This strange procession marched through the streets of Weihui, a town in Henan, central China, on November 4. A donkey meat-seller engaged four men to walk down the main street, past the social security office, dressed as devils - the Japanese soldiers that occupied China in the Second World War.

Higgledy-piggledies are more sophisticated than clerihews: they comprise double dactyls and rhymes and aren't always biographical.

… proceeding, desperately, from such opiated catarrh preparations as Collis Brown's Mixture on to cocainized brain tonics, cigarettes soaked in absinthe, xylene in unventilated rooms, and so on ….

Robbins went on, "Henry wouldn't do anything that wasn't cricket. Me, I was raised in a river ward and I'm not bothered by niceties. […]