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Here's a joke my mother told me:

Once, an employer was going over the resumes and interviews for a job placement. The two lead candidates had equally excellent resumes and both their interviews went very well. The employer wasn't sure how he was to chose between such fine specimens. After much deliberation, the employer finally found a tie breaker.
"Each of you," he told the candidates, "will write a poem about Timbuktu. The best poem gets the job." So the two potentials took a few minutes to write the poems. When both were done, the first one read his poem:

Slowly across the desert sand
Trekked the dusty caravan.
Men on camels, two by two
Destination-Timbuktu.

Very impressed, the employer then turned to the second man and asked, "Do you think you can beat that?"
"Sure I can!" replied the plucky interviewee. And he recited his poem:

Tim and I, a-hunting went,
Met three whores in a pop-up tent.
Since they be three, we be two,
I bucked one and Timbuktu.

Which one do you think got the job?