TOT dire rhymes

As I cooked Sunday tea tonight I listened to some old British dance band
tracks, and I was struck by the poetic ingenuity displayed by some of
the lyrics. For instance, how on earth did someone think up,
"You have so many thrillables,
I'm all out of syllables!"

Anyone else got a similar couplet that springs to mind?

Bill

On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 01:35:44 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

As I cooked Sunday tea tonight I listened to some old British dance band
tracks, and I was struck by the poetic ingenuity displayed by some of
the lyrics. For instance, how on earth did someone think up,
"You have so many thrillables,
I'm all out of syllables!"

Anyone else got a similar couplet that springs to mind?

Bill

I don't know who wrote that but I would describe it as Porteresque.

My favourite Cole Porter couplet is the one ending with, "You're
Inferno's Dante"


--
Graham.


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Bill Wright wrote:

As I cooked Sunday tea tonight I listened to some old British dance
band tracks, and I was struck by the poetic ingenuity displayed by
some of the lyrics. For instance, how on earth did someone think up,
"You have so many thrillables, I'm all out of syllables!"

Anyone else got a similar couplet that springs to mind?

Bill

From a Bonzo Dog song:

Can blue men sing the whites
Or are they hippocrites?

--

On 20/01/2014 11:46, Ashley Booth wrote:
Bill Wright wrote:

As I cooked Sunday tea tonight I listened to some old British dance
band tracks, and I was struck by the poetic ingenuity displayed by
some of the lyrics. For instance, how on earth did someone think up,
"You have so many thrillables, I'm all out of syllables!"

Anyone else got a similar couplet that springs to mind?

From a Bonzo Dog song:

Can blue men sing the whites
Or are they hippocrites?

Billy Bragg:

It may have been Camelot for Jack and Jacqueline
But on the Che Guevara highway filling up with gasoline
--
Phil Cook

Graham. wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 01:35:44 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

As I cooked Sunday tea tonight I listened to some old British dance band
tracks, and I was struck by the poetic ingenuity displayed by some of
the lyrics. For instance, how on earth did someone think up,
"You have so many thrillables,
I'm all out of syllables!"

Anyone else got a similar couplet that springs to mind?

Bill

I don't know who wrote that but I would describe it as Porteresque.

My favourite Cole Porter couplet is the one ending with, "You're
Inferno's Dante"



It's from 'You're the top'.

Bill

On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 01:35:44 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

As I cooked Sunday tea tonight I listened to some old British dance band
tracks, and I was struck by the poetic ingenuity displayed by some of
the lyrics. For instance, how on earth did someone think up,
"You have so many thrillables,
I'm all out of syllables!"

Anyone else got a similar couplet that springs to mind?

Not exactly dance band, but this one always makes me smile-

"Taken from the county jail
By a set of curious chances;
Liberated then on bail,
On my own recognizances;"
(W S Gilbert)

Then of course there's-

"Somebody needs to know the time, glad that I'm here"
(Lennon-McCartney)

and-

"My auntie's antisocial plant"
(Jake Thackray)

I think these illustrate that there's a difference between a bad rhyme
and a daring one.

Rod.

On 20/01/2014 01:35, Bill Wright wrote:
As I cooked Sunday tea tonight I listened to some old British dance band
tracks, and I was struck by the poetic ingenuity displayed by some of
the lyrics. For instance, how on earth did someone think up,
"You have so many thrillables,
I'm all out of syllables!"

Anyone else got a similar couplet that springs to mind?

Bill




i'm always annoyed when i hear a song that rhymes 'love' with 'velvet
glove' - there seems to be a lot of them and it just sounds silly.
who wears velvet gloves anyway?

--
Gareth.
That fly.... Is your magic wand.

On 20/01/2014 23:00, Martin wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 18:23:20 +0000, the dog from that film you saw
wrote:

i'm always annoyed when i hear a song that rhymes 'love' with 'velvet
glove' - there seems to be a lot of them and it just sounds silly.
who wears velvet gloves anyway?

Bad poets?

Folk with iron fists.
--
Phil Cook

Phil Cook wrote:

who wears velvet gloves anyway?

Bad poets?

Folk with iron fists.

Oh yes, of course...

Bill

Phil Cook put finger to keyboard:

On 20/01/2014 11:46, Ashley Booth wrote:
Bill Wright wrote:

As I cooked Sunday tea tonight I listened to some old British dance
band tracks, and I was struck by the poetic ingenuity displayed by
some of the lyrics. For instance, how on earth did someone think up,
"You have so many thrillables, I'm all out of syllables!"

Anyone else got a similar couplet that springs to mind?

From a Bonzo Dog song:

Can blue men sing the whites Or are they hippocrites?

Billy Bragg:

It may have been Camelot for Jack and Jacqueline But on the Che Guevara
highway filling up with gasoline

Albert Hammond:

"It never rains in California, but girl don't they warn ya. (It pours,
man, it pours)"