Tuesday, September 29, 2009

doggerel

Ⓡ is for Rhinoceros,
Ⓢ is for his Snout,
Ⓣ is for the Trampoline on which he romps about.

Ⓤ is for his Underside;
Ⓥ's the Vest he wears,
and Ⓦ's the Woolen thread to mend it if he tears.

Ⓧ is for the Xerox which he likes to play,
Ⓨ is for the Yellow spot that always comes out gray,
and Ⓩ is for the Zero; there is nothing more to say.

- Anon

2 comments:

Arthur C. Rown said...

I don't believe that's by Anon. I think it's by Ø.

empty said...

I did not mean to imply that I am unaware of the authorship, but rather that I will give you the other seventeen twentysixths of it anon.

In fact, it was not authored by any one person

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I am a professor of mathematics. (I began calling myself "Empty" or Ø when hanging around at blogs, because I am somewhat fixated on the empty set. Students and colleagues know that I can be a bit of an ancient mariner about it.)