Boring!

An excerpt from the wikipedia article on Found Poetry:

"---An example of found poetry appeared in William Whewell's "An Elementary Treatise on Mechanics":

"Hence no force, however great,
can stretch a cord, however fine,
into a horizontal line
which is accurately straight."

though when it was pointed out to him, an unamused Whewell changed the wording in the next edition.---"

I mean really! If I'd accidentally written a poem into my textbook and someone spotted it I would jolly well pretend it was deliberate! If engineers (and their cousins the mathematicians, physicists etc.) are ever going to lose the stereotype of being a bunch of boring old pedants they're going to have to start showing a little spirit.

Although... this gives me an idea. I'm going to try and turn some of my recent lecture notes into verses. I should probably study them instead, but then what I said above would become the pinnacle of hypocrisy, wouldn't it?