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#81876
09/27/2002 12:42 AM
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stranger
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How many words in the English language rhyme with "bagel"? I'm not talking Ogden Nash rhymes.
I can only come up with "finagle."
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#81877
09/27/2002 1:01 AM
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Um....Beyond "finagle," all I could come up with was "Kegel" - as in the Kegels exercises women do to keep the floor of the vagina toned. And I don't think there's ever just one Kegel - I think the exercises are referred to as "Kegels."
Come to think of it, the word might even be pronounced "Keegels" - in which case it doesn't even approximately rhyme with "bagel."
In short: I don't know!
If you can't see the bright side, polish the dull side.
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#81878
09/27/2002 4:24 AM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Welcome, Littljoe!  An intriguing way to inveigle your way onto the board!  Stick around for awhile, I'm sure there's more where these came from! Tough one.
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#81879
09/27/2002 8:29 AM
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Makes me think of Monty Python's Philosopher's Drinking Song, Littljoe [Hi BTW]:
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out consume
Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
who was just as sloshed as Schlegel
Changing the consonant is, of course, a cop-out, but otherwise it looks like you're stuck with other words derived from related language groups - which are mostly names in this case.
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#81880
09/27/2002 1:00 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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well there is the old joke, If sea gulls fly of the sea, what flies over the bay?
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bagels, of course!
the e in bagels is a schwa, and gulls (or at least how we NY'ers say gulls) does rhyme.
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#81881
09/28/2002 1:30 AM
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stranger
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we eat ham and jam and spamalot!
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#81882
09/28/2002 1:32 AM
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stranger
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Inveigle. That's a good one! Thank you.
As for "kegel," during my experience as an expectant mother it was pronounced "keegle." Of course, the same nurses also insisted on saying "san-timeter" for "centimeter," so who knows.
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#81883
09/30/2002 2:20 PM
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we eat ham and jam and spamalot! Such good taste.
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#81884
09/30/2002 3:10 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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There once was a woman named Hegel
Who exercised there a la Kegel
She practised at length
And so grew her strength
... ... ... ... a bagel
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#81885
09/30/2002 4:43 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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There once was a woman named Hegel
Who exercised there a la Kegel
She practised at length
And so grew her strength
Dialectically creating a bagel
I will never live this down.
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#81886
09/30/2002 5:14 PM
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enthusiast
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Senegal? At least, it rhymes the way I pronounce it.
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#81887
09/30/2002 6:18 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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In reply to:
Dialectically creating a bagel
That's very funny
I have found that when spoken aloud, it is also very funny to simply conclude the limerick with "and something something something bagel!" It leaves quite a bit to the imagination.
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#81888
09/30/2002 8:05 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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"and something something something bagel!"And it scans better, too!
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#81889
09/30/2002 9:48 PM
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There once was a woman named Hegel
Who exercised *there* a la Kegel.
Her Absolute end
Made a rational bend
'Til her pelvis resembled a bagel.
It's not risque enough, of course, but it's the best I could do on short notice.
The only real way to look younger is not to be born so soon. -- Charles Schulz
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