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May 20, 2008

A bioga?

Edrey Allott of Bath Local Meeting was baffled to read the word 'biogas' in the Friend (25 April). Is the singular 'bioga'? (Sounds like something from Harry Potter to us.) Edrey produced this little tongue-in-cheek ditty:

Just what is a bioga?
And what is its shape and size?
Is it a large wild animal
With black and staring eyes?
Is it a robe-like toga
Or a lengthy period of time?
Is it a coin of small value
Like a farthing or dime?
I read in the Friend it is needed
In China, a vital resource,
But what is this strange new substance?
Oh - it's bio-gas of course!

Labels: green, poetry

May 20, 2008

A bioga?

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