Have you heard of this new online game?
Where everyone tries to defame,
An innocent kid,
‘Cause heaven forbid,
She escapes a whole lifetime of shame.
John Moynes
Pic Meath Chronicle
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So Robert has taken the crown,
He’s a Corkman of worldwide renown,
Though of course there’s no way,
He’d have won in my day,
Before athletics got dumbed down.
John Moynes
Screengrab: Eurosport
If you’re looking for trouble then you,
Should head down to Dublin Zoo,
You can burn off some rage,
Inside of a cage,
And take on a tapir or two.
John Moynes
Update:
Re:comments.
John Moynes writes:
“Today’s limerick was written about Dublin Zoo’s decision to allow members of the public into enclosures with animals that had the ability to seriously injure them. I believe that this decision was a bad one.“I have written before, and will again, about topics that involve both serious injury and death. These topics have ranged from drink driving, to gang warfare, to sectarianism to outright war.
“Making a joke about the child who was injured would have been wrong, that is why I didn’t do so. However I refuse to accept that jokes should only be made about harmless situations.”
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall ireland)
In the Indo some folk without names,
Are making ridiculous claims,
About Enda Kenny,
This month we’ll see many,
Pointless silly season games
John Moynes
Happy birthday to Nelson Mandela,
That brave and intelligent fella,
Who has reached ninety five,
Though he’s barely alive,
And looking increasingly yella.
John Moynes
(AFP)
This latest indulgence completes,
The package of Vatican treats,
You can get a quick bail,
From the afterlife jail,
If you follow Francis’s tweets.
John Moynes
(Reuters)
Spare a thought for the poor tax exile,
Sent away from this Emerald Isle,
It’s almost as though,
They don’t pay what they owe,
Can we not let them stay, just a while?
John Moynes
(Zimbio)
So Ed wants to come over here,
For asylum, which seems rather queer,
So let’s lock up the scamp,
In the old Mosney camp,
He’ll soon decide to disappear.
John Moynes
(Reuters/Wikileaks)
