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Example

Must think of a better example. The metre is wrong on the current one -- Tarquin

Is it better after taking out the vandalism from a couple months ago? --Brion

Much. I obviously didn't read that closely... it's pre-breakfast in my time zone :-) -- Tarquin

Quotations

Those two references about the name, currently reference 1 and 2, are, judging by references on the web, from the fascicle containing the L, 1898, from the Oxford Dictionary 1928 edition. What is it that has to be referenced about Sumer is icumen in, currently the third reference, which has its own page? Mysha

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Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 13:37, 8 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Why is there a " { " at the top of the talk page?

I just noticed this and I was like hmmmmmm? Frittle (talk) 14:09, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I wondered where I'd dropped that. Fixed now. Cheers, BlackcurrantTea (talk) 19:36, 19 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Frittle (talk) 13:38, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Algebra

The successive algebraic simplifications of the mathematical limerick is rather unencyclopedic, isn't it? The limerick stands well on it's own, and explicitly performing the calculations seems like WP:OR. —St.Nerol (talk, contribs) 13:14, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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 Those two references about the name, currently reference 1 and 2, are, judging by references on the web, from the fascicle containing the L, 1898, from the Oxford Dictionary 1928 edition. What is it that has to be referenced about [[Sumer is icumen in]], currently the third reference, which has its own page? [[User:Mysha (nl)|Mysha]]
+== A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion ==
-== Meta-limericks ==
+The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion:
+* [[commons:File:Limerick on the walls of Limerick.jpg|Limerick on the walls of Limerick.jpg]]<!-- COMMONSBOT: discussion | 2023-02-08T13:37:33.185718 | Limerick on the walls of Limerick.jpg -->
-there should be a section on meta-limericks, that is, limericks about limericks
+Participate in the deletion discussion at the [[commons:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Limerick on the walls of Limerick.jpg|nomination page]]. —[[User:Community Tech bot|Community Tech bot]] ([[User talk:Community Tech bot|talk]]) 13:37, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
-meter isn't right on this one, but:
-:There was an old Limerick with the flu,
-:Who lived with his zebra and gnu.
-:And here's a verse
-:even worse than the first;
-:He thought he was a haiku.
-This one is meta in the sense that it's a template limerick ([[Special:Contributions/73.53.44.165|73.53.44.165]] ([[User talk:73.53.44.165|talk]]) 03:16, 17 February 2014 (UTC)):
-:There once was an entity E
-:That satisfied predicate P.
-:  It performed action A
-:  In a specified way,
-:Resulting in circumstance C.
-== More Anti Lyrics ==
-Found these
-:A newspaper poet for Hearst
-:Deprived of his reason
-:By uncontrolled sneezing
-:Was by phantasmal demons coerced
-:To write all of his limericks reversed.
-:A very sad poet was Jenny,
-:her Limericks weren't worth a penny.
-:In technique they were sound
-:but in practice she found
-:that whenever she tried to write any,
-:they always had on line too many.
-:This Limerick is copyright (©)
-:By the author, 1983.
-:Prior written consent
-:Is required to present
-:It on radio, film, or TV.
-:if ( i =  t^2 + e)
-:& (e = 14 + 3)
-:Then i > pi
-:& e > i
-:& (e/pi) i 4 t
-Pronounced:
-:if i equals t squared plus e
-:and e equals forteen plus three
-:then i is greater than pi
-:and e is greater then i
-:and e divides pi by i for t
-(Hmm ...
-:t^2 must be greater than naught
-:if t is aught other than aught,
-:and forteen plus three
-:is the value of e,
-:so this needs a little more thought.
-... [[Special:Contributions/73.53.44.165|73.53.44.165]] ([[User talk:73.53.44.165|talk]]) 04:50, 17 February 2014 (UTC))
-:There once was a fellow from Xiangling
-:China. Whose delight was in mangling
-:Poems. He would drop
-:Words between lines and lop
-:Their ends off, and leave readers dang
-:A lady whose name was McCord
-:Once over this limerick pored
-:To find the evil design
-:Hidden in the last line
-:But alas, she could not see the
+== Why is there a " { " at the top of the talk page? ==
-:A cardiac patient named Fred
-:Made a limerick up in his head.
-:But before he had time
-:To write down the last line
-:He died!!  <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/115.117.78.208|115.117.78.208]] ([[User talk:115.117.78.208|talk]]) 07:32, 20 February 2014 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
-::Alternatively, to maintain the limerick's meter: "The poor little bastard was dead." [[Special:Contributions/142.177.218.134|142.177.218.134]] ([[User talk:142.177.218.134|talk]]) 23:59, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
-:::Which would, however, completely kill the joke. - [[User:DavidWBrooks|DavidWBrooks]] ([[User talk:DavidWBrooks|talk]]) 11:02, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
+I just noticed this and I was like hmmmmmm? [[User:Frittle|Frittle]] ([[User talk:Frittle|talk]]) 14:09, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
-=="Limerick"==
-The usage of [[Limerick]] is under discussion, see [[Talk:Limerick]] -- [[Special:Contributions/70.24.250.103|70.24.250.103]] ([[User talk:70.24.250.103|talk]]) 22:37, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
+:I wondered where I'd dropped that. Fixed now. Cheers, [[User:BlackcurrantTea|BlackcurrantTea]] ([[User talk:BlackcurrantTea|talk]]) 19:36, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
+::Thanks! [[User:Frittle|Frittle]] ([[User talk:Frittle|talk]]) 13:38, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
+== Algebra ==
-== Analysis of Gilbert example ==
+The successive algebraic simplifications of the mathematical limerick is rather unencyclopedic, isn't it? The limerick stands well on it's own, and explicitly performing the calculations seems like [[WP:OR]]. —[[User:St.nerol|St.Nerol]] ([[User talk:St.nerol|talk]], [[Special:Contributions/(St.nerol)|contribs]]) 13:14, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
-In respect to the Gilbert example is it worth mentioning that an upper-class affectation at the time pronounced "doesn't" as "don't" (so that lines 3 and 4 nearly rhyme), and that while 1, 2, and 5 do not rhyme all end with a hymenopteran?  <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/72.94.110.44|72.94.110.44]] ([[User talk:72.94.110.44|talk]]) 23:27, 16 October 2014 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->