Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sjuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!psuvax!burdvax!sjuvax!pklingsb From: pklingsb@sjuvax.UUCP (P. Klingsberg) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: no, no, no! Message-ID: <151@sjuvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 08:42:35 EST Article-I.D.: sjuvax.151 Posted: Thu Feb 9 08:42:35 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Feb-84 09:36:25 EST References: <54200001@hpfclk.UUCP> Organization: Saint Josephs Univ. Phila., Pa. Lines: 33 That poem reminds me of the following sequence of limericks. I think I read them in Martin Gardner's column, which I miss! 1. There was a young girl from Japan, Whose limericks never would scan. When asked to tell why, She replied with a sigh, "Well, maybe it's because I always stick in as many extra syllables as I can!" 2. There once was a young man from China With a sense of the rhythm much fina. His limericks tend To come to an end Suddenly. 3. There was a young girl from Peru Whose limericks stop at line two. 4. There was a young man from Verdun 5.