Loss of Memory

Posted on May 30, 2014 by twitmericks
The new Google privacy setting/
Affords us a chance of forgetting/
And neatly dispenses/
With former offences/
That muck up our positive vetting.///
 
 
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Gist to the Mill

Posted on May 30, 2014 by twitmericks

Lord Chilcot will give us the gist/

Of Dubya & Blair’s little tryst:/

They walked in the park/

They talked of Iraq -/

Poor Tony just couldn’t resist.

///http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10863405/Full-account-of-Tony-Blairs-exchanges-with-George-Bush-on-Iraq-war-to-be-kept-secret.html

(OK, so Chilcot’s talking about written conversations, I’ve just made it a little more concrete!)

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Google Drive

Posted on May 29, 2014 by twitmericks

Commissioning google to drive/

And keep us unhurt and alive/

Relies on the trope/

To travel in hope/

Is better than just to arrive.

///http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-in-the-car-business/2014/05/28/3191d5d6-e6bf-11e3-a70e-ea1863229397_story.html

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Peer Pressure

Posted on May 28, 2014 by twitmericks

A Liberal Democrat peer/
Said ‘Clegg is a loser, I fear/
But if we were able/
To ditch him for Cable/
It might save our bacon next year’.

///http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27604131

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Greased Lightning

Posted on May 27, 2014 by twitmericks
A Spurs-loving time-serving nutter/
Found AFC’s win made him splutter/
On hearing the news/
He went for the screws/
Entirely covered in butter.
///http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/charles-bronson-coats-himself-butter-3611167
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Pole Faulted

Posted on May 26, 2014 by twitmericks
There was an old general, a Pole/
Who exercised total control/
Till ructions in Warsaw/
Got worse than he foresaw/
And cost Jaruzelski his role.///
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The nationalist side flexed its muscles/

In EU electoral tussles/

From mild Eurosceptic/

To quite apoplectic/

Expressing frustration with Brussels.

///http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/european-election-results-2014-farright-parties-flourish-across-europe-in-snub-to-austerity-9434069.html

 

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And one by Dylan Thomas

Posted on May 25, 2014 by twitmericks

I just watched A poet in New York Last Night, about Dylan Thomas’s last days.

It featured this rather wonderful limerick of his, that I hadn’t come across before:

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There was an old bugger called God,

Who got a young virgin in pod.

This disgraceful behaviour

Begot Christ our Saviour,

Who was nailed to a cross, poor old sod.

 

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Of Mice and Ministers

Posted on May 25, 2014 by twitmericks

Conservative minister Gove/

Said Lit must be English, by Jove!/

Take Steinbeck and Lee/

Off GCSE/

And let’s have some old British cove.

///http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/michael-gove-axes-to-kill-a-mockingbird-and-other-american-classics-from-english-literature-gcse-syllabus-9432818.html

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Thai Pork Pie

Posted on May 23, 2014 by twitmericks

There once was a general who/

Denied he was staging a coup./

As every Thai/

Had seen through this lie/

He had to admit what they knew.

///http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/22/military-coup-thailand-peace-general-prayuth-chan-ocha

 

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