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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).

Digital justice

A courtroom in Canada heardIt was, so the Justice averred,A God-given right,Although impolite,To flip pesky neighbours the bird.

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Assault on Lineker

With Gary off Match of the DaySuspended for having his say,His Tory-whipped bossesMust now count their losses,Their schedule in rank disarray.

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A turnip for the books

“Don’t moan about salads and fruits:This government proudly salutesA veg we can cherish,As foreign foods perishLet Britain go back to its roots“.

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Leaves romaine in EU

Officials in Britain allege/ It’s weather, not Brexit, and pledge/ No shortage of food,/ But others conclude/ We’ve hit the thin end of the veg.///

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I’ll be darned!

Some Romans carved out of a blockA wooden thing shaped like a cock;Researchers concludeThe phallus they hewedWas not used for darning a sock.

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Bard fluffs its lines

When Google unveiled its new Bard,The debut was fatally marred:It flunked, in the promo –Rushed through amid FoMO –A question that wasn’t that hard.

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Wall-nuts

Some woodpeckers built up a storeOf nuts in a house, on the floor, The cute, polyamorousTufted wall-hammerersPouring acorns galore.

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Are you or have you ever been an economist?

Liz Truss blew a hole in our kittyThen cried to the press: “What a pity!”Although I was rightIt all went to shiteBecause of those reds in the City”.

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Kondo comes clean

Marie, having built her successOn how to declutter your mess,With kids to spark joy –Two girls and a boy –For tidying couldn’t care less!

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Back tax and sack

Zahawi, the ex-Tory ChairOwed tax that he failed to declare,An easy mistakeFor people to makeWho have a few million spare.

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