07-15-2011, 11:12 AM
Mathematical Mick was planning a trip
To Belfast to visit his kin,
So Mick and his mare mapped a way to get there,
At dawn the next day they’d begin.
They packed up their bags and to bed went the nag,
But Mick spent a night on the sauce --
They set out at dawn; it was after mid-morn
Ere he saw they were miles off course.
“Can’t you read X and Y?” asked Mick with a sigh
Said the nag: “When plotting, perforce,
Though your thinking was good, you shouldn’t have put
Descartes before the horse.”
To Belfast to visit his kin,
So Mick and his mare mapped a way to get there,
At dawn the next day they’d begin.
They packed up their bags and to bed went the nag,
But Mick spent a night on the sauce --
They set out at dawn; it was after mid-morn
Ere he saw they were miles off course.
“Can’t you read X and Y?” asked Mick with a sigh
Said the nag: “When plotting, perforce,
Though your thinking was good, you shouldn’t have put
Descartes before the horse.”
It could be worse