FIFA has OK’d the #poppy/After MPs and royals got stroppy/The press deemed it shoddy/But football’s world body/Provided a lot of good copy.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2059446/FIFA-poppy-row-England-wear-armband.html
FIFA has OK’d the #poppy/After MPs and royals got stroppy/The press deemed it shoddy/But football’s world body/Provided a lot of good copy.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2059446/FIFA-poppy-row-England-wear-armband.html
The Home Secretary, Theresa/Is having a row with a geezer/She says Brodie Clark/Kept her in the dark/But he says he tried hard to please ‘er.
The IAEA says Iran/Has been working for years on a plan/To get stuff that’s fissile/Attached to a missile/But doesn’t yet think that it can.
There is an old man from Milan/Who’s hung on as long as he can/Now every last crony/Has ditched #Berlusconi/His career as PM’s down the pan.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/08/us-italy-idUSTRE7A72NG20111108
Champion boxer Joe Frazier/Had a mighty left hook 2 amaze ya/But he lost in Manila/The world famous Thrilla/To Ali, a bit older but crazier.
A doctor who lives in LA/Was done for manslaughter today/He killed Michael Jackson/So now the poor quack’s on/Remand & may have a long stay.
Ex-pizza magnate Herman Cain/Is pursued by the past once again/The Republican hopeful/Is apt to be gropeful/Which women find rather a pain.
Asteroid Yu-55/Is very soon due to arrive/It’s coming quite near/But there’s nothing to fear/It’s expected the earth will survive.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/nov/06/asteroid-yu55-course-close-earth?newsfeed=true
(With a rewrite after a correction).
A caddy who hails from NZ/Uttered words he’ll now wish unsaid/About Mr T Woods/He is now damaged goods/& needs new ways of earning his bread.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hAakZH3Vk_Jlp2ztzUYVP_mrzPkQ?docId=CNG.51c99c753539f484b515987a01ad6a9f.5
After my original tweet, as above, @AndrewPotterNZ replied @twitmericks Well not quite. He’s apologised, the golfing body says no further action and his new employer, Adam Scott, is standing by him!”
Maybe I was guilty of twisting the facts to fit the limerick, maybe the story had changed.
So I redrafted as follows:
@AndrewPotterNZ A caddy who is from NZ/Said sorry for things that he said/About Mr T Woods/& yet his livelihood’s/OK as the story’s now dead.
6 cosmonauts locked in one place/Pretended that they were in space/They had a good laugh/For a year and a half/But Mars is a different case.