Wordie: Clerihew: Comments

Comment by johnmperry, 2 months ago

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:02:04 +0000

Here the TV says Reeko or Rick-o:

Riccardo Ricco
was fingered by a medico
turned out he was dealing
while most of his team were only wheeling

Comment by yarb, 2 months ago

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:04:51 +0000

Shevek: not a strict clerihew since the first line is more than just name, but excusable since extra-funny.

Comment by yarb, 2 months ago

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:02:25 +0000

Thanks bilby!

Riccardo Riccò
went faster than anyone else could go.
He went faster than a moped
but it turned out that he was dopéd.

Comment by Shevek, 2 months ago

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:17:45 +0000

I can't remember where I found it, but one of my favorite clerihews is

Said Descartes "I extol
Myself because I have a soul
And beasts do not." Of course
He had to put Des Cartes before the horse.

Comment by bilby, 2 months ago

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:55:07 +0000

In Italian orthography, the accent shows where the stress falls. It appears in words where the stress is on the final syllable as this is a relatively 'unnatural' pattern for Italian. Still, there are certain tenses, eg. future and remote past, that fraught with finally-accented forms. So, yes, you are correct yarb. Ric-CO.

Comment by yarb, 2 months ago

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:40:30 +0000

Can an Italian-speaker help me out please? I want to do a clerihew about Riccardo Riccò - am I right in thinking you stress the second syllable of his surname? I.e. it would rhyme with go rather than thicko?

Comment by sionnach, 3 months ago

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:11:46 +0000

The two favorite clerihews in a Boston Globe contest.

Tim Berners-Lee
Invented HTTP
Thus the World Wide Web was born
For Nigerian Diplomats and porn.

Bill Gates
Has left the giant software company everyone hates.
"Hey, Mistah?
Are *you* gonna use Vista?"

Comment by bemmie74, about 1 year ago

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 01:00:42 +0000

The M-W.com example sentence always cracks me up:
My favorite of Edmund C. Bentley's clerihews is the following: "What I like about Clive
Is that he is no longer alive.
There is a great deal to be said
For being dead."