A few weeks back I posted an optics limerick that a friend had recited for me. I think that post received more comments (in the form of other limericks) than any other blog posting I have made. Well, for all of you limerick-loving nerds out there, here are some collections of optics limericks from a 1977 contest held by Optics News:

http://www.osa-opn.org/Blog/post/Optics-Limericks.aspx

http://www.osa-opn.org/Blog/post/More-Optics-Limericks.aspx

Now, thirty years later, Optics and Photonics News is holding another optics limerick contest. Send your entries to Christina Folz at opn@osa.org.