Sunday, July 10, 2016

Clerihew Day

Gotcha there, huh? My only other choice today was Pina Colada Day and I have to admit, I'm not a fan. So let's learn about clerihews. Invented by Edmund Clerihew Bently, a clerihew is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem. It's meant to be funny and about a famous person. I promise that I tried to make one up myself, but poetry is so far out of my wheel house that I had hang it up. So I'll just share one of Bently's, which he wrote in 1905.

Sir Christopher Wren
Said, “I am going to dine with some men.
If anyone calls
Say I am desigining St. Paul’s."

Charles, I'm guessing you could do this. Joe just said last weekend that you're the funniest person he knows. So I'm throwing down the gauntlet...

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