Limericks

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Anonymous

Anonymous The Era of Boredom There once was an internet forum That had lost all its style and decorum. Running out of ideas To prompt laughter and tears In its readers, it opted to bore ‘em. A piece of advice There once was a critic, who said “As a means of boring us dead You couldn’t do worse Than to choose comic verse. Give it up! Write crime fiction instead.” 1729 - a dull number, said Hardy in his slumber? But no! said Ramanujan You’ve missed the solution: it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.

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