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-A UNIX saleslady, Lenore,
-Enjoys work, but she likes the beach more.
-	She found a good way
-	To combine work and play:
-She sells C shells by the seashore.
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-A computer, to print out a fact,
-Will divide, multiply, and subtract.
-	But this output can be
-	No more than debris,
-If the input was short of exact.
-		-- Gigo
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-A crusader's wife slipped from the garrison
-And had an affair with a Saracen.
-	She was not oversexed,
-	Or jealous or vexed,
-She just wanted to make a comparison.
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-A dozen, a gross, and a score,
-Plus three times the square root of four,
-	Divided by seven,
-	Plus five times eleven,
-Equals nine squared plus zero, no more.
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-A dreary young bank clerk named Fennis
-Wished to foster an aura of menace;
-	To make people afraid
-	He wore gloves of grey suede
-And white footgear intended for tennis.
-		-- Edward Gorey
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-A hacker who screwed a mag tape
-Was caught and convicted of rape.
-	To jail he did go,
-	From which, to his woe
-He couldn't get out with ESC.
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-A limerick packs laughs anatomical
-Into space that is quite economical.
-	But the good ones I've seen
-	So seldom are clean,
-And the clean ones so seldom are comical.
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-A linguist thought it a farce
-That memory space was so sparse.
-	One day they increased it.
-	Said he as he seized it:
-"At last! Enough core for the parse".
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-A new dramatist of the absurd
-Has a voice that will shortly be heard.
-	I learn from my spies
-	He's about to devise
-An unprintable three-letter word.
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-A progressive professor named Winners
-Held classes each evening for sinners.
-	They were graded and spaced
-	So the vile and debased
-Would not be held back by beginners.
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-A very intelligent turtle
-Found programming UNIX a hurdle
-	The system, you see,
-	Ran as slow as did he,
-And that's not saying much for the turtle.
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-A wonderful bird is the pelican.
-His mouth can hold more than his belican.
-	He can take in his beak
-	Enough food for a week.
-And I'm darned if I know how the helican.
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-Despising machines to a man,
-The Luddites joined up with the Klan,
-	And ride out by night
-	In a sheeting of white
-To lynch all the robots they can.
-		-- C. M. and G. A. Maxson
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-Flappity, floppity, flip
-The mouse on the m"obius strip;
-	The strip revolved,
-	The mouse dissolved
-In a chronodimensional skip.
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-If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker,
-It is slick to stick a lock upon your stock.
-	Or some joker who is slicker,
-	Will trick you of your liquor,
-If you fail to lock your liquor with a lock.
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-Limericks are art forms complex,
-Their topics run chiefly to sex.
-	They usually have virgins,
-	And masculine urgin's,
-And other erotic effects.
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-System/3!  System/3!
-See how it runs!  See how it runs!
-	Its monitor loses so totally!
-	It runs all its programs in RPG!
-	It's made by our favorite monopoly!
-System/3!
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-There once was a girl named Irene
-Who lived on distilled kerosene
-	But she started absorbin'
-	A new hydrocarbon
-And since then has never benzene.
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-There once was a member of Mensa
-Who was a most excellent fencer.
-	The sword that he used
-	Was his -- (line is refused,
-And has now been removed by the censor).
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-There once was an old man from Esser,
-Who's knowledge grew lesser and lesser.
-	It at last grew so small,
-	He knew nothing at all,
-And now he's a College Professor.
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-There was a young lady from Hyde
-Who ate a green apple and died.
-	While her lover lamented
-	The apple fermented
-And made cider inside her inside.
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-There was a young lady from Niger
-Who smiled as she rode on a tiger;
-	They returned from the ride
-	With the lady inside,
-And the smile on the face of the tiger.
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-There was a young man who said "God,
-I find it exceedingly odd,
-	That the willow oak tree
-	Continues to be,
-When there's no one about in the Quad."
-
-"Dear Sir, your astonishment's odd,
-For I'm always about in the Quad;
-	And that's why the tree,
-	Continues to be,"
-Signed "Yours faithfully, God."
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-There was a young poet named Dan,
-Whose poetry never would scan.
-	When told this was so,
-	He said, "Yes, I know.
-It's because I try to put every possible syllable into that last line that I can."
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-A computer called Illiac4
-Had a rather tough bug in its core.
-	It chewed up its cards
-	And spewed yards and yards
-Of illegible tape on the floor.
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