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- From: chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Origin of Limerick?
- Message-ID: <C1DB2M.3r4@clw.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 16:56:45 GMT
- References: <QfLgMNy00VozMIJkU3@andrew.cmu.edu>
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- In <QfLgMNy00VozMIJkU3@andrew.cmu.edu> vm0h+@andrew.cmu.edu (Vincent J. Matsko) writes:
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- >The following is my advisor's paraphrase of a limerick he once heard.
- >We would like to use it in a book we are co-authoring, and would
- >appreciate a reference. Has anyone heard of it and/or know its source?
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- <Limerick deleted>
-
- Well your version doesn't scan particularly well. The version I know is more
- like
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- There was a young lady named Bright,
- Who travelled much faster than light;
- She went out one day
- In a relative way,
- And returned on the previous night.
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