Turtles often travel in circuitous routes when migrating short distances, experts say
Some boffins who wanted to know
How sea turtles navigate, so
They did a big study
And haven’t a bloody
Clue how they choose where to go
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Tag Archives: A Limerick A Day
Low beef prices may be a factor in an increase in the number of hectares of hemp grown in Ireland
A farmer who scatters their seed
To plant a big field full of weed
Will not come to grief
As the poor price of beef
Means hemp’s so much better indeed
Democratic Unionist Party leader Jeffrey Donaldson (second right) canvassing at a May Fair in Holywood, county Down on May 2
The leaders of the DUP
Have told the PM they won’t be
Prepared to play ball
With the Shinners at all
For six months, and then they might see
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Peruvian prosecutors are investigating President Pedro Castillo and his wife for alleged plagiarism after the couple may have copied more than half the master’s thesis they co-authored
I’m not sure if this news is true
But it seems that the boss of Peru
Acquired his degree
Unoriginally
Which isn’t a fair thing to do
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The Satanic Temple is hoping to fly its flag in front of Boston City Hall after the US Supreme Court ruled the City of Boston violated free speech rights when it wouldn’t allow a Christian group to fly its flag there
In Boston some people ask why
Beelzebub’s flag shouldn’t fly
A fair question since
It seems the Dark Prince
Has as much rights as you or as I
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A body inside a barrel was found on the the newly exposed bottom of Lake Mead in Nevada as drought depletes one of the largest US reservoirs
As the waters that once filled Lake Mead
Begin now to quickly the recede
Authorities said
That finding the dead
Is a process that’s bound to proceed
Fox 5
A massive alligator broke into a garage in Florida, USA and tore through cases of Diet Coke intended for an upcoming birthday party
A frightening morning began
For a Florida woman and man
Who got quite a shock
From an eight foot long croc
Who was sipping some Coke from a can
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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is under increasing pressure to take disciplinary action against a Conservative MP accused of watching pornography in the House of Commons
Senior Tories now warn
That their colleague who was watching porn
Must certainly face
Career-ending disgrace
As the chamber’s no place for the horn
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The UK government is set to announce a fourth delay to physical checks on fresh food imported from the EU
Westminster mandarins say
There’s going to be a delay
On checks into food
The reasons include:
The planning’s not yet underway
AP
Scientists believe crocodiles have shifted from marine prey towards land-based food sources in Australia’s Northern Territory
In this limerick I don’t mean to mock
Any Aussie who’s scared of a croc
As they’re growing so big
On a diet of pig
That they’d give you a terrible shock
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