The back story..Shakespeare and Byron.. England's greatest poets..both long dead, and have centuries in Limbo, finally get up to Heaven, and find St. Peter awaiting them at the Pearly Gates.
Peter apologizes, saying since it's late on a Friday, he only has time to process one of them into Heaven...the other will have to go back down to Limbo for a while. He decides to have a contest to decide who stays....and asks them to compose a poem about "Timbuktu."
Byron's up first:
"I sat upon the ocean's shore,
And watched the mighty breakers roar.
Far our at sea, came into view,
A schooner bound for Timbuktu."
Not bad, says, Peter..OK..Billy's up...
Shakespeare offers:
"Tim and I, a walking went
We met three ladies in a tent.
They were three, and we just two,
So I bucked one, and Timbuktu!"
So who got in?