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- From: prechelt@i41s18.ira.uka.de (Lutz Prechelt)
- Newsgroups: alt.quotations
- Subject: semi-unfinished limerick
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 13:48:25 GMT
- Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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- References: <1993Jan21.044920.4238@midway.uchicago.edu> <pete.727619447@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>
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- In article <pete.727619447@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>, pete@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Peter Alexander Merel) writes:
- ...
- |> But I am reminded of:
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- |> There was a young man of Dundoo,
- |> Whose limericks stopped at line 2.
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- Another nice failure is:
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- There once was a young man from Lyme
- Who couldn't get his limericks to rhyme
- When asked "Why not?"
- It was said that he thought
- They were probably too long and badly structured and not at all very funny.
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- Lutz
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- Lutz Prechelt (email: prechelt@ira.uka.de) | Whenever you
- Institut fuer Programmstrukturen und Datenorganisation | complicate things,
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