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"A humorous pseudo-biographical quatrain, rhymed as two couplets, with lines of uneven length more or less in the rhythm of prose. It is short and pithy, and often contains or implies a moral reflection of some kind. The name of the individual who is the subject of the quatrain usually supplies the first line."

Alfred de Musset
Used to call his cat Pusset.
His accent was affected.
That was to be expected.

― alfred de musset's cat, Monday, 21 June 2004 09:47 (twenty-two years ago)

...after their inventor, the splendidly named Edmund Clerihew Bentley.

What I like about Clive
Is that he is no longer alive
There's a great deal to be said
For being dead.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 21 June 2004 09:50 (twenty-two years ago)

There once was a man...oh, wait.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 21 June 2004 09:55 (twenty-two years ago)

My little wapiti
Is private property
It is not to be handed to the council
And fed on dandelions and groundsel

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 21 June 2004 09:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Condoleezza Rice,
gives George W. advice
In security matters. He'll heed it.
(That's not to say that he'll read it.)

― Alfred de Musset's cat, Monday, 21 June 2004 10:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I have spam in my e-mail inbox
This kinda sucks apart from this one that rocks
It says "path to a million"
or is it the fan site for marillion?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 21 June 2004 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Momus posts about the Exotic Other
and reads deconstructionist books by his brother.
He likes Japan as a nation,
but was underwhelmed by 'Lost In Translation'.

― Alfred de Musset's cat, Monday, 21 June 2004 10:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Brian Ferry
Is fond of dry sherry,
Unlike Brian Eno,
Who rarely drinks Fino.

― frankiemachine, Monday, 21 June 2004 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

David Bowie is a fop;
You couldn't say that about Iggy Pop.
The former made an album called Lodger,
While the latter exposed his todger.

― Bela Lugosi's Dad, Monday, 21 June 2004 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

That one out of the cure Robert Smith
has a hairstyle that is kinda skewiff
If it wasn't for the red lippy
I'd assume he'd been for a makeover at our local chippy.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 21 June 2004 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Miles Dewey Davis the Third
Was taught to play bebop by Bird.
What luck that the son of an Illinois dentist
Should be so apprenticed.

― frankiemachine, Monday, 21 June 2004 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

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