My daughter had me read half the collected poetry of Spike Milligan to her last night - which starts with Ning Nang Nong and rapidly descends into silliness.

So today by brain has been filled with limericks and doggerel, and I see no reason why I should suffer alone. Here are some sf/fantasy themed ones.

On nanotech
Nanotech has dangers innate
With particles that replicate
A world of grey goo
Is coming, it’s true!
So build rockets and evacuate

The Singularity
Tomorrow may bring singularity
What that means none can say with much clarity
But thinking machines
Won’t need human genes
So we’d better all pray for their charity

No nibbles tonight!
The vampire hunted for blood
‘Neath the flickering gaslamp he stood
Flashed his fangs at a maid
Who slapped him and said
“No more pricks, I’m not in the mood!”

Alien love story
Two astronauts stuck on a moon
Sad Sindy and Harry the loon
He longed for her crater
She promised him “Later”
Then fled with an alien baboon

Alien love story II: Love Harder
The brave young spaceman Malone
Flew to Venus all on his own
Those Venusian ladies
Were hot for his babies
But under pressure his chances were blown

Ode to the Enterprise
Starfleet built some starships called Enterprise
For each captain they had one a different size
Archer’s was quite small
Picard’s largest of all
But it was Kirk that got all the green ladies’ sighs

Sorry.

Posted April 3, 2008 Comments(1)