This is, no kidding, a Limerick composed in real time at our NSF Messenger workshop in Lincoln, Nebraska, by asking the audience to come up with successive lines and rhymes:
There once was a workshop in Lincoln
That got all the scientists thinkin’
They learned how to Tweet
And to think on their feet.
And to get their communications synchin’
March 9th, 2011 at 2:31 pm
This what happens when you mash science and poetry. . .
But it was fun!
March 9th, 2011 at 3:19 pm
Is it a contest? What’s the subject?
March 9th, 2011 at 3:28 pm
At extremely high velocity. That’s why Limericks are a great science communication exercise (even if PG rated, as this one is)
March 9th, 2011 at 4:44 pm
“And to get their communications synchin’”
Too bad, scans with one too many feet.
Still pretty good though.
March 21st, 2011 at 12:20 pm
The last line would scan well with “communiqués” instead of “communications”.