It’s nice to see that the C++ standard, while mostly dry, has a little humour in it. There is a limerick in section 14.7.3, 7. It goes like this;
When writing a specialization,
be careful about its location;
or to make it compile will be such a trial
as to kindle its self-immolation.
And according to Mostly Buggy in version C++0x FCD there was an amusing footnote in Section 29 Atomic operations library
29.1 General [atomics.general]
1 This Clause describes components for fine-grained atomic access. This access is provided via operations on atomic objects.341
[…]
341) Atomic objects are neither active nor radioactive.
But sadly in my copy (ISO IEC 14882) this was not included. It must have been taken out before the official standard was released.
There are according to Michael Wong two limericks in the standard, but I couldn’t find the second one (in the document, or on the internet).
Dave++ 
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