July 10 is Clerihew Day, marking the birth date in 1875 of Edmund Clerihew Bentley, the British writer who invested a four-line rhyming verse, usually biographical in nature and resembling a limerick, that came to be known as a “clerihew.” Bentley composed the first clerihew about Sir Humphrey Davy, the chemist credited with isolating and naming aluminum.
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Freakonomics
Is a couple of comics
So Ms Lafsky’s name
Seems to fit in the frame.
Freakonomics
Is a couple of comics
So Ms Lafsky’s name
Seems to fit in the frame.
Eponymous
Would have been more synonymous
With couplets named correctly
If I was writing a bentley
Eponymous
Would have been more synonymous
With couplets named correctly
If I was writing a bentley