OK, is this version better, Mr M?Originally Posted by monkey
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!
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!
OK, is this version better, Mr M?Originally Posted by monkey
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!
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!
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.
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.
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?
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
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?
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!Originally Posted by DrSzin
I think you need to stop ogling the Gala Week piccies, and get on with it, you Limey!!!
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....
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!!!
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
oops I got it wrong again its no make love, its jist love thy neighbour,
sorry Squidge
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.
Oh wow wow wow
What a clever monkey you are. I award you the Caithness.org award for wonderful poems
Exactly golach - why bother when we do so well without them!!Originally Posted by golach
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!
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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