# Clerihews, you make some. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 2, 2009, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684 "2009-07-02T12:46:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/41 "2016-04-27T18:08:58Z")
Lebron James Plays games With other big men He outscores by 10 ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/42 "2016-04-27T18:14:42Z")
Ted Cruz He’s going to lose The Republican nomination To Trump, that abomination ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/43 "2016-04-27T18:14:49Z")
Donald Trump Exposes America’s ugly rump No matter what he says, however stinkin’ Ugly/evil/stupid, you know it really is what millions are thinkin’ Bernie Sanders Agitates, while Clinton panders Choose cynical or shrill? Pick your poison, pay the bill ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/44 "2016-04-27T20:16:04Z")
Rodney Dangerfield A man to whom no one would yield, be it a relative or some derelict. Quoth the man: “No respect.” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/45 "2016-04-27T20:50:12Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Salt, A World History is not as boring a book as it may sound. It’s full of salty little tidbits, like this passage: > > \ Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Hey hey hey Goodbye. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/46 "2016-04-27T21:08:48Z")
Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert Made many a teenage wrestler’s ass to hurt Will all the impassioned apologetics of Tom DeLay “The Hammer” Suffice to keep Hastert’s own ass out o’ the slammer? ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/47 "2016-04-27T21:56:22Z")
The artist formerly known as Prince found his purple suit faded in the rinse, And was forced to meet his maker, they say Wearing only his raspberry beret. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/48 "2016-04-27T21:58:41Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > Ok, I thought of another. > > Marcel Proust > Sought _le mot juste_ > But gave up at last > And wrote _Remembrance of Things Past_. Were you working on that one for 7 years? 😛 (I don’t have any problem with the resurrection, it’s just humorous reading this thread, seeing you posted in it before, and then casually saying you thought of another like it took you all 7 years to think of it) ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/49 "2016-05-02T02:15:24Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > Were you working on that one for 7 years? 😛 > > (I don’t have any problem with the resurrection, it’s just humorous reading this thread, seeing you posted in it before, and then casually saying you thought of another like it took you all 7 years to think of it) More or less, I suppose. That is, I’ve done other things meantime, or thought about them, but came up with no clerihews I was crazy about. But let me try to ride this wave of inspiration just a bit longer… Homo habilis Liked being fabulous But (having nothing to do with fools) Used tools. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/50 "2016-05-22T00:31:39Z")
Crispus Attucks Went on the make the big bucks. He used the massacre at Boston To promote his line of delicious homemade cake frostin’. Plz excuse. I was reading CLASSIC ILLUSTRATED COMICS “Negro Americans” online and got to Crispus Attucks and immediately thought “Oh my god CLERIHEW.” > **[Comic Books Online](http://comicbooksonline.blogspot.com/search/label/Negro%20Americans)** > > Featuring Stories by the World's Greatest Authors ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/51 "2016-05-22T00:39:25Z")
Prince Hall Feared the Redcoats not at all. Recruited slaves to do some Brit-chasin’ Was the first black man to become a Mason. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/52 "2016-05-22T00:46:40Z")
Benjamin Banneker Being Christian, never celebrated Channuker. He built Washington and published almanacs But was born too early to play sax. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/53 "2016-05-22T00:50:34Z")
Phillis Wheatley Made her bed very neatly. She decorated her garden with plaster gnomes And George Washington enjoyed her poems. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/54 "2016-05-22T01:06:40Z")
Matthew Henson Was a hero and thenson! He got Peary’s butt to the Pole with little or no thonx And ended up buried in the Bronx. [http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=208](http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=208) ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/55 "2016-05-22T01:14:03Z")
Wait…I swear to god I saw Matt Henson’s gravestone in Woodlawn Cemetery. Did they move his moldy bones to Arlington? When did THAT happen? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/56 "2016-05-23T02:09:08Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Wait…I swear to god I saw Matt Henson’s gravestone in Woodlawn Cemetery. Did they move his moldy bones to Arlington? When did THAT happen? [No, not Arlington . . .](http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/pm.aspx)_urp_ ---
**Author:** ![emulsified](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emulsified/32/2915_2.png) [@emulsified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emulsified)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/57 "2016-05-23T18:06:19Z")
Prince Rogers Nelson I’m sorry you fell, son. You gave up your crown When de-elevator brought you down. Donald Trump Gave Ted Cruz a thump, Comments on his daughter’s boobs, And is the favorite of rubes. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/58 "2016-05-23T22:36:34Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Rafael Nadal > Can really hit the ball > He plays left-handed > And head-banded Rafael Nadal Picks his butthole His OCD tics? I give them a miss. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/59 "2016-05-23T22:41:16Z")
The last two have me wondering how “Nadal” is pronounced. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/60 "2016-05-23T23:07:42Z")
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