The Miserly Patron
He pays no horses for verses
--he wouldn't know how.
The best that you'll get,
Is a cowI just love these little windows into the lives of the ancients! Bards, it seems, were a pampered lot with a sense of entitlement as large as the ocean ( Read more... )

Yesterday the Irish people voted YES to the Lisbon treaty despite a toxic alliance of far-left and far-right. Despite gleeful foreigners projecting their own eurosceptic fantasies onto our politics. Despite a hated and incompetent government. Despite the fact that the treaty itself is bloody long and difficult to understand with plenty of scope for ( Read more... )

I apologise to the multitudes who have been anxiously awaiting my next post. I bet you were both very worried about me. It couldn't be helped. I've been working so hard of late at the day job, that I have RSI in my whipping arm. The company are either going to have to give me some quality time off or get me some healthier slaves than these cretins ( Read more... )

Once again, our team of reporter-poets bring you exclusive stories in the form of a Limerick. Ignore the imitators! TWWNaaL was the first Limerick news service anywhere in the world, and we are still the best.

Something Fishy This Way Comes

Woe is us, for the fish stocks are falling
All the bluefin are dead from our trawling
There's just time to save,
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This Week, we bring you Iranian election news. To the best of my knowledge we are still the only news organization in the world to bring you everything you need to know in the form of a limerick!!!

The fanatical incumbent Mahmoud
On a conservative platform he stood
It seems the Reformer
was a better Performer
But we're still having Mahmoud for good
More ( Read more... )

If you really enjoy radical news delivery -- and who does not? You can find part one of this series here.

CLEAN COAL


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I've noticed how the news is getting everybody down these days and while I can't fix it, or change the great events of our day, I know I can ease the pain by adding in a bit of poetry. Oh, happy readers! Enjoy, enjoy!

This week, I will be dealing with the financial crisis.

Green Shoots
Green shoots were seen, let's have three cheers!
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Pun after Another

A snotty head cold
Makes all poetic sneezes
Sound like this: HAIKU!

These days, when an Englishman talks about "the Bard", you can be pretty sure he's referring to Shakespeare. For Italians, on the other hand, "il Poeta" -- the Poet -- always means Dante, author of The Divine Comedy, Il Convivio, soppy sonnets of luuuurrrrve for the gorgeous (but alas, virtuous) Beatrice and numerous discourses on linguistics, ( Read more... )

Hilaire Belloc wrote this. I learned it with relish at school...


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