Clerihew Thread

[Pendragon]

Clerihews have just a few simple rules:

1.) They are four lines long.

2.) The first and second lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines rhyme with each other.

3.) The first line names a person, and the second line ends with something that rhymes with the name of the person.

4.) A clerihew should be funny.

This:

It was a lonely evening when Sherlock Holmes,
Found a body buried beneath his stack of tomes.
Its sorrowful eyes on his were fixed:
"Wasn't me, old boy! The Butler did it!"

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Try it. See what you can do. Any famous person, living, dead, or made-up is fuel for the fire!

This thread was part my idea and part BLP's. Go wild!

[AuntShecky]

Am I hallucinating, Pendragon , or wasn't the clerihews one of my first postings on the Network? I was new and most likely posted it on the wrong thread. This goes back to July, on "National Clerihew Day":


A Clerihew is a humorous, "pseudo-biographical" ditty invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. As a young lad he came up with the idea when he was trying to avoid doing his homework. The name of the subject, usually a celebrity, appears at the end of Line One. (So you're more likely to find a Clerihew about someone whose name is easy to rhyme, like Donald Trump or Condoleeza Rice say, as opposed to David Ignatow or Zbignew Brzezenski.)
Here are a couple, which like Law and Order plots, are ripped off today’s headlines:
Like a veggie out of the can, that Scooter “Libby”
Essentially scot-free from being all fibby,
He’s still driving a Bentley (not a Jeep)?
I guess it pays to be pals with The Veep.

Way down in the ratings, Ms Couric, Katie,
Gussied up for the news, all flirty and date-y,
Putting sober(?) CBS execs into a lather,
Consoled, at least, that she’s not Dan Rather.


As you can see, this stuff was "news" a few months ago, but not today.

Say-- how can we post a clerihew about a contemporary figure without including politics?

[AuntShecky]

How we networkers like to see posts by Pendragon,
His stuff is lively, when our interest is draggin.'

(Maybe somebody can come up with a rhyming couplet to finish this.)