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General => Everything Else => Topic started by: fuzzyoctopus on November 23, 2004, 03:30:20 AM
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Gemm, I don't know if you'd like to take on this responsibility, but you might be surprised how many things there aren't any words for.
So I propose that when we need a new word coined, we post the definition here and Gemm makes up a word that fits the definition.
What say ye, Sir Gemm-a-lot?
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I am up for it!
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So, no one needs a word generated for some kind of definition?
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Well the one I was thinking of when I posted this, I couldn't remember if I'd asked elsewhere on the board. So I was looking and then I forgot.
I need a word for a fake-out rhyme. Or rather, there needs to be a musical or poetical term for making the audience think you're going to make a specific and obvious rhyme and then deliberately not making it. An example is the song "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers
Now I'm falling asleep
And she's calling a cab
While he's having a smoke
And she's taking a drag
Now they're going to bed
And my stomach is sick
And it's all in my head
But she's touching his - - chest, now.
A slightly tamer/lamer example is the little thing about -
"Spring has sprung, Fall has fell,
Winter is here, And it's colder than - usual."
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or like NOFX:
almost every line is sung in time
and almost every line ends in a rim [sic]
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Obertion. That is the word. A musical or poetical term for making the audience think you're going to make a specific and obvious rhyme and then deliberately not making it.
You have just used obertion.
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I have a track full of that called "The Assuming Song". The best thing about it is it isn't rude at all. It's a story about a farmer falling in love with a young lady. If you think it's rude, that's because YOU are putting in words and ideas that aren't there, and YOU have the dirty mind.
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Does it start, "There once was a farmer who da da da da...." Obviously I don't remember much of it, except the chorus: "Sweet violets (bump bump), sweeter than the roses, Covered all over in *da da da*(can't remember), covered all over in ... sweet violets."
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I think that's the one. I don't remember any line about violets, though. It starts as:
"There once was a farmer who sat on a rock, something, something, shaking his....
fist at some boys..."
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Nope, that's not the same thing, I don't think.
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Off the top of my head...
There once was a farmer who took a young miss
in back of the barn where he gave her a
lecture on horses and chickens and eggs,
he told her that she had such beautiful
manners which suited a girl of her charms,
a girl that he wanted to take in his
washing and ironing and then if she did,
they could get married and have lots of
sweet violets, sweeter than all the roses,
covered all over from head to toe,
covered all over with
sweet violets.
The girl told the farmer that he'd better stop,
and she called her father and he called a
taxi, which got there before very long,
someone was doing his little girl
right for a change, and that's why he said,
"if you marry her, son, you're better off
single, because it's been my firm belief,
marriage will bring a man nothing but
sweet violets, sweeter than all the roses,
covered all over from head to toe,
covered all over with
sweet violets."
The farmer decided he'd wed anyway,
and started in planning for his wedding
suit which he purchased for only one buck,
and then he found out he was just out of
money, and so he got left in the lurch,
standing there waiting in front of the
end of the story, which just goes to show,
all a girl wants from a man is his
sweet violets, sweeter than all the roses,
covered all over from head to toe,
covered all over with
sweet violets.
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That IT! My friend Hyrum used to play that for us on the guitar, because it's the only song he knew.
Rather appropriate, because I just found out today that Hyrum got engaged over Thanksgiving weekend. (Cue up Queen here.)
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See? I can't believe there wasn't a word for that before.