US President Donald Trump walks out of a press briefing yesterday following an altercation with two reporters over COVID-19 testing.
A high profile job can be tough
There’ll be days when you have had enough
But when you’re the boss
You won’t give a toss
You can just run away in a huff
John Moynes
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Skateboarder Gui Khury makes history with the first 1080-turn on a vertical ramp
One lad used his time off to learn
A trick that all skateboards yearn
To eventually nail
So it’s time we all hail
King Gui of the very long turn
John Moynes
The Warty Comb Jelly has caused chaos in European waters where it eats fish larvae and even its own young
There’s a hideous warty comb beast
That treats the whole sea as its feast
And if it’s short of food
It will eat its own brood
And not be upset in the least
John Moynes
Pic: University of Southern Denmark
Maximilien Robespierre’s The Cult of the Supreme Being was intended to be the state religion of the new French Republic
On this day Robespierre had a dream
Of of a cult of a Being supreme
A long winded and odd
Way to talk about God
Which quite swiftly fell from esteem
John Moynes
US President Donald Trump has said the White House coronavirus task force is to be wound down
When you’re finding your day job no fun
And there’s a campaign to be won
Just decide to ignore
A few thousand deaths more
And declare that your work has been done
John Moynes
AP
Pope emeritus Benedict XVI has accused opponents of wanting to silence him
A Pope took retirement and then
Found everyone ignored him when
He brought out a book
And this left him quite shook
So let’s all pay attention to Ben
John Moynes
AP
A Japanese aquarium has asked the public to video-chat with their ‘lonely’ garden eels
In Tokyo the garden eel
While in lockdown has started to feel
Frightened and blue
What they want you to do
Is FaceTime it. Can this news be real?
John Moynes
Pic: Sumida Aquarium
US President Donald Trump says China wants him to lose his re-election race in November
When you helped spread a major disease
And your country is down on its knees
But you’re facing a vote
You must sound the right note
And be racist against the Chinese
John Moynes
Reuters
US President Donald Trump said yesterday that the pandemic would be largely cleared by the ‘fourth quarter’ of the year
The world’s mood improved yesterday
Through the dark clouds we all glimpsed a ray
Of beautiful hope
When an ignorant dope
Said our problems would just go away
John Moynes
AP
Nobel Laureate Professor Peter Doherty tweeted about the opening hours of Australian liquor retailer, Dan Murphy
We know that Australians will choose
The first moment they can to buy booze
And when their boffins think
That it’s time for a drink
That’s something the public will excuse
John Moynes
AAP
