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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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Auditioned for Take That
As did Tony Blair
Back when he had more hair
John Terry
Is currently feeling somewhat less than merry
While Avram Grant
Heard his final chant

- and flippin' disgraceful behaviour all round from the owner and fans. Surprised you haven't mentioned it, Rosie.
Mary Whitehouse
Liked Dangermouse
While Amy Winehouse
Has hair in which one might not be surprised to findamouse
William Butler Yeats
Was descended from Geats
While Bill Gates
Is one of Henry VIII's.
Ezra Pound
So profound
Ogden Nash
Cut a different dash.
Dr. Seuss
Was once known to have taken the services of a buxom masseuse
The Cat in the Hat
Went one step further than that!
Ho Chi Minh
Subsisted solely upon a diet of shark's fin
While Nguyen Van Thieu
Such delicacies did eschew. Is any of this true, I wonder?
Arnold Schwarzenegger [Rosie] You mean that one, or the whole gamesworth?
Faced with a gigantic budget deficit in Califiornia is a governor-turned beggar
So sooner or later
He will no longer be the Gubernator.
Luiz Felipe Scolari [Raak] good one made I larf
Is well known in the realms of Footballary
Whilst his predecessor Avram Grant
Tries to find a job, and can't. Bring back Chopper Harris, I say.
Immanuel Kant
Did a lot of introspection during a decade when he didn't rant
His Critiques, Practical and Pure
, Endure.
Take That
Will get old and fat
Until relighting the fire
Is performed under their funeral pyre
Laszlo Biro
Perhaps inspired the Spanish artist Joan Miró
While Walter A. Sheaffer
Supplied Jules Feiffer.
Wendy Alexander
Scratch-voiced gift demander
"Bring it on!" she said
And killed the game dead
And with, that, let us utter the magic Mornington Crescent words, for though Clerihews are always fun, this game has been running for a long long time, and it is time to shake things up around here.
Audience
shouts, screams, generally goes wild for CdM
I think the audience should cheer for MC5 as a whole. This turned into a really good staple, long-running game.
Shall we?

Julian Paul Assange
Said "publish and be dammed"
But he didn't foresee
What the outcome could be.
Chelsea Manning
Now into fake tanning
Formerly Bradley,
Self-styles badly.
Kevin Rudd
Too Australcentric? OK
Edward Snowden
Showed 'em
Too much information
'Bout his nation.
David Miliband
Unlike Blair, did not play in a silly band
His brother Ed
Should have been leader instead.
Gareth Bale oblig.
Is beyond the pale [Raak] Steve, surely?
With that amount of money
His financial outlook could reasonably be described as sunny. revivalism...
Bashar al-Assad
Had
Some isopropyl methylphosphonofluoridate
Which he used in manner profligate
Vladmir Putin
Hardly high-falutin' S. Wales pronunciation invoked.
Hidden text(Softers) Do disapproving Frenchmen have some fun with his name, ce putain?
Is surprisingly camp
Hidden textRosie - The French spell it Poutine, rather disappointingly.
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