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Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Re: The Rhymeless

      Re: Rachel Maddow

Who's busy droppin' 
aitches…? 
Some horse revealin' 
raches…?*
Some cow concealin' 
naches…?**
Nope: Maddow (i.e., 
Rache') is!*** 
     * A streak on the beak
    ** A bump on the rump 
    *** The woman did study at Oxford

     Re: Michael Pollan

That's rich – buyin' rhymes for 
'arugula.'
Mr. Pollan’s both lavish 
and frugal, huh…?

     Re: Sancho and the Don

I'm quizzin' Quixote, 
"What rhymes, Don, with 
'purple'…?"
when suddenly Sancho, 
astride Dapple's 
curple,*
opines, "Don’t ask Don
his brain's halt; he'll but 
hirple.**
Snaps Don: "Pacé, Panza, 
or suffer my 
nurple!"***
     * The hindquarters of a horse or, 
in this case, a very gentle donkey. 
     ** To walk with a limp; to drag a limb; 
to hobble 
     *** A portmanteau of 'purple' and 'nipple' 
(It's clear the Don is a bit of a bully.) 

     Re: Faegheh Atashin

G'oosh: you're rife with rhymes for 
'woman' -- 
you who weighs your wage in 
toman.* 
     * Iranian singer Ms. Atashin, aka 
Googoosh, surely remembers the toman, 
a Persian gold coin. 

   Re: William Inge

Please say it once 
more, Inge:
"There are rhymes for 
'orange.'"*
     * One being 'Blorenge,' referring to a hill
in southeast Wales.

     Re: Sir William Walton

You'll search – oh, yes, you 
will -- fer
more words to rhyme with 
'silver.' *
     * There is, of course, 'chilver,' meaning
a ewe lamb.

     Re: A. A. Milne

I can find no rhymes for 
'kiln.'*
Does the bear know any, 
Milne…? 
     * If 'kiln' is pronounced with the 'n' 
silent, a partially similar versified query 
can be addressed to young Eulenspiegel 
of musical merry pranks fame.

     Re: Tom Brokaw

You who'd find a rhyme for 
'plankton': 
do quiz Brokaw, bloke from 
Yankton.

     Re: Genesis’s Noah

Pair the rhymeless word 
'midst'…?
Surely, Noah, thou 
didst.

     Re: Robert Moog as Bob the Builder

Do you need a rhyme for 
'plinth'…?
Bob will build one...on his 
synth.

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