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Wow, I didn’t know I could sustain a single cringe that long.
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What once was popular is now nightmare fuel. Such is the cruel irony of pop culture.
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It is Witchypoo
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door hinges
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Ah, Robbo just beat me to this…
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Um, has nobody heard of bloranges? Cuz there’s a rhyme, right there.
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Oranges rhymes with silver.
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“Poor Gamgeses?”
#gollum slant rhymes
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The canned laugh track really makes it a lot worse.
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there’s a song by the band Pavement where they challenge you to rhyme a word with “Pavement”. I immediately started singing to the melody "tell me where the cave went. I’m looking all around. For holes here in the ground. " I guess it’s not a perfect rhyme but it would work in a song.
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Eating an orange
While making love
Makes for bizarre enj-
oyment thereof.
-Tom Lehrer
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So Janis Joplin didn’t die?
I can’t find the original, but I recall something like, “if more engineers wore orange brassieres…”
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Orange is easy to rhyme with:
Dump, bump, crump, schlump, hump, etc.
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I’m sure all the drugs that the Krofts and their team were taking made each show seem like a masterpiece that would endure forever.
I love it. Eminem is clever that way.
He can intuitively recognize that the word “orange” is two syllables (although it’s typically pronounced in one beat), so he splits “or” and “inge” sound and rhymes everything off the second syllable: “inge” to “hinge”/“inch”, and then with “porridge” and “George” he pulls the same trick rhyming the second syllable of “orange” with the second syllable of “porridge” and “George”. It seems funny/non-sensical when you write it out but when you vocalize it, it works – and he’s not just lazily making up words to make it all fit.
And this is why Eminem is an extremely well-respected rapper… and I’m not.
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Gorringes.
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