# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/61 "2016-05-24T03:44:04Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > The last two have me wondering how “Nadal” is pronounced. For me, “-dal”\* rhymes with neither ball nor butthole. Poetic license was taken. 🆒 \*the sound of “open wide and say ah”, or the first vowel in solid. ---
**Author:** ![Elemenopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2016, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/62 "2016-05-26T14:47:43Z")
Was Peter Peter, the pumpkin-eater a real person? Because that fits the style and predates ol’ Clerihew by a few years. 😉 Andrew Zimmern Went out for a swim, and He opened up his beak And swallowed the whole creek! Bob Ross Could paint like a boss He could paint happy trees Quicker than a sneeze. Julia Child Was a cook skilled and wild On offal she’d dine With [tun](http://www.dictionary.com/browse/tun) of good wine. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/63 "2016-05-27T20:28:27Z")
Morley Safer Gave many miscreants public and private much to pay for Looking back on the history of _60 Minutes_ The decline of hard-hitting investigative TV journalism in America is a sad thing, innit? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2016, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/64 "2016-05-28T08:31:10Z")
Sir Walter Raleigh Introduced tobacco from the Shenandoah Valley: All went well till anti-smoker new king Jim Imprisoned, and ultimately death-sentenced, him. Robert Mugabe Paid a brief visit to Derby\*, Where he was addressed by the Mayor: “By ‘eck, tha’s sure mucked things up over there”. \*British pronunciation – “Dahby” ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2016, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/65 "2016-05-28T14:41:51Z")
P.G. Wodehouse Buys a good house. With proceeds he receives From Wooster and Jeeves. Andrew Lloyd Webber. What’s his latest endeavor? I doubt it will be as popular As Phantom of the Opera ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2016, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/66 "2016-05-28T14:56:33Z")
Angela Lansbury Success in a hurry, without a worry When she started out in Mame She found fame and ended up a Dame ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2016, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/67 "2016-05-28T15:01:53Z")
Don McLean What does that song mean? That you’ll forever be known as the guy Who hit fame with American Pie. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2016, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/68 "2016-05-28T15:21:26Z")
Robert Fulghum He started earning a good income With an essay that was spartan: All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/69 "2016-05-28T15:34:37Z")
Jeff Buckley Your life ended unluckily But success finally come to ya Posthumously, with “Hallelujah” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2016, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/70 "2016-05-29T06:32:52Z")
Ukulele Ike Found a crickety gig to like Folks who read his resume would say “Isn’ he Makin’ beaucoup bucks for Disney?” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2016, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/71 "2016-05-29T06:43:45Z")
Helen Lyndon Goff, Born in Australia (which is pretty far off), Sat upon her fanny, And created a magical nanny. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/72 "2016-05-31T13:13:12Z")
Matt Groening I’m not complaining Your show is great, but _oy vey!_ The title makes me think of O.J. Gregory McGuire You should have aspired higher Wicked had no equals But we hardly need three sequels Stephen Sondheim You write a good rhyme From West Side Story To Sweeny Todd (considerably more gory) Tim Rice Word of advice Your lyrics screwed up the Bible Joseph and Jesus should sue you for libel ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/73 "2016-05-31T14:07:42Z")
O.J. Simpson Though you did win one. The second trial made history. Put you where you ought to be. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2016, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/74 "2016-07-18T05:36:07Z")
Harriet Beecher Stowe Wrote quite a bit, you know But seems remembered solely For _Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly_. Or as Edmund Wilson said, “If there is something to be said for the author’s claim that _Uncle Tom’s Cabin_ was written by God, it is evident that the nine novels that followed it were produced without divine intervention by Harriet Beecher Stowe herself.” ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/75 "2016-08-01T18:56:14Z")
A couple lately come to mind, about two prominent figures in the alternative-history field. Harry Turtledove Is an author whom many both hate and love. He can display highly-imaginative vision; But also, be the world’s worst for self-repetition. S.M. Stirling, Encountering some dervishes, whirling; Said: Guys, on your religion I’m not keen – I’ll write a new history, in which it’s never seen. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/76 "2016-08-15T02:25:56Z")
I had rather Willa Cather Hadn’t wrote (end of quote). ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/77 "2016-08-15T08:36:36Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > I had rather > Willa Cather > Hadn’t wrote > (end of quote). Funny, but it would have worked just as well in the orthodox formatting. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/78 "2016-08-15T22:45:05Z")
That’s funny, a perfect case of the [Baader-Meinhof phenomenon](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion): I was reading the wiki article about G. K. Chesterton two hours ago and passingly stumbled about the fact that he did write clerihews, which I had never heard of before. And now I see this thread, so I can’t leave it without my very first clerihew, and of course it’s about Dylan: Bob Dylan Was always thrillin’ Though the sounds from his throat Sound to some like a goat ---
**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:** [August 16, 2016, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/79 "2016-08-16T00:30:15Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > That’s funny, a perfect case of the [Baader-Meinhof phenomenon](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion): I was reading the wiki article about G. K. Chesterton two hours ago and passingly stumbled about the fact that he did write clerihews, which I had never heard of before. And now I see this thread, so I can’t leave it without my very first clerihew, and of course it’s about Dylan: > > Bob Dylan > Was always thrillin’ > Though the sounds from his throat > Sound to some like a goat Clicked your link, learned something new and laughed out loud over the picture accompanying this wiki entry. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684/80 "2016-08-16T00:42:53Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Clicked your link, **learned something new** and laughed out loud over the picture accompanying this wiki entry. [Emphasis mine] Be prepared to hear more about the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon in the next days ;). ETA: and about shrimp, of course. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clerihews-you-make-some/501684.md?page=5)