Clerihews

[Teremia]

ttbk
is A-OK
no SOS
needed by those confronted with his witty fuzziness.

[MithLuin]

What a wonderful mnemonic aid for the names of dead people who appear on multiple choice tests!

Good point! As a teacher, I should be paying more attention
We're currently working on Lewis Dot structures...and Newton's Laws

The chemist Gilbert Newton Lewis
taught at the two most famous schools in Massachusetts
Not well known for his sagacity,
He introduced the concept of fugacity.


Sir Isaac Newton
was not high-falutin'
He locked himself away
and discovered what was inside a light ray.

When he finally published his Principia
he assured his place in academia,
and history,
and memory.

His Laws of Motion
Explain planetary locomotion
Or why an apple falls from a tree -
it's all gravity!

Hmmm, not very helpful, since I don't mention their important acheivements. But it is hard to rhyme with Lewis!

(Interruption again - we still owe narya one!)

Edit: to add two stanzas to Newton

[baby tuckoo]

But it is hard to rhyme with Lewis!

Screw us?

Tippicanoe us?

Superfluous?




Never too many Lewises to rock the boat while . . . .

[Old_Tom_Bombadil]

But it is hard to rhyme with Lewis!

Screw us?

Tippicanoe us?

Superfluous?




Never too many Lewises to rock the boat while . . . .

Slew us!

[Old_Tom_Bombadil]

Tom da Bomb,
bouncy yet calm,
by means of impressively long-winded (and puppet-enhanced) reciting
left Teremia's kids wide-eyed and delighting.

p.s. Just last night one of the younger kids was complaining about how deadly dull she found the Tom Bombadil section of Fellowship of the Ring. "The Tom Bombadil who came to our house was MUCH, MUCH better!" she said. True story!

That's great! I definitely have to show up to your place one day in costume.

[narya]

Ho Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo
Now you've got us in quite a picadillo
Raising the ante for m00ts
To costumes right down to the boots.

[Old_Tom_Bombadil]

Narya, Narya
Driving near and farya
To pick-up mooters
Who lack motor scooters

[narya]

Tom:

When I read Jnyusa's post
I realize it's the most
I've learned all week
I can hardly speak.

Brian is smiling at yous
As he rattles off clerihews
His delightful cliches
Have us in stitches

Hey, it works if you come from the right neighborhood.

[vison]

An Olympian named Clara Hughes
Is the object of this clerihew.
Clara rocks, she's quite the gal,
Medals for skating and bicycals.

[narya]

When writing a poem on Mahima
It's important to find the right theme (uh)
Otherwise you'll find out
What that frying pan's about.

The dashing, artistic, Whistler
Is far more handsome than a fistula.
He had is own swooning thread
But it didn't go to his head.

Hey, it wasn't easy to find a rhyme for Whistler!

[WampusCat]

What? Challenge our Whistler?
Best unfold that fist, sir.
In this thread we saw
That he's quick on the draw.

[Whistler]

[Jnyusa]

Indeed!

I'm still trying to think of rhymes for Teremia.

Jn

[Whistler]

WampusCategorically denies
That she has retouched her kitty's eyes
To make them more azure.
Salute her in verse? My plazure.

[Old_Tom_Bombadil]

I'm still trying to think of rhymes for Teremia.

Teremia
Went to Laramia
Wyoming?
For to go a roaming!

[narya]

Such a lovely person is Teremia!
I look forward to my next chance to see ya!
Where a chocolate hot
Would hit the spot.

So - is it June - use - ah
That rhymes with apaloosa?
Or Jenny - uh - saw
Like Mardi Gras?

[Jnyusa]

Definitely Mardi Gras.

Jn

[Teremia]

All hail Jnyusa,
resident genius, a
heck of an economist,
and someone who when absent is definitely sorely missed.

[baby tuckoo]

Transferred from elsewhere




Our contentious Ethel,
An irascible vessel,
Is not, we would hope, a
Contrarian Stolpa.

[Angbasdil]

So - is it June - use - ah
That rhymes with apaloosa?
Or Jenny - uh - saw
Like Mardi Gras?

It's "levi-ooooh-sa", not "levio-saaaah".

or am I the only one who's reminded of that line when I read this clerihew?