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- From: bruce@godzilla.swdc.stratus.com (Bruce Overby)
- Newsgroups: rec.humor
- Subject: Re: LIMERICK
- Message-ID: <8783.18342@stratus.SWDC.Stratus.COM>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 01:35:18 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.185150.20986@mlb.semi.harris.com> <1992Dec17.213557.13583@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> <BzFtGn.7yw@mach1.wlu.ca>
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- Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., San Jose, CA
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- In article <BzFtGn.7yw@mach1.wlu.ca> veen2976@mach1.wlu.ca (veenstra christopher) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec17.213557.13583@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> amorgan@csd-d-4.Stanford.EDU (Crunchy Frog) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec17.185150.20986@mlb.semi.harris.com>
- >> jhobson@SU19F.ess.harris.com (Harv Hobson) writes:
- >>>In article <BzEMJx.G8C@cs.dal.ca>
- >>> franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin) writes:
- >>>>In article <1992Dec17.001118.11284@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- >>>> record@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com writes:
- >>>>>In article <BzCvz2.GDw@cs.dal.ca>,
- >>>>> franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin) writes:
- >>>>>>In <1ghiflINNel4@mercury.kingston.ac.uk>
- >>>>>> cs_e373@ceres (Matthew Simpkin) writes:
- >>>>>>
- >>>>>>>There once was a lady from Ham,
- >>>>>>>Who wanted to ride on a tram,
- >>>>>>>When she kissed the conductor,
- >>>>>>>He turned round and fuc*ed her,
- >>>>>>>And now she is pushing a pram.
- >>>>>>
- >>>>>>There once was a fellow named Matthew
- >>>>>>Who's spelling was awful but grant you,
- >>>>>>His rhyme was no better,
- >>>>>>He forgot a letter,
- >>>>>>It's limerick, but spell as you want to.
- >>>>>
- >>>>>The limerick you wrote, I have read it
- >>>>>I hope never before you have said it
- >>>>>For it was not funny
- >>>>>It can't be worth money
- >>>>>And what's more, I might add, I DON'T GET IT!!!
- >>>>
- >>>>I pray that you please will stop shouting.
- >>>>Of verbal goo please cease your spouting.
- >>>>The subject is wrong,
- >>>>Been mispelled all along,
- >>>>Perhaps you are smart, but I'm doubting.
- >>>>
- >>>A limerick cascade's in the making.
- >>>To most it is not so earthshaking.
- >>>But bottles of green,
- >>>Are making me scream.
- >>>My need rec dot humor's now slaking.
- >>
- >>Oh come now, how can you complain?
- >>There is one thing that's certainly plain.
- >>This can't go on for long
- >>(Correct me if I'm wrong)
- >>For to add to it you need a brain.
- >>
- >Well this will go on, it will,
- >because it's better, still,
- >than those stupid cascades
- >and endless tirades,
- >that always make me want to kill.
- >
- Things certainly must be bleak
- If this newsgroup into which I now peek
- Can go on so long
- With these terrible songs
- And end up with a limerick SO WEAK!!!
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- Bruce Overby
- Stratus Computer, Inc.
- San Jose, CA
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