There once was a woman named Pryce/
Who probably should’ve thought twice/
A dubious version/
Of marriage coercion/
Was not the best legal advice.
///http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/pryce-guilty-the-campaign-by-vengeful-wife-and-batty-barrister-8524839.html
There is a young Muscovite dancer/
Who’s got a few questions to answer/
To get your boss back/
With an acid attack/
Is not a career-advancer.
///http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21693091
There was an old man of Caracas/
Who polarised friends & attackers/
Tho many were anti/
The old Comandante/
A lot of the poor were his backers.
///http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/death-of-venezuelan-president-hugo-chavez-leaves-tears–and-a-nation-divided-8521706.html
Cardinal Keith used to say/
Homosexual love’s not OK/
But now his confession/
Conveys the impression/
He may be a little bit gay.
///http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21649475
Algerian Mukhtar Belmukhtar/
A serial hostage abdukhtar/
Is thoroughly dead/
The Chadians said/
And that is the story they stukhtar.
///http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2013/03/20133220445557956.html
There was a Hawaiian Midwester/
Who couldn’t avert a sequester/
Without melding minds/
Or kicking behinds/
His budget continues to fester.
///http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/01/us-usa-fiscal-obama-idUSBRE92013Y20130301
///https://twitter.com/twitmericks/status/307866305128722434
There once was a basketball star/
Whose friendships got rather bizarre/
He went to Pyongyang/
To see Kim & the gang/
Perhaps a dictator too far.
///http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/9902340/Basketball-star-Dennis-Rodman-Kim-Jong-un-is-awesome.html
There was an old point-dodger’s seat/
Where Lib Dems avoided defeat/
For Tories in Eastleigh/
It got rather beastly/
As UKIP had Cameron beat.
///http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/mar/01/ukip-victory-revulsion-nigel-farage
Oh pity the downtrodden banker/
The target of such public rancour/
If only he’d loan us/
Some part of his bonus/
We might just forgive the old w(Twitter 140-character limit reached).
///http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c6a5a6aa-8173-11e2-904c-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2MDlep0ai
There was an old fellow in Rome/
In a church with a bloody big dome/
Who said that’s enough/
Of this papacy stuff/
I’m going to veg out at home.
///http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/28/us-pope-resignation-obedience-idUSBRE91R0GO20130228
