Re: Re : Irritating word puzzle.

Padraic Brown wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Charles wrote:
> >Another is: if you are a poet, how will you rhyme "month"?
> >(From John Barth, "The Sot-Weed Factor".)
> >
> >Another bad one is "orange". We solved that one in
>
> What was so hard about it?  I can think of grange, range, arrange,
> derange, mange; cringe, syringe, singe, hinge etc. right off hand.
I always understood rhymes to begin on the last stressed syllable.
That's the trick with orange.  It's not just got to rhyme with "rindZ"
but with the whole word, because the first syllable is stressed and
VC.

> Radio shows were awash with the supposed "list" this week, including
> Ruby Ridge....
A famous incident where the belowmentioned federal thugs killed a
man's wife and child when they undertook an all-out armed assault on
his cabin because he missed a court date concerning a minor infraction
of gun laws (which was itself arranged by the federal thugs, as part
of a sting operation).

Paranoiac armed anti-federal-government freaks generally have a
problem with this.  Oddly enough, it is also generally assumed that
there is no reason to have a problem with this unless you are a
paranoiac armed anti-federal-government freak.

>, whatever the heck that is, anthrax (Wasn't she one of nuns
> or whatever in Monty Pythons HG?),
A viral disease affecting humans and cattle which some paranoiac
freaks have from time to time been alleged to be planning to release
as a terrorist action.

Also, the name of the *castle* full of maidens with a Grail-Shaped
beacon in the Holy Grail. :)

> the Unabomber, etc.
I assume you've heard of him. :)

>  Well if one of
> Uncle Sam's thugs happens to read this (in contravention of the
> Constitution), he can jolly well tell me why it's supposed to be so
> hard to rhyme "orange".
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