More than 120 camels roaming the Australian outback have been auctioned off online for about $250 a head
An Aussie with fields full of weed
Can rely on a camel whose greed
For acacia to eat
Which they see as a treat
Will clear the land up at great speed
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Australian celebrity magazine New Idea’s cover story (right) declared Britain’s Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are separating on the same day the couple announced they are expecting their second child.
At what should be a time of great joy
When expecting a girl or a boy
Some Aussies think it
Is time that you split
That’s something that’s bound to annoy
Romance scammers are making fortunes thanks to lonely singles stuck at home during the pandemic
As lockdown looks set to drag on
It may seem nice if you chance upon
A mystery crush
But don’t be in a rush
To make contact, it may be a con
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US boffins have shown that pigs can use a digital screen and joystick, operated by their snout, to move a cursor around for rewards
So pigs, if they’re given joysticks
Can be taught to do several tricks
On a computer screen
It remains to be seen
What problems this news may now fix
Pic: Candice Croney
Hippopotamuses brought to Colombia as part of drug dealer Pablo Escobar’s private zoo must be culled, scientists say
There’s still quite a big job to do
With the remnants of Escobar’s zoo
As it’s widely agreed
That wild hippos will breed
And they’re dangerous beasts to bump into
Pic: CNN
The Brazil Butt Lift is the fastest growing cosmetic surgery in the world, despite the mounting number of deaths resulting from the procedure
Do you think that this might be the year
When you let surgeons sort out your rear?
Some experts advise
That it may not be wise
They think the whole thing’s a bum steer
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II lobbied the UK government to conceal her “embarrassing” private wealth from the public, according to documents obtained by The Guardian
In Britain an embarrassed queen
Did not want her wealth to be seen
So befitting her station
A shell corporation
Acts as a vast opaque screen
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A Bar Council survey has found barristers considered the ‘viability of their practice’ the most significant challenge facing them in the year ahead.
Some people in wigs at the bar
Are claiming that lately they are
Finding things tough
They’re not earning enough
To purchase another sports car
A woman has been sentenced in New Zealand after being caught trying to smuggle nearly 1,000 cacti and succulents strapped to her body
A smuggler called Wenqing Li
Brought cacti where they shouldn’t be
Across New Zealand’s border
But now a court order
Means that she is no longer free
Pic: Alamy
The Moderna vaccine is administered at the HSE National Ambulance Service HQ last month
It seems when we’ve all got through June
(A time that just can’t come too soon)
Half of us will have been
Treated to a vaccine
If the government don’t change their tune
