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Cleri Who's Who
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Four lines rhyming AABB - scansion, rhythm, metre and all that malarkey is as random as-u-like. Oh yes - the featured subject, usually a person, is mentioned in the first line.
Here's a full and frank(ly better) intro by Thos along with some that were made earlier.
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Has an Olympic bid on the go
But we'll always remember him best
As a man who ran fast in a vest
[K,R,D,T] :-)
Risque comedian Chris Rock
Will, during the Oscars, mock
many, but Razzie-winner Halle Berry
Will escape with just a gentle poke from England and Chelsea defender, John Terry. allegedly
H. G. Wells
Was driven to the end of his tether by the sound of bells
Whereas Edgar Allan Poe
Gladly gave them a go.
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Is, in all but the following respect, completely unlike Norman Mailer:
Tim is on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue,
In which he claims he was, like Mailer, a sergeant in the US Army during World War II.
Humphrey Lyttelton
Ever admired, not a belittled 'un Bastard rhyme, Tuj.
Is assisted by Sven and Samantha
Who, as anyone knows, are about as real as The Pink Panther.
Peter Sellers
An actor more liked by women than by fellers Speaking of bastard rhymes...
Goodness gracious!
His appetite for ladies was really quite voracious.
Rudolf Hess [Rosie] Oops, sorry! [D,I,R,S] Nice one, right out of the music hall!
Got into a mess
When he heard Spandau Ballet's famous hit record, "Gold",
He then knew why to stay in prison he was told.
Rudolf Hess, Commandant of Auschwitz
Was known to have a soft spot for us Brits
And eventually, when he was found by the Scots
who, despite his good intentions, concluded that the leopard cannot change its spots.
[Darren] No, no, no. You are confusing Rudolf Hess, the subject of the prior clerihew, with Rudolf Hess.
[CdM] I wondered if there were two Rudolf Hesses, and indeed asked at the pilg at the weekend about this, but the consensus was that there was only one. Now, assuming you're right and there were two, it's still the case that most people in my survey weren't aware of that fact and really you have to expect this kind of confusion.
[Darren] Well, if you are going to take the word of a bunch of drunk Crescenters over that of the Great And Mighty Google, you really only have yourself to blame. :-) But, oddly enough, yes there were two senior Nazis called Rudolf Hess (although the Auschwitz Hess is sometimes written as Hoss, or Hoess, or Hoss with an umlaut).
Er, can I start another one. Oh good.
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