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- From: A10377@waccvm.corp.mot.com (Michael Duke)
- Subject: Re: LIMERICK
- Organization: Motorola
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 10:26:21 MST
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.174442.2072@schbbs.mot.com>
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- ------------------------- Original Article -------------------------
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- From: 00bwanderson@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.humor
- Subject: Re: LIMERICK
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.233542.13335@bsu-ucs>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 04:35:42 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.185150.20986@mlb.semi.harris.com> <1992Dec17.213557.13583
- Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's
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- In article <8783.18342@stratus.SWDC.Stratus.COM>, bruce@godzilla.swdc.stratus.co
- > In article <BzFtGn.7yw@mach1.wlu.ca> veen2976@mach1.wlu.ca (veenstra christoph
- >>In article <1992Dec17.213557.13583@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> amorgan@csd-d-4.
- >>>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!!!
- >>
- >Just what in the hell are you doing?
- >The foundations of space/time are ungluing!
- >This limerick cascade
- >Is an ominous tirade,
- >Looks like a hideous net.storm is a-brewing!
- >--
-
- This cascade has gone long enough
- To arrive at such rhymes is not tough
- In humor they lack
- It's hard to keep track
- Of the time I've spent reading this stuff!
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