More Amusing Entries Received In Limerick Contest
Chances of Winning $300 Are Still Good
Submit Now Before March 30 Deadline
We have received more entries in our limerick contest
announced in January. The idea behind our limerick contest is to write
the definition of a common word in epidemiology which weaves a joke
into an accurate description of the word’s meaning.
Readers are encouraged to create a humorous limerick
definition for any epidemiology related word of their choice. Some
entries have been submitted without indicating clearly which word is
being defined, so please provide that information. Sometimes the word
or phrase being defined is obvious, but not always.
A limerick, according to Dictionary.com is a kind of
humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth
lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are
shorter, form a rhymed couplet.
The definition judged
to be the most clever, humorous, and still accurate will receive a
$300 prize. The deadline for submitting entries to
epimon@aol.com
is March 30, 2018. All entries must be original and not obtained from
other published sources. Each entry should provide the word being
defined in the limerick.
The following are additional samples of the limericks
we have received so far. These are some of the contest limericks you
have to beat to win!
Intervention
Consider
the term “intervention,”
The opposite of inattention:
In short, what you do
Once you’ve processed the clue,
While avoiding a show of pretension.
IBS
Disease
A woman
with “ibs” can’t control it;
She stays off her bed lest she soil it.
So to take all the guess
Out of gastric distress,
She spends all her days on the toilet.
Health
My doc
declared smoking is barred:
I should stop or my lungs will be scarred.
Then he said with a wheeze
"The solution's a breeze...
It’s just the commitment that's hard."
Confounding!
Extra!
Extra! Of coffee beware!
Causing a huge pancreas cancer scare!
But what of smoking cigs,
Often paired with java swigs?
The real culprit confounded, no fair!
Untitled
When P
values have shown you lubricity
You may suffer from heteroscedasticity
If your rho is too large
Say ‘GEE’ and take charge,
And that should restore your felicity!
Epidemiology
There once was a Science called
Epidemiology
Statistical results, they make no apology
The distribution and determinants
Ever changing, never permanent
Then followed the trends and looked to defend
All random outcomes through information bias.
Epidemic
It’s more than expected given the past
It’s rife, it’s grim, everyone’s aghast
The egg salad is to blame
Picnics won’t be the same
Let’s just hope this one ends fast.
TB
A
world free of TB is our mission
It’s a disease that’s the worst of conditions
We won’t ever stop
Til we can shout from rooftops:
“No more need for Red Snapper physicians!”
Untitled
We Epis are often
called gumshoes
Tho’ cocktail parties will sometimes confuse
At the mention of skin
We just have to grin
And creepy rash diagnoses refuse.
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