The mad genius behind xkcd has set up a side website for kicks: limerickdb.com. Being as the creator is a Level 18 Nerd and most of his audience wants to be like him one day, the top-ranked limericks are wonderfully geeky. The current top four are all wonderful:
There was an old man
From Peru, whose lim’ricks all
Look’d like haiku. HeSaid with a laugh “I
Cut them in half, the pay is
Much better for two.”
A woman in liquor production
Owns a still of exquisite construction.
The alcohol boils
Through magnetic coils.
She says that it’s “proof by induction.”
A dying mosquito exclaimed,
“A chemist has poisoned my brain!”
The cause of his sorrow
Was para-dichloro-
Diphenyl-trichloroethane
There once was a [person] from [place]
Whose [body part] was [special case].
When [event] would occur,
It would cause [him or her]
To violate [law of time/space].
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