Random Thoughts

[Louanne Learning]

Did Pavlov think of feeding his dog every time he heard a bell ring?

 

[Rath Darkblade]

Did Pavlov think of feeding his dog every time he heard a bell ring?

Maybe. But if so, his neighbours would be mightily confused on Sunday mornings. "I keep telling him it's time for Church, and he said 'Not now, I'm feeding my dog!'"

Anyway, I heard a Viennese waltz on the radio this morning, and it gave me a random idea: what rhymes with Vienna? So I dashed off a bit of doggerel:

If I always behave
and work like a slave,
and not listen to Kylie Jenner,
I might drink chocolate maltz
and dance Danube Waltz
and Maybe I'll get to Vienna.

Then my brain said, "Fine. Now do Salzburg." =P And I thought, gosh, this is difficult. What rhymes with that?

There once was a man from old Salzburg
who said "I will drink chocolate malts-burg!"
He hemmed and he hawed
and timber he sawed
and said "Gee, what else rhymes with Salzburg?"

The end is a bit meta, but meh. *shrug* Finding good rhymes for place names (i.e. not something like "Salzburg" and "Augsburg", which don't really rhyme) is hard.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

How about that musical keyboard called the pienna?

 

[Louanne Learning]

I'm psyching myself up for a day of writing...

 

[JLT]

Anyway, I heard a Viennese waltz on the radio this morning, and it gave me a random idea: what rhymes with Vienna? So I dashed off a bit of doggerel:

If I always behave
and work like a slave,
and not listen to Kylie Jenner,
I might drink chocolate maltz
and dance Danube Waltz
and Maybe I'll get to Vienna.

Very nice, but Tom Lehrer has already climbed that Everest:

There once was a man from old Salzburg
who said "I will drink chocolate malts-burg!"
He hemmed and he hawed
and timber he sawed
and said "Gee, what else rhymes with Salzburg?"

Which reminds me of that old song:

"Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the esturary
Merrily merrily merrily merrily
Nothing rhymes with estuary.

 

[Rath Darkblade]

Yes, "The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz" was what I thought about when I wrote the "chocolate malts" bit ... (and yikes, I just realised I mispelled "malts" as "maltz").

Which reminds me of that old song:

"Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the esturary
Merrily merrily merrily merrily
Nothing rhymes with estuary.

Several words nearly, but not quite, rhyme ... like "Aerie". But I guess they don't count.

 

[JLT]

Several words nearly, but not quite, rhyme ... like "Aerie". But I guess they don't count.

Another rhyme-less word is "orange." And I'm sure there are more, but none as common.

 

[Homer Potvin]

Another rhyme-less word is "orange." And I'm sure there are more, but none as common.

 

[Louanne Learning]

rhyme-less word is "orange."

door hinge

 

[Rath Darkblade]

Another rhyme-less word is "orange." And I'm sure there are more, but none as common.

"Purple" is another that supposedly has no rhymes, although "hirple" (Scottish: to walk with a limp) and "curple" (the rump of a horse) both rhyme with it.

I am not sure about "orange" and "door hinge". "Orange" ends with an "ange" sound, and "door hinge" ends with an "inge" sound, so it's not a perfect match. Still better than nothing, though.

 

[JT Woody]

Today, i went kayaking.
Came across this massive catfish... writhing at the surface. Like twisting and wiggling, not really swimming. And it was doing it in slow motion... not flopping and splashing.

There was only the one. I thought maybe it had a lure stuck in it. Got closer, and it didnt swim anway. Just continued to twist. Nothing stuck in it.

Its been hours, but i havent gotten it out of my head. Wonder what was wrong with it....
As dar as i know, catfish are bottom feeders and rarely come to the surface..

(Any fishermen on here who can explain this weird behavior?)

 

[JLT]

Eminem is talking about half-rhymes, and there's nothing wrong with them in poetry or song-writing.

And I thought of another one "Orange you glad you're you?"

 

[Rath Darkblade]

Eminem is talking about half-rhymes, and there's nothing wrong with them in poetry or song-writing.

All right. I simply try to find full (or perfect) rhymes, if at all possible, because it gives me greater pleasure to see them and say them.

And I thought of another one "Orange you glad you're you?"

Oh, yes. In fact, being here gives me ex-strawberry pleasure. ^_^

 

[Dogberry's Watch]

Superpower: listening to a song on repeat for 8 hours a day for multiple days and still loving it every single time.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

I hope whoever is in your vicinity during those days has voluntary deafness for their superpower.

 

[Dogberry's Watch]

I hope whoever is in your vicinity during those days has voluntary deafness for their superpower.

Headphones keep it localized to my ears only. I'm a very considerate superhuman.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

Headphones keep it localized to my ears only. I'm a very considerate superhuman.

Headphones are a major reason my musician husband and I will celebrate 44 years of marriage next month.

 

[GrahamLewis]

I came here to post something, but forgot where I put it.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

I can completely relate to that level of forgetfulness.

 

[Rath Darkblade]

Random thought #1: Thanks to the unceasing stream of news, it sometimes seems like much of the population suffers from a short attention span.

But I, for one, will never have such a problem-- oh look, a bird!

Random Thought #2: When people were still living in the hunter/gatherer era, what did they say instead of "The greatest thing since sliced bread"? *thinks*

"The most wonderful thing since fire-dried mammoth"? "The greatest thing since berries and tiger meat?" It doesn't quite have the same ring.

Random Thought #3: If you read much Wodehouse (especially the Jeeves and Wooster stories), you're probably familiar about the phrases people used to commiserate with someone (e.g. "hard cheese, old bean" (or "hard cheese, old fruit")). Why do both of them sound like a bad menu?