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Space Doggerel

September 2023
1min read

Your interesting article in the October issue about Sputnik caused me to remember the words of a ditty written by a Democratic Party pundit shortly after we Americans had been made aware of the satellite’s “derisive chirp” as it orbited the heavens:


Sputnik, Sputnik in the sky Beeping, beeping as you go by Have you room inside your hullnik For Ike, and Dick, and Foster Dullnik?
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