Timbuktu From my 80 year old Granddad: Two finalists in a contest, One a college grad and one a high school drop out, were to write a poem in 3 minutes. The only requirement was that it ended in "Timbuktu". The college grad wrote his and told it to the judges; Slowly across the desert sand, Trekked a lonely caravan. Men on camels two by two, Destination Timbuktu. The judges were very surprised and pleased with the poem, thinking that the drop out had no chance of beating that one. The dropout then told his poem Me and Tim a hunting went, Met three girls in a tent. Sunrise came, mornin' dew, I bucked one and Timbuktu. He won the contest.