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Rush Limbaugh yaks and yaks
Of shoes and ships and sealing wax
And also of how anyone who is to the left of Genghis Khan
Is leading us to hell, and so on.
 

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Newt Gingrich
Developed an embarrassing itch
But he got it sorted
With some cream he boughted
 

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Real Madrid
Never hid
A lifelong devotion
To Franco's regime and its fascist notion.
 

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MidlifeMark
Loved to spark*
When he was single
And made the girls tingle.

*old-fashioned term for getting it on.
 

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Wrapped his sandwiches in foil
And loved the moment when
He could say, 'Foiled Again!'
 

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J. Edgar Hoover
Was a shaker and a mover.
He never shrank from fights,
And he had a pal with whom he spent quiet nights.
 

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Hoovers®
Aren't much sought-after by looters.
What they're looking for
Must fit horizontally through any door.
 

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Margaret Thatcher
They say no one could match her
Especially at darts
And rip roaring farts
 

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The Iron Lady
Has always been somewhat shady.
She again put herself on the list
Blue Labour --are you getting the gist?
 

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Madonna
May or may not smoke marijuana,
But it can’t be denied that she smokes
In another sense, at least for most blokes.
 

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Madonna from the Bible
Has sued for libel.
Unless you're paying homage to her lawyers
Stop copying her image -- you're not flawless.
 

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American politics
Is a bag of tricks,
But there's one sure rule there:
You're more likely to win if you're a millionaire.
 

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The Most Serene, the Dalai Lama,
is ironically at the centre of international drama.
He'd love to return to his digs in Tibet,
but because of the Chinese, he can't go just yet.
 

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The Reverend Spooner found his niche
was in transposing the leading consonants of words in his speech
he wouldn't have become renowned in our nation
if he had made more frequent use of alliteration
 
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"Why, Mr. Webster, I am surprised!",
said the woman, finding her husband with the maid, her virtue compromised.
"My dear, you misspeak," the lexicographer admonished;
"It is I who am surprised; you are merely astonished."*

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*: adapted from an anecdote (perhaps apocryphal). cf The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes, Clifton Fadiman, ed. A brilliant source of fun stuff from throughout history.
 
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Her Majesty has an old castle,
But she finds living there a hassle,
So she goes to a more pastoral home in the north
Where she can ride horses, and so forth.
 

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Johnny Cash
dressed in black with rustic panache.
If'n you like good music, then give a listen
to his lyrical tale 'bout life in Folsom Prison.
 
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Johnny Cash
Not only liked hash.
He sure tried it all
And yet, stayed on the ball.
 

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Eric Burdon
Loves a good bourbon.
What's more, he once declared War
Which I still absolutely adore.
 

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Oscar Wilde
Had his bathroom tiled
With a glass mosaic
Which his friends found somewhat prosaic
 

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Jerry Garcia
is not an example of onomatopoeia
A fan favourite is Truckin'
And this clerihew ends poorly
 

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Margaret Thatcher
needs an actress to match her
But Streep's hit a snag:
she can't fake a hideous old bag