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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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[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.
Mark Twain
Travelled here to Europe, then went home again
The only thing that can be said about what he wrote
Is that he wrote prose and was not a pote.
Marco Polo
Went solo
Whereas Vasco de Gama
Was accompanied by a llama.
Guglielmo Marconi
Was considered by some to be a phoney
But by signalling across the Atltantic
He allowed The Times' American correspondents to become less frantic
What is it with this game and bastard rhymes?

Former Prime Minister Edward Heath (Irouleguy) It's a pedantic semantic antic.
Was proud of his teeth
In certain places better known as the Grocer
A ladies' man? Oh, no sir!
Maggie Thatcher
Can anyone match her?
What? The Iron Lady? Handbags at Dawn?
"Sink the Belgrano!" She gave Little Englanders the horn.
William Shatner
Took 'is missus by the scruff of the neck and threatened to flatten'er
Then sang "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
And took care to over-emphasise the rhymonds [Raak] You're evidently in sadistic rhyming mood.
Charlotte Church
Should be given the birch
For beating up boyfriend's who have no discression or tact
Let her be whacked.
It's a foregone conclusion
That some of these poems instead of naming the subject straight off will only reference them by allusion
And, inevitably, while some will be formatted incorrectly,
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