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    The chair of the limerick guild
    Has noticed that this thread is filled
    With non-rhyming verse,
    And he's ordered a hearse
    To remove the offenders, once killed.

    The verses that caught his attention
    Were the ones with a "physical" intention.
    Does "math" rhyme with "quarks"
    Like Marx, parks or sparks?
    Not so, in our current dimension.

    And, as for that elegant flunky
    The chairman admires his spunk, he
    Sticks to his guns
    And shows you his buns,
    The respect you get from a Monkey!

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    Quote Originally Posted by monkey
    The chair of the limerick guild
    Has noticed that this thread is filled
    With non-rhyming verse,
    And he's ordered a hearse
    To remove the offenders, once killed.

    The verses that caught his attention
    Were the ones with a "physical" intention.
    Does "math" rhyme with "quarks"
    Like Marx, parks or sparks?
    Not so, in our current dimension.
    OK, is this version better, Mr M?

    There was a cool doctor called Szin
    Who had a real charming grin
    He loved Science and Maths
    And Atoms and *laughs*
    And said Quantum Theory will win!


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    Another nice one, Mr M! We are most honoured to stand in the warm glow of a truly lucent limerist.

    I should, for completeness, however, provide our readers with the version which, by a strange quirk of nature, reflects the very marginally dominant pronounciation amongst practitioners of the partonic sciences:

    The verses that caught his attention
    Were the ones with a "physical" convention
    Does "math" rhyme with "quarks"
    Like corks, forks or torques
    Not so, in our current dimension.

    You can find some poems with a similar physical flavour at:

    http://ppp.phys.strath.ac.uk/

    But keep away from those naughty Quark Sisters!

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    I think we should have an award
    Our honours to rightly accord.
    Big Brother may vanish
    But they never will banish
    The "MBs", for the best message board.

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    And what of the lady from Stroma
    Whose name cannot be a misnomer
    The Gili is Wee
    Just look and you'll see
    (You may have to tweak with the chroma).

    I am sad to relate she is too sick
    To listen to more refined music
    For Morrison's voice
    Is her tenor of choice
    I couldna go into her hoose, ick.

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    Just found this one on the web:

    Quark-Dork Symmetry Group
    by Kay R. DevicciŠ

    When we physicists talk about quarks,
    And "sleptons," "sneutrinos," and "squarks,"
    We shouldn't be stunned
    When the Congress won't fund
    Our big projects - they think that we're dorks!

    (Mr M -- I would guess it came from the same site as the ones you sent me recently.)

    Getting back on topic..

    Take a look at:

    http://www.redhatsociety.com/

    There's some great stuff in the Red Hat Society Imperium! Maybe we chiels should club together and buy some pressies for the ladies. When's ya birthday squidge?

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    Default majic

    I have found the fairies' country
    And I now know where they dwell,
    For I rose one misty morning
    And they had laid on me a spell.
    Till there before my wond'ring eyes
    I saw their shining households rise.

    In the morning sun's pale glowing
    Gilding every bush and tree,
    There were flashing,flaunting bowers
    Where the fairy-folk live free,
    And floating with the sunbound haze
    I saw aerial pathways blaze.

    To my half-awakened vision
    Every scintillating thread
    Has its fairy population
    Which at my approach had fled.
    'Tis said that fairies are no more,
    But fairyland that morn I saw.


    written by F.I Shields

    We could all do with a little majic in our lives

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    Just been looking at all the fantastic piccies from Wick Gala. Keep up the good work, Bill!

    Spent ages looking for one of a woman with a red hat, purple gloves & purple boa, but to no avail. Can anyone help?

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    Quote Originally Posted by DrSzin
    OK let's have a shot at cheery cheeky limericks to make everyone smile:

    I have several versions of a Lady K limerick, but still have to pick the best one. It's amazing what you can find to rhyme with New England girl!
    OK, Dr Szin, I've been in New England for a week and a half now, and I'm STILL waiting for that limerick about me!

    I think you need to stop ogling the Gala Week piccies, and get on with it, you Limey!!!

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    Ouch! That last pun was worse than one of Monkey's...

    OK:

    I once knew a New England Girl

    Er, it's been a while, I've forgotten what comes next!

    I'll get back to you on that one....

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    Phew! Glad I've finally managed to tear you away from the Week Gala Week piccies, and the Thirsa Gala Week pics, too, Dr S!

    I'm looking forward to that limerick about me! And remember, it doesn't have to be about a New England girl. I was brought up in Caithness, after all! I also told you where I was born, didn't I? Okay, get yer thinking cap on, Dr Limey!!!

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    Doh !! I feel like Homer wi aal this poetry an stuff, Homer Simpson no Homer the Greek cheil, ehh whit has "Rhyming couplet or iambic pentameter" got till do wi making love till yer neighbour,
    Enlighten me somebody Pleez
    Golach
    ps I want till be somebodies neighbour

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    oops I got it wrong again its no make love, its jist love thy neighbour,
    sorry Squidge

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    When I am an old man I shall wear gel sandals
    With socks that almost match, but obviously don't.
    And I shall spend my pension on lottery tickets and gifts
    And hair gel, and say we've no money for butter.
    I shall block the pavement with my power scooter when I'm tired
    And people-watch in the shopping center and whistle at the pretty girls
    And laugh as my wife points out the cute boys to me
    And re-enact the insobriety of my youth.
    I shall wear boots when it's sunny
    And photograph other people without their permission
    And get in everyone's way like my cat Twinkie.

    But for now I suppose I'll play the decorous part
    And pay my bills and not swear in the street (too loudly)
    And set a good example for the children.
    We might have friends to dinner but I still won't read the papers.

    But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
    So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
    When suddenly I am old, and show up in Caithness on me bike.

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    Oh wow wow wow

    What a clever monkey you are. I award you the Caithness.org award for wonderful poems

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    Quote Originally Posted by golach
    : ehh whit has "Rhyming couplet or iambic pentameter" got till do wi making love till yer neighbour,
    Exactly golach - why bother when we do so well without them!!

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    Default On getting older....

    I like being older
    As now I'm much bolder
    Than I was in the days of my youth
    I'm not quite so shy
    And that ain't no lie
    But don't call me long in the tooth!


    I accept my middle age
    Won't let it be a cage
    That traps me, and won't set me free
    I'll live for each day
    In my own special way
    I am Kay, I am woman, I am me!

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    I wasn't chatting the night this was all brought up... (not been chatting much anyway!)

    But, that poem you shared with us is cool, squidge! Oh, but I must say, at the ripe old age of 17 (and a half)... uh... I already wear purple! And even if I'm not wearing purple clothing (but yes... I do wear other coloured clothing too!)... I always wear an amethyst either in a necklace (though my amethyst necklace has 4 amethysts in it) or in an ortak ring!

    Highlander and You should be able to tell you what I mean

    Anyways... does that mean that even though I'm a teenager, I'm also an old lady?
    "People may say what they wish, but we are actually under no compulsion to listen." LJ, and I do so wholeheartedly agree!

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