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Report from Week 307, in which we asked you to come up with modern, rhyming two-line cautionary couplets, in the style of "Red sky at morning / Sailors take warning" or "Leaves of three / Don't touch me."

Third Runner-Up:

The food won't be no haute cuisineIf the waitress says, "Hi! I'm Lurleen."

(David Genser, Arlington)

Second Runner-Up:

An unsteady moylWill turn your boy into a goyl.

(T.J. Murphy, Arlington) u First Runner-Up:

Your intern'llKeep a journal.

(J. Larry Schott, Gainesville, Fla.)u And the winner of the genuine cow hoof flask:

Any further White House shenanigan

Must not involve the presidential bananigan.

(Howard Walderman, Columbia)u Honorable Mentions:

Leaves of five

That's good stuff, man.

(John Kammer, Herndon)

A minor?

Decline her.

(Tom Witte, Gaithersburg)

Rule by a lecherous knucklehead?

Better a country a eunuch'll head.

(Ernest Lent, Washington)

If it's mooing

Skip the wooing.

(Tom Witte, Gaithersburg)

Is a colleague pregnant and starting to show?

Don't ask, fellas, unless you know.

(David Genser, Arlington)

Till you've seen McMahon with your own eyes

You have not won the Grand Prize.

(Mike Genz, La Plata)

If you can't do the time

Don't shoot the mime.

(David Genser, Arlington)

Canoe at Great Falls,

Rupture your spleen.

(John Cushing, Washington)

Forgive and forget is strictly for schmucks.

Hire a lawyer and rake in the bucks.

(Earl Gilbert, La Plata)

It's best to avoid words like "niggardly"

That haven't been used since Grant out-triggered Lee.

(B.P. Greenmont, Alexandria)

Listen, bozo, don't peek at her arse

Now, there's a statement you don't need to parse.

(J. Larry Schott, Gainesville)

Stain on the dress?

You gotta confess.

(Niels Hoven, Silver Spring)

If the Chesapeake's near ya

Beware of pfiesteria.

(Brendan Beary, Great Mills)

President shouldn't be Monica's lover.

One good intern deserves another.

(Mike Genz, La Plata)

Nothing that great

Is mailed at bulk rate.

(Tom Witte, Gaithersburg)

When senators say they're being cautious

Wear your galoshes.

(Tony Whitmore, Keyser, W.Va.)

Marlene's done mourning

Sailors take warning.

(Sandra Hull, Alexandria)

If you cover pass patterns,

Better pass on the slatterns.

(Dan Dunn, Bethel, Conn.)

Oral

Is not immoral.

(Bill Clinton, Washington;Tom Witte, Gaithersburg)

You will watch "Teletubbies."

You will watch "Teletubbies."

(T.J. Murphy, Arlington)

u And Last:

If the president's a satyr

It doesn't really matyr.

(Tom Witte, Gaithersburg)

Next Week: Give Us No Mo