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...and I hope you get just that!

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..& catchers are more effective in their AA & AAA versions

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YTTERBY

a small island in Sweden where four Rare Earth elements were first found and identified, and for which they are named


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Alas, I cannot..would that I could UTTER BY verse REBUTTY; I'd utter GET RUBY, GET REBY...Ah, ah, ah GET READY in a voice

BUTTERY

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Tom Lehrer – The Elements

(See him sing it here )

There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,

Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,
And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium,
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.

There's YTTRIUM, YTTERBIUM, actinium, rubidium,
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
There's strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.

There's holmium and helium and hafnium and ERBIUM,
And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and TERBIUM,
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.

And lead, praseodymium and platinum, plutonium,
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.

There's sulfur, californium and fermium, berkelium,
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium,
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin and sodium.

These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard,
And there may be many others but they haven't been discovered.


(with a footnote by Aristotle)

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UTTERLY amazing...

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.. of how pretty she is

ACUTELY ..Kudos on the G & S - style periodic table!

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..change my mind too much, I tell them I won't be quiet about it

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..a bee in your bonnet?

BUMBLE

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BUBBLE

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and BURBLEd as it came

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virtually unchanged

..when lasers were intro'd, these rays started a raze-craze & a new way toward

RUBBLE

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..with those bright shiny beads. Pass the bubbly

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..Miss Otis regrets, Madam, today she's

UNABLE

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When ewe did, that knocked us over

DEFLATE

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..see how they grow

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..would be proud of you. 'Tho he may have spelled it the other 'why'

LEFTIE

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Me, too ..truth be told, I'd be hard-pressed to get one that'd be recognizable, as my tech-ed has been

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