h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Is it traditionally valid for limericks to have satirical content? For an example, I submit my opus...

At the 2008 Beijing Games
How will they light the Olympic Flame?
"Ah", said their President,
"We'll just burn some dissidents,
While the West turns a blind eye again"

Boom boom.

Does the Conservative Party lie dead?
Does true blue now come out of the red?
If Blair stays without match, er,
They might ressurrect Thatcher!
Let's hope no-one can prop up her head...

Keep satire alive Ploppy! good luck with the stand-up.

Hope the Bill Hicks Article surfaces; I gotta go kick back and whittle some.

To quote Steven King:

"Poetry and politics rarely mix, poetry and propaganda never do"

(from a rejection letter to Jim Gardener in Tommyknockers')

NOT that I'm making any statement of my own here, it just reminded me of that line (currently reading the book )

Satire in rhyme is a tradition
So continue without admonition
Nursery rhymes
In earlier times
Were just barely disguised sedition

Oh yes! Please do. No admonition intended!

The Tory election's a stunt
It don't matter who ends up in front
If its Iain or it's Ken
It's irrelevan'
'Coz they're both unelectable pillocks.



Don't stop me now...I'm on a roll

In November we get to vote
Would we rather a "sheep" or a "goat"
Not much of a choice
But at least we've a voice
In who'll captain our leaky old boat