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Posted on 11/24/2017 1:17:22 PM PST by sodpoodle
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To: dr_lew
One of his feet are both the same.
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posted on
11/24/2017 4:19:38 PM PST
by
gymbeau
(America...great again!)
To: knarf
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.
To: Technical Editor
“Johnny’s Mom” named the kids. Only one kid left, so it must be Johnny.
To: sodpoodle
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.
To: Billthedrill
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. :)
To: Technical Editor
“Pilfer and sliver rhyme with silver.
No they don’t.
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posted on
11/24/2017 4:25:20 PM PST
by
Mears
To: Technical Editor
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Sorry!
“Range” rymes with “Orange.”
So does “Strange.”
So does “Grange.”
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posted on
11/24/2017 4:26:27 PM PST
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: Technical Editor
I fell for it too. (Blushing)
To: Mears
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.
To: sodpoodle
Too easy. I got them all.
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posted on
11/24/2017 4:38:38 PM PST
by
FXRP
(Just me and the pygmy pony)
To: 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
To: editor-surveyor
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.”
To: Technical Editor
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As always, a proper ryme is dependent upon the preceeding phrase.
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posted on
11/24/2017 4:49:40 PM PST
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: Az Joe
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posted on
11/24/2017 4:59:58 PM PST
by
Figment
To: sodpoodle
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posted on
11/24/2017 5:01:06 PM PST
by
Figment
To: sodpoodle
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posted on
11/24/2017 5:04:27 PM PST
by
Pollard
(TRUMP 2016)
To: Louis Foxwell
It may be because I’m old or something, but I can breathe through my nose with tongue out and lips open
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posted on
11/24/2017 5:04:47 PM PST
by
Figment
To: Figment
Yeah. Had to figure it out. Old. Yep.
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posted on
11/24/2017 5:07:08 PM PST
by
Louis Foxwell
(Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
To: sodpoodle
Hillary Rodham was named after Sir Edmund Hillary.
How many years later did the world first hear of Sir Edmund Hillary?
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posted on
11/24/2017 5:11:33 PM PST
by
Fireone
(Lock Her Up! (and 100 of her accomplices))
To: HusbandMan
“”Bookkeeping””
That works too...
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