Headline Poetry (July 7th +/-)

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

A little ditty I just posted on the Blokes Thread.
It is so brilliant, I felt it worthy of posting here too.

Piano’s glass did shatter
a Shard of which stands tall.
Tallest in Europe for that matter
casts a shadow on St. Paul.

Grunts were heard round the world
when serving a fuzzy ball.
Serena pounds a stubborn Pole
now Krakow’s covered in a pall

Coming “round” to the Hadron Collider,
we discover a new particle.
All proclaim; that’s one helluva divider!
proving Higgs’ theory wasn’t farcical.

“On this day” in Missouri
a light went off in a bakers head.
“I found a way to wrap the turkey,
the greatest thing since sliced bread.”

[Jerrybaldy]

I only got the first and third stanza, I miss a lot of news :) But agreed, its brilliant

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Thanks Jerrybaldy!
I can start the work week feeling proud now that I have a response.

This may help with stanzas 2 and 4:

Stanza 2:
Grunting - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGuPmZnLtn4

Serena - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/tennis/18749540

Stanza 4 - something from Wikipedia's "on this day"

From Wiki...
"Chillicothe [Missouri] is known as "The Home of Sliced Bread". On July 7, 1928, the Chillicothe Baking Company began selling pre-sliced bread "at quality grocers in the area", marking the first time sliced bread was available commercially in the world. They used the Rohwedder Bread Slicer, a machine created by Iowa inventor, Otto Rohwedder.[11]"

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