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- From: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser")
- Subject: Re: unfinished limerick
- References: <1993Jan21.044920.4238@midway.uchicago.edu> <pete.727619447@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>
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- Organization: Generic American College Kids (G.A.C.K.)
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:14:48 GMT
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- Reply-To: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser")
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- pete@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Peter Alexander Merel) writes:
- >[snip] But I am reminded of:
- >
- >There was a young man of Dundoo,
- >Whose limericks stopped at line 2.
- >
- >And of course
- >
- >There was a young man of Verdun.
-
- And the following:
-
- There was a young woman named Jenny,
- Whose limericks weren't worth a penny.
- Her rhythm and rhyme
- Were perfectly fine
- But whenever she tried to write any,
- She always had one line too many.
-
- Seth L. Blumberg \ "The whole thing was an accident. No saboteur
- slb22@columbia.edu (play) \ could have been so wildly optimistic as to think
- sethb@ctr.columbia.edu (work) \ he could destroy an airplane this way."
- > No one I know shares my opinions, least of all Columbia University. <
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