{"id":299,"date":"2006-07-14T13:31:15","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T13:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=299"},"modified":"2006-07-14T13:31:15","modified_gmt":"2006-07-14T13:31:15","slug":"appallingly-clever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"Appallingly clever"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many of us know about these excruciations<\/a> on “That’s amore”…


\nSomehow this one fell into my ummmm mind as I was shopping yesterday (no apologies for some relaxation of the algorithmical constraints):<\/p>\n

\nWhen a third of your herd
Hits the dust all at once [well, all at oncet]
That’s a murrain<\/p>\n

\nI sent that to my friend Ken, who was able to retrieve (from his email archive) a set constructed a few years ago:<\/p>\n

When your chicken is tossed
in a chocolate sauce
that’s a mole<\/p>\n

At the bris there’s the trick
when the guy trims your dick
that’s a mohel<\/p>\n

Take 2 cups Bechamel
add some cheese you can’t smell
that’s Sauce Mornay<\/p>\n

(and this one is only locally comprehensible, being about the river that flows by Lexington VA):<\/p>\n

Float from Goshen to James
with Confederate Dames
that’s the Maury<\/a><\/p>\n

a refinement to the Maury one:<\/p>\n

It has Matthew Fontaine’s
name from Goshen to James
that’s the Maury
(Matthew Fontaine Maury<\/a> –19th century Father of Naval Oceanography)<\/p>\n

\nanother culinary one:<\/p>\n

A chestnut glacée
if you say en Français
that’s a marron<\/p>\n

and for the ornithologist:<\/p>\n

Auk! it’s no puffin I know
Can’t pronounce ‘guillemot’
it’s a murre<\/a><\/p>\n

\nand today Ken contributes:<\/p>\n

When a native you see
On the coast of New Z
….<\/p>\n

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Many of us know about these excruciations on “That’s amore”… Somehow this one fell into my ummmm mind as I was shopping yesterday (no apologies for some relaxation of the algorithmical constraints): When a third of your herdHits the dust all at once [well, all at oncet]That’s a murrain I sent that to my friend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}