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Re: Re : Irritating word puzzle.

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Sunday, October 24, 1999, 0:47
On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Ed Heil wrote:

>Padraic Brown wrote:
>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.
We never really learnt much about poetical mechanics (until Latin class). So final syllable rhyme has always been sufficient.
> >> 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).
What, they didn't have anything better to do that afternoon?
> >Also, the name of the *castle* full of maidens with a Grail-Shaped >beacon in the Holy Grail. :)
d'oh! Well, I was close... Padraic.
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