Limericks

I've been addicted to limericks these past few days. They are simple fun, so I can write three in a lunchbreak! Because I'm not compelled by any standard of quality, here are a few of my pieces. Special thanks to Aaron Philby and The Medicated Cartoonist for their excellent work.

The mathematician Euler
was near blind far-sighted toiler.
He wrote with great haste,
but without making waste,
his mind as hot as a broiler!

alternate poem for english speakers:

Sitting the with his ruler
is the mathematician Euler.
Invisible to his eye
are gamma, sigma, and pi,
but to me there isn't anything cooler!

Euler's Student Lagrange,
Also covered a range.
His work in mechanics
cleaned up the antics
of many a model most strangeRichard Phillips Feynman,
liked to wine and dine them.
He'd meet a nice girl,
they'd go for a twirl,
digging those intellectual mines inMurray Gell-Mann discovered the quark,
Using the time honored method "hard work".
He now studies complexity
and adaptivity-
He certainly has made his mark!

I've fallen into a rut;
my poems just don't make the cut.
I start with a name
then play a game,
and never do anything butThere lives a man named Eddie Fizgerald,
a cartoonist/philosopher/actor/and/herald.
Well maybe he's never acted in a movie,
but he's done something equally groovy:
he's always been Eddie FitzgeraldIn Britain, on medication,
lives a maker of animation
He draws a cartoon
as he stares at the moon,
and thinks about emigration

This next poem was a tough one.
But pi is just way too much fun!
The number is gentle,
but quite trancendental
and the rhyming's a son of a gun.

The π sits a mite amazingly,
on adders shock and typey.
Ignoring beginners,
for to see againers
find novels of brains idly

I bid my readers adieu,
though I'll soon get back to you.
I have no gift for rhyme
and even less time!
And I'm trying to start posts anew!