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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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Whose soul, like Matisse's, has now gone starward
Geoffrey Chaucer
Few were coarser
But his characters were true to life
Though it's unclear whether any were based on his wife
Garibaldi
Famous for both biscuits and perhaps less importantly, the reunification of Italy
Was abducted by Shadows
Then Hank Marvin presented him to the Pope as one of many cadeaux[Raak] Do you have to go out of your way to find words with no rhymes, or is it a gift?
Margaret Beckett
Is known to yell "Feck it!"
While Donald Duck
Says something altogether different
Mickey Mouse
Has much nous
Goofy, however presented as a candidate for feedline of the month
Was very far from clever [ISP] thanks
The new Justice Ministry (departing, for a moment, from human subjects)
Is a little bit sinistery and from words with rhymes. I dunno, man of your calibre.
But the Home Office, however
Is a fundamentally oppressive endeavour
America's "Department of Homeland Defense"
Must cost a few cents
While the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Relies on congressional alms
Morgan Tsvangirai
Has one hell of a black eye
Even for an African, if the frivolity may be pardoned
Though after so many years of Mugabe, his physique may have hardened
Robert 'Honest Bob' Mugabe
I always at The Derby
Pisspots! For "I" read "Is".
With Zimbabwe's rate of inflation, he looses less with every race
But don't tell him that to his face.
Ronnie Corbett
Should be sent into orbit
- Just my little joke
Well, he is a little bloke
Judas Iscariot
Had such a burden of guilt that he could barely carry it
Borges wrote a story in which Judas was the Saviour
How else to explain such odd behaviour?
(Apols for taking two lines, but they came to me fully formed.)
The great prophet, peace be upon him
Surrounded in the heavens, by cherubim and seraphim
Must be pissed off at what those fundamentalists are up to
And, consoling himself in drink, found that one was insufficient, so supped two.
John Cleese
Has remarkable knees
Whereas those of Terry Jones
are knobbly old bones
Eric Idle
Studied at Heidel-
berg
He preferred that town to Stuttgart
Which he thought down at heel, or other foot part. . . . . . contrived
Posh Spice
Has lice
With a pair of shears
She'll cut off David's ears or perhaps other bits
Madonna
An adoptive momma
Is such a material girl
And wishes she'd married an imperial earl.
Harry Belafonte - This is getting to be a habit
Is the hero of US Ambassador to Iraq John Negroponte
Maybe because he wants to be in America or because he has an Island in the Sun
Or perhaps because he wants to record a song that gets to number one
Michael Vaughan - to save nfras the job
Probably wishes he had not been born
W.G. Grace [Vaughan] I prefer to pronounce it Faugh ghan, as in 'conclusion'.
Would have called him a disgrace. Nice easy one, ISP. :-)
Jenny Agutter
Few would toss the term "slag" at 'er
But you can't help but notice
To be alone with her would surpass the joys of the lotus.
Biggie Smalls
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