Limericks Appearing in Newspapers and Magazines

 

  Being Buckingham Palace's guest
  Didn't mean Donald Trump had impressed
  Her late Majesty, nay—
  If it's true what they say,
  'Very Rude' is how Trump was assessed!


  (Wednesday 9th October, 2024 in the Daily Mail)
   Windy

   Windy weather may not be on tap,
   If a hurricane's shown on your map.
   Nor need temps be so high
   Data centers would fry—
   You've been using the Beeb's weather app!


  (Monday 14th October, 2024 in Oddball Magazine)
 

  I enjoy a good scare, but I fear,
  Hallowe'en wasn't all it appeared,
  Making nobody scared,
  Anticlimax compared
  With the scares in the Budget this year!


  (Friday 1st November, 2024 in the Daily Mail)
 

  Kemi's surname's first syllable may,
  On TV, be pronounced the wrong way.
  Why has nobody checked
  Which effect is correct?
  Should it sound like a baa or a bay?


  (Friday 8th November, 2024 in the Daily Mail)
   Cinch

   Conversation's a cinch to entice
   If your chat's on a smartphone device—
   Not entombed in a pink
   Case submerged in a rink,
   Having no means of breaking the ice!


  (Monday 11th November, 2024 in Oddball Magazine)
   Welby

   Welby may have seen faith as the key
   English Church teaching: faith means to be-
   Lieve what cannot be seen—
   But does not also mean
   You can then not believe what you see!


  (Tuesday 12th November, 2024 in the New Verse News)
 
  Oil-rich Azerbaijan barely plods
  Towards reaching net zero: the odds
  Of success aren't the most
  Hopeful when the COP host
  Touts the oil as a gift of the gods!


  (Thursday 21st November, 2024 in the Daily Mail)
 
  Said Joe Biden, 'I've pardoned my son
  For felonious deeds with a gun.
  Don't you think it is clear
  I did not interfere
  With the way in which justice was done?'


  (Thursday 5th December, 2024 in the Daily Mail)
 
  As the planet increasingly warms,
  We must weather new seasonal norms.
  We're already on D:
  Are we going to see
  A whole alphabet's worth of named storms?


  (Wednesday 11th December, 2024 in the Daily Mail)
 

  At the Palace, no pre-Christmas lunch
  Was for Andrew, though I have a hunch
  There's an embassy sign
  Where they'd love him to dine:
  Red with five yellow stars in a bunch!


  (Friday 27th December, 2024 in the Daily Mail)
   Hilda

   Heifer Hilda's lab-bred derrière
   Is designed to relieve the despair
   Left behind by ten score
   Dirty-coal years or more—
   As it issues low-methane hot air!


  (Monday 6th January, 2025 in Oddball Magazine)
 

  If you hope, as a teen, to outsmart
  Every other guy throwing a dart,
  Then you'd best learn to play
  Darts before you can say
  'Darts'—in nappies is how you should start!


  (Thursday 16th January, 2025 in the Daily Mail)
 
  When reform's overdue by a load,
  Politicians respond using code.
  They will promise to do
  Yet another review—
  But they're kicking the can down the road!


  (Friday 17th January, 2025 in the Daily Mail)



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