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| Oct-07-11 | | Shams: Hmm, it seems there are further stylistic constraints: <http://www.bikwil.com/Vintage44/Bac...> <The number of accents in [each] line is irregular, and one line is usually extended to tease the ear. Another requisite of the successful clerihew is [at least one] awkward rhyme . . . The humour of the form lies in its purposefully flat-footed inadequacy: in addition to clumsy rhythm and rhyme, the verse’s treatment of the subject is either off the mark or totally beside the point, as though it were the work of a reluctant schoolchild.> "Reluctant schoolchild," eh? I foresee wild success among this crowd. |
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| Oct-07-11 | | Shams: A couple nice ones from Auden:
<No one could ever inveigle
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Into offering the slightest apology
For his Phenomenology.>
and:
<Mallarmé
Had too much to say:
He could never quite
Leave the paper white.>
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and one final by Louis Untermeyer:
<Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Lived upon venison;
Not cheap, I fear,
Because venison's deer.> |
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Oct-07-11
 | | tpstar: The Tragedy of Wesley So
His own fans made him go
Called him "kid" and harped on his rating too
The Barangay Wesley sacrificed their favorite unique precious carabou |
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Oct-07-11
 | | OhioChessFan: <Shams: "Reluctant schoolchild," eh? I foresee wild success among this crowd.> Maybe with some practice we'll work up to that. |
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Oct-07-11
| | OhioChessFan: Steve Jobs
In burial robes
Making eternal tracks
Always lived life to the Macs |
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| Oct-07-11 | | Shams: <OCF> Man, that Steve Jobs one is really good. You are killing this page! |
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| Oct-07-11 | | Shams: If anyone needs prompting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths... |
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| Oct-08-11 | | I play the Fred: The Phillies of Delphia,
did make some pitchers wealthier.
still lost one-zip at that;
should they have bought a bat? |
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Oct-08-11
| | OhioChessFan: Yankees and Phillies
A couple of sillies
Tried to spend their way to success
But have little to show for their prolifgate excess |
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Oct-08-11
| | OhioChessFan: Al Davis, Raider's owner
Was his own man, such a loner
NFL's gadfly loud and brash
Truly the man in black, not Johnny Cash |
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Nov-10-11
| | OhioChessFan: Unbelievable
Joe Paterno covered up
A friend's child abuse |
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Nov-10-11
| | OhioChessFan: Andy Rooney
Slightly loony
Started his weekly whine
On 60 Minutes' minute 59 |
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Nov-10-11
| | OhioChessFan: Frazier, Smokin' Joe
Tough as nails, head to toe
It's such a riddle
Why he was Ali's second fiddle |
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Nov-16-11
| | OhioChessFan: Ilya Zhitomirskiy
At 22, too young to die
Founder of Diaspora
Lives no mora |
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Nov-26-11
| | OhioChessFan: Tom Wicker
Was getting sicker
Known for covering the Kennedy assasination
Is taking his eternal vacation |
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Nov-27-11
| | OhioChessFan: Is Paul McCartney
Out on tour in Italy
Macca on the run |
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Dec-07-11
| | OhioChessFan: Harry Morgan died today
96 years along the way
Dragnet and Mash and other shows
Beloved actor, away he goes |
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Apr-21-12
 | | Check It Out: Our man Levon Helm
Were his drums made of elm?
It's his singing that gets you to stand
Now you'll just have to listen to The Band |
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Apr-21-12
| | tpstar: Dick Clark's time to leave
A staple of New Year's Eve
"American Bandstand" and his "Pyramid" game
The Times Square ball drop will never be the same |
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May-25-12
 | | offramp: Boris Gelfand
Made a fool of himself and
Lost game 8 so quickly
He was finished academically. |
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May-25-12
 | | FSR: I'd like to trouble you
with the sad tale of young Ray W.
A promising lad,
he went totally mad.
They locked him up in Kirby
and threw away the key. |
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Nov-28-12
| | OhioChessFan: Larry Hagman has died
After a wonderful ride
Everyone wishes they were JR
But I would rather have Barbara Eden call me Master when she popped out of the jar |
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Nov-28-12
| | OhioChessFan: Magnus is so great
When blindfolded with Judit
Could still concentrate |
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Jan-06-13
| | FSR: I suppose it would be in poor taste to nominate one of Weinstein's games for GOTD with the tag <Psycho>? |
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Jan-06-13
 | | perfidious: <FSR> Probably so, but why let the facts get in the way? |
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