The wombat lives across the seas,
 Among the far Antipodes.
 He may exist on nuts and berries,
 Or then again, on missionaries;
 His distant habitat precludes
 Conclusive knowledge of his moods,
 But I would not engage the wombat
 In any form of mortal combat.

Wombats have a bad press on the internet. Among the geek community we

are known merely as an acronym - a “Waste Of Money, Brains And Time”. Only you can redress the balance by including for the first time in your mailing list one of the world’s classic poems, Ogden Nash’s ‘Wombat’. I note that you have not had a silly poem for some time, so this should just about fit the bill.

— Wombat

Martin adds

Is it just me, or is there something intrinsically funny about the word ‘wombat’?