Dirty Word Usage Winner, Active Nonsense-Mediated Competition
From the marvelous mini-Annals of Improbable Research (”mini-AIR”), June edition:
2010-06-06 Dirty Word Usage Poet
The judges have chosen a winner in the Dirty Word Usage Limerick
Competition, which asked for a limerick to honor the study “Sex
Roles and Dirty Word Usage: A Review of the Literature and a
Reply to Haas,” Timothy B. Jay, Psychological Bulletin, vol. 88,
no. 3, November 1980, pp. 614-21. http://bit.ly/9BqtWU
The winner is INVESTIGATOR John Jermey who wrote:
I wrote a love letter to Brenda;
I phrased it in accents so tender.
But now I’m in jail
And they’ve just refused bail,
‘Cos profanity varies with gender.
Here’s the offering from LIMERICK LAUREATE MARTIN EIGER:
Which sex uses dirty words more?
Women? Men? Both the same? What’s the score?
She says same. He says men.
Who is right? Then again,
Were it men, he’d have called her a whore.
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2010-06-07 Active Nonsense-Mediated Competition
Now-old new insights into nonsense inspire this month’s limerick
competition. To enter, compose an original limerick that
illuminates the nature of this report:
“New Insights into the Formation of Active Nonsense-Mediated Decay
Complexes,” Guramrit Singh and Jens Lykke-Andersen, Trends in
Biochemical Sciences, vol. 28, no. 9, September 2003, pp. 464-6.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0968-0004(03)00176-2 The authors are at
the University of Colorado at Boulder.
RULES: Please make sure that: (1) your rhymes actually do; and
(2) your poem is in classic, trills-off-the-tongue limerick form.
PRIZE: The winning poet will receive (if we manage to send it to the
correct address) a free, perhaps high-res PDF issue of the
Annals of Improbable Research. Send entries (one entry per entrant) to:
ACTIVE NONSENSE-MEDIATED LIMERICK COMPETITION
c/o marca AT improbable.com