Discussion: Orienteering Research Limerick
in: Orienteering; General
May 30, 2007 11:54 AM
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RJM:
The Annals of Improbable Research holds a limerick competition that uses particularly intriguing scientific journal articles as their inspriation. The contest this month involves Orienteering.
Here is the result (I like the last one best):
2007-05-10 Orienteer-Trampling Poets
The judges have chosen co-winners for last month's Orienteer-
Trampling Limerick Competition, which asked for a limerick to
honor the following study:
"Trampling by Orienteers on Downed Spruce Logs in a Woodland Key Habitat in Northern Sweden,"
P. Bader, C. Fries, and B.-G. Jonsson, Scientific Journal of Orienteering, vol. 14, 1998, pp. 4-12.
Co-winner LEILA HADJ-CHIKH writes:
A Swede in the spruce slowly slogs,
A compass directing his clogs.
When finding his way,
The scientists pray,
He's minding to step over logs.
Co-winner RON FOSTER writes:
Wild creatures will live in and breed in
The spruce logs in far northern Sweden.
But after some beers,
The orienteers
Will have those logs trampled and peed in.
And here is the latest from Limerick Laureate MARTIN EIGER:
The evidence given is ample.
A single statistical sample
Alleviates fears
That orienteers
Cause damage to logs when they trample.
(full issue of this newsletter available here: http://www.improbable.com/airchives/miniair/2007/m...)
Here is the result (I like the last one best):
2007-05-10 Orienteer-Trampling Poets
The judges have chosen co-winners for last month's Orienteer-
Trampling Limerick Competition, which asked for a limerick to
honor the following study:
"Trampling by Orienteers on Downed Spruce Logs in a Woodland Key Habitat in Northern Sweden,"
P. Bader, C. Fries, and B.-G. Jonsson, Scientific Journal of Orienteering, vol. 14, 1998, pp. 4-12.
Co-winner LEILA HADJ-CHIKH writes:
A Swede in the spruce slowly slogs,
A compass directing his clogs.
When finding his way,
The scientists pray,
He's minding to step over logs.
Co-winner RON FOSTER writes:
Wild creatures will live in and breed in
The spruce logs in far northern Sweden.
But after some beers,
The orienteers
Will have those logs trampled and peed in.
And here is the latest from Limerick Laureate MARTIN EIGER:
The evidence given is ample.
A single statistical sample
Alleviates fears
That orienteers
Cause damage to logs when they trample.
(full issue of this newsletter available here: http://www.improbable.com/airchives/miniair/2007/m...)
May 30, 2007 5:17 PM
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They did not choose my entry, which I reproduce here for your poetry enjoyment. I am not sure either the winners or the limerick laureate read the abstract from SciJO:
On moss-covered logs made of spruce
Three Swedes looked for signs of abuse.
Orienteers trampled
the logs parts they'd sampled.
Just five per cent bark had come loose.
On moss-covered logs made of spruce
Three Swedes looked for signs of abuse.
Orienteers trampled
the logs parts they'd sampled.
Just five per cent bark had come loose.
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