1 A UNIX saleslady, Lenore,
2 Enjoys work, but she likes the beach more.
4 To combine work and play:
5 She sells C shells by the seashore.
7 A computer, to print out a fact,
8 Will divide, multiply, and subtract.
11 If the input was short of exact.
14 A crusader's wife slipped from the garrison
15 And had an affair with a Saracen.
16 She was not oversexed,
18 She just wanted to make a comparison.
20 A dozen, a gross, and a score,
21 Plus three times the square root of four,
23 Plus five times eleven,
24 Equals nine squared plus zero, no more.
26 A dreary young bank clerk named Fennis
27 Wished to foster an aura of menace;
29 He wore gloves of grey suede
30 And white footgear intended for tennis.
33 A hacker who screwed a mag tape
34 Was caught and convicted of rape.
36 From which, to his woe
37 He couldn't get out with ESC.
39 A limerick packs laughs anatomical
40 Into space that is quite economical.
41 But the good ones I've seen
43 And the clean ones so seldom are comical.
45 A linguist thought it a farce
46 That memory space was so sparse.
47 One day they increased it.
48 Said he as he seized it:
49 "At last! Enough core for the parse".
51 A new dramatist of the absurd
52 Has a voice that will shortly be heard.
55 An unprintable three-letter word.
57 A progressive professor named Winners
58 Held classes each evening for sinners.
59 They were graded and spaced
60 So the vile and debased
61 Would not be held back by beginners.
63 A very intelligent turtle
64 Found programming UNIX a hurdle
66 Ran as slow as did he,
67 And that's not saying much for the turtle.
69 A wonderful bird is the pelican.
70 His mouth can hold more than his belican.
71 He can take in his beak
72 Enough food for a week.
73 And I'm darned if I know how the helican.
75 Despising machines to a man,
76 The Luddites joined up with the Klan,
78 In a sheeting of white
79 To lynch all the robots they can.
80 -- C. M. and G. A. Maxson
82 Flappity, floppity, flip
83 The mouse on the m"
\bobius strip;
86 In a chronodimensional skip.
88 If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker,
89 It is slick to stick a lock upon your stock.
90 Or some joker who is slicker,
91 Will trick you of your liquor,
92 If you fail to lock your liquor with a lock.
94 Limericks are art forms complex,
95 Their topics run chiefly to sex.
96 They usually have virgins,
97 And masculine urgin's,
98 And other erotic effects.
101 See how it runs! See how it runs!
102 Its monitor loses so totally!
103 It runs all its programs in RPG!
104 It's made by our favorite monopoly!
107 There once was a girl named Irene
108 Who lived on distilled kerosene
109 But she started absorbin'
111 And since then has never benzene.
113 There once was a member of Mensa
114 Who was a most excellent fencer.
115 The sword that he used
116 Was his -- (line is refused,
117 And has now been removed by the censor).
119 There once was an old man from Esser,
120 Who's knowledge grew lesser and lesser.
121 It at last grew so small,
122 He knew nothing at all,
123 And now he's a College Professor.
125 There was a young lady from Hyde
126 Who ate a green apple and died.
127 While her lover lamented
129 And made cider inside her inside.
131 There was a young lady from Niger
132 Who smiled as she rode on a tiger;
133 They returned from the ride
134 With the lady inside,
135 And the smile on the face of the tiger.
137 There was a young man who said "God,
138 I find it exceedingly odd,
139 That the willow oak tree
141 When there's no one about in the Quad."
143 "Dear Sir, your astonishment's odd,
144 For I'm always about in the Quad;
145 And that's why the tree,
147 Signed "Yours faithfully, God."
149 There was a young poet named Dan,
150 Whose poetry never would scan.
151 When told this was so,
152 He said, "Yes, I know.
153 It's because I try to put every possible syllable into that last line that I can."
155 A computer called Illiac4
156 Had a rather tough bug in its core.
157 It chewed up its cards
158 And spewed yards and yards
159 Of illegible tape on the floor.