Edku: January 1999

Move backwards to December 1998.

1.
Unmitigated
misfortune amused him so;
old age, a delight.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

2.
The weed makes them smile
The speed makes them do things fast
And the greed takes both

--Candice Sheerer, harrshee@warwick.net

3.
Single currency
Brings success where Hitler failed
Euro unity

--Clive Oseman, Clive4tips@aol.com

4.
Little Englander
Thinks the war never ended
How very British!

--Clive Oseman, Clive4tips@aol.com

5.
A religious man
Worships his kind, loving God
And kills those who don't

--Clive Oseman, Clive4tips@aol.com

6.
Thousands killed or maimed
But I escaped uninjured.
Praise the gentle Lord.

--Clive Oseman, Clive4tips@aol.com

7.
Perjury is vile,
say Senate Republicans--
what of Ollie North?

--Keith Ammann, geenius@albany.net

8.
Now we see Clinton
Cares for nothing but image.
We buy into it.

--Keith Ammann, geenius@albany.net

9.
Liddy quits Red Cross,
Hints at presidential bid.
Great, just what we need.

--Keith Ammann, geenius@albany.net

10.
Give us a real choice--
Bob Kerrey or John McCain--
not more narcissists.

--Keith Ammann, geenius@albany.net

11.
Better yet, throw out
Democrats and GOP
and vote Green Party.

--Keith Ammann, geenius@albany.net

12.
New York governor
proposes ending parole.
Throw away the key!

--Keith Ammann, geenius@albany.net

13.
Preventing the crime
is the only noble goal;
punishment is base.

--Keith Ammann, geenius@albany.net

14.
Carbon dating proves
that Senator Strom Thurmond
IS older than dirt.

--Keith Ammann, geenius@albany.net

15.
Sitting in judgment,
senators haggle over
Clinton's punishment.

--Keith Ammann, geenius@albany.net

16.
How can they decide
trial's outcome before they
hear the evidence?

--Keith Ammann, geenius@albany.net

17.
Speculation wrong
The young man is to marry
(Just like Tchaikovsky)

--Clive Oseman, Clive4tips@aol.com

18.
Tornadoes are bad,
They are ferocious and mean;
Take cover and quick!

--Katie W., katiebop@hotmail.com

19.
Winter winds smile as
snow flakes dance, swirling around
children's carefree laughs.

--rdzone@bellatlantic.net

20.
Nature's eruption,
humans suffer needlessly;
cold-hearted fury!

--rdzone@bellatlantic.net

21.
Blue December winds
whipping through snow-frozen minds.
Will warm hearts prevail?

--rdzone@bellatlantic.net

22.
While Bill gets the Rack,
Al waits in awkward silence.
Politics dancing.

--Sean Halloran, shallora@stpubs.com

23.
Hillary knows it
Yet Bubba denies it all.
Strange bedfellows, they.

--Sean Halloran, shallora@stpubs.com

24.
Even as I write
Someone, somewhere, is tortured.
God, what a bastard.

--Clive Oseman, Clive4tips@aol.com

25.
Who killed Jon Benet?
The parents seem suspicious
The humanities!

--Tom Simms, tsimms@lycosmail.com

26.
Bubba-boy Clinton
Selling out to the Chinese
Won Ton patriot

--Tom Simms, tsimms@lycosmail.com

27.
President Clinton
Has no honor in office
Seems more like Boss Hogg

--Tom Simms, tsimms@lycosmail.com

28.
Hamburger hard times
First Mad Cow, then E. Coli
Who loves Bossy now?

--Tom Simms, tsimms@lycosmail.com

29.
Was she a puppet?

Was Paula Jones being used
By angry husband?

--Tom Simms, tsimms@lycosmail.com

30.
Gore's hopes start to dim
Money-raising phone calls put
His campaign on hold

--Tom Simms, tsimms@lycosmail.com

31.
Sport's Lawrence Phillips
Goofball threw away career
Back to the streets now

--Tom Simms, tsimms@lycosmail.com

32.
The Promise Keepers
They hate gays, women, and Jews
Sieg Heil McCartney

--Tom Simms, tsimms@lycosmail.com

33.
Let's nuke Iraq now
We will have to drop the bomb
Sooner or later

--Tom Simms, tsimms@lycosmail.com

34.
Clinton is impeached
On trial in the Senate
Will he be removed?

--Ed Nickow, ednickow@mcs.com

35.
They impeached our Bill
And want to call witnesses
He'll fight 'til the end

--Ed Nickow, ednickow@mcs.com

36.
I would like to know
Monica oh Monica
Why'd you flash that thong?

--Ed Nickow, ednickow@mcs.com

37.
Did they hear Bill sing,
"Monica Oh Monica
Light my menorah"

--Ed Nickow, ednickow@mcs.com

38.
Trouble in Brazil
The stock market has a fall
Then goes right back up

--Ed Nickow, ednickow@mcs.com

39.
Jordan has retired
After winning those six rings
Chi-town will miss him

--Ed Nickow, ednickow@mcs.com

40.
Number twenty three
The greatest player ever?
There is little doubt

--Ed Nickow, ednickow@mcs.com

41.
A message for Bill:
Why can't you be just like Mike
He knows when to quit

--Ed Nickow, ednickow@mcs.com

42.
Senator jurors
have to listen in silence.
Hell freezes over.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

43.
Three inches hourly,
snow molds Earth to its liking:
rounded mounds of white.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

44.
Tomatoes attacked
from outer-space; no warning.
Lack of values blamed.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

45.
Pornographer strikes.
Politicians quake in boots.
Washington winter.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

46.
Up the market goes
Higher than ever before
Crash, and it's all gone

--Vicky Bock, Tigercub39@aol.com

47.
Troubled man, boxer
Animal inside the ring
Not so nice outside

--Clive Oseman, Clive4tips@aol.com

48.
Tobacco firms are
the world's worst mass murderers.
Please, let's stub them out.

--Clive Oseman, Clive4tips@aol.com

49.
I stink, and I cough
I've smoked cigarettes galore
Passively dying

--Clive Oseman, Clive4tips@aol.com

50.
Clinton's speech was great
Nothing about Monica
For more than an hour

--Ed Nickow, ednickow@mcs.com

51.
Fifty-five GOPhers
Not enough to convict Bill
They need some Dems, too

--Ed Nickow, ednickow@mcs.com

52.
First it was Jordan
Now Scottie is a Rocket
What's left of the Bulls?

--Ed Nickow, ednickow@mcs.com

53.
How does Dick Morris
Qualify as a pundit
On morality?

--Ed Nickow, ednickow@mcs.com

54.
A little verbose
But Bill's ratings will be up
Tomorrow morning

--Ed Nickow, ednickow@mcs.com

55.
Did anyone else
Notice that Hillary got
More applause than Bill?

--Ed Nickow, ednickow@mcs.com

56.
Yugoslav tyrant
Slobodan Milosevic
Won't do what we say

--Ed Nickow, ednickow@mcs.com

57.
George W. Bush
Is now the gov of Texas
Eyeing Y2K

--Ed Nickow, ednickow@mcs.com

58.
Caesar's faults are grave;
But are these conspirators
Honorable men?

--Kenny Family, plmkenny@erols.com

59.
Monica Monic,
our Monica Monic Mon,
please do fade away.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

60.
If Monica talks,
will she show us diagrams?
He touched me here, there.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

61.
Attention smokers!
Don't save for a rainy day
Just get well insured

--Clive Oseman, Clive4tips@aol.com

62.
One more disaster.
Act of God kills thousands more.
Small minded vengeance?

--Clive Oseman, Clive4tips@aol.com

63.
Witnesses are called
to sing like crazed canaries.
We yawn in b-flat.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com

64.
Nine blind tomatoes
from New York City sewers
enter politics.

--Dogsruleus@aol.com


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