A bit of the old poetry gubbins

Beef

"Eat beef today!"
The politicians cried
In nineteen ninety five

"It's really good
And really safe"
What's more, you'll stay alive!"

I ate a bit
I ate some more -
A complete cow or three!

It's funny how
They forgot about
The risks of C.J.D.

A young man from Bombay

There was a young man from Bombay
On a slow boat to China one day
He was trapped at the tiller
By a sex-crazed gorilla
And China's a bloody long way
by Spike Milligan

A computing limerick

A very intelligent turtle
Found programming Windows a hurdle
The system, you see,
Ran as slow as did he,
And that's not saying much for the turtle.
Anon.

Another computing poem

'Twas midnight, and the UNIX hacks
Did gyre and gimble in their cave
All mimsy was the CS-VAX
And Cory raths outgrave.

"Beware the software rot, my son!
The faults that bite, the jobs that thrash!
Beware the broken pipe, and shun
The frumious system crash!"
Anon.