The Rest of the Story . . . . 🙂

I had some prior experience using this particular first line.   Years ago, I taught a “Problem Solving and Creative Thinking” Seminar at College of the Ozarks.  Admission was open to all students – not just math majors.  (PS:  The class was a blast, and was good for both math and non-math majors to see how others thought).
For one of the weekly assignments, I gave the same task as our Contest.  I think I even required a limerick, but the first line was to be “A cannibal chief and his wife”.  (I may even have gotten that line from another book, I can’t recall).
TO THIS DAY, I remember and can still quote what I considered to be the best (and certainly most creative & original!!) of the submissions. The student (Lee Goodwin)  wrote this:

A cannibal chief and his wife

Sat down with their fork and their knife

They’d devour every poet

And now, don’t you know it . . .

If I rhyme this last line, I’m dead meat!

I nearly died laughing!