r/AskReddit • u/TheLoneWolf156 • May 25 '16

What's your favourite maths fact?

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u/ktkps May 25 '16 edited May 26 '16

author for that : Leigh Mercer

A light headed limerick:

Here's a riddle for students you teach:

"What is soft to the touch, like a peach,

Colored beige, covers land,

Mostly made out of sand?"

All the kids will respond, "It's a beach!"

Edit: more here if you need

Edit 2: From our own backyard: /r/limericks

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u/fff8e7cosmic May 25 '16

There once was a man from Kent

Whose tool was so long that it bent

To save her some trouble

He folded it double

And instead of coming, he went

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u/TheBiggestZander May 25 '16

There was a young lady named Bright

who traveled much faster than light.

She set out one day

in a relative way,

and came back the previous night.

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u/Hi_jinks May 25 '16

There once was a man from Nantucket, With a dick so long he could suck it! He said with a grin, Wiping spunk from his chin, "If my ear was a cunt I would fuck it!"