She-panda Tian Tian receives/
The aim of it is she conceives/
Yang don’t give a damn/
Wham Bam Thankyou Ma’am/
The he-panda eats, shoots and leaves*.
(NB Latest reports indicate this may be more factually accurate if we omit the comma in the final line).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-17621884
The pandas of Edinburgh zoo/
Are doing what pandas must do/
Through their copulation/
The zoo’s population/
Of pandas could rise above two.
A Canadian pageant contender/
A beauty of reassigned gender/
Was cruelly barred/
Till she played her Trump card/
And Donald was forced to surrender.
There was a young fellow named James
Whose chairmanship went up in flames
His future career
May terminate here
Depending whom Leveson blames.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2e35ac96-7da8-11e1-bfa5-00144feab49a.html
When Boris & Ken rode a lift
The Mayor gave his rival short shrift
In anger & ire
He called Ken a liar
Using F-words to show he was miffed.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/apr/03/boris-johnson-rant-ken-livingstone
On the prompting of some friends, I have created a Twitmericks page on Facebook, and attempted to link this blog to it. Let’s see if it works.
The people at GCHQ
Would like to know more about you
So the big ISPs
Are requested to please
#telldaveeverything all of you do.
There is a far-off archipelago
A war zone, a 30-year spell ago
Briefly Argentina’s
And renamed Malvinas
The Falklands saw many a feller go.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/apr/01/falklands-war-thatcher-30-years?newsfeed=true
Hungarian President Schmitt
Was forced under pressure to quit
For his dissertation
Was all imitation
(Except for one not-so-good bit).
Rugby star Gavin Henson from Wales
Ran amok after too many ales
He admits chucking ice
On a plane isn’t nice
And is sorry he went off the rails.
