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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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I.M. Pei
Designed the glass pyramid structure over the Louvre that is reviled and adored equally by Parisians and was brought to dubious fame by Dan Brown whose yarn is, quite frankly, pie in the sky
On the other hand, Richard Rogers
Had no truck with bodgers.
Oscar Hammerstein
Would that the the first or second in line?
"The the the the the the," was one lyric he wrote
In response to which, Richard Rodgers left him a very snotty note
Che
Whaddya say?
He was a middle-class Argentinian that ended up as a Marxist revolutionary in Cuba somehow
And on to grace t-shirts worn by those who think they're cool now.
Fidel Castro
Is the maestro
He reeks of cigars
He hated the Czars.
Ho Chi Minh
Had quite a few hairs on his chinny chin chin
On the other hand, Nguyen Van Thieu
Considered shaving to be very much part of his world view
Syd Barrett
The last brick just fell out of his garret
After they'd sacked him, the rest of Floyd wished he was here
Although, had he stayed, would David Gilmour have had a career?
Nelson Mandela
Had an ex-wife Winnie whose behviour was far from stellar
He crossed paths in a peaceful way with F.W. de Klerk
Who viewed the end of apartheid as more than just a quirk (sorry to get two lines into this one; it's just that it's been languishing unfinished for days...)
Kylie Minogue (irach) Fair enough, but to rhyme it has to be said in deep Scouse. :-)
A neighboutly girl whose singing was at one time very much in vogue
If only she'd stayed with Jason Donovan
Nice boy, but they wouldn't have got in on often.
Alanis Morisette
Is old enough to have recorded on casette
Whereas Jo Brand
Is old enough to have had her act recorded in longhand
Stephen Harper
Wishes that Shay Given would not sign a new contract at Newcastle United, and just scarper. I suspect we may not be talking about the same Mr Harper, but the NUFC reserve goalie is the only one I know
Meanwhile Tim Krul
Maybe only young but is certainly no fool
Folk troubadour Bob Dylan
Was held to be the evangelist of the sixties protest movements but their attribution was misgiven
As for Pete Seeger [Phil] No we're not, but yours is better.
When it came to the shift from acoustic to electric, he wasn't eager
Jimi Hendrix
Did bluesy note-bend tricks
With his teeth
Which numbered twenty-six
I never realised before that "teeth" rhymed with "six!"
[Darren] I must have been in CleriGlowWorm mode.
How about:
Jimi Hendrix
Did bluesy note-bend tricks
With his teeth
Which were woven into his wreath
Germaine Greer Chalky] Nice save
Has no peer
And Simone de Beauvoir
Has said au r'voir.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
Was an existentialist old fartre
Nevertheless, his works confronted basic religious bprinciples and he thus seriously pissed off Pope Pius the twelfth who had his books banned for reading by the good catholic faithful
For which only they were grateful.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Sired many children and encouraged his friends to do so
Among his enemies was Voltaire
Who, among his other contributions to the Enlightenment, first coined the term au pair
Zinedine Zidane
Everyone but the French thinks he's insane
Never mind how much he was provoked by Materazzi
You can't do that in front of so many paparazzi
[Tuj] Brilliant - I couldn't think of a 4th line, but I hoped someone would be inspired :-)
Vladimir Putin
Won his political spurs while disputin' [Phil] I blush!
This is the way with most politicians (Tuj) You shouldn't. It were a good'un.
But (sharp intake of breath) when it comes to estimates and billing, you'll find it's a practice employed by numerous electricians
Steve McClaren
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