Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site uicsl.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!sarwate
From: sarwate@uicsl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: limmerick - (nf)
Message-ID: <27900001@uicsl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 11:58:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: uicsl.27900001
Posted: Thu Aug  9 11:58:00 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Aug-84 00:24:02 EDT
References: <194@tellab3.UUCP>
Lines: 14
Nf-ID: #R:tellab3:-19400:uicsl:27900001:000:412
Nf-From: uicsl!sarwate    Aug  9 10:58:00 1984

#R:tellab3:-19400:uicsl:27900001:000:412
uicsl!sarwate    Aug  9 10:58:00 1984

This limerick is actually derived from a British limerick from the days
when British currency had 20 shillings to the pound, 12 pennies to the
shilling, and various other coins were also available, e.g. the crown
was five shillings, and half-a-crown was two and one half shillings.
The limerick went

Jack and Jill went up the hill
Each with a shilling and a quarter
Jill came down
With half a crown
...........