Hyperbollocks

Posted on December 5, 2014 by

The Chancellor’s busy defending/
Proposals for cutting back spending./
Censuring verbally/
Others’ hyperbole*,/
He notes the world isn’t ending.///
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/dec/04/bbc-defends-what-osborne-calls-hyperbolic-coverage-of-spending-cuts

*’A rhetorical figure which produces a vivid impression by extravagant and obvious exaggeration’.

About twitmericks

There is an old fellow called Mick/Who's been penning the odd limerick/I admit he's no Keats/But he does them in tweets/So to follow, you just have to click. https://twitter.com/#!/twitmericks "The limerick master of the twitterati" (The Guardian).
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