[HN Gopher] Clerihew
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Clerihew
Author : andrewem
Score : 63 points
Date : 2021-02-07 05:21 UTC (17 hours ago)
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| bananapear wrote:
| A famous Clerihew about Bertrand Dawson[0], the man who secretly
| euthanised King George V so that his imminent death would appear
| in the morning edition of The Times rather than "less appropriate
| evening journals":
|
| Lord Dawson of Penn
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| Killed many men.
|
| That's why we sing
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| 'God Save the King'.
|
| [0]
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Dawson,_1st_Viscount_...
| Cerium wrote:
| J. R. R. Tolkien
|
| His name is Low Prussian
|
| He did not say many things
|
| Yet misatributions remain memes.
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| If you're reading Hacker News and have got time to lose
| composing a clerihew'll beat demanding satisfaction in a
| duel
| mikestew wrote:
| Credit for effort, buuuuut: _The first line contains, and may
| consist solely of, the subject 's name_
| _Microft wrote:
| If someone can name their child _" X AE A-12"_, I don't see
| an issue with calling someone _" If you're reading Hacker
| News"_ either. Right, Bobby Tables?
| nickthemagicman wrote:
| Maybe they took a little.... Poetic license? Drum roll
| klyrs wrote:
| Nick The Magician Has poems much finer than a
| smidgen The fame took his head, like a balloon of
| air, hot He don't know the difference 'tween a
| drumroll and a rimshot
| [deleted]
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| The marvelous Mikestew Is a solemn student of the craft
| of Clerihew When he sees a "quasihew": close, albeit
| outside the norm He corrects its author (as is due) to
| improve future form
| [deleted]
| jonnyone wrote:
| Good to have a term for what usually happens when people try to
| freestyle rap.
| bdarnell wrote:
| Google Reader's maintenance/downtime page was a Clerihew
| (preserved at readerisdead.com) Google Reader's
| built with electrons and leptons, meters and liters.
| We're off dealing with those particles so we can bring
| you your articles.
| nicbou wrote:
| nicbou wants to try too though he's
| hardly the poet that'd make someone wet
| temp0826 wrote:
| Paul graham
|
| Sometimes a ham
|
| Writes a lot of essays
|
| For the 'musement of the lays
| [deleted]
| doof_warrior wrote:
| Elon Musk Tweeted dawn to dusk But history chronicles
| Low cost reusable launch vehicles
| every wrote:
| I've written a few: https://every.sdf.org/.webshare/clerihews.txt
| mhh__ wrote:
| The Compiler Engineer Drunk Too much Beer Thought
| Undefined Behaviour Was His Saviour
|
| I think my future is in programming rather than poetry...
| DoreenMichele wrote:
| M H H Underscore Did deplore Their own initial stab
| At this poetic gab.
| nickthemagicman wrote:
| DoreenMichelle
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| Came here to quell
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| Any questionable viability
|
| As to the original posters capability
| aidenn0 wrote:
| Nick the magic man
|
| Risked a tragic ban
|
| By polluting hacker news
|
| With yet more clerihews
| nickthemagicman wrote:
| Sir Dang
|
| The angels sang
|
| Sheriff of hacker news land
|
| Have mercy on poor Nick the magic man
| standeven wrote:
| Aiden n zero
|
| Became a virtual an hero
|
| By reminding the mods
|
| To ban clerihew clods
| DoreenMichele wrote:
| Doreen Traylor Never went to Baylor Nonetheless
| she can always tell Someone knows how to properly
| pronounce Michele when they add that extra L.
|
| ;)
|
| (It's better than when people think it's the Italian
| version of Michael. Waaay better.)
| nickthemagicman wrote:
| Haha love it
| nickthemagicman wrote:
| Sir NicktheMagicMan.
|
| When asked to explain what's a back end man.
|
| He says it means I think golang is fine.
|
| not that I have a predilection for ladies behinds
| guerrilla wrote:
| Hacker News
|
| Composing Clerihews
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| Nothing better to do
|
| Than say something true
| nmg wrote:
| R. Buckminster Fuller, taken for a leg-puller,
| spake the truth we ignore: 1 + 1 = 4.
|
| cf. p.61,
| https://fullerfuture.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/buckminster...
| rossdavidh wrote:
| dang the moderator,
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| silenced many an internet hater,
|
| but could not make men see,
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| if 'twas pronounced "dang" or "dan-gee"
| bigdict wrote:
| HN guardian dang
|
| Made many a snake lose its fang
|
| But jokesters a few
|
| Did pen down a sick clerihew
| andrewem wrote:
| andrewem
|
| having learned of them
|
| submitted this article so you
|
| could read a clerihew (or two)
| Jugurtha wrote:
| Edmund Clerihew
|
| While choking some guy he knew
|
| Invented a poem that sounds cool
|
| It is what happens at St Paul's School
| pierrec wrote:
| Clippy, Assist me. "It looks like you're unneeded,
| All humans will be superseded."
| KineticLensman wrote:
| Bostrom's Paperclip maximiser
|
| The Eschaton immanentizer
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| Wasn't derived from Clippy
|
| So doom may be much more nippy
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