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Silly Question of the Week #1 |
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by Ray Arias
Email: rariasuiuc (nospam) hotmail.com (verified) |
16 Apr 2005
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Can you come up with a rhyme for Orange? |
Silly Question of the Week #1
Format: I will ask everyone in a number of forums and blogs I write in a question and then people can respond and at the end of the week we'll all see what everyone has to say. If appropriate, I'll chime in with my own response to the question and respond to other people's responses at the end of the week. Often the question will be political in nature, but occasionally, as in this case, they'll have to do with some random thing that has been bugging me. For this reason, I will post this under a miscellaneous category out of everyone's way. I might copy more interesting responses and record them in an archive available on a web page, but let's cross that bridge when we get to it.
Question of the week for April 17 to 23:
In the recent M&Ms commercial, "Will & Grace" star Megan Mullally (who plays Karen) sings a short rhyming phrase for each color of M&M. At the end, she gets to Orange and, after loudly and brightly singing "ORANGE! You're so..." the music abruptly stops, a frustrated look comes over her face, and she says, "Wait! Nothing rhymes with Orange!" I think she's wrong. Can you think of things that rhyme with Orange, or that at least come close, and, that go along with the music in the commercial?
You can find Megan Mullally's bio on the NBC site: http://www.nbc.com/Will_&_Grace/bios/Megan_Mullally.html
And since it would probably be a violation of copyright law for me to recite the lyrics of the entire commercial, if you have never seen the commercial before (or, just for grins and laughs, you want to see it again) you can find it on the M&Ms site:
http://us.mms.com/us/fungames/tv/ under "Nothing Rhymes with Orange."
By the way, I hereby affirm that I do not work for NBC, M&M/Mars, or Ms. Mullally and that I am just some weird guy who is trying to find out if there is a rhyme for Orange.
Have fun! And see you next week!
Ray :) |
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The Answer |
by some drunken frat boy
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16 Apr 2005
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Duh, like, Illini ryhmes with orange. |
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Re: Silly Question of the Week #1 |
by gehrig
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16 Apr 2005
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I think Yip Harburg, in a pinch, once rhymed it with "door hinge."
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Clue #1A, April 18 |
by Ray Arias
rariasuiuc (nospam) hotmail.com (verified) |
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18 Apr 2005
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Clue #1A, April 18:
I'm beginning to see that in asking these questions to a group of people, I am able to learn things I never even thought about when I asked the question. For example, the word "rhyme" can mean a number of things.
In "eye rhymes" the spelling of the words are similar, but not necessarily the sounds, as in flood and mood.
A "head rhyme" or "initial rhyme," also known as alliteration, is the matching of beginning letter (usually consonant) sounds, as in flood and flame. Though it may be obvious from the context, I should make it clear that this is not the type of rhyme I was referring to in the question.
A "tail rhyme" or "terminal rhyme," which is what most people think about when using the word "rhyme" is the matching of final sounds. But even the exact meaning of this can vary. There are "end-of-word rhymes," also just known as "end rhymes" for short, that only require the last (or only) syllable of each word to have the same vowel and final consonant sounds, as in thing and spinning. There are "final-syllable rhymes" that entail having identical last (or only) syllables in each word, as in king and picnicking. "Imperfect rhymes" have stress on different syllables, as in everyone and begun. In "double rhymes", the last two syllables (of words having two or more syllables) must have the same vowel and final consonant sounds, as in piper and lifer, and "double perfect rhymes" require that the next to last syllable match in this way and that the final syllable be identical, as in planet and granite.
Anyway, my point is that I found out that finding a rhyme for a word depends on how demanding one is in defining what counts as a rhyme. The more this definition is constricted, the more difficult it is to find a rhyme, until, in the case of a word like "orange," it becomes impossible, while at the same time, if the definiion of rhyme is less restrictive, many possible rhymes for "orange" can be discovered.
But it's up to you how you wish to rhyme.
Ray :) |
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By the way... |
by Ray Arias
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18 Apr 2005
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By the way, thanks for the tip on Yip Harburg. I'm still trying to confirm it, but not much information yet exists on E. Y. Harburg on the WWW (and 95% that is there is in wikipedia.com).
Ray :) |
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Sorry... |
by Ray Arias
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28 Apr 2005
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Sorry...
I was going to post the next question... but I'm recovering from a big data loss meltdown my hard drive had recently. See ya next week.
Ray :) |
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Ask a Silly Question and get...Silly Answer #1 |
by Ray Arias
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16 May 2005
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Ask a Silly Question and get...
Silly Answer #1
Sorry everyone, but my hard drive was vaporized for a while and I had to partially recover and partially reconstruct everything that used to be in it. Needless to say, I have been extremely preoccupied for the past few weeks.
Now, as to answers I came up with for things that rhyme with orange. Now, as you may imagine, these are not perfect rhymes (having the same number of syllables where the first syllable has the same vowel and final consonant sounds and the other syllables match exactly) but I think they are still pretty good.
Eye rhymes:
Orange,
You are out of my range
Orange,
You sure are strange
Thank you, Yip Harburg (I think):
Orange,
You make my mouth swing like a door hinge
Orange,
You make my mind unhinge
Enjoy!
I'll post the next question soon...promise!
Yours Orangely,
Ray :) |
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Re: Silly Question of the Week #1 |
by Ray Arias
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16 Mar 2006
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Yes... but it depends entirely upon how you say... enunciate the word "Orange"...
Such as "expunge"
Plunge...
Lunge
or...
Cringe
Binge |
