2009!
I misread it, and on the bus yesterday composed this, which is definitely 2010.
I don't think I like the competition anyway. The chief merit of a clerihew is that it is short, sharp and rhythmically surprising. A triple one just becomes twelve lines of doggerel, like this rather grumpy example:
Charlie Gilmour
Wishes people would chill more.
Swinging from the Cenotaph
Was only meant for a laugh.
What's surprising is that despite his dad's loud asseveration
That nobody needs no education,
And despite seeming intellectually puny
This bloke gained a place at uni.
One, moreover, that is usually seen as a discerning
Place of learning.
A spokesman for Cambridge university
Claims that the admission of the occasional twerp proves the institution's commitment to inclusivity and diversity.
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