This one was the winner of a 1978 limerick contest in which Isaac Asimov was the final judge. Asimov remarked "The idea is very clever and made me laugh, and the one-word fourth line is delightful."
The bustard's an exquisite fowl
With minimal reason to growl:
He escapes what would be
Illegitimacy
By grace of a fortunate vowel.
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