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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 caused an equal number to griin
Ianto Jones
Is just one of Dr Who's clones
While the Angelic vampire
Is moonlighting in a male-voice choir
Apologies for cros posting - I would like to print up a poetry book (not to be read out) to use in a play. Details: www.dunx.org/cgi-bin/forum?forum=game00001&bookmark=20080215:170216&before=3&after=3

If responding, answer at Orange, not here. Thanks.

Merlyn Haven't had a round of nepotic ones for a bit.
Rushed in
Whereas Phil (Tuj) Don't you mean incestuous?
First wrote a will.
Juxtapose
Is good at prose
On the other hand, Phil
Has his verse down like a regimented drill
Chalky
Is not in the least bit porky
But Tuj
Likes his fudge.
Irach [phil] aww, thanks
Does not hail from Iraq AFAIK
Whereas Rosie
Around the world is known to mosey actually I'm from the U.S. by way of India, and my name rhymes with "catch".
Software
Likes to share
Especially with Kim
But that's him.
Bigsmith
Enjoys the flavor and texture of pith
On the other hand, Quendalon
Eats flesh 'till dawn.
blamelewis
Has not,to my knowledge, swum the Gulf of Suez
whereas if one looks closely, Juxtapose [irach] It's on my list for tomorrow, promise...
Has twelve toes.
Phil
Does his accounts with a quill Quaintness invoked.
While Merlyn
Drinks neat gin
Simons Mith
Has a cult following, and in some circles is considered a myth
The chief devotee of which is Irach lets try rhyming this one again (see above)
Who does so while eating a bacon batch Midlands dialect invoked for rhyming purposes.
Irouléguy
Penned a eulogy
Whereas rab
Irach] You're my besht mate - you are!
Found it drab
Projoy
Is goy?
Just ask Raak
He'll taalk.
Herr Bratsche
Does he sport a moustache?
Kim
Is he tall and slim? (Softers) Doesn't Bratsche rhyme with Thatcher, for his sins?
CdM
Masc. or fem.?
We may never know
He or she does, though.
mc5
Very much alive
But sadly, Mr Wild Pants
Interrupting flow -[Rosie] Yes, with German pronunciation, but he is from Brum, isn't he?
No longer hosts even our mild rants. He is, and plays the viola, Ger. die Bratsche. Man of your calibre, I dunno.
York
The MC server? Extinct like the great auk
Yorkies
Has gone walkies
MCiOS
Where Giant ants rarely try us
But Orange is still there
Though my visits are rare. (Raak) So you, like me, reckon it's half Scots, half Greek, viz Mc-Eye-oss.
[Rosie] I go with that, at least mentally. Part of the reason I set it was to see what the next person did!
Google
Sometimes requires a quick shoogle
While Magellan
Is quite strait.
Ask.dotcom
Goes down a bomb
But AltaVista
Does all sorts of inappropriate things with your sister.
ebay
Where you pay
Through PayPal
For illicit napal(m). Not v. good, but it's difficult.
Second Life
Where I met my wife
The best thing is that she is virtual
'Cos she'll hurt y'all.
WoW
As Kate Bush sang (and how!) (World of Wha..?)
CoH
Doh!
The Buddha
You mean the big fat buggah?
He weren't from Yorkshire
But try telling that to the young people today and they won't believe you - no sir! Regional pronunciation invoked
Noam Chomsky
Watched your mom ski
Whereas Karl Marx
Was buried in one of London's parks.
...Karl Marx
Opened a store with his brother Sparks
Whereas Harpo
Sings with the celestial choir as he plays his harp, oh!
Actor and gun-toter Charlton Heston
Played in many a Western
He liked guns, it would seem
And lots of Brylcreem.
Karl Marx and Charlton Heston
Suffered with indigestion
While Vladimir Lenin and Rock Hudson
Are, as far as is known, both unrelated to the Danish inventor of an ingenious type of vacuum gauge, and furthermore one which does not require calibration aginst a known standard, the gentleman in question being the one and only Martin Knudsen. I'm sure Vladimir Lenin played in goal for LiveSteamInjector Dnepopetrovsk in the '60s. The last few AVMA's have got me thinking there must be some kind of collective dementia in the air.
Noted lunatic Syd Barrett
Tried to grow a prize carrot
But when he took it to the local fayre [Rosie] 60's? When he was in the glass tank I presume then!
He, and it, were taken into care (Tuj) Nah, it was another Lenin (probably).

Could I ever-so-gently remind contributors that this is Clerihews, not Pea & honey Recipes.

Patrick Troughton
When not in a Tardis drove a 650 Norton
Whereas Jon Pertwee
In his Fiat 500, cared little whether or not people thought it were twee.
Jack Nicholson
Looses his cool with other road users and caves their windscreens in
This is where we have obtained the word "carjacker" from
And also "Nicholodium"
Renowned German mathematician Leonhardt Euler
Developed functions surrounding numeric squares because he mislaid his ruler
Unlike Michael Schumacher
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