This put me in a good mood for the year ahead
I had quite forgotten how hilarious Private Eye can be.
Ever since they started they’ve run poems by E. J. Thribb
(17½) but the current one is the funniest I can recall.
In Memoriam Kim
Jong-Il, North Korean Leader
So. Farewell
Then
Kim Jong-
Il
You were
Kim Jong-
Il
Then you were
Kim Jong-
Very-il
Now you are
Kim Jong-
Il
Dead
Now we just have to hope we'll see a few on the deaths of a few other evil bastards. Assad, Putin, Omar Al-Bashir, any religious maniac of any persuasion - and so on