What’s in Store, George?

Posted on March 18, 2012 by twitmericks

The Chancellor’s big budget test

Is not just to cut or invest

The hints he is dropping

All point to more shopping

GB doing what we do best?

http://www.itv.com/news/sunday-trading-law-shelved-for-olympics85476/

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The Man Who Knew Too Much

Posted on March 18, 2012 by twitmericks

A man named Abdullah Senussi

Has info that could be quite juicy

So who gets to try

Old Gaddafi’s chief spy

Is a critical question, I do see.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/03/20123185162842242.html

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Camp Guard Dies Unmourned

Posted on March 17, 2012 by twitmericks

There was an old Nazi named John

Who escaped but was tried later on

They put him inside

& he finally died

& I can’t say I’m sorry he’s gone.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/9150184/Nazi-war-criminal-John-Demjanjuk-dies-aged-91.html

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Jase’s Disgrace

Posted on March 17, 2012 by twitmericks

A charity founder named Jason

Not one you can call self-effacin’

Was found semi-nude

 Being publicly lewd

In a manner that may be disgracin’.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/16/kony-2012-campaigner-detained

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Clooney Tunes

Posted on March 17, 2012 by twitmericks

A prominent Hollywood star

Was arrested alongside his pa

Joined by his old man

#Clooney took on Sudan

A more challenging role than ER.

 
 

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C of E See’s Not Easy, You See

Posted on March 16, 2012 by twitmericks

(NB: This was the limerick that got @twitmericks’s twitter following over the 1,000 mark).

There was an old man with a beard

Who said it is just as I feared

The ethical schism

In Anglicanism

Has grown – time that I disappeared!

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/03/16/uk-britain-religion-archbishop-idUKBRE82F0I620120316

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Making a Splash in Doha

Posted on March 16, 2012 by twitmericks

The Vice-chairman of the FA/Had fun in Qatar yesterday/He said booze was cool/Then he fell in a pool/Undermining his point, you might say.

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New Order for Syria?

Posted on March 15, 2012 by twitmericks

 

Amid widespread public disorder

As refugees flock to the border

Assad, the old sod

Puts on his iPod

Chris Brown, Right Said Fred & New Order

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Sachs Appeal

Posted on March 14, 2012 by twitmericks

A penitent Goldman Sachs banker
Resigned in revulsion & rancour
Saying clients were conned
By the bank demi-mond
He couldnt’ve been any franker.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/mar/14/goldman-sachs-greg-smith-reaction?newsfeed=true

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Two Little Boys…

Posted on March 14, 2012 by twitmericks

There were two playfellows at Eton

Who over the years went on meetin’

What happened to them?

One’s now the PM

And the other’s a suspect in Weetin’.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/9142094/Arrests-of-Rebekah-and-Charlie-Brooks-cast-shadow-on-David-Camerons-arrival-in-US.html

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