May 12th is #NationalLimerickDay! If you saw our Valentine’s Day poem, you know we at SAS Press love creating poems and fun rhymes, so check out our limericks below!
So, what’s a limerick?
National Limerick Day is observed each year on May 12th and honors the birthday of the famed English artist, illustrator, author and poet Edward Lear (May 12, 1812 – Jan. 29, 1888). Lear’s poetry is most famous for its nonsense or absurdity, and mostly consists of prose and limericks.
His book, “Book of Nonsense,” published in 1846 popularized the limerick poem.
A limerick poem has five lines and is often very short, humorous, and full of nonsense. To create a limerick the first two lines must rhyme with the fifth line, and the third and fourth lines rhyme together. The limerick’s rhythm is officially described as anapestic meter.
To celebrate, we want to ask all lovers of SAS books to enjoy the limericks written by us and to see if you can create your own! Can you top our limericks on our love for SAS Books? Check out our handy how-to limerick links below.
Our limericks
There once was a software named SAS
helping tons of analysts complete tasks.
a Text Analytics book to extract meaning as data flies by
and a Portfolio and Investment Analysis book so you’ll never go awry.
You know our SAS books are first-class!
We enjoyed meeting our awesome users at SAS Global Forum
who enjoy our books with true decorum.
a SAS Administration book on building from the ground up
and a new book about PROC SQL you need to pick-up.
Checkout our SAS books today, you’ll adore ‘em!
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Resources:
Wiki-How: How to Write A Limerick
Limerick Generator: Create a Limerick in Seconds
17 Comments
Love your post Hannah!
There once was an author who knew
SAS stuff for others to view
He wrote it all down
Verbs and many a noun
And away SAS users it blew.
Love this Kathy!
Also I love the limerick @SAS_cares replied with on Twitter... https://twitter.com/SAS_Cares/status/1126960928216498177
Your original limericks inspired us, so we had to give it a go:
There is a SAS expert Michelle
Who knows all things SAS very well
She’s quite a terror
At fixing SAS errors
And the code she writes never will smell!
#BOOM #NotTooShabby #NationalLimerickDay #SASPress
SAS_Cares always comes back with the good ones!
Reading your post reminds me of the Limerick we wrote driving through Limerick, Ireland - https://twitter.com/HomesAtMetacoda/status/1007982111754604544
There once was a koala called Kate,
Who liked to run proc tabulate.
Others say “try report”;
So she would retort “Not the way I code, mate”
This made me laugh - I want to meet this Kate!
If I may be permitted a bit of self-promotion, here is my contribution:
There once was a SAS book called "little"
That really was more in the middle
Too big for a poem
Too small for a tome
Made it just right for solving code riddles!
Also, I'm pretty sure that Lora Delwiche and I are the only SAS Press authors who ever wrote a poem for our books. It's not a limerick, but we included this homage to our editor, Stephenie Joyner, in the Acknowledgements section of our books for SAS Enterprise Guide 3.0 and 4.1:
And now to our editor,
we specially credit her
patience and humor.
They're not just a rumor.
With Box 1 and Box 2,
our inquiries flew
with Pane 3 and Pane 4,
and windows galore.
From technical questions
to note box suggestions
she knew what to do
and she guided us through.
Happy National Limerick Day to everyone at SAS Press!
Susan
Love this poem! And such a lovely tribute to Stephenie who we miss terribly!
At SAS Global Forum you'll hear
From folks coming from far and near
You'll learn tools and tips;
And build lasting friendships.
You can submit your own paper next year!
Oh! This one is good too, haha. I need to work on my Limerick skills!
My turn!
There once was a programming book
And its examples had quite the hook.
To learn SAS by example
Just download the sample
And practice SAS in your office nook!
This one is so good!
Love your post!
Thank you Susan!!
What a coincidence! I just happen to have a SAS limerick handy. 😉
There once was some software called SAS
That made analytics so fast
Its results quick as lightning
With reports so enlightening
That its users all call it "first-class"!
Wow, this I don't think I can beat!