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- From: Roger.Firestone@f10.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Roger Firestone)
- Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
- Path: sparky!uunet!blkcat!Uucp
- Newsgroups: sci.misc
- Subject: Request for Limericks
- Message-ID: <714099686.F00001@blkcat.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 18:46:00 -0500
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- A mathematician named Klein
- Thought the Moebius strip was divine.
- He said, "If you glue
- The edges of two,
- You get a weird bottle like mine."
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- A burlecue dancer, a pip,
- Named Virginia, could peel in a zip.
- But she read science fiction
- And died of constriction
- Attempting a Moebius strip.
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- (The second may be credited to Clifton Fadiman's _Fantasia Mathematica_, which
- is where I first saw it. I have no idea of attribution for the first.)
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- Roger M. Firestone ("I'm not a mathematician/computer scientist, I'm an
- unemployed actor.")
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