Rock Licking Limericks

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From Annals of Improbable Research: Last months get funny contest,
mini-Annals of Improbable Research ("mini-AIR")
June 2022, issue number 2022-06. ISSN 1076-500X.
<https://www.improbable.com/airchives/miniair/>

­Research that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
­01 TABLE OF CONTENTS
02 IN THE MAGAZINE ITSELF: The Special WOMEN issue
03 Uses of Urine: Hoary Marmots
04 Throw a Paper Airplane at the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony
05 Ig Nobel Exhibition in Taiwan
06 Limerick Challenge: Uses of Urine: Wheat Testing
07 Licking Rock Winner

The judges have chosen a winner in last month's Competition, which asked for a limerick to explain this study:
"Eating Fossils," Jan Zalasiewicz, The Paleontological Association Newsletter, no. 96, November 2017.

Winning limerickicist A.S. KASWELL writes:

You know that licking the rock
Is their favorite method, ad hoc,
To taste if a thing
Has quite the right zing
For flavoring fossil-soup stock.

This month's take from our LIMERICK LAUREATE, MARTIN EIGER:

There is only one way to assay
Lithoidal things found every day.
Advanced technical tools
Are the province of fools.
Licking rocks. There is no better way.

08 MORE IMPROBABLE: Folding Chair, Chocolate, Goat, Otter
09 Uses of Urine: Milk Bottle Testing
20 SOME IMPROBABLE EVENTS

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