Monthly Archives: December 2011

Just Enough for the City

Posted on December 9, 2011 by twitmericks

The crunch EU summit in Brussels/Saw Cameron flexing his muscles/It’s rather a pity/It’s just for the City/The PM will fight in such tussles http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/dec/09/eurozone-countries-treaty-exclude-britain?intcmp=239

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Windy Thursday

Posted on December 8, 2011 by twitmericks

Thousands of Scots have lost power/After winds of umpteen miles per hour/Blew leccy lines down/In many a town/Accompanied by the odd shower. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-16079849

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Bell Ends Badly

Posted on December 8, 2011 by twitmericks

The top UK PR firm Bell/Pottinger does a good sell/Not content with the media?/Fix Wikipedia/But Bell ends up starting to smell. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-dark-arts-bell-pottinger-caught-rewriting-its-clients-wikipedia-entries-6273836.html

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Assad, Not Mad or Bad?

Posted on December 7, 2011 by twitmericks

President Bashar #Assad/Denies doing things that were bad/He told ABC/All that stuff wasn’t me/For that shit you’d have to be mad. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-08/assad-denies-ordering-crackdown-in-syria/3719042

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His Face an Open Book

Posted on December 7, 2011 by twitmericks

Mark Z, who invented FB/Has got issues with settings, I see/As he’s fallen victim/To hackers who picked ‘im/& published his photos with glee. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/8938725/Facebook-privacy-flaw-exposes-Mark-Zuckerberg-photos.html

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Summit & The City

Posted on December 7, 2011 by twitmericks

Cameron hints that the treaty/Negotiations will be meaty/But what’s he defending?/The message he’s sending/Is “Sarkozy, ‘ands orf ze ceety!” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16063911

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Drone Down

Posted on December 7, 2011 by twitmericks

The RQ-170 #drone/Is accustomed to flying alone/But a crash in #Iran/Was not part of the plan/And now the craft’s secrecy’s blown.  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/8936066/Iran-capture-of-US-spy-drone-would-be-significant-blow-to-military.html

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Veena gets Cleaner

Posted on December 6, 2011 by twitmericks

A Bollywood actress called #Veena/Of hardly retiring demeanour/Is losing the rag/Over FHM mag/Making photos, she says, look obscener. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8935459/Pakistani-actress-Veena-Malik-sues-over-FHM-nude-photo.html

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Boyce will be Boyce

Posted on December 6, 2011 by twitmericks

A modernist called Martin Boyce/Is this season’s #Turner Prize choice/With metal & wood/He decided he should/Inquire if a word has a voice.

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Poors Reigns Supreme

Posted on December 6, 2011 by twitmericks

The agency Standard & Poors/Conferring behind its closed doors/About Eurozone debt/Has issued a threat/To some valuable triple A scores. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/dec/06/standard-poors-eurozone-credit-downgrades

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