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Thread #82010 Message #1877996
Posted By: GUEST,Gerry
06-Nov-06 - 11:19 PM
Thread Name: worst rhyme ever
Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever
Barbara quoted Tom Lehrer:
I love her and she loves me
And happy are the both of we
And leeneia wrote,
Whether he's spoofing or not, Barbara, you're right that that is an awful rhyme.
But you know the very next couplet in that song is
I love her and she loves I
And will for all eternity
With "eternity" pronounced to rhyme with "I".
Of course, Lehrer has a lot of excruciating rhymes:
When the air becomes uranious/We will all go simultaneous
The druggist on the corner, he/Was never mean or ornery
He rhymes "funeral" with a piece of "sooner or later".
Everybody say his own/Kyrie Eleison
These are all the ones of which the news has come to Harvard
There may be many others but they haven't been discovered
Plagiarize!/Let no one else's work evade your eyes!
While we're attacking frontally/Watch Brinkley and Huntley/Describing contrapuntally
And so on. Well, you could call them all awful, but since the songs are supposed to be comical, I'd rather call them awful good.