Ah, but toppling whom, eh?
A good gotcha, Bill.
Doug
On 2013-07-02, at 3:35 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Kevin: a toppling limerick sequence
>
> A round-faced PM named Rudd
> was deposed for being a dud.
> The party said Who'll ya
> replace him with? Julia!
> But Rudd the sly dud just flung mud.
>
> On TV, this wispy-haired smiler,
> denied he was Gillard's defiler.
> Maintaining this pose;
> it took him three goes
> to successfully undermine her.
>
> Folksiness peppers his speeches.
> To all of wide Queensland he reaches
> and to Sydney's back blocks
> where to 'young folk', he 'rocks'.
> Seems everything's coming up peaches.
>
> Who now will reckon the price?
> Our first female PM has gone.
> Her sun apparently outshone.
> Enough polled have decided No dice,
> We want a bloke: we're men, not mice.
>
> bw
> 1.7.13
>
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