Ayale-com.633
net.jokes,net.jokes.limerick
utzoo!decvax!yale-com!hawley
Fri Dec 18 16:10:21 1981
To get the ball rolling...

The first brontosaurus ever discovered stands in the Peabody Museum
of Yale University.  Back when I was a freshman, they celebrated the
100th (?) anniversary of the beast with a limerick contest.
I submitted the following two entries, scribbled on the back of a brown
paper bag.  Not bad for a freshman. Can't understand why they didn't win....


      * - * - * - * - * - * - * - *

    At Yale there's a "bront" made of bone,
    Which, when struck, sounds a musical tone.
    When I stroked "the big femur",
    I felt a great tremor --
    I had found its errogenous zone!

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    At Yale there's a "bront" made of bone --
    But don't touch its errogenous zone,
    Because if you do,
    You'll be flooded with goo
    (That is, drowned in testosterone....)           (!)

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[ Incidentally, the winning limerick went something like this:

    One day, a young brontosaurus
    Said, "History's looming before us.
        If we hide in some clay,
        We'll be fossils one day,
    And professors at Yale will adore us." ]



 -- M. J. Hawley      (decvax!yale-comix!hawley)

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