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Thursday, August 31, 2023

Wurds 4X: Rhyme Time

Heard an MTG streamer describe a creature with flying, double strike and vigilance as "flappin', double slappin', never tappin' ". Brilliant! As PG remarked, if it had also had lifelink, she could have added "sappin' ".

In a "Doctor Who" audioplay, Tegan uses the cute phrase, "More than an inch to pinch." Sounds like an oldie to me. Sounds kinda saucy, too. Google suggests it may be a reference to an '80s Special K cereal slogan.

In Danish, peng is money and pung is a purse or wallet. So, amusingly to my brain, you put your peng in your pung. But I need a rhyme... "The boy hid money under the bed" = Drengen gemte penge under sengen.

On an episode of "In Our Time" about mathematician Paul Erdos I was listening to while doing the washing up, they quoted this clever limerick:

A problem both deep and profound 
Is whether a circle is round. 
In a paper by Erdos, 
Written in Kurdish, 
A counterexample is found.

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