Clerihew Crazy

Tristesse2 said:
How bizarre, a
poet Tzara
started this debate.
T'wasn't me mate.

:)
Ah, sweet Tristesse!
Here is no mess
for a debate. I jest, of course. But wait!
Your footnote prompted that slough of wry reply, so late.

Just sayin' why, m'dear. ;)
 
reviving a fine thread:

Toulouse Lautrec
often strained his neck
drawing eye-level nipples,
but his posters caused ripples.

Sir Richard Francis Burton
whose preferences were uncertain
in harems would land
to do research first-hand.

Jude the Obscure
was deep, sick and poor.
Though the book much annoyed-a,
I got schadenfreude.
 
unpredictablebijou said:
Toulouse Lautrec
often strained his neck
drawing eye-level nipples,
but his posters caused ripples.

Sir Richard Francis Burton
whose preferences were uncertain
in harems would land
to do research first-hand.

Jude the Obscure
was deep, sick and poor.
Though the book much annoyed-a,
I got schadenfreude.
All three of these are very fine, but that last one wins the Tzara Spits Diet Coke Out His Nose award for making me laugh so hard I just cleaned my sinus cavities with weak carbonic acid. God. That is so messy.

Now I have to try and come up with a clerihew that includes the word weltschmerz. I can only hope that Lauren does so first. :rolleyes:
 
Anna Kournikova,
hot babe whose tennis career is ovah,
or should be, gives my private parts hurts.
It's just a sex thing, people. Not like weltschmerz.




Best I could do on limited notice. Lauren, anyone, help me out. I'm dying here.
 
Nikola Tesla
worked hard to impress'ya
with electrical current and flux.
Died, penniless...that sucks.
 
German, half a semester

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
will never betray us with his art
Though his biography often hurts
His music often inspires weltschmertz.
 
may need a clerihew intervention

Aleister Crowley
Styled himself holy
His press claimed he was the Great Beast
But he was mostly just an oversexed priest.
 
Mies van der Rohe
said "Less is Mo'."
A designer with moxie--
his buildings, all boxy.
 
Picodiribibi said:
Mies van der Rohe
said "Less is Mo'."
A designer with moxie--
his buildings, all boxy.
Ha ha! Dead-on perfect. I was just in New York. The Chrysler Building kicks the Seagram Building's ass.

Or would, if buildings had asses. :rolleyes:



Careful, though. You might make Lauren testy.
 
Frank Gehry
is quite often scary
in his designs. He's also hip and deft and cool—
n.b.: Bilbao, the EMP. Wild metal: warped, wounded, tooled.






Yes, as a matter of tact, I am trying to draw Lauren out of her lair. I have no idea of her preferences or taste in architecture and her current AV is merely teasing and no help, as I don't recognize the structure. I am a psychology major, after all, albeit one with a fondness for engineering (family heritage) and a love of design. Yet am I old and testy and a complainer. Perhaps I should merely retire into Cylons.
 
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Le Corbusier
stated that buildings were machines
and now they land like spaceships on planets
alien, other worldly and somehow...wrong :(
 
Lauren Hynde said:
Rem Koolhaas
is a Dutch that kicks aas;
he designed Casa da Música
and gets my raving critica.
Rem Koolhaas
sometimes uses glaas
in structures with looks
like this one, where I pick up books.

Lauren Hynde said:
Sorry, I'm still half asleep. :rolleyes:

And Mies is cool, damn it. :mad:
Mies van der Rohe
built a house in Plano,
Illinois for Dr. Edith Farnsworth.
It's the perfect minimalist shrine/church.


Who said a box was bad? ;)
 
Tzara said:
Frank Gehry
is quite often scary
in his designs. He's also hip and deft and cool—
n.b.: Bilbao, the EMP. Wild metal: warped, wounded, tooled.
Frank Gehry
builds structures quite airy;
attendees to his conference multiplied as spores
so we spilt into the airy and cold outdoors.

He autographed my poster, though.
 
Lauren Hynde said:
Rem Koolhaas
is a Dutch that kicks aas;
he designed Casa da Música
and gets my raving critica.




Sorry, I'm still half asleep. :rolleyes:

And Mies is cool, damn it. :mad:

Could a guy with a name like "Koolhaas" be anything but a kick-ass architect?
I think

Laurence Stern
wrote in Shandy, a germ
of an idea about a man's name:
Tristram's the worst, said the hero's dad--who called his son Tristram all the same.

( " -- and Nick, he said, was the DEVIL." ;) )

And Mies is cool, damn it; it's just that, spending your undergrad years studying in the shoeboxes designed by him (or inspired by his designs), you get an intimate understanding of his genius (i.e., you get license to make fun :p )
 
Le Corbusier
raises beaucoup d'hostilité
but without his Villa Savoye
you'd be an urban wolf-boy.
 
Vincent van Gogh
Cut off his ear, as you know
His vibrant colors and thick strokes
are lesser known to the folks.
 
Steven Holl,
from Bremerton (way near me) got the call
to be an architect. He designs buildings spacious,
like the Chapel of St. Ignatius.



Lauren: You're young and you have the training. I am a fake, but a tenacious one. I think I can outlast you. I'll pull out Sir John Soames, if I have to. (That rhymes, by the way. Your turn.) :)
 
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