Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 01:21:47 -0800 From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Obscene Content Tiebreaker Message-ID: <20050107092146.GA2588@efn.org> References: <41DE4A65.5050103@hones.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41DE4A65.5050103@hones.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: bs"d X-IsSubscribed: yes On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:37:57AM +0000, Cliff Hones wrote: > Kaz Kylheku wrote: > > >> A twit hit a free software mailing list. > >> On censoring fortune he did insist. > >> ``Can't have limericks about ******* and *****!'' > >> A few clicks Googled him out a masochist! > > I don't think this is a limerick, though, which rather > spoils the joke. > > A limerick has 5 lines with a metre as follows: > > De dah dah de dah dah de dah > De dah dah de dah dah de dah > De dah dah dah dah > De dah dah dah dah > De dah dah de dah dah de dah I read up on the history of limericks a few years ago, and the whole form is actually fairly new. IIRC, the now-standard 5 line presentation was preceeded by looser 4 or 5 line forms. But the above doesn't read well; perhaps: ``'Bout ******* and *****, can't have limericks!'' Googling soon found him to be a masochist. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/