Science Limericks

As Thanksgiving weekend draws to a close, I’m thankful for family and friends, for the fact I can make a career out of songwriting, for improv lessons, for a new residency starting Monday at Sangre Ridge, and for readers of this blog - particularly the reader who isn’t a web-crawling robot. You know who you are. Thank you!

Running short on time this week, I dug into my archives to see what I might have to share. Here are four limericks I wrote about science. Kids if you don’t get the chemistry one, your parents will explain. Someday.

Cosmic Controversy

Once Pluto was known as a planet

But IAU voted to ban it

The scientists found

Their decision was sound

Still the critics are happy to pan it!

Ho Hum Mums

There once was a love-smitten botanist 

Whose girlfriend was really the rottenest

The blooms he designed her

Were one of a kind. Her

Response: All these plants are monotonous!

Negative Chemistry

A chemist out cruising for action

Was hard-pressed to stir a reaction

Till he said to a blonde

Let's co-valently bond

Now the poor man is strung up in traction!

Science According to Monty Python

I may only be a beginner

But this theory of mine is a winner

Brontosaurus is thin

When you start at one end

Then gets thick in the middle, then thinner

Let me know what you think. Post your own!