Category: Limerick

Within 7 days of producing the last limerick, I must produce another. No pressure!

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Limerick

Severn bore (part 2)

I find mediums, alternative medicine, general  pagan beliefs both tedious but also a sort of tax on the gullible…

There was a young charlatan from Chepstow,
Who would con people wherever they’d go,
They claimed to be a medium,
Which is fake and such tedium,
And con gullible people at their show.
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Limerick

The Severn Bore (part 1)

Local news mentioned the Severn Bore,
A thing I assumed might make me snore,
But then I saw it was a wave,
Which was surfed by the brave,
Then I was interested in finding out more.
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Doodles Limerick

The Elusive Dancing Otter (Part 2 of the dancing Otter Trilogy)

The temperature has dropped and at night you might shiver,
As you search frantically by the river,
Where on earth can he be?
This otter will we see?
The excitement’s making me start to quiver.
~
Playing hide and seek with an otter.
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Limerick

Another Final for Somerset

Yesterday Somerset scored over three hundred,
Which pretty well put that game to bed,
And it was relaxing cricket,
As Essex lost an early wicket,
Although Essex gave it a good go it must be said.

~

Mike, Stumpy and Dappem
Stumpy and I finally get to have our photo taken with Dappem.
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Limerick

Mathematical Ignorance

Whilst not wishing to dismiss lower forms of knowledge (only joking) I have decided that along with my main war against elephant leg (doner) kebabs that mathematical ignorance needs to be seen as a dangerous state to be in. Some people seem almost proud that they are making themselves open to be manipulated by charlatans and con-men (or both in the case of politicians)…

Art and literature is trendy and cool,
And its hip to be a mathematical fool,
But if you’re the one,
Fooled by the next con,
You will then feel a bit of a tool.
~

Incidently a lot of mathematically competent people are ignorant about how maths has shaped our culture. This makes maths ignorant people doubly ignorant. To address this I have started posting scenes from mathematical history.

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Limerick New Year Resolutions 2010

Dancing Otter…(part 1)

The otter is famous for its romance,
And if one proposes you should give it a chance,
They have cute little noses,
And they’ll buy lots of roses,
If you want them to, they will grab you and dance.
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Limerick

Teaching At Last

After a summer of lazing and beaching,
It is time at last to get back to teaching,
I’ll try and make sense,
To my new young students,
And instruct them in concepts far reaching.
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Limerick

Congratulations Richard and Claudine!

There is exciting news regarding my brother,
That has pleased our family (especially our mother*),
To his girlfriend he has said,
“How about we get wed?”
And she has agreed they belong with one another.
~

* Of course we are all pleased, but mother rhymes. And it has to be said that mothers are generally the proudest at moments like these…

worm engagement
Asking a worm to hold a daisy can be used as an alternative to a diamond engagement ring.
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Limerick

Mushroom Gathering

You can sometimes go to the shops and buy,
Mushrooms and other healthy fungi,
But for cheaper goods,
Pick them from the woods,
But don’t eat the red ones or you might die.
mushroom and gnome
This is not an edible fungus so leave it for the gnomes!
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Limerick New Year Resolutions 2010

my bad typoing

My typing is often of a standard wquite bad
What I first tpye type often looks very sad
I am otfen often deleting
Bbefore I’m complaeting
And it is beginning to drive me sop maf mad