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Challenged to find a rhyme for GHz, I arrived, with a little help, at the following Limerick.
With WiMAX there's too many GHz
Said Sue who wears very little skirts
Across the Seven Seas
There are eight frequencies
For designers that's the bit that hurts.
OK, it's not Wordsworth, but he never even tried to find a rhyme for GHz.
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Come on, you must know the song King's Lead Hat by Brian Eno from "Before and After Science"?
"In New Delhi (smelly Delhi) and Hong Kong
They all know that it won't be long
I count my fingers (digit counter) as night falls
And draw bananas on the bathroom walls
The kilocycles (humdrum), the kilohertz
The passage of my life is measured out in shirts
Time and motion (motion carried) time and tide
All I know and all I have is time
And time and tide is on my side"
Now, admittedly kHz isn't quite the same as GHz, but the rhymey bit's the same.
Or you could have
An oscilloscope jockey named Grace
Said "Fast RF wipes the smile from my face.
At ten gigahertz
My trig finger hurtz
And my waveform has vanished sans trace"
My favourite limerick along those lines is:
Marconi, whose ardour was tireless,
Sat down and invented the wireless
This proved very soon
To be a great boon
For people in towns that were choirless
R
Posted by Rupert Goodwins | May 21, 2007 4:33 PM
Posted on May 21, 2007 16:33