’s not a limerick, though. A limerick has 5 lines, for example: There once was a young lady called Bright Who travelled much faster than light She left o
by czzr 6y ago
That’s not a limerick, though. A limerick has 5 lines, for example:
There once was a young lady called Bright
Who travelled much faster than light
She left one day,
In a relative way,
And returned on the previous night!
- zimpenfish 6y agoTo be fair, the heading on the page is "One sided verses & limericks:" and covers a wide spectrum of poetical types.
- Daub 6y agoYeh I know its not a limerick. I have seen a version of this as a true limerick in a book of 'science humor'. Looked for it but can't find. Every version online is this non-limerick version, presented as a limerick. I will update if I find the original.
- Daub 6y agoFound the book! Poem is on p46, together with a cute illustration. Turned out I imagined it was a true limerick after all. But a fun book nonetheless. https://books.google.com.vn/books?id=UGGhM2XKE_0C https://books.google.com.vn/books?id=UGGhM2XKE_0C The book is: Cooper W. A random walk in science. CRC Press; 1973. Surprisingly high citation index (58).
- czzr 6y agoIt’s ok - I got to nit pick and sneak a physics joke into HN, so all good. Thanks for the link to the book, that is fun.
- Stratoscope 6y agoI wrote a limerick in third grade, when my regular teacher kicked me out of class and sent me to Mrs. Spencer's Workshop, where we got to do our own projects. It wasn't a great limerick, and Mrs. Spencer had to help me with it: There was a young lad from Dunn School Over books with good looks he would drool The books got so soggy, They were fed to the doggie! That poor young lad from Dunn School After that unauspicious start, I went on to drawing maps of freeway interchanges. When I finished those, I decided I wanted to make a printed circuit board. I figured I needed a kitchen cutting board (for the "board" part), a sheet of copper, some electrical tape to act as resist, nitric acid to etch away the unmasked parts of the copper, and a fish tank to hold the nitric acid. So Mrs. Spencer got me all of those! I laid out the tape on both sides of the copper sheet and dunked it in the tank of nitric acid. We watched the copper dissolve into the acid, and there were the traces for my circuit board. Of course we didn't need eye protection. We were all immortal and invulnerable in those days. It was the most awesome third grade class ever!