Nick 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
The 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
A 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":
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 89.9 ms ] threadSometimes a ham
Writes a lot of essays
For the ‘musement of the lays
Came here to quell
Any questionable viability
As to the original posters capability
(It's better than when people think it's the Italian version of Michael. Waaay better.)
Risked a tragic ban
By polluting hacker news
With yet more clerihews
The angels sang
Sheriff of hacker news land
Have mercy on poor Nick the magic man
Became a virtual an hero
By reminding the mods
To ban clerihew clods
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
Composing Clerihews
Nothing better to do
Than say something true
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_...
His name is Low Prussian
He did not say many things
Yet misatributions remain memes.
The Eschaton immanentizer
Wasn’t derived from Clippy
So doom may be much more nippy
silenced many an internet hater,
but could not make men see,
if 'twas pronounced "dang" or "dan-gee"
Made many a snake lose its fang
But jokesters a few
Did pen down a sick clerihew
having learned of them
submitted this article so you
could read a clerihew (or two)
While choking some guy he knew
Invented a poem that sounds cool
It is what happens at St Paul's School
40 years of age
Not in a cave
Burma-Shave