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Clerihew
- contingencies 6y agoLost souls gravitate to HN, Great vortex of odd men, Even anti-automation whiners, Just don't mention China.
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- LocalH 6y agoLocal H 40 years of age Not in a cave Burma-Shave
- 082349872349872 6y agoIf you're reading Hacker News and have got time to lose composing a clerihew'll beat demanding satisfaction in a duel
- mikestew 6y agoCredit for effort, buuuuut: The first line contains, and may consist solely of, the subject's name
- _Microft 6y agoIf someone can name their child "X Æ A-12", I don't see an issue with calling someone "If you're reading Hacker News" either. Right, Bobby Tables?
- alisonkisk 6y agoX Æ A-12 Her concerns must shelved The name's not weird, damn it! It's commonly seen on the red planet!
- nickthemagicman 6y agoMaybe they took a little.... Poetic license? Drum roll
- klyrs 6y agoNick 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
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- 082349872349872 6y agoThe 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
- temp0826 6y agoPaul graham Sometimes a ham Writes a lot of essays For the ‘musement of the lays
- mhh__ 6y agoThe Compiler Engineer Drunk Too much Beer Thought Undefined Behaviour Was His Saviour I think my future is in programming rather than poetry...
- DoreenMichele 6y agoM H H Underscore Did deplore Their own initial stab At this poetic gab.
- nickthemagicman 6y agoDoreenMichelle Came here to quell Any questionable viability As to the original posters capability
- DoreenMichele 6y agoDoreen 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 6y agoHaha love it
- aidenn0 6y agoNick the magic man Risked a tragic ban By polluting hacker news With yet more clerihews
- nickthemagicman 6y agoSir Dang The angels sang Sheriff of hacker news land Have mercy on poor Nick the magic man
- standeven 6y ago
- nickthemagicman 6y agoSir 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 6y agoHacker News Composing Clerihews Nothing better to do Than say something true
- bananapear 6y agoA 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 Killed many men. That's why we sing 'God Save the King'. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Dawson,_1st_Viscount_Dawson_of_Penn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Dawson,_1st_Viscount_...
- Cerium 6y agoJ. R. R. Tolkien His name is Low Prussian He did not say many things Yet misatributions remain memes.
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- jonnyone 6y agoGood to have a term for what usually happens when people try to freestyle rap.
- every 6y agoI've written a few: https://every.sdf.org/.webshare/clerihews.txt https://every.sdf.org/.webshare/clerihews.txt
- doof_warrior 6y agoElon Musk Tweeted dawn to dusk But history chronicles Low cost reusable launch vehicles
- nmg 6y agoR. 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/buckminsterfuller-synergetics.pdf https://fullerfuture.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/buckminster...
- pierrec 6y agoClippy, Assist me. "It looks like you're unneeded, All humans will be superseded."
- KineticLensman 6y agoBostrom’s Paperclip maximiser The Eschaton immanentizer Wasn’t derived from Clippy So doom may be much more nippy
- rossdavidh 6y agodang the moderator, silenced many an internet hater, but could not make men see, if 'twas pronounced "dang" or "dan-gee"
- bigdict 6y agoHN guardian dang Made many a snake lose its fang But jokesters a few Did pen down a sick clerihew
- andrewem 6y agoandrewem having learned of them submitted this article so you could read a clerihew (or two)
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- Jugurtha 6y agoEdmund Clerihew While choking some guy he knew Invented a poem that sounds cool It is what happens at St Paul's School
- nicbou 6y agonicbou wants to try too though he's hardly the poet that'd make someone wet
- bdarnell 6y agoGoogle 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.