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Humorous Poetry
Issue #36
Saturday, May 10, 2003

Hi Friends,

Your poetic wz-ard Gunjan
will do anything for some fun.
He seems to have a screw loose,
as is obvious from his clerihews !


The clerihew is a bit of rhyming doggerel invented by
Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956). Traditionally,
it's a four-line verse made up of two rhyming couplets,
with meter intentionally (often ridiculously) irregular. Its
purpose is to offer a satiric or absurd biography of a
famous person.


Clerihews by Dean Zimmerman
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This is how Dean introduces his site - "I've wasted an
inordinate amount of time on the lowest verse form in
existence, the Clerihew. Here's the cream or the dregs,
depending on how you look at it."
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/misc/clerihews.html

Philosophical Clerihews by Ronald de Sousa
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A few more gems ;-)
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~sousa/CLERIHEWS.html

Clerihews in T-Town
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Results for a clerihew contest that visits Hollywood.
Some of the the Clerihews are a wee bit cheesy but then
what do you expect when reading about hollywood stars.
Some masterpieces ensured that I couldn't leave out this
collection.
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/wordgame/wg404.htm

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Your poetic wz-ard Gunjan,
is for now - done.
You won't hear from him a sqeak
but that's just for another week.
 
;-)

Best Wishes,

Gunjan Saraf
Your Humorous Poetry WZ-ard

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