Ten Little Wine Geeks

[Jonathan Loesberg]

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
...no amount of Blakean orthographic jurisprudence can change that...

There was a little girl who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead.

When she was good she was very, very good
And when she was bad she was horrid.

And when she was bad she was co-ed.

Actually a slant rhyme, just as Jeff's was. To rhyme forehead fully, it would have to be corehead. Of course, as a rhyme of just the last syllable, which is all it takes, it works. But horrid gets both syllables, even if slant. Whatever one thinks of Longfellow, he could rhyme with the best of them, when he chose.

 

[robert ames]

or borehead, or forehead, or gorehead, or sorehead?

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

originally posted by robert ames:
or borehead, or forehead, or gorehead, or sorehead?

Yes, of course, but I was playing with Oswaldo’s co-ed.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
...no amount of Blakean orthographic jurisprudence can change that...

There was a little girl who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead.

When she was good she was very, very good
And when she was bad she was horrid.

And when she was bad she was co-ed.

Actually a slant rhyme, just as Jeff's was. To rhyme forehead fully, it would have to be corehead. Of course, as a rhyme of just the last syllable, which is all it takes, it works. But horrid gets both syllables, even if slant. Whatever one thinks of Longfellow, he could rhyme with the best of them, when he chose.

Tardive and five you think is the same kind of rhyme as forehead and co-ed? Jeez, I hesitate to ask, but does anyone here think that the dive syllable in Tardive sounds like dive as in dive into the water? If so, that might explain some of the dissonance in this debate.

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
...no amount of Blakean orthographic jurisprudence can change that...

There was a little girl who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead.

When she was good she was very, very good
And when she was bad she was horrid.

And when she was bad she was co-ed.

Actually a slant rhyme, just as Jeff's was. To rhyme forehead fully, it would have to be corehead. Of course, as a rhyme of just the last syllable, which is all it takes, it works. But horrid gets both syllables, even if slant. Whatever one thinks of Longfellow, he could rhyme with the best of them, when he chose.

Tardive and five you think is the same kind of rhyme as forehead and co-ed? Jeez, I hesitate to ask, but does anyone here think that the dive syllable in Tardive sounds like dive as in dive into the water? If so, that might explain some of the dissonance in this debate.

No. Tardive/five is an eye rhyme. Forehead/co-ed is a slant rhyme. I never said it was an eye-rhyme.There are many other types of off-rhyme.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

When you attend a funeral
It is sad to think that sooner or l
ater those you love will do the same for you.

And you may have thought it tragic
Not to mention other adjec
tives to think of all the weeping they will do!

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
...no amount of Blakean orthographic jurisprudence can change that...

There was a little girl who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead.

When she was good she was very, very good
And when she was bad she was horrid.

And when she was bad she was co-ed.

Actually a slant rhyme, just as Jeff's was. To rhyme forehead fully, it would have to be corehead. Of course, as a rhyme of just the last syllable, which is all it takes, it works. But horrid gets both syllables, even if slant. Whatever one thinks of Longfellow, he could rhyme with the best of them, when he chose.

Tardive and five you think is the same kind of rhyme as forehead and co-ed? Jeez, I hesitate to ask, but does anyone here think that the dive syllable in Tardive sounds like dive as in dive into the water? If so, that might explain some of the dissonance in this debate.

No. Tardive/five is an eye rhyme. Forehead/co-ed is a slant rhyme. I never said it was an eye-rhyme.There are many other types of off-rhyme.

Oki
Doki

In an episode of Start Trek Voyager that we watched last night en famille there is a moment when Commander Tuvok, a Vulcan, says "that begs the question whether we, too, are sleeping." Vulcans are a race dedicated to logic, so it is somewhat ironic that the Hollywood scriptwriters made him misuse an expression that means a kind of faulty (or at least circular) logic.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

It is sad to think that sooner or l
ater those you love will do the same for you.

Took a bit to realize that the final letter of the first line is a lower case L instead of an upper case i, so the choice of type can get in the way.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

There was a young lady from Dee
Who went down to the river to read
A man in a punt
Stuck an oar in her eye
And now the poor girl has to wear glasses.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

An invisible rhyme, known only in the mind.

(I used a special font for Oswaldo's benefit.)

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

OK, this one stumps me. A limerick that doesn't rhyme and isn't a dirty joke, or a joke of any kind, with imperfect meter in two of the lines.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
OK, this one stumps me. A limerick that doesn't rhyme and isn't a dirty joke, or a joke of any kind, with imperfect meter in two of the lines.

Your mind is insufficiently dirty, then.

Or, perhaps, insufficiently puerile.

Try again.

Make it rhyme.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
OK, this one stumps me. A limerick that doesn't rhyme and isn't a dirty joke, or a joke of any kind, with imperfect meter in two of the lines.

Your mind is insufficiently dirty, then.

Or, perhaps, insufficiently puerile.

Try again.

Make it rhyme.

By channeling my inner child I got the first two, but the deflationary last line evades me.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
By channeling my inner child I got the first two, but the deflationary last line evades me.

Bravo! Well done!

To the best of my knowledge, there is no unspoken rhyme for the last line. It is, after all, thoroughly broken doggerel and this proves it. (Or, if you prefer, lump it in with how many surrealists it takes to change a light bulb, or the elephants passing the soap.)

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

Having roughly the same luck as Oswaldo, I looked this one up. There are many variants. In one, the last line is "O, how I wish it was me." Most variants use ellipses to indicate that the line's last word needs to be changed. The only value to this exercise was seeing dirty limericks (an obvious pleonasm, I know) that were cleverer.