Limericks Appearing in Newspapers and Magazines

  Mused a snooker ace, Luca Brecel:
  I was hitting the cue ball so well,
  I gave practice a rest
  And I partied with zest—
  Now the trophy is in my hotel!


  (Wednesday 10th May, 2023 in the
  Daily Mail)
  Princess Anne, in row two, was preferred
  To Prince Harry, whose row was the third,
  Where her red feather plume
  Blocked his view of the room—
  Was she giving her nephew the bird?


  (Wednesday 31st May, 2023 in the
  Daily Mail)
  You play tunes in a black bearskin hat.
  Add a red woollen tunic to that.
  You are keeping the beat
  Till you faint in the heat,
  So the note that you end on is flat.


  (Friday 16th June, 2023 in the
  Daily Mail)
  Subjecting the Kremlin to scrutiny,
  Concluding its war is too Putin-y
  And feeling empowered,
  A guy who's no coward
  Decided it's high time for mutiny.


  (Wednesday 28th June, 2023 in the
  Daily Mail)
  Though he's dropped an occasional catch,
  Jonny Bairstow's the man of the match.
  You protest? Jonny lopes
  To the boundary ropes
  After hoisting you up to dispatch!


  (Thursday 6th July, 2023 in the
  Daily Mail)
  The consumer who's shopping around
  Finds that prices at Poundland astound.
  But it's not that they're low
  It's wherever you go,
  There is nothing on sale for a pound!


  (Friday 21st July, 2023 in the
  Daily Mail)
 

  Though the Ashes are doomed to remain
  Down in Oz, England's bid to regain
  Them, if not guaranteed,
  Was on track to succeed—
  Till washed out by the Manchester rain!


  (Wednesday 26th July, 2023 in the
  Daily Mail)
  Rishi

  Rishi Sunak's not apt to careen
  Into U-turns on tramlines between
  Streets in Manchester and
  Hubs for airplanes to land—
  If they opened in Twenty Fourteen!


  (Monday 16th October, 2023 in
   Oddball Magazine)
  Snoot

  Second-snoot genes ensure that their sprog's
  Not much plagued by the sniffles: this mog's
  Out of tube to breathe through
  Only if both her two
  Treasured snoots have olfactory clogs!


  (Monday 6th November, 2023 in
   Oddball Magazine)
 

  Starfish experts once knowingly said,
  Starfish seem to be lacking a head.
  Then they mapped starfish genes ...
  Their analysis means
  Stars are head and no body instead!


  (Friday 10th November, 2023 in the
  Daily Mail)
 

  Even devils seem less sharply horned
  When Suella is mad. So be warned:
  As I've often heard tell,
  There's no fury in Hell
  Like a former Home Office chief scorned!


  (Tuesday 28th November, 2023 in the
  Daily Mail)
  Brits

  Britain's leading the world with the fat
  Raft of Japanese street litter that
  It picked up: Britain, prone
  To get trash-talked, has shown
  Stuff exists that Brits aren't rubbish at!


  (Monday 4th December, 2023 in
   Oddball Magazine)
 

  Matt and Nigel both went down below
  For the I'm A Celebrity Show
  And were third—does it mean
  Politicians are seen
  As third rate by the voters who know?


  (Tuesday 19th December, 2023 in the
  Daily Mail)
  Idler

  Is Custard unwell? No, the crazy
  Dude's merely incredibly lazy—
  Laid dead in his spot
  Even though he is not
  Ready yet to help push up a daisy!


  (Monday 22nd January, 2024 in Oddball Magazine)
 

  The gait of a penguin is mainly
  Absurdly and plainly ungainly.
  But if, when it's icy,
  Your balance is dicey,
  It saves you from hurting insanely!


  (Wednesday 24th January, 2024 in the
  Daily Mail)



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