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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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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
Who always kept one on hand; when his female assistant mis-solved those complex theorems, he'd whack her.
It's nice, but doesn't "Euler" rhyme with "boiler"?
Plummy voiced art critic Brian Sewell [Kim] I'm afraid I've still only got a provisional poetic licence :o)
Would like to douse modern art with lighter fuel
And had he been born a hundred years earlier, he would have wanted to take Brasso
When he saw the works of Picasso.
Superman
"That's what he thinks" says multi-tasking super wo - man More fun with Brian Sewell
When struck by red kryptonite
He goes out like a light
Humphrey Lyttleton, jazz trumpeter and host of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
Who?
Ah, I posted that before I learned the news that he had died. Let me restart Phil's tribute.
Phil - Humphrey Lyttleton, jazz trumpeter and host of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
His passing all will rue
In the Morniverse there will be a hole
For one who played with soul.
Madonna
(Blessings be upon her)
Fondled Britney
Very quickly.
Ronnie O'Sullivan
Has, apparently, as foul a mouth as the late Philip Larkin, but the similarity ends there as he does not live in Hull, even Brevity is soul of wit, blah, blah, blah, but WTF am I supposed to do with this? grumble, rage, fume.
So he takes 'medication' [Rosie] I knew you'd rise to the challenge :-)
For the sensation.
Steve Davis
His wife's called Mavis (Chalky) Course you did, m'dear.
If you'll bring me her head
I'll kill you dead.
Alfredo Garcia
Lives in fear
That he will lose his head, like Marie Antoinette or the Baptist, John
Or worse, that he'll be played in the remake by Vince Vaughn
Sid Vicious
So meretricious
Sang about anarchy
Which made the BBC rather panicky
Fred Bloggs
Had two dogs
While that Damon guy- with the first name Matt
Had acquired a taste for Baltic sprat
Lloyd George
Saw Cheddar Gorge
Daily
Unlike Disraeli [CdM] I presume that's what you had in mind.
Golda Meir
Was told, "stay 'ere!"
But she moved instead to Palestine
Which is known more for milk and honey than sherry or wine
Walid Jumblatt
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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