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- From: sichase@csa2.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Origin of Limerick?
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 09:25 PST
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- In article <C18MoM.I64@world.std.com>, jcf@world.std.com (Joseph C Fineman) writes...
- >
- >This has been around for a long time, and I doubt if its author is
- >known. At any rate, it appears, as "Anon.", in _A Little Treasury of
- >Modern Poetry_ (Oscar Williams, Ed., rev. ed., Scribner's, 1952) in
- >the form
- >
- > There was a young lady named Bright, [etc...]
-
- I have seen it attributed to Reginald Buller. The FAQ article on Tachyons
- contains several references, one of which contains this limerick with
- the Buller attribution. I don't know if it also contains publication
- data.
-
- -Scott
- --------------------
- Scott I. Chase "It is not a simple life to be a single cell,
- SICHASE@CSA2.LBL.GOV although I have no right to say so, having
- been a single cell so long ago myself that I
- have no memory at all of that stage of my
- life." - Lewis Thomas
-