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#26 2005-07-16 18:45:17

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Re: Limericks

We all know that Zach is a Ferret,
He's so much smarter than a pellet (?)
But show him bad spelling


"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..."  - Leon M. Lederman

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#27 2005-07-16 19:28:23

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Re: Limericks

We all know that Zach is a Ferret,
He's so much much smarter than a pellet,
But show him bad spelling,
And then he'll start yelling,

(Good luck finishing that off big_smile)


Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.

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#28 2005-07-16 20:16:49

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Re: Limericks

merit? tell it? smell it?


"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..."  - Leon M. Lederman

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#29 2005-07-16 21:55:51

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Re: Limericks

We all know that Zach is a Ferret,
He's so much smarter than a pellet,
He scuffles around...

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#30 2005-07-17 02:17:32

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Re: Limericks

We all know that Zach is a Ferret,
He's so much smarter than a pellet,
He scuffles around
While sniffing the ground....


School is practice for the future. Practice makes perfect. But - nobody's perfect, so why practice?

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#31 2005-07-17 10:33:41

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Re: Limericks

We all know that Zach is a Ferret,
He's so much smarter than a pellet,
He scuffles around
While sniffing the ground
The rest is too gruesome to tell it.


"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..."  - Leon M. Lederman

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#32 2005-07-17 18:46:48

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Re: Limericks

Who's next?

There once was a person called Rora...

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#33 2005-07-17 19:09:24

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Re: Limericks

Erm.....what rhymes with my name?


School is practice for the future. Practice makes perfect. But - nobody's perfect, so why practice?

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#34 2005-07-17 19:30:47

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Re: Limericks

There once was a person called Rora
Who said "Funny! The more a ...


"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..."  - Leon M. Lederman

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#35 2005-07-17 22:01:37

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Re: Limericks

In answer to your question, Rora...

Nora?
Poorer?
Borer, pourer, roarer, scorer, soarer, surer, sorer, corer or snorer?

There once was a person called Rora
Who said "Funny! The more a
Circle is round...

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#36 2005-07-18 03:21:18

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Re: Limericks

There once was a person called Rora
Who said "Funny! The more a
Circle is round,
I think I have found...


Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.

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#37 2005-07-18 05:41:04

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Re: Limericks

There once was a person called Rora
Who said "Funny! The more a
Circle is round,
I think I have found
A reason to eat flora!"


Boy let me tell you what:
I bet you didn't know it, but I'm a fiddle player too.
And if you'd care to take a dare, I'll make a bet with you.

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#38 2005-07-18 05:50:32

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Re: Limericks

HA HA HA!!!!!

I once knew someone named justlooking......


School is practice for the future. Practice makes perfect. But - nobody's perfect, so why practice?

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#39 2005-07-18 06:03:51

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Re: Limericks

I once knew someone named justlooking,
Who had a knack for hookin'


Boy let me tell you what:
I bet you didn't know it, but I'm a fiddle player too.
And if you'd care to take a dare, I'll make a bet with you.

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#40 2005-07-18 16:20:26

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Re: Limericks

I once knew someone named justlooking,
Who had a knack for hookin'
Everytime he tried his skill


It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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#41 2005-07-18 19:37:43

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Re: Limericks

I once knew someone named justlooking,
Who had a knack for hookin'
Everytime she tried her skill
On the treadmill...

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#42 2005-07-19 01:05:50

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Re: Limericks

I once knew someone named justlooking,
Who had a knack for hookin'
Everytime she tried her skill
On the treadmill,
Which was always a'cookin'


Boy let me tell you what:
I bet you didn't know it, but I'm a fiddle player too.
And if you'd care to take a dare, I'll make a bet with you.

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#43 2005-07-19 19:14:54

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Re: Limericks

There once was a person called Mathsy...


It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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#44 2005-07-19 22:16:42

Jenilia
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Re: Limericks

There once was a person called Mathsy
Who didn't like Sciency
He called for a fight
And he was right
He won the fight with Sciency

Last edited by Jenilia (2005-07-19 22:20:01)


Ideas are funny little things, they won't work unless you do.

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#45 2005-07-19 22:38:20

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Re: Limericks

there once was a man  from china,
he was a very good climber,
he slipt on a rock and lost,
his sock
that was the end of the poor climber!

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#46 2005-07-20 00:29:21

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Re: Limericks

Thanks Jenilia ... and hcooper02 !


"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..."  - Leon M. Lederman

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#47 2005-09-01 19:25:40

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Re: Limericks

A Dozen, a Gross and a Score,
plus three times the square root of four,
divided by seven,
plus five times eleven,
equals nine squared and not a bit more.


A graduate student from Trinity
Computed the cube of infinity;
But it gave him the fidgets
To write down all those digits,
So he dropped math and took up divinity.


There once was a number named pi
Who frequently liked to get high.
All he did every day
Was sit in his room and play
With his imaginary friend named i.


There once was a log named Lynn
Whose life was devoted to sin.
She came from a tree
Whose base was shaped like an e.
She's the most natural log I've seen.

A challenge for many long ages
Had baffled the savants and sages.
Yet at last came the light:
Seems old Fermat was right--
To the margin add 200 pages.


Integral z-squared dz
from 1 to the cube root of 3
times the cosine
of three pi over 9
equals log of the cube root of 'e'.


It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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#48 2005-09-02 21:28:00

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Re: Limericks

Those were really great, Ganesh! Did you write them?

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#49 2005-09-03 18:28:08

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Re: Limericks

No, I got them from elsewhere...and I enjoyed reading them, so I wanted to share with you all smile
Here are two more.......

If inside a circle a line
Hits the center and goes spine to spine
And the line's length is "d"
the circumference will be
d times 3.14159

If (1+x) (real close to 1)
Is raised to the power of 1
Over x, you will find
Here's the value defined:
2.718281...


It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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#50 2005-09-15 14:31:37

Jenilia
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Re: Limericks

Hey! I got to create an limberick/poem on eye venturer. Can help me?


Ideas are funny little things, they won't work unless you do.

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