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Re:The Sound of Water: Matsuo Basho and the Old Pond by fuzztester on Saturday June 08, 2024 @04:42AM (#40616210)
>Limerick

Speaking of limericks, here is a good one that I read in a nonsense poetry book as a kid; it was called "The Golden Book of Fun and Nonsense". It was meant for kids. The limerick was a little subtle, at least for me at that time, but I figured it out after a bit, and had a good laugh:

Into the drinking well

Which the plumber built her

Aunt Eliza fell

We must buy a filter

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Re:The Sound of Water: Matsuo Basho and the Old Pond by squircle on Sunday June 09, 2024 @06:23PM (#40628115)
See, this is the sort of thing I expect chatgpt/copilot to produce. Instead, I ask for a joke and it returns the most flat-lined humor. Guess I'll have to run my own local models.
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Re:The Sound of Water: Matsuo Basho and the Old Pond by fuzztester on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @10:25PM (#40653862)
Gadzooks! With ChatGPT et al, we must lower our expectations, instead of having https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Expectations
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