The Annals of Improbable Research‘s newsletter version — and check out its new blog — is running a limerick contest:

Investigator Steven Slap recommends that we recommend the book “Fundamentals of Microanalytical Entomology: A Practical Guide to Detecting and Identifying Filth in Foods,” by Alan R. Olsen, Thomas H. Sidebottom and Sherry A. Knight.

We commend Investigator Slap for his recommendation, and recommend that, for conversational purposes, everyone refer to the book as “Sidebottom’s classic ‘Fundamentals of Microanalytical Entomology: A Practical Guide to Detecting and Identifying Filth in Foods.'”

Readers who have read the book (which we have not) are invited to submit limericks in tribute to it or to specific portions of it. We will publish the best of these either here in mini-AIR or on the WHAT’S NEW blog (see below).

Here’s my entry:

The book by Sidebottom is lunch-
Time reading for a scary bunch
    Who look into their meal
    With a bug-eyéd zeal
And savor its every crunch.

You can send your entry to:

FILTH-IN-FOODS PAEANS
c/o [email protected]

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