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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-21-05 08:21 PM
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Supposedly, there are 3 words in the English language with no rhyme...
One is "silver", another "orange". Does anyone have a clue as to what the third is?
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Finder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-21-05 08:24 PM
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1. Purple
tough one for poets.
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-21-05 08:31 PM
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4. I think thats the one I heard originally from an English major...
Thanks
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-21-05 08:35 PM
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7. Chirple: Check it out
CHIRPLE/CHIRRUPING - A quick high-pitched single note noise, having 101 usages including yes, no, greetings, farewells, etc. (more common in firelizards)

http://igenweyr.ipstenu.org/weyrling/wrr-sounds.shtml
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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-21-05 08:24 PM
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2. More than three...
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-21-05 08:33 PM
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5. I think I might have heard "month" before but never "bulb"
Thanks
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BattyDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-21-05 08:24 PM
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3. Month?
:shrug: I think I read that somewhere.
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-21-05 08:34 PM
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6. Purple was what I was searching for, but I've also heard it with "month"
and had forgotten that. Thanks for the reminder!
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LibertyorDeath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-21-05 08:43 PM
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8. Vulva....OK what do I win
:)
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-21-05 09:11 PM
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9. I've got one!
"Though he was a man, and he had no vulva
No Cossack was campier than Taras Bulba"




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LibertyorDeath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-21-05 10:02 PM
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10.  Taras Bulba LOL
Thought you were gonna say Mulva :)
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JimmyJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-21-05 10:05 PM
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11. Oranges, porganes....who said....
Oranges, porganes....who said...
Oranges, porganes....who said...
there ain't no rhyme for oranges.

****

Thanks for the most ridiculous earworm of the week :crazy:

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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-21-05 10:22 PM
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12. Why, my dear, that would be
Witcheepoo from HR Pufnstuf!



Damn, that was a long time ago!
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