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Spring 2009 Limerick Competition

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Last spring we posted the following first line of a limerick and challenged you to complete it.

A program for saving the Earth...

The winner was Terence Hyde with entry:

A program for saving the earth
Was tasked to control human birth,
But its code was revised
When it strongly advised
The castration of all men in Perth.
- Terence Hyde

Two others were specially commended by the judges:

A program for saving the Earth
Is simple - stop all human birth.
The problem, you see,
Is that both you and me
Consume so much more than we're worth.
- Dr Bob Turvey

A program for saving the Earth...
Was judged with three others in Perth
But glitches, you see
Disqualified three
So instead of Forth it came Firth
- Alec Kitson

A program for saving the earth . .
Meant smashing TV's at their birth . .
We rebuilt our minds . .
Saved humankind . .
and gave back conversing it's worth.
- Dave