It is time once again for the annual e-AIR Limerick Contest!

Help your colleagues get through the lean days of winter by entertaining them with your original limerick composition. Limericks must have something to do with institutional research and should follow the limerick “a-a-b-b-a” rhyming scheme. Beyond that, you are limited only by your creativity and sense of humor. Past submissions have helped us laugh (or groan) at topics ranging from data requests to assessment demands to technology changes.

Email your limerick(s) to Marne Einarson (mke3@cornell.edu) by February 26th. All entries received by that date will be stripped of identifying information and forwarded to our esteemed panel judges – Michelle Appel, Alan Sturtz, and the “gold medal” winner from our 2009 limerick contest, Jennifer Brown. We will publish the winning limericks in the March e-AIR newsletter.

To help get you started, here is Jennifer’s winning limerick from last year:

IR Conversation

I think that we might need to speak
Of the data I gave you last week.
The conclusions you’ve drawn
Show the use of some brawn.
You have twisted the facts till they squeak!

Readers who have submitted limericks in our previous contests have told us they had a lot of fun composing them. Our judges love judging them. And we know you appreciate reading them. So start rhyming!