veach@ukans.CSNET (Glenn Veach) (10/03/86)
gleaned from the pages of CANADIAN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE September 1986 No. 9 page 6 ---------------------------------------------------------- AI Limericks by Henry Kautz University of Rochester *** *** If you're dull as a napkin, don't sigh; Make your name as a "deep" sort of guy. You just have to crib, see Any old book by Kripke And publish in AAAI. *** *** A hacker who studied ontology Was famed for his sense of frivolity. When his program inferred That Clyde is a bird He blamed not his code but zoology. *** *** If your thesis is utterly vacuous Use first-order predicate calculus. With sufficient formality The sheerist banality Will be hailed by the critics: "Miraculous!" If your thesis is quite indefensible Reach for semantics intensional. Your committee will stammer Over Montague grammar Not admitting it's incomprehensible. *** ***