Limerick thread
 

Limerick thread on request...


There was a young fellow named Brian
who thought that he factored just fine
but he lost his grip
on nature's neat trick
the number he factored was prime


P.S.: I hope above text [I]is[/I] a limerick - never wrote one before :grin:

A clever French monk called Mersenne
factored numbers again and again.
But the size of the figure
became so much bigger
't was beyond computation by men.

There onces was a man we'll call Mike,
who gave his son a motor bike.
His young son was scared
to ride anywhere,
so Mike rode the bike for his tyke.


(I know, the 4th and 5th line don't really rhyme, but it's the best I can do. :help: )

(BTW, this doesn't mean much unless you keep an eye on the TPR perpetual thread :whistle: )

A dozen, a gross and a score
Plus three times the square root of four
When divided by seven
(Plus five times 11)
Is exactly nine squared and no more

(stolen from [url]http://braden.weblogs.com/mathGems/limericks[/url])

An ant was heard to complain
that a chemist had damaged his brain.
The cause of his sorrow
was paradichloro
diphenyltrichloroethane.

[i]With apologies to eepiccolo [/i]

There once was a man we'll call Mike,
who gave his son a motorized bike.
His young son was so scared
to ride it, he not dared,
so Mike rode the bike 'stead the tyke.

My last post was too stilted.

Perhaps this is better:

There once was a man we'll call Mike,
Who gave his son a motorized bike.
Too dangerous to ride,
The kid saved his hide.
And Mike crashed bike 'stead the tyke.

Now, I sure someone else can make it even better.

There once were some urgent alerts
"erotic of elliptic curves"
that was written arrant
moderator banned blunt
even though they just referenced smurfs

:whistle:

A few old favourites with both a numerical and a self-referential theme.

1) There was a young man of Japan
Whose limericks never would scan.
When asked why it was,
He replied: "It's because
I invariably attempt to include as many polysyllabic words into the ultimate line as I possibly can".

2) There was a young man of China
Whose feeling for rhythm was much finer.
His limericks tend
To come to an end
Suddenly.

3) There was a young man of Peru
Whose limericks end at line two.

4) There was a young man of Verdun.

5)



Paul

Two photons, close-coupled at start,
Flew several parsecs apart.
Said one, in distress,
"What you're forced to express
Removes any choice on my part."

(David Halliday)

[quote=xilman;12936]
There was a young man of Japan
Whose limericks never would scan.
When asked why it was,
He replied: "It's because
I invariably attempt to include as many polysyllabic words into the ultimate line as I possibly can".

Paul[/quote]

This is one of my favourites and it is crucial
to the humour that the first four lines scan immaculately.

To lower the rather twee tone, I also recall a young lady
from Ealing and a young girl from Devizes.

David