This month’s limerick competition held by the Annals of Improbabl Research asks us to write a limerick illustrating the nature of the following report:

Discrimination in Vitro Between the Acoustic Emissions fromBjork-Shiley Convexo-Concave Valves With and Without a Broken Minor Strut,” Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing,D. K. Walker and L. N. Scotten, vol. 29, no. 5, September 1991, pp. 457-64. <http://tinyurl.com/2cyoqk>

I don’t have the slightest idea what that’s about, but it hasn’t stopped me from composing a limerick to explain it:

When Bjork blew her valves in a huff,
Shiley had absorbed surely enough.
He emitted a wave:
“I’m convexo-concave,
“So kindly stop strutting your stuff.”

Any sense it makes is purely coincidental — Holy crap! It sounds smutty! Totally unintentional! (Yeah, sure, Dr. Freud) — but you have to admit that it rhymes. [Tags: limericks humor bjork_shiley]

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