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Thread #26329   Message #317039
Posted By: Joe Offer
12-Oct-00 - 04:15 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Rainbow Connection
Subject: What Rhymes With Orange?
In an episode of the old children's TV show H. R. Pufnstuf, the character Witchiepoo sang a song that went:
Oranges poranges, who says, oranges poranges,
who says, oranges poranges, who says--
there ain't no rhyme for oranges!
Orange

Which word rhymes with "orange"? I can't
Think of one within this rant.
The morning sun is orange, it's true,
But later has a yellow hue.
An orange is orange all the time,
But with it nothing else will rhyme.
Perhaps there's not another word.
Then these lines would be absurd.
Or maybe I've not found it yet;
But no one I have ever met
Knows of a word that rhymes with "orange"...
I guess my poem is done.
Dilemma

"What rhymes with 'Orange'?", the poet laments.
Only some syllables that don't make much scents.
Other citrus will offer no problem to rhyme,
Be they grapefruit or lemon or kumquat or lime.

And salads from radish and raisin and apple
Can be rhymed with the entree, Philadelphia Scrapple.
Dessert from the cart simply must be a tart
Or a pie ala mode that is served ala carte.

After dinner, the study, for snifters of brandy.
You may then tell the host that Cognac would be dandy.
But alas, there is nothing that rhymes with my orange,
So I'll just cut it up and mix it into my porrange.

Mark Mullen

Rhymes with Orange (comic strip - click)
http://www.rhymeswithorange.com/
What about "door hinge"?