Brain Teasers for Geezers

email from a friend | 11/24/2017 | unknown

[gymbeau]

One of his feet are both the same.

[Technical Editor]

Yes, I did, but I don’t understand the “Johnny” answer to number 1. The rest were fine. April, May, Johnny? I don’t get it.

[Billthedrill]

“Johnny’s Mom” named the kids. Only one kid left, so it must be Johnny.

[Technical Editor]

You wrote “there are no words in English that rhyme with ‘silver’ or ‘orange’.”

“Pilfer” and “sliver” rhyme with “silver.”

On “orange” I think you’re right.

[Technical Editor]

Too funny. I know the trick is get the person to miss information given, but I fell for it big-time, and not just once! Thanks. :)

[Mears]

““Pilfer” and “sliver” rhyme with “silver.”

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No they don’t.

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[editor-surveyor]

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Sorry!

“Range” rymes with “Orange.”

So does “Strange.”

So does “Grange.”
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[Billthedrill]

I fell for it too. (Blushing)

[Technical Editor]

Sure they do. Rhyme doesn’t mean a perfect match. If it did, half the poetry in existence that utilizes rhyming couldn’t exist. At least they rhyme in my pronunciation of English.

“Rhyme” rhymes with “dime” and “time” and also “fine.”

That’s my view, anyway. Perhaps you speak in a different American dialect. Maybe you say “pilfa,” but if you did, you’d likely also say “silva.”

It would be interesting to hear what others think.

[FXRP]

Too easy. I got them all.

[Technical Editor]

From Merriam-Webster's 11th Unabridged Distionary (I'm using definition "c"): rhyme 1 a : correspondence in terminal sounds of two or more words, lines of verse, or other units of composition or utterance: such as (1) also rhyme proper : correspondence of the last accented vowels and all succeeding sounds in two lines or units especially (as in English verse) when the sounds preceding the last accented vowel are different in the two rhyming units (2) : assonance 2b (3) : consonance 2d b : one of two or more words thus corresponding in sound c : correspondence of other than terminal word sounds: such as (1) : beginning rhyme (2) : alliteration (3) : internal rhyme d : rhyme scheme

[Technical Editor]

You think so? I can’t see it myself.... The only word I can think of that even remotely rhymes with “orange” is “porridge.”

He sat and gazed at the dimpled orange,
While his mother said, “Now eat your porridge.”

[editor-surveyor]

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As always, a proper ryme is dependent upon the preceeding phrase.
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[Figment]

Bookkeeper

[Figment]

Or purple

[Pollard]

get off my lawn

[Figment]

It may be because I’m old or something, but I can breathe through my nose with tongue out and lips open

[Louis Foxwell]

Yeah. Had to figure it out. Old. Yep.

[Fireone]

Hillary Rodham was named after Sir Edmund Hillary.
How many years later did the world first hear of Sir Edmund Hillary?

[Thank You Rush]

“”Bookkeeping””

That works too...