Starbucks is paying more tax/
Police have been questioning Max/
They charged Stuart Hall/
Our growth forecasts fall/
In Syria, yet more attacks.
OK, decided to do this one slightly differently, with a little roundup of a few stories. Only works when the gods of rhyme smile on you, of course.
///https://twitter.com/twitmericks/status/276748891519602689
There was an old man from Brazil/
Whose buildings are sexy & brill/
Without him we find/
The things he designed/
Make cityscapes beautiful still.
///http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2012/dec/06/oscar-niemeyer-brazilian-architect-memoirs
Guatemala will hand to Belize/
The man who protects our PCs/
The millionaire/
Tried dying his hair/
But cops quickly saw through this wheeze.
////http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-20621271
There were some Australian folks/
Who pulled off a radio hoax/
The royal impostors/
Laughed into their Fosters/
As nursing staff fell for their jokes.
///http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/kate-middleton-pregnant-radio-presenters-1474019
There once was a wallpaper heir/
Who found that the cupboard was bare/
So what do we get?/
Ever deeper in debt/
No growth and no money to spare.
///http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/dec/05/autumn-statement-2012-key-points?intcmp=239
There once was a popular comic/
Whose sales used to be astronomic/
But Dan’s Desperation/
Means no publication/
As printing’s now uneconomic.
///http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/dec/01/dandy-comic-online
There once was a woman named Kate/
Whom royals expected to mate/
And where, as they say/
There’s a Will, there’s a way/
So HRH doth now gestate.
///http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/kate-middleton/9719408/Kate-Middleton-is-pregnant.html
The very first SMS text/
Must have left people rather perplexed/
For nobody knew/
Back in late ’92/
That a message explosion was next.
///http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/dec/01/text-messaging-20-years?CMP=twt_gu
A prominent poet named Motion/
Lambasted a minister’s notion/
That giving housemakers/
Two million more acres/
Would just be a drop in the ocean.
///http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/dec/01/tory-rural-raid-andrew-motion
There was a fast bowler from Lancs/
Who entered the heavyweight ranks/
The new boxer Freddie/
Has won one already/
Cheered on by some 6000 Mancs.
///http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/dec/01/andrew-flintoff-richard-dawson
