| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 590.1 | Reginald Buller | EAGLE1::EGGERS | Tom, VAX & MIPS architecture | Fri Dec 02 1988 09:45 | 19 |
| The author of the .0 limerick, Professor A.H. Reginald Buller, F.R.S.,
onetime professor of botany at the University of Manitoba, preferred to
keep the alliteration in the second line. It first appeared in "Punch".
There was a young lady named Bright
Whose speed was far faster than light;
She went out one day,
In a relative way,
And returned on the previous night.
Professor Buller also wrote the following limerick that continues
the speedy scientific bent.
A fencing instructor named Fisk
In duels was terribly brisk.
So fast was the action
The Fitzgerald contraction
Foreshortened his foil to a disk.
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| 590.2 | WHIPS or WPS | WARDER::SACKFIELD | keep on trucking .... | Tue Dec 20 1988 11:51 | 13 |
| A limerick about a customer from Castle Cement
There was an MD from Cement
Who wondered where he had been sent
With talk of WPS
And leather-clad hips
He'd like to be DECserviced again.
This came about at one of our unit meeting where we all had to produce
a limerick about a customer story. This all comes about over the
way I pronounce WPS-PLUS as WHIPS-PLUS.
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| 590.3 | If... | WELSWS::MANNION | A' for the girdin' o' it! | Tue Dec 20 1988 15:11 | 5 |
| A dreadful old witch name of Thatcher,
For nastiness no-one could match her,
Hated nurses and teachers
and "Those underground creatures!"
To Hell may the Good Lord dispatch her.
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| 590.4 | the hen and the cleric | LEDS::HAMBLEN | QUALITY doesn't cost. It PAYS! | Fri Mar 09 1990 17:53 | 7 |
| And of course you all remember...
There once was an old-fashioned preacher
Who said "The hen is a wonderful creature."
The hen, hearing that
Laid an egg in his hat;
And thus did the Henry Ward Beecher.
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| 590.5 | unvollendete | MARVIN::KNOWLES | intentionally Rive Gauche | Fri Mar 16 1990 10:05 | 18 |
| This one's for older listeners who remember writing with scratch pens
(none of this arriviste fountain pen nonsense). It works better in
manuscript, with blots at appropriate places; use your imagination:
There was a young poet of - `Damn'
There was a young poet of Pembroke
Who said "Damn" whenever his - `Damn'
There was a young poet of Pembroke
Who said "Damn" whenever his pen broke.
But he got a new pen,
And started a - `Damn'
There was a young poet of Pembroke
Who said "Damn" whenever his pen broke.
But he got a new pen,
And started again
That determined young poet of - `Damn'
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| 590.6 | Sounds better (for some reason) in a British accent | KID2::GOODMAN | walking on broken glass... | Tue Mar 09 1993 13:16 | 5 |
| There was a young woman from Bude,
Who went for a swim in the lake.
A man in a punt
Stuck a pole up her nose,
And said, "You can't swim here, miss, it's private."
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| 590.7 | Mmmmm..... | AUSSIE::WHORLOW | Bushies do it for FREE! | Tue Mar 09 1993 16:32 | 7 |
| G'day,
That's not the version _I_ heard...... ;-)
djw
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| 590.8 | More Beechers? | WIBBIN::NOYCE | EV5 issues 4 instructions per meter | Mon Jun 03 1996 06:35 | 14 |
| In the spirit of .4 ...
Peres was too peaceful for you;
He talked with the Syrians, too.
With time to reflect
You chose to elect
from the bench, a mean Netanyahu.
Who's this barely more popular Jew?
To download a picture or two,
It's really a breeze to
Try Altavista,
Or search through the Net on Yahoo.
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