Teach-in Clerihew

UnderYourSpell · May 2, 2014

Short humorous poem invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. It is biographical and usually whimsical, showing the subject from an unusual point of view, but it is hardy ever satirical, abusive, or obscene. It consists of four lines of irregular length (for comic effect) with a rhyme scheme of aabb. The first line consists solely (or almost solely) of a well-known person's name (the subject of the poem).

Carl Gustav Jung
was very well hung,
a fact which annoyed
Sigmund Freud.

Tzara's take on the subject

UnderYourSpell · May 2, 2014

Hugh Grant
found you can't
hire a whore
outside the law.

twelveoone · May 2, 2014

twelveoone
loads o'fun
classic ass-it
now kiss it

Angeline · May 2, 2014

Headline Clerihew

Prince Harry's ex
is done with her rex
but gets leave from her job
because he acted a nob.

todski28 · May 2, 2014

Angeline said:
Headline Clerihew

Prince Harry's ex
is done with her rex
but gets leave from her job
because he acted a yob.

Suggest change line to nob

Angeline · May 2, 2014

todski28 said:
Suggest change line to nob

Done! Now tell me what it means? Like a dickhead?

todski28 · May 2, 2014

Angeline said:
Done! Now tell me what it means? Like a dickhead?

Colloquial australian slang for a dick

Angeline · May 2, 2014

todski28 said:
Colloquial australian slang for a dick

Yeah you are right. It is better.

UnderYourSpell · May 2, 2014

Beryl Cook
as a subject took
ladies just
with figures robust!

UnderYourSpell · May 2, 2014

todski28 said:
Colloquial australian slang for a dick

originally English slang from knobhead which is self explanatory! When we exported out criminals to Oz they took our slang with them!

butters · May 2, 2014

UnderYourSpell said:
originally English slang from knobhead which is self explanatory! When we exported out criminals to Oz they took our slang with them!

also nob = posh/elite/gentry
and we all know how yobbish some nobbish can act

UnderYourSpell · May 2, 2014

butters said:
also nob = posh/elite/gentry
and we all know how yobbish some nobbish can act

how true, I'm knackered the brain isn't functioning lol and some prat is doing my head in on Facebook in one of the groups I run, all because he refuses to say please may he advertise in my group just goes ahead and does it! Don't people have manners these days?

pelegrino · May 3, 2014

VENI, VIDI, VICI

Being like Julius Cesar,
I nearly had a seizure,
With you, been so bitchy:
Veni, vidi, vici.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veni,_vidi,_vici

UnderYourSpell · May 3, 2014

pelegrino said:
VENI, VIDI, VICI

Being like Julius Cesar,
I nearly had a seizure,
With you, been so bitchy:
Veni, vidi, vici.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veni,_vidi,_vici

Was about to applaud you finding a rhyme for Cesar when I couldn't, then wondered if I was being called bitchy?!!

pelegrino · May 3, 2014

Oh, dear me!
I would never called that a lady like you.
I'm only writing for someone else's edification.

:rose:

Angeline · May 3, 2014

Fanny Squeers had quite a face,
a form that no one would embrace.
She came upon them honestly:
most Squeerses are monstrosities.

(Ok, it's a near rhyme but I wanted to write about the Squeerses.)

The thing about the Squeerses
is that they are rather queerses:
their charmless personality
is matched by their brutality.

UnderYourSpell · May 3, 2014

pelegrino said:
Oh, dear me!
I would never called that a lady like you.
I'm only writing for someone else's edification.

Then I'll just applaud you for the fabulous rhyme

UnderYourSpell · May 3, 2014

Angeline said:
Fanny Squeers had quite a face,
a form that no one would embrace.
She came upon them honestly:
most Squeerses are monstrosities.

(Ok, it's a near rhyme but I wanted to write about the Squeerses.)

The thing about the Squeerses
is that they are rather queerses:
their charmless personality
is matched by their brutality.

Lol

I've never heard them called Squeerses before!

Angeline · May 3, 2014

UnderYourSpell said:
Lol I've never heard them called Squeerses before!

That part was the special "Angeline" touch.

pelegrino · May 3, 2014

And rhyming it with "queerses", makes pure music!!!

Angeline · May 3, 2014

pelegrino said:
And rhyming it with "queerses", makes pure music!!!

We need to talk more about music, I love music as much as I love writing, but I can only listen and appreciate it.

Angeline · May 5, 2014

Vanity Clerihew

He has a little ego
un poco loco chico
a chip of animosity
but really mediocrity

Angeline · May 5, 2014

Welcome Dr. Jeckyll
You who crow and heckle
Wallowing in pride
Until you're Mr. Hyde

UnderYourSpell · May 6, 2014

Tom Jones
a good voice owns,
does he belch
in his native Welsh?

pelegrino · May 6, 2014

Tristan and Isolde,
Stood out in the cold,
So she begged, "Perform!",
And he kept her warm.

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