Comments on: A Limerick

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I once knew a girl named Miss Bright
Who could travel much faster than light.
She left one day,
In an Einsteinian way,
And came back on the previous night.

By: Trey

Trey — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Not a limerick, but I had reason to use this today when Mark came into my office with coffee stains all over his notebook:

“A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.” Paul Erdos

I guess in Jeff Byers' case it is "A theoretical physical chemist is a device for turning strong coffee into lithography comprehension."

By: Moshe

Moshe — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You really have to love a guy who takes the time to tell you a limerick while someone is paying him $500 an hour…

By: Trey

Trey — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

That’s a $2 limerick by my calculation, assuming it takes 15 seconds to say it.

By: Chris Sallee

Chris Sallee — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

A lithographer named Jeff once toted
A cup full of coffee creosoted
It started quite clean
With washing would gleam
But Jeff liked drinking it coated

By: Mason

Mason — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

From my brother, a lawyer.

Prosecution is boring as hell,
but the tedium pays pretty well.
So I go home at five
and the checks still arrive
And I claim that it's all pretty swell.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

All,
As the source ofhe original limerick, and in the interest of full disclosure, I heard it from my dad. Turns out the guy who wrote it was a researcher at Bell Labs named Barry Weissman. My dad didn't stay in touch with him, but I checked my 1995 AT&T Bell Labs directory (the last one printed) and he was still there then.
Jim