Comments on: A limerick for the Higgs boson http://boingboing.net/2011/12/06/a-limerick-for-the-higgs-boson.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 22 May 2013 11:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: David Niall Wilson http://boingboing.net/2011/12/06/a-limerick-for-the-higgs-boson.html#comment-1288620 David Niall Wilson Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:35:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=133002#comment-1288620 I would have hoped that - the meter of poetry being mathematical and all - that the limerick could at least be proper.  So they have a collidor at Cern, With which they have hopes they will learn, If a particle's God, And if so, well, how odd But, I honestly don't give a durn. I would have hoped that – the meter of poetry being mathematical and all – that the limerick could at least be proper. 

So they have a collidor at Cern,
With which they have hopes they will learn,
If a particle’s God,
And if so, well, how odd
But, I honestly don’t give a durn.

]]> By: Oliver Schmieding http://boingboing.net/2011/12/06/a-limerick-for-the-higgs-boson.html#comment-1288549 Oliver Schmieding Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:21:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=133002#comment-1288549 meanwhile, in the "the glass is half empty" department: in the quest to discover the boson i presume that the year is a close one when we'll finally find that the last of it's kind long ago died from mass - ive exhaustion meanwhile, in the “the glass is half empty” department:

in the quest to discover the boson
i presume that the year is a close one
when we’ll finally find
that the last of it’s kind
long ago died from mass – ive exhaustion

]]> By: rabidpotatochip http://boingboing.net/2011/12/06/a-limerick-for-the-higgs-boson.html#comment-1288464 rabidpotatochip Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:21:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=133002#comment-1288464 There once was a lab we called CERN and their goal was simply to learn the cause of the mass in your mother's large ass Yes, you read one that right.  Burn! There once was a lab we called CERN
and their goal was simply to learn
the cause of the mass
in your mother’s large ass
Yes, you read one that right.  Burn!

]]> By: Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/2011/12/06/a-limerick-for-the-higgs-boson.html#comment-1288423 Maggie Koerth-Baker Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:52:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=133002#comment-1288423 I appreciate your efforts to make a limerick about the Higgs Boson at least vaguely dirty. Good show, sir.  I appreciate your efforts to make a limerick about the Higgs Boson at least vaguely dirty. Good show, sir. 

]]> By: elk_l http://boingboing.net/2011/12/06/a-limerick-for-the-higgs-boson.html#comment-1288421 elk_l Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:49:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=133002#comment-1288421 It's derived from the electroweak And should appear with an LHC tweak, But with this Higg's boson They might be stringing us on With another unconfirmed leak. It’s derived from the electroweak

And should appear with an LHC tweak,

But with this Higg’s boson

They might be stringing us on

With another unconfirmed leak.

]]> By: Adam Kruckenberg http://boingboing.net/2011/12/06/a-limerick-for-the-higgs-boson.html#comment-1288407 Adam Kruckenberg Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:42:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=133002#comment-1288407 The Higgs Boson might give us mass, So I hope that this doesn't sound crass. Very soon we will hear, If they've found it this year. But this search is a pain in the ... The Higgs Boson might give us mass,
So I hope that this doesn’t sound crass.
Very soon we will hear,
If they’ve found it this year.
But this search is a pain in the …

]]> By: jinty http://boingboing.net/2011/12/06/a-limerick-for-the-higgs-boson.html#comment-1288399 jinty Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:34:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=133002#comment-1288399 Ow the scansion. How about They claimed that when LHC goes on They'd soon see that e-lusive boson We soon hope to hear That's CERN's found it this year But it's not something I'd bet five doll-ars on Ow the scansion. How about

They claimed that when LHC goes on
They’d soon see that e-lusive boson
We soon hope to hear
That’s CERN’s found it this year
But it’s not something I’d bet five doll-ars on

]]> By: schadenfreudisch http://boingboing.net/2011/12/06/a-limerick-for-the-higgs-boson.html#comment-1288387 schadenfreudisch Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:23:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=133002#comment-1288387 i had higher hopes for a limerick about the sexiest physics running. and yet, here i sit pelting it with slingshots instead of writing my own.  congratulations on your nobel prize, at least. i had higher hopes for a limerick about the sexiest physics running.

and yet, here i sit pelting it with slingshots instead of writing my own.  congratulations on your nobel prize, at least.

]]> By: OldBrownSquirrel http://boingboing.net/2011/12/06/a-limerick-for-the-higgs-boson.html#comment-1288372 OldBrownSquirrel Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:12:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=133002#comment-1288372 I guess the physics departments haven't been teaching poetic meter. I guess the physics departments haven’t been teaching poetic meter.

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