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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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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
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