Donald J. Trump,Okay. Nice! That's from the comments to last night's "A clerihew is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley."
Like him or lump,
Wants to build a huge wall;
We'll find out this fall.
— Clyde
Clyde
Tried
To follow the rules
Unlike some of those fools.
So did Curious George:
Professor Ann AlthouseGood! First line is the name of a ((famous)) person and nothing more. Second line rhymes, then 2 more lines that rhyme with each other. There's no rule about meter or number of syllables, but keep it amusing and delightful.
Larry’s her spouse.
He helps her with blogging
And the sink when clogging.
Curious George
Knew how to forge
A Clerihew about me, Meade
And the clogging he freed.
Now, Cath did one about me before Curious George, and she followed the rules:
Professor Ann AlthouseCath
Allows us all t' grouse
In this welcoming forum
With varying decorum.
Hath
Written a Clerihew
For the literary few.
Another appropriately rule-following Clerihewer is mccullough:
John KasichMcCullough
Pronounced like basic
Wants to get along
But is getting schlonged
Could cull a
Great word from the pile
And make us all smile.
IN THE COMMENTS: Ignorance is Bliss said:
Ignorance is BlissAh! Yes:
Is seriously piss
'd, to Let's take a closer look he alluded
Yet his poem was excluded
Ann Althouse, Professor
And Meade, who impress'd her
Con-Law she unmuddies
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