"'No Hint Has Clint'? Long out of print in Flint..." The Rain in Spain Constrain'd Yields Strains Insane: Nonsense Phonetic Exercises in Rhyme

TCM screened Pygmalion last night. The film version portrays more of the phonetic exercises Professor Higgins puts Miss Doolittle through than does the My Fair Lady musical version, though not enough. Not nearly enough. 

"No Hint Has Clint"? Long out of print in Flint.

Their goal in Seoul? Control their ozone hole.  

Who'd mull a scull through Dol?* Their chances? Null!

    * Dol-de Bretagne, France 

Hugh Grant's in Hants*, romancin' his great aunts. 

     * Short for Hampshire in the UK 

The luge is huge in Bruges, not Baton Rouge.  

My stays in Hays*? Unphased by Les Malaises. 

     * In Kansas 

The snow at Meaux*? Aglow! (How apropos!)  

     * In France

In Gaul, their Wal-Mart's all of ten feet tall.   

Sri Ram from Guam? A prominent imam. 

It’s sad how bad the haddock tastes in Chad. 

A push through Kush could smush my tender tush. 

The myrrh from Ur's imperfect -- that's for sure. 

You'll learn: in Cerne, they've furniture to burn. 

The sleet in Crete? Replete with cream of wheat.  

When snow in Stowe don’t show, you mustn't go.  

Some jakes in Aix house snakes, for heaven sakes!  

Men yearn in Berne to spurn the joint return.  

Few males in Wales raise snails in painted pails. 

Toulouse's Jews: abusive to Peru's?  

The grease in Nice displeases Suisse police. 

Who'd dance in France with pants-less Philo Vance?  

Sid spit in Split, admitted it, and quit. 

In Perth, they've earthy mirth -- for what it's worth.  

Will hoi polloi in Troy employ no goy?  

In Ghent, I lent some gent my last month's rent.  

Which dome in Rome was home to Ethan Frome? 

The sky o'er Rye* is dry. (I wonder why.)

     * In New York 

Pre-teens in Wien* are frequently unclean. 

     * Vienna, Austria 


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