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Article #642Re: unfinished limerick
From: Seth "the Lesser"
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:14
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:14
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pete@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Peter Alexander Merel) writes:
>[snip] But I am reminded of:
>
>There was a young man of Dundoo,
>Whose limericks stopped at line 2.
>
>And of course
>
>There was a young man of Verdun.
And the following:
There was a young woman named Jenny,
Whose limericks weren't worth a penny.
Her rhythm and rhyme
Were perfectly fine
But whenever she tried to write any,
She always had one line too many.
Seth L. Blumberg \ "The whole thing was an accident. No saboteur
slb22@columbia.edu (play) \ could have been so wildly optimistic as to think
sethb@ctr.columbia.edu (work) \ he could destroy an airplane this way."
> No one I know shares my opinions, least of all Columbia University. <
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Newsgroups: alt.quotations Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!slb22 From: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser") Subject: Re: unfinished limerick References: <1993Jan21.044920.4238@midway.uchicago.edu> <pete.727619447@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> Sender: nobody@ctr.columbia.edu Organization: Generic American College Kids (G.A.C.K.) Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:14:48 GMT Message-ID: <1993Jan21.181448.1833@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> Reply-To: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser") X-Posted-From: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu Lines: 23