<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5696089268892783730</id><updated>2011-04-21T13:21:51.726-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Randomosity!!!!</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>B. 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Search through our vast (well, maybe not right now) archives of  stoofs to do when you are unknowledgeable of your next move. Enjoy!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5696089268892783730-6589004792013751835?l=randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/feeds/6589004792013751835/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5696089268892783730&amp;postID=6589004792013751835' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/6589004792013751835'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/6589004792013751835'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/2008/04/welcome.html' title='Welcome'/><author><name>B. Harnish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14101215814941237082</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/543/858/1600/brandonhdpfan.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5696089268892783730.post-8899184358778753236</id><published>2008-07-13T16:30:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-04T22:08:15.269-07:00</updated><title type='text'>PICS!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QmTapr_wgdk/Sf_JrNKmfaI/AAAAAAAAABw/ai_vAeCeRas/s1600-h/DPbackgroundResized.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332202227935640994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QmTapr_wgdk/Sf_JrNKmfaI/AAAAAAAAABw/ai_vAeCeRas/s320/DPbackgroundResized.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_QmTapr_wgdk/SHqQTXoxofI/AAAAAAAAAAs/FU6xEFWnsDg/s1600-h/Me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222645380326466034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_QmTapr_wgdk/SHqQTXoxofI/AAAAAAAAAAs/FU6xEFWnsDg/s320/Me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330649536595132898" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 215px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 108px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QmTapr_wgdk/SfpFgrLageI/AAAAAAAAABo/wDyEo4Aq4pQ/s320/dp.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5696089268892783730-8899184358778753236?l=randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/feeds/8899184358778753236/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5696089268892783730&amp;postID=8899184358778753236' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/8899184358778753236'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/8899184358778753236'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/2008/07/pics.html' title='PICS!'/><author><name>B. Harnish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14101215814941237082</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/543/858/1600/brandonhdpfan.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QmTapr_wgdk/Sf_JrNKmfaI/AAAAAAAAABw/ai_vAeCeRas/s72-c/DPbackgroundResized.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5696089268892783730.post-7076215642838839591</id><published>2008-06-23T16:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-23T16:48:54.605-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Apple Shooter</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;               &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0','width','720','height','425','src','arrow_shooter_03','quality','high','pluginspage','http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer','movie','arrow_shooter_03' ); //end AC code&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     &lt;noscript&gt;&lt;br /&gt;          &lt;object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="720" height="425"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;            &lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.officegamespot.com/arrow_shooter_03.swf"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;            &lt;param name="quality" value="high"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;            &lt;embed src="http://www.officegamespot.com/arrow_shooter_03.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="720" height="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;/noscript&gt;&lt;br /&gt;            &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5696089268892783730-7076215642838839591?l=randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/feeds/7076215642838839591/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5696089268892783730&amp;postID=7076215642838839591' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/7076215642838839591'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/7076215642838839591'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/2008/06/apple-shooter.html' title='Apple Shooter'/><author><name>B. Harnish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14101215814941237082</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/543/858/1600/brandonhdpfan.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5696089268892783730.post-1132738570310922070</id><published>2008-06-21T15:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-22T19:34:04.266-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Line Rider</title><content type='html'>Random Quotes from the Bowling Alley "300" by Westfield Mall&lt;br /&gt;12:30 21-6-2008&lt;br /&gt;Ryan: "If that concession lady isn't that way, I think she'd really be in to you."&lt;br /&gt;Me: "Really? Well, she does seem to keep an eye on me...but she's not like a stalker or anything I can tell."&lt;br /&gt;Ryan: "Well...ya never know."&lt;br /&gt;TEN MINUTES LATER&lt;br /&gt;Me: "OMG She's in to me!"&lt;br /&gt;Ryan: "How?"&lt;br /&gt;Me: "I went over to the food and she said, 'Sorry, the girls are first in line. You can be first in the boys'.' and she winked at me!"&lt;br /&gt;Us: Hahahahahahahaha -high 5-&lt;br /&gt;FIFTEEN MINUTES LATER&lt;br /&gt;Concession lady: "Any plates you wnt me to pick up?"&lt;br /&gt;She picks up my friends' plates and asks the question to me.&lt;br /&gt;Me: "I'm still eating..."&lt;br /&gt;CL: "Okay you can eat, but the cake is ready for candles."&lt;br /&gt;She leaves.&lt;br /&gt;Ryan: "She really &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; in to you.&lt;br /&gt;Us: Hahahahahahahaha -high 5-&lt;br /&gt;TEN MINUTES LATER&lt;br /&gt;I go to the drink place at the party and I pour my Sierra Mist though I poured it slowly so I wouldn't get any ice.&lt;br /&gt;CL: "You need help?"&lt;br /&gt;Me: "No, I just don't like ice."&lt;br /&gt;CL: "Okay but you need a lid."&lt;br /&gt;She puts it on though I reject though she says I'll spill it on my bowling shoes.&lt;br /&gt;I go to Ryan.&lt;br /&gt;Me: "OMG she put the lid on for me and and she winked... again!"&lt;br /&gt;Us: Hahahahahahahaha -high 5-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This... is... Line Rider!&lt;br /&gt;Put this in Notepad on Windows and save it as "linerider.html" (without the quotes) and open it into Internet Explorer 6+ for Windows XP and Vista. Adobe Flash 9 is required and allow blocked content in the info bar. Lines are saved onto the hard drive in a hidden folder which I won't get in to. Any questions regarding this, please contact me on AIM as &lt;a href="aim:goim?screenname="&gt;ranzhave&lt;/a&gt; which is pronounced ranzha v e as in ränzhä vee ee, or IM me on Yahoo as &lt;a href="ymsgr:sendIM?"&gt;quigmariano&lt;/a&gt; which is pronounced kwigmäreeäno.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;‹div style="WIDTH: 750px; HEIGHT: 500px"›‹embed pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://linerider.com/sites/linerider/files/engin2.162.swf" width="750" height="500" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high"›‹/embed›‹/div›&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5696089268892783730-1132738570310922070?l=randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/feeds/1132738570310922070/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5696089268892783730&amp;postID=1132738570310922070' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/1132738570310922070'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/1132738570310922070'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/2008/06/line-rider.html' title='Line Rider'/><author><name>B. Harnish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14101215814941237082</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/543/858/1600/brandonhdpfan.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5696089268892783730.post-6596882860822104288</id><published>2008-05-10T07:19:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-10T07:55:41.005-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Cursors, Cursors, CURSORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;table border="0"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;style&gt;A:hover{cursor: url("http://downloads.totallyfreecursors.com/cursor_files/raichu.ani"), url("http://downloads.totallyfreecursors.com/thumbnails/raichu.gif"), auto;}&lt;/style&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.totallyfreecursors.com/details.cfm/id/1574/Raichu.htm"&gt;Rollover to see Raichu and click to go to link.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://cursormania.smileycentral.com/download/index.jhtml?partner=ZCzeb008_ZCxdm860NXUS&amp;spu=1&amp;feat=prof&amp;utm_id=9995" style="position:absolute;top:50px;left:0px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://plugin.smileycentral.com/http%253A%252F%252Fplugin%252Esmileycentral%252Ecom%252Fassetserver%252Fcursor%252Ejhtml%253Ft%253D5/image.gif" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;body{cursor:url("http://plugin.smileycentral.com/http%253A%252F%252Fplugin%252Esmileycentral%252Ecom%252Fassetserver%252Fcursor%252Ejhtml%253Fcur%253D1%2526i%253D10542a/image.gif") !important;}&lt;/style&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5696089268892783730-6596882860822104288?l=randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/feeds/6596882860822104288/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5696089268892783730&amp;postID=6596882860822104288' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/6596882860822104288'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/6596882860822104288'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/2008/05/cursors-cursors-cursors.html' title='Cursors, Cursors, CURSORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'/><author><name>B. Harnish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14101215814941237082</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/543/858/1600/brandonhdpfan.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5696089268892783730.post-5237785565877441459</id><published>2008-05-06T20:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-06T21:03:13.932-07:00</updated><title type='text'>THE LAZER COLLECTION</title><content type='html'>Random Quote&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Humans are filth, not even worth being put into garbage cans. They brag of strength they do not have. They prey on the weak and have nothing but greed in their hearts. Why should they be the ruling species of this world? Why shouldn’t I tell them what to do? No…This is not a declaration of war, nor is it an attack, but rather, my counterattack on those who brought me unwilling and alone into this world! I will be the worlds most powerful Pokémon, I will make them pay… the reign of Mew Two will soon commence!” --Mewtwo, geocities.com/soulofaitwo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS it's soul of ai two not soul of ait wo ya nimrods who say it that way&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the Lazer Collection, as made by the one and only Dom Fera at DFEAR Productions. "In bravado, much ado." --The Chaos, by Gerard Nolst Trenité&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here it is&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE LAZER COLLECTION&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hSVNbxjdvv8&amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hSVNbxjdvv8&amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE LAZER COLLECTION 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZQLKEZzBIZE&amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZQLKEZzBIZE&amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5696089268892783730-5237785565877441459?l=randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/feeds/5237785565877441459/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5696089268892783730&amp;postID=5237785565877441459' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/5237785565877441459'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/5237785565877441459'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/2008/05/lazer-collection.html' title='THE LAZER COLLECTION'/><author><name>B. Harnish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14101215814941237082</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/543/858/1600/brandonhdpfan.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5696089268892783730.post-8259333662249645981</id><published>2008-05-05T19:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-05T19:51:53.011-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fast Food Freestyle!</title><content type='html'>Random Quote&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Lyke OMG that is lyke so effing sexy!" -ZB&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FLn45-7Pn2Y&amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FLn45-7Pn2Y&amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;pure HILARIOSITY!!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5696089268892783730-8259333662249645981?l=randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/feeds/8259333662249645981/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5696089268892783730&amp;postID=8259333662249645981' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/8259333662249645981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/8259333662249645981'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/2008/05/fast-food-freestyle.html' title='Fast Food Freestyle!'/><author><name>B. Harnish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14101215814941237082</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/543/858/1600/brandonhdpfan.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5696089268892783730.post-8002827021531045152</id><published>2008-05-05T19:42:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-05T19:44:13.486-07:00</updated><title type='text'>News</title><content type='html'>I just wanted to say news (exerpt from &lt;a href="http;//www.moosebutter.com/"&gt;Moosebutter&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5696089268892783730-8002827021531045152?l=randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/feeds/8002827021531045152/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5696089268892783730&amp;postID=8002827021531045152' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/8002827021531045152'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/8002827021531045152'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/2008/05/news.html' title='News'/><author><name>B. Harnish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14101215814941237082</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/543/858/1600/brandonhdpfan.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5696089268892783730.post-6989589841807388306</id><published>2008-04-12T09:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-05T19:45:15.688-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A Clarkkkkson</title><content type='html'>a clarkkkkson =ck=(K,K,K,K)&lt;br /&gt;K=Lynz1+Lynz2&lt;br /&gt;Lynz1=10^298084483796761000000000000000000&lt;br /&gt;Lynz2=1.41×10^53&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ck is a hyperfactorial with an extension&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;class, operator, number, repeats&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;class= number of factorials&lt;br /&gt;operator= what to use to operate the factorials&lt;br /&gt;number= number to hyperfactorial&lt;br /&gt;repeats= number of times to put the result as the number in the next fatorial while keeping the class and operator the same. i.e. ck(1, 2, 3, 2)= 3!*2!=12; ck(1, 2, 12, 2) = 479001600*39916800*3628800*362880*40320*5040*720*120*24*6*2=6,658,606,584,104,736,522,240,000,000*19,120,211,066,880,000=you get the idea by now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Try to figure it out. Not even the greatest mathematicians have worked this one out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TEEHEE!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5696089268892783730-6989589841807388306?l=randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/feeds/6989589841807388306/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5696089268892783730&amp;postID=6989589841807388306' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/6989589841807388306'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/6989589841807388306'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/2008/04/clarkkkkson.html' title='A Clarkkkkson'/><author><name>B. Harnish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14101215814941237082</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/543/858/1600/brandonhdpfan.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5696089268892783730.post-2247747023966434764</id><published>2008-04-12T08:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-12T08:41:30.360-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Read this aloud</title><content type='html'>English is by far a more complex language than other languages. We have so many irregularities and exceptions to rules. For testing &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; pronunciation, I insist on reading these two poems aloud.&lt;br&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/2008/04/english-pronounciation.html" alt="English Pronunciation!?!"&gt;EASY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/2008/04/chaos.html" alt="The Chaos"&gt;HARD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5696089268892783730-2247747023966434764?l=randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/feeds/2247747023966434764/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5696089268892783730&amp;postID=2247747023966434764' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/2247747023966434764'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/2247747023966434764'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/2008/04/read-this-aloud.html' title='Read this aloud'/><author><name>B. Harnish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14101215814941237082</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/543/858/1600/brandonhdpfan.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5696089268892783730.post-6140482362128006813</id><published>2008-04-05T20:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-05T21:06:40.556-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=4,0,2,0" width="550" height="400"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name=movie value="http://www.notdoppler.com/files/theimpossiblequiz2.swf"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name=quality value=high&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.notdoppler.com/files/theimpossiblequiz2.swf" quality=high pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="550" height="400"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/embed&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the Impossible Quiz 2. As I said in the last post, I got it! Hehehehe.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5696089268892783730-6140482362128006813?l=randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/feeds/6140482362128006813/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5696089268892783730&amp;postID=6140482362128006813' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/6140482362128006813'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/6140482362128006813'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/2008/04/this-is-impossible-quiz-2.html' title=''/><author><name>B. Harnish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14101215814941237082</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/543/858/1600/brandonhdpfan.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5696089268892783730.post-4694275416244174553</id><published>2008-04-04T20:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-05T07:30:10.995-07:00</updated><title type='text'>TIQ</title><content type='html'>&lt;object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=4,0,2,0" width="413" height="300"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name=movie value="http://www.notdoppler.com/files/theimpossiblequiz.swf"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name=quality value=high&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.notdopler.com/files/theimpossiblequiz.swf" quality=high pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="413" height="300"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/embed&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;center&gt;This, as you probably know, is the Impossible Quiz. The most original, out-of-the-ordinary, addictive, absolutely awesome-icious, javascript-filled quiz by the one and only legendary Splapp-me-do. This is pure and udderly hugeness of kudos and praise to thy wonderful intellect. Bravississississississississississississississississississississississississ...imo!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size="0.01"&gt;yes i ill get the impossible quiz 2.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5696089268892783730-4694275416244174553?l=randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/feeds/4694275416244174553/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5696089268892783730&amp;postID=4694275416244174553' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/4694275416244174553'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/4694275416244174553'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/2008/04/this-as-you-probably-know-is-impossible.html' title='TIQ'/><author><name>B. Harnish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14101215814941237082</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/543/858/1600/brandonhdpfan.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5696089268892783730.post-5536160507147113164</id><published>2008-03-29T10:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-29T10:42:46.763-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Package</title><content type='html'>I found this from a website and decided it was a cool addition to Randomosity!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" WIDTH="413" HEIGHT="300" id="FlashContent"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.bootyarcade.com/games/flies/The_Package.swf"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;PARAM NAME="AllowScriptAccess" VALUE="never"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;embed width="413" height="300" src="http://www.bootyarcade.com/games/flies/The_Package.swf" quality="high" NAME="FlashContent" AllowScriptAccess="never" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;/OBJECT&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5696089268892783730-5536160507147113164?l=randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/feeds/5536160507147113164/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5696089268892783730&amp;postID=5536160507147113164' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/5536160507147113164'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/5536160507147113164'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/2008/03/package.html' title='The Package'/><author><name>B. Harnish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14101215814941237082</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/543/858/1600/brandonhdpfan.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5696089268892783730.post-7059089259124827673</id><published>1970-04-11T20:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-04-12T08:32:27.191-07:00</updated><title type='text'>English Pronounciation!?!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.bertc.com/english.htm"&gt;I got this poem off of bertc.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana" size="1"&gt;If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he'd prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dearest creature in creation,&lt;br /&gt;Study English pronunciation.&lt;br /&gt;I will teach you in my verse&lt;br /&gt;Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.&lt;br /&gt;I will keep you, Suzy, busy,&lt;br /&gt;Make your head with heat grow dizzy.&lt;br /&gt;Tear in eye, your dress will tear.&lt;br /&gt;So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.&lt;br /&gt;Just compare heart, beard, and heard,&lt;br /&gt;Dies and diet, lord and word,&lt;br /&gt;Sword and sward, retain and Britain.&lt;br /&gt;(Mind the latter, how it's written.)&lt;br /&gt;Now I surely will not plague you&lt;br /&gt;With such words as plaque and ague.&lt;br /&gt;But be careful how you speak:&lt;br /&gt;Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;&lt;br /&gt;Cloven, oven, how and low,&lt;br /&gt;Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.&lt;br /&gt;Hear me say, devoid of trickery,&lt;br /&gt;Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,&lt;br /&gt;Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,&lt;br /&gt;Exiles, similes, and reviles;&lt;br /&gt;Scholar, vicar, and cigar,&lt;br /&gt;Solar, mica, war and far;&lt;br /&gt;One, anemone, Balmoral,&lt;br /&gt;Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;&lt;br /&gt;Gertrude, German, wind and mind,&lt;br /&gt;Scene, Melpomene, mankind.&lt;br /&gt;Billet does not rhyme with ballet,&lt;br /&gt;Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.&lt;br /&gt;Blood and flood are not like food,&lt;br /&gt;Nor is mould like should and would.&lt;br /&gt;Viscous, viscount, load and broad,&lt;br /&gt;Toward, to forward, to reward.&lt;br /&gt;And your pronunciation's OK&lt;br /&gt;When you correctly say croquet,&lt;br /&gt;Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,&lt;br /&gt;Friend and fiend, alive and live.&lt;br /&gt;Ivy, privy, famous; clamour&lt;br /&gt;And enamour rhyme with hammer.&lt;br /&gt;River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,&lt;br /&gt;Doll and roll and some and home.&lt;br /&gt;Stranger does not rhyme with anger,&lt;br /&gt;Neither does devour with clangour.&lt;br /&gt;Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,&lt;br /&gt;Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,&lt;br /&gt;Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,&lt;br /&gt;And then singer, ginger, linger,&lt;br /&gt;Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,&lt;br /&gt;Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.&lt;br /&gt;Query does not rhyme with very,&lt;br /&gt;Nor does fury sound like bury.&lt;br /&gt;Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.&lt;br /&gt;Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.&lt;br /&gt;Though the differences seem little,&lt;br /&gt;We say actual but victual.&lt;br /&gt;Refer does not rhyme with deafer.&lt;br /&gt;Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.&lt;br /&gt;Mint, pint, senate and sedate;&lt;br /&gt;Dull, bull, and George ate late.&lt;br /&gt;Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,&lt;br /&gt;Science, conscience, scientific.&lt;br /&gt;Liberty, library, heave and heaven,&lt;br /&gt;Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.&lt;br /&gt;We say hallowed, but allowed,&lt;br /&gt;People, leopard, towed, but vowed.&lt;br /&gt;Mark the differences, moreover,&lt;br /&gt;Between mover, cover, clover;&lt;br /&gt;Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,&lt;br /&gt;Chalice, but police and lice;&lt;br /&gt;Camel, constable, unstable,&lt;br /&gt;Principle, disciple, label.&lt;br /&gt;Petal, panel, and canal,&lt;br /&gt;Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.&lt;br /&gt;Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,&lt;br /&gt;Senator, spectator, mayor.&lt;br /&gt;Tour, but our and succour, four.&lt;br /&gt;Gas, alas, and Arkansas.&lt;br /&gt;Sea, idea, Korea, area,&lt;br /&gt;Psalm, Maria, but malaria.&lt;br /&gt;Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.&lt;br /&gt;Doctrine, turpentine, marine.&lt;br /&gt;Compare alien with Italian,&lt;br /&gt;Dandelion and battalion.&lt;br /&gt;Sally with ally, yea, ye,&lt;br /&gt;Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.&lt;br /&gt;Say aver, but ever, fever,&lt;br /&gt;Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.&lt;br /&gt;Heron, granary, canary.&lt;br /&gt;Crevice and device and aerie.&lt;br /&gt;Face, but preface, not efface.&lt;br /&gt;Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.&lt;br /&gt;Large, but target, gin, give, verging,&lt;br /&gt;Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.&lt;br /&gt;Ear, but earn and wear and tear&lt;br /&gt;Do not rhyme with here but ere.&lt;br /&gt;Seven is right, but so is even,&lt;br /&gt;Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,&lt;br /&gt;Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,&lt;br /&gt;Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.&lt;br /&gt;Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)&lt;br /&gt;Is a paling stout and spikey?&lt;br /&gt;Won't it make you lose your wits,&lt;br /&gt;Writing groats and saying grits?&lt;br /&gt;It's a dark abyss or tunnel:&lt;br /&gt;Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,&lt;br /&gt;Islington and Isle of Wight,&lt;br /&gt;Housewife, verdict and indict.&lt;br /&gt;Finally, which rhymes with enough,&lt;br /&gt;Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?&lt;br /&gt;Hiccough has the sound of cup.&lt;br /&gt;My advice is to give up!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5696089268892783730-7059089259124827673?l=randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/feeds/7059089259124827673/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5696089268892783730&amp;postID=7059089259124827673' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/7059089259124827673'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/7059089259124827673'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/2008/04/english-pronounciation.html' title='English Pronounciation!?!'/><author><name>B. Harnish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14101215814941237082</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/543/858/1600/brandonhdpfan.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5696089268892783730.post-1651077353127936330</id><published>1970-01-01T19:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-05-05T20:30:55.855-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Gerard Nolst Trenité &lt;br /&gt;The Chaos®&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dearest creature in creation &lt;br /&gt;Studying English pronunciation, &lt;br /&gt;I will teach you in my verse &lt;br /&gt;Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse. &lt;br /&gt;I will keep you, Susy, busy, &lt;br /&gt;Make your head with heat grow dizzy; &lt;br /&gt;Tear in eye, your dress you'll tear; &lt;br /&gt;Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer. &lt;br /&gt;Pray, console your loving poet, &lt;br /&gt;Make my coat look new, dear, and sew it!&lt;br /&gt;Just compare heart, hear and heard, &lt;br /&gt;Dies and diet, lord and word. &lt;br /&gt;Sword and sward, retain and Britain &lt;br /&gt;(Mind the latter how it's written). &lt;br /&gt;Made has not the sound of bade, &lt;br /&gt;Say-said, pay-paid, laid but plaid. &lt;br /&gt;Now I surely will not plague you &lt;br /&gt;With such words as vague and ague, &lt;br /&gt;But be careful how you speak, &lt;br /&gt;Say: gush, bush, steak, streak, break, bleak, &lt;br /&gt;Previous, precious, fuchsia, via,&lt;br /&gt;Recipe, pipe, studding-sail, choir; &lt;br /&gt;Woven, oven, how and low, &lt;br /&gt;Script, receipt, shoe, poem, toe. &lt;br /&gt;Say, expecting fraud and trickery: &lt;br /&gt;Daughter, laughter and Terpsichore, &lt;br /&gt;Branch, ranch, measles, topsails, aisles, &lt;br /&gt;Missiles, similes, reviles. &lt;br /&gt;Wholly, holly, signal, signing, &lt;br /&gt;same, examining, but mining,&lt;br /&gt;Scholar, vicar, and cigar, &lt;br /&gt;Solar, mica, war and far. &lt;br /&gt;From "desire": desirable-admirable from "admire", &lt;br /&gt;Lumber, plumber, bier, but brier, &lt;br /&gt;Topsham, brougham, renown, but known, &lt;br /&gt;Knowledge, done, lone, gone, none, tone, &lt;br /&gt;One, anemone, Balmorals, &lt;br /&gt;Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel. &lt;br /&gt;Gertrude, German, wind and wind, &lt;br /&gt;Beau, kind, kindred, queue, mankind, &lt;br /&gt;Tortoise, turquoise, chamois-leather, &lt;br /&gt;Reading, Reading, heathen, heather. &lt;br /&gt;This phonetic labyrinth &lt;br /&gt;Gives moss, gross, brook, brooch, ninth, &lt;br /&gt;plinth. &lt;br /&gt;Have you ever yet endeavoured &lt;br /&gt;To pronounce revered and severed, &lt;br /&gt;Demon, lemon, ghoul, foul, soul, &lt;br /&gt;Peter, petrol and patrol? &lt;br /&gt;Billet does not end like ballet; &lt;br /&gt;Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.&lt;br /&gt;Blood and flood are not like food, &lt;br /&gt;Nor is mould like should and would. &lt;br /&gt;Banquet is not nearly parquet, &lt;br /&gt;Which exactly rhymes with khaki. &lt;br /&gt;Discount, viscount, load and broad, &lt;br /&gt;Toward, to forward, to reward, &lt;br /&gt;Ricocheted and crocheting, croquet? &lt;br /&gt;Right! Your pronunciation's OK. &lt;br /&gt;Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, &lt;br /&gt;Friend and fiend, alive and live.&lt;br /&gt;Is your R correct in higher? &lt;br /&gt;Keats asserts it rhymes Thalia. &lt;br /&gt;Hugh, but hug, and hood, but hoot, &lt;br /&gt;Buoyant, minute, but minute. &lt;br /&gt;Say abscission with precision, &lt;br /&gt;Now: position and transition; &lt;br /&gt;Would it tally with my rhyme &lt;br /&gt;If I mentioned paradigm? &lt;br /&gt;Twopence, threepence, tease are easy, &lt;br /&gt;But cease, crease, grease and greasy?&lt;br /&gt;Cornice, nice, valise, revise, &lt;br /&gt;Rabies, but lullabies. &lt;br /&gt;Of such puzzling words as nauseous, &lt;br /&gt;Rhyming well with cautious, tortious, &lt;br /&gt;You'll envelop lists, I hope, &lt;br /&gt;In a linen envelope. &lt;br /&gt;Would you like some more? You'll have it! &lt;br /&gt;Affidavit, David, davit. &lt;br /&gt;To abjure, to perjure. Sheik &lt;br /&gt;Does not sound like Czech but ache.&lt;br /&gt;Liberty, library, heave and heaven, &lt;br /&gt;Rachel, loch, moustache, eleven. &lt;br /&gt;We say hallowed, but allowed, &lt;br /&gt;People, leopard, towed but vowed. &lt;br /&gt;Mark the difference, moreover, &lt;br /&gt;Between mover, plover, Dover. &lt;br /&gt;Leeches, breeches, wise, precise, &lt;br /&gt;Chalice, but police and lice, &lt;br /&gt;Camel, constable, unstable, &lt;br /&gt;Principle, disciple, label.&lt;br /&gt;Petal, penal, and canal, &lt;br /&gt;Wait, surmise, plait, promise, pal, &lt;br /&gt;Suit, suite, ruin. Circuit, conduit &lt;br /&gt;Rhyme with "shirk it" and "beyond it", &lt;br /&gt;But it is not hard to tell &lt;br /&gt;Why it's pall, mall, but Pall Mall. &lt;br /&gt;Muscle, muscular, goal, iron, &lt;br /&gt;Timber, climber, bullion, lion, &lt;br /&gt;Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair, &lt;br /&gt;Senator, spectator, mayor,&lt;br /&gt;Ivy, privy, famous; clamour &lt;br /&gt;Has the A of drachm and hammer. &lt;br /&gt;Pussy, hussy and possess, &lt;br /&gt;Desert, but desert, address. &lt;br /&gt;Golf, wolf, countenance, lieutenants &lt;br /&gt;Hoist in lieu of flags left pennants. &lt;br /&gt;Courier, courtier, tomb, bomb, comb, &lt;br /&gt;Cow, but Cowper, some and home. &lt;br /&gt;"Solder, soldier!  Blood is thicker", &lt;br /&gt;Quoth he, "than liqueur or liquor",&lt;br /&gt;Making, it is sad but true, &lt;br /&gt;In bravado, much ado. &lt;br /&gt;Stranger does not rhyme with anger, &lt;br /&gt;Neither does devour with clangour. &lt;br /&gt;Pilot, pivot, gaunt, but aunt, &lt;br /&gt;Font, front, wont, want, grand and grant. &lt;br /&gt;Arsenic, specific, scenic, &lt;br /&gt;Relic, rhetoric, hygienic. &lt;br /&gt;Gooseberry, goose, and close, but close, &lt;br /&gt;Paradise, rise, rose, and dose.&lt;br /&gt;Say inveigh, neigh, but inveigle, &lt;br /&gt;Make the latter rhyme with eagle. &lt;br /&gt;Mind! Meandering but mean, &lt;br /&gt;Valentine and magazine. &lt;br /&gt;And I bet you, dear, a penny, &lt;br /&gt;You say mani-(fold) like many, &lt;br /&gt;Which is wrong. Say rapier, pier, &lt;br /&gt;Tier (one who ties), but tier. &lt;br /&gt;Arch, archangel; pray, does erring &lt;br /&gt;Rhyme with herring or with stirring?&lt;br /&gt;Prison, bison, treasure trove, &lt;br /&gt;Treason, hover, cover, cove, &lt;br /&gt;Perseverance, severance. Ribald &lt;br /&gt;Rhymes (but piebald doesn't) with nibbled. &lt;br /&gt;Phaeton, paean, gnat, ghat, gnaw, &lt;br /&gt;Lien, psychic, shone, bone, pshaw. &lt;br /&gt;Don't be down, my own, but rough it, &lt;br /&gt;And distinguish buffet, buffet;     &lt;br /&gt;Brood, stood, roof, rook, school, wool, boon, &lt;br /&gt;Worcester, Boleyn, to impugn.&lt;br /&gt;Say in sounds correct and sterling &lt;br /&gt;Hearse, hear, hearken, year and yearling. &lt;br /&gt;Evil, devil, mezzotint, &lt;br /&gt;Mind the Z!  (A gentle hint.) &lt;br /&gt;Now you need not pay attention &lt;br /&gt;To such sounds as I don't mention, &lt;br /&gt;Sounds like pores, pause, pours and paws, &lt;br /&gt;Rhyming with the pronoun yours; &lt;br /&gt;Nor are proper names included, &lt;br /&gt;Though I often heard, as you did,&lt;br /&gt;Funny rhymes to unicorn, &lt;br /&gt;Yes, you know them, Vaughan and Strachan. &lt;br /&gt;No, my maiden, coy and comely, &lt;br /&gt;I don't want to speak of Cholmondeley. &lt;br /&gt;No. Yet Froude compared with proud &lt;br /&gt;Is no better than McLeod. &lt;br /&gt;But mind trivial and vial, &lt;br /&gt;Tripod, menial, denial, &lt;br /&gt;Troll and trolley, realm and ream, &lt;br /&gt;Schedule, mischief, schism, and scheme.&lt;br /&gt;Argil, gill, Argyll, gill. Surely &lt;br /&gt;May be made to rhyme with Raleigh, &lt;br /&gt;But you're not supposed to say &lt;br /&gt;Piquet rhymes with sobriquet. &lt;br /&gt;Had this invalid invalid &lt;br /&gt;Worthless documents? How pallid, &lt;br /&gt;How uncouth he, couchant, looked, &lt;br /&gt;When for Portsmouth I had booked! &lt;br /&gt;Zeus, Thebes, Thales, Aphrodite, &lt;br /&gt;Paramour, enamoured, flighty,&lt;br /&gt;Episodes, antipodes, &lt;br /&gt;Acquiesce, and obsequies. &lt;br /&gt;Please don't monkey with the geyser, &lt;br /&gt;Don't peel 'taters with my razor, &lt;br /&gt;Rather say in accents pure: &lt;br /&gt;Nature, stature and mature. &lt;br /&gt;Pious, impious, limb, climb, glumly, &lt;br /&gt;Worsted, worsted, crumbly, dumbly, &lt;br /&gt;Conquer, conquest, vase, phase, fan, &lt;br /&gt;Wan, sedan and artisan.&lt;br /&gt;The TH will surely trouble you &lt;br /&gt;More than R, CH or W. &lt;br /&gt;Say then these phonetic gems: &lt;br /&gt;Thomas, thyme, Theresa, Thames. &lt;br /&gt;Thompson, Chatham, Waltham, Streatham, &lt;br /&gt;There are more but I forget 'em- &lt;br /&gt;Wait! I've got it: Anthony, &lt;br /&gt;Lighten your anxiety. &lt;br /&gt;The archaic word albeit &lt;br /&gt;Does not rhyme with eight-you see it;&lt;br /&gt;With and forthwith, one has voice, &lt;br /&gt;One has not, you make your choice. &lt;br /&gt;Shoes, goes, does*. Now first say: finger; &lt;br /&gt;Then say: singer, ginger, linger. &lt;br /&gt;Real, zeal, mauve, gauze and gauge, &lt;br /&gt;Marriage, foliage, mirage, age, &lt;br /&gt;Hero, heron, query, very, &lt;br /&gt;Parry, tarry  fury, bury, &lt;br /&gt;Dost, lost, post, and doth, cloth, loth, &lt;br /&gt;Job, Job, blossom, bosom, oath.&lt;br /&gt;Faugh, oppugnant, keen oppugners, &lt;br /&gt;Bowing, bowing, banjo-tuners &lt;br /&gt;Holm you know, but noes, canoes, &lt;br /&gt;Puisne, truism, use, to use? &lt;br /&gt;Though the difference seems little, &lt;br /&gt;We say actual, but victual, &lt;br /&gt;Seat, sweat, chaste, caste, Leigh, eight, height, &lt;br /&gt;Put, nut, granite, and unite. &lt;br /&gt;Reefer does not rhyme with deafer, &lt;br /&gt;Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer.&lt;br /&gt;Dull, bull, Geoffrey, George, ate, late, &lt;br /&gt;Hint, pint, senate, but sedate. &lt;br /&gt;Gaelic, Arabic, pacific, &lt;br /&gt;Science, conscience, scientific; &lt;br /&gt;Tour, but our, dour, succour, four, &lt;br /&gt;Gas, alas, and Arkansas. &lt;br /&gt;Say manoeuvre, yacht and vomit, &lt;br /&gt;Next omit, which differs from it &lt;br /&gt;Bona fide, alibi &lt;br /&gt;Gyrate, dowry and awry.&lt;br /&gt;Sea, idea, guinea, area, &lt;br /&gt;Psalm, Maria, but malaria. &lt;br /&gt;Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean, &lt;br /&gt;Doctrine, turpentine, marine. &lt;br /&gt;Compare alien with Italian, &lt;br /&gt;Dandelion with battalion, &lt;br /&gt;Rally with ally; yea, ye, &lt;br /&gt;Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, key, quay! &lt;br /&gt;Say aver, but ever, fever, &lt;br /&gt;Neither, leisure, skein, receiver.&lt;br /&gt;Never guess-it is not safe, &lt;br /&gt;We say calves, valves, half, but Ralf. &lt;br /&gt;Starry, granary, canary, &lt;br /&gt;Crevice, but device, and eyrie, &lt;br /&gt;Face, but preface, then grimace, &lt;br /&gt;Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass. &lt;br /&gt;Bass, large, target, gin, give, verging, &lt;br /&gt;Ought, oust, joust, and scour, but scourging; &lt;br /&gt;Ear, but earn; and ere and tear &lt;br /&gt;Do not rhyme with here but heir. &lt;br /&gt;Mind the O of off and often &lt;br /&gt;Which may be pronounced as orphan, &lt;br /&gt;With the sound of saw and sauce; &lt;br /&gt;Also soft, lost, cloth and cross. &lt;br /&gt;Pudding, puddle, putting. Putting? &lt;br /&gt;Yes: at golf it rhymes with shutting. &lt;br /&gt;Respite, spite, consent, resent. &lt;br /&gt;Liable, but Parliament. &lt;br /&gt;Seven is right, but so is even, &lt;br /&gt;Hyphen, roughen, nephew, Stephen,&lt;br /&gt;Monkey, donkey, clerk and jerk, &lt;br /&gt;Asp, grasp, wasp, demesne, cork, work. &lt;br /&gt;A of valour, vapid vapour, &lt;br /&gt;S of news (compare newspaper), &lt;br /&gt;G of gibbet, gibbon, gist, &lt;br /&gt;I of antichrist and grist, &lt;br /&gt;Differ like diverse and divers, &lt;br /&gt;Rivers, strivers, shivers, fivers. &lt;br /&gt;Once, but nonce, toll, doll, but roll, &lt;br /&gt;Polish, Polish, poll and poll.&lt;br /&gt;Pronunciation-think of Psyche!- &lt;br /&gt;Is a paling, stout and spiky. &lt;br /&gt;Won't it make you lose your wits &lt;br /&gt;Writing groats and saying 'grits'? &lt;br /&gt;It's a dark abyss or tunnel &lt;br /&gt;Strewn with stones like rowlock, gunwale, &lt;br /&gt;Islington, and Isle of Wight, &lt;br /&gt;Housewife, verdict and indict. &lt;br /&gt;Don't you think so, reader, rather, &lt;br /&gt;Saying lather, bather, father?&lt;br /&gt;Finally, which rhymes with enough, &lt;br /&gt;Though, through, bough, cough, hough, &lt;br /&gt;sough, tough?? &lt;br /&gt;Hiccough has the sound of sup. &lt;br /&gt;My advice is:  GIVE IT UP!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5696089268892783730-1651077353127936330?l=randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/feeds/1651077353127936330/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5696089268892783730&amp;postID=1651077353127936330' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/1651077353127936330'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/1651077353127936330'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/1970/01/gerard-nolst-trenit-chaos-dearest.html' title=''/><author><name>B. Harnish</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14101215814941237082</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/543/858/1600/brandonhdpfan.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5696089268892783730.post-1659264344168410146</id><published>1970-01-01T08:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-04-12T08:50:18.944-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Chaos</title><content type='html'>Gerard Nolst Trenité &lt;br /&gt;The Chaos®&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dearest creature in creation &lt;br /&gt;Studying English pronunciation, &lt;br /&gt;I will teach you in my verse &lt;br /&gt;Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse. &lt;br /&gt;I will keep you, Susy, busy, &lt;br /&gt;Make your head with heat grow dizzy; &lt;br /&gt;Tear in eye, your dress you'll tear; &lt;br /&gt;Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer. &lt;br /&gt;Pray, console your loving poet, &lt;br /&gt;Make my coat look new, dear, and sew it!&lt;br /&gt;Just compare heart, hear and heard, &lt;br /&gt;Dies and diet, lord and word. &lt;br /&gt;Sword and sward, retain and Britain &lt;br /&gt;(Mind the latter how it's written). &lt;br /&gt;Made has not the sound of bade, &lt;br /&gt;Say-said, pay-paid, laid but plaid. &lt;br /&gt;Now I surely will not plague you &lt;br /&gt;With such words as vague and ague, &lt;br /&gt;But be careful how you speak, &lt;br /&gt;Say: gush, bush, steak, streak, break, bleak, &lt;br /&gt;Previous, precious, fuchsia, via,&lt;br /&gt;Recipe, pipe, studding-sail, choir; &lt;br /&gt;Woven, oven, how and low, &lt;br /&gt;Script, receipt, shoe, poem, toe. &lt;br /&gt;Say, expecting fraud and trickery: &lt;br /&gt;Daughter, laughter and Terpsichore, &lt;br /&gt;Branch, ranch, measles, topsails, aisles, &lt;br /&gt;Missiles, similes, reviles. &lt;br /&gt;Wholly, holly, signal, signing, &lt;br /&gt;same, examining, but mining,&lt;br /&gt;Scholar, vicar, and cigar, &lt;br /&gt;Solar, mica, war and far. &lt;br /&gt;From "desire": desirable-admirable from "admire", &lt;br /&gt;Lumber, plumber, bier, but brier, &lt;br /&gt;Topsham, brougham, renown, but known, &lt;br /&gt;Knowledge, done, lone, gone, none, tone, &lt;br /&gt;One, anemone, Balmorals, &lt;br /&gt;Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel. &lt;br /&gt;Gertrude, German, wind and wind, &lt;br /&gt;Beau, kind, kindred, queue, mankind, &lt;br /&gt;Tortoise, turquoise, chamois-leather, &lt;br /&gt;Reading, Reading, heathen, heather. &lt;br /&gt;This phonetic labyrinth &lt;br /&gt;Gives moss, gross, brook, brooch, ninth, &lt;br /&gt;plinth. &lt;br /&gt;Have you ever yet endeavoured &lt;br /&gt;To pronounce revered and severed, &lt;br /&gt;Demon, lemon, ghoul, foul, soul, &lt;br /&gt;Peter, petrol and patrol? &lt;br /&gt;Billet does not end like ballet; &lt;br /&gt;Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.&lt;br /&gt;Blood and flood are not like food, &lt;br /&gt;Nor is mould like should and would. &lt;br /&gt;Banquet is not nearly parquet, &lt;br /&gt;Which exactly rhymes with khaki. &lt;br /&gt;Discount, viscount, load and broad, &lt;br /&gt;Toward, to forward, to reward, &lt;br /&gt;Ricocheted and crocheting, croquet? &lt;br /&gt;Right! Your pronunciation's OK. &lt;br /&gt;Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, &lt;br /&gt;Friend and fiend, alive and live.&lt;br /&gt;Is your R correct in higher? &lt;br /&gt;Keats asserts it rhymes Thalia. &lt;br /&gt;Hugh, but hug, and hood, but hoot, &lt;br /&gt;Buoyant, minute, but minute. &lt;br /&gt;Say abscission with precision, &lt;br /&gt;Now: position and transition; &lt;br /&gt;Would it tally with my rhyme &lt;br /&gt;If I mentioned paradigm? &lt;br /&gt;Twopence, threepence, tease are easy, &lt;br /&gt;But cease, crease, grease and greasy?&lt;br /&gt;Cornice, nice, valise, revise, &lt;br /&gt;Rabies, but lullabies. &lt;br /&gt;Of such puzzling words as nauseous, &lt;br /&gt;Rhyming well with cautious, tortious, &lt;br /&gt;You'll envelop lists, I hope, &lt;br /&gt;In a linen envelope. &lt;br /&gt;Would you like some more? You'll have it! &lt;br /&gt;Affidavit, David, davit. &lt;br /&gt;To abjure, to perjure. Sheik &lt;br /&gt;Does not sound like Czech but ache.&lt;br /&gt;Liberty, library, heave and heaven, &lt;br /&gt;Rachel, loch, moustache, eleven. &lt;br /&gt;We say hallowed, but allowed, &lt;br /&gt;People, leopard, towed but vowed. &lt;br /&gt;Mark the difference, moreover, &lt;br /&gt;Between mover, plover, Dover. &lt;br /&gt;Leeches, breeches, wise, precise, &lt;br /&gt;Chalice, but police and lice, &lt;br /&gt;Camel, constable, unstable, &lt;br /&gt;Principle, disciple, label.&lt;br /&gt;Petal, penal, and canal, &lt;br /&gt;Wait, surmise, plait, promise, pal, &lt;br /&gt;Suit, suite, ruin. Circuit, conduit &lt;br /&gt;Rhyme with "shirk it" and "beyond it", &lt;br /&gt;But it is not hard to tell &lt;br /&gt;Why it's pall, mall, but Pall Mall. &lt;br /&gt;Muscle, muscular, goal, iron, &lt;br /&gt;Timber, climber, bullion, lion, &lt;br /&gt;Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair, &lt;br /&gt;Senator, spectator, mayor,&lt;br /&gt;Ivy, privy, famous; clamour &lt;br /&gt;Has the A of drachm and hammer. &lt;br /&gt;Pussy, hussy and possess, &lt;br /&gt;Desert, but desert, address. &lt;br /&gt;Golf, wolf, countenance, lieutenants &lt;br /&gt;Hoist in lieu of flags left pennants. &lt;br /&gt;Courier, courtier, tomb, bomb, comb, &lt;br /&gt;Cow, but Cowper, some and home. &lt;br /&gt;"Solder, soldier!  Blood is thicker", &lt;br /&gt;Quoth he, "than liqueur or liquor",&lt;br /&gt;Making, it is sad but true, &lt;br /&gt;In bravado, much ado. &lt;br /&gt;Stranger does not rhyme with anger, &lt;br /&gt;Neither does devour with clangour. &lt;br /&gt;Pilot, pivot, gaunt, but aunt, &lt;br /&gt;Font, front, wont, want, grand and grant. &lt;br /&gt;Arsenic, specific, scenic, &lt;br /&gt;Relic, rhetoric, hygienic. &lt;br /&gt;Gooseberry, goose, and close, but close, &lt;br /&gt;Paradise, rise, rose, and dose.&lt;br /&gt;Say inveigh, neigh, but inveigle, &lt;br /&gt;Make the latter rhyme with eagle. &lt;br /&gt;Mind! Meandering but mean, &lt;br /&gt;Valentine and magazine. &lt;br /&gt;And I bet you, dear, a penny, &lt;br /&gt;You say mani-(fold) like many, &lt;br /&gt;Which is wrong. Say rapier, pier, &lt;br /&gt;Tier (one who ties), but tier. &lt;br /&gt;Arch, archangel; pray, does erring &lt;br /&gt;Rhyme with herring or with stirring?&lt;br /&gt;Prison, bison, treasure trove, &lt;br /&gt;Treason, hover, cover, cove, &lt;br /&gt;Perseverance, severance. Ribald &lt;br /&gt;Rhymes (but piebald doesn't) with nibbled. &lt;br /&gt;Phaeton, paean, gnat, ghat, gnaw, &lt;br /&gt;Lien, psychic, shone, bone, pshaw. &lt;br /&gt;Don't be down, my own, but rough it, &lt;br /&gt;And distinguish buffet, buffet;     &lt;br /&gt;Brood, stood, roof, rook, school, wool, boon, &lt;br /&gt;Worcester, Boleyn, to impugn.&lt;br /&gt;Say in sounds correct and sterling &lt;br /&gt;Hearse, hear, hearken, year and yearling. &lt;br /&gt;Evil, devil, mezzotint, &lt;br /&gt;Mind the Z!  (A gentle hint.) &lt;br /&gt;Now you need not pay attention &lt;br /&gt;To such sounds as I don't mention, &lt;br /&gt;Sounds like pores, pause, pours and paws, &lt;br /&gt;Rhyming with the pronoun yours; &lt;br /&gt;Nor are proper names included, &lt;br /&gt;Though I often heard, as you did,&lt;br /&gt;Funny rhymes to unicorn, &lt;br /&gt;Yes, you know them, Vaughan and Strachan. &lt;br /&gt;No, my maiden, coy and comely, &lt;br /&gt;I don't want to speak of Cholmondeley. &lt;br /&gt;No. Yet Froude compared with proud &lt;br /&gt;Is no better than McLeod. &lt;br /&gt;But mind trivial and vial, &lt;br /&gt;Tripod, menial, denial, &lt;br /&gt;Troll and trolley, realm and ream, &lt;br /&gt;Schedule, mischief, schism, and scheme.&lt;br /&gt;Argil, gill, Argyll, gill. Surely &lt;br /&gt;May be made to rhyme with Raleigh, &lt;br /&gt;But you're not supposed to say &lt;br /&gt;Piquet rhymes with sobriquet. &lt;br /&gt;Had this invalid invalid &lt;br /&gt;Worthless documents? How pallid, &lt;br /&gt;How uncouth he, couchant, looked, &lt;br /&gt;When for Portsmouth I had booked! &lt;br /&gt;Zeus, Thebes, Thales, Aphrodite, &lt;br /&gt;Paramour, enamoured, flighty,&lt;br /&gt;Episodes, antipodes, &lt;br /&gt;Acquiesce, and obsequies. &lt;br /&gt;Please don't monkey with the geyser, &lt;br /&gt;Don't peel 'taters with my razor, &lt;br /&gt;Rather say in accents pure: &lt;br /&gt;Nature, stature and mature. &lt;br /&gt;Pious, impious, limb, climb, glumly, &lt;br /&gt;Worsted, worsted, crumbly, dumbly, &lt;br /&gt;Conquer, conquest, vase, phase, fan, &lt;br /&gt;Wan, sedan and artisan.&lt;br /&gt;The TH will surely trouble you &lt;br /&gt;More than R, CH or W. &lt;br /&gt;Say then these phonetic gems: &lt;br /&gt;Thomas, thyme, Theresa, Thames. &lt;br /&gt;Thompson, Chatham, Waltham, Streatham, &lt;br /&gt;There are more but I forget 'em- &lt;br /&gt;Wait! I've got it: Anthony, &lt;br /&gt;Lighten your anxiety. &lt;br /&gt;The archaic word albeit &lt;br /&gt;Does not rhyme with eight-you see it;&lt;br /&gt;With and forthwith, one has voice, &lt;br /&gt;One has not, you make your choice. &lt;br /&gt;Shoes, goes, does*. Now first say: finger; &lt;br /&gt;Then say: singer, ginger, linger. &lt;br /&gt;Real, zeal, mauve, gauze and gauge, &lt;br /&gt;Marriage, foliage, mirage, age, &lt;br /&gt;Hero, heron, query, very, &lt;br /&gt;Parry, tarry  fury, bury, &lt;br /&gt;Dost, lost, post, and doth, cloth, loth, &lt;br /&gt;Job, Job, blossom, bosom, oath.&lt;br /&gt;Faugh, oppugnant, keen oppugners, &lt;br /&gt;Bowing, bowing, banjo-tuners &lt;br /&gt;Holm you know, but noes, canoes, &lt;br /&gt;Puisne, truism, use, to use? &lt;br /&gt;Though the difference seems little, &lt;br /&gt;We say actual, but victual, &lt;br /&gt;Seat, sweat, chaste, caste, Leigh, eight, height, &lt;br /&gt;Put, nut, granite, and unite. &lt;br /&gt;Reefer does not rhyme with deafer, &lt;br /&gt;Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer.&lt;br /&gt;Dull, bull, Geoffrey, George, ate, late, &lt;br /&gt;Hint, pint, senate, but sedate. &lt;br /&gt;Gaelic, Arabic, pacific, &lt;br /&gt;Science, conscience, scientific; &lt;br /&gt;Tour, but our, dour, succour, four, &lt;br /&gt;Gas, alas, and Arkansas. &lt;br /&gt;Say manoeuvre, yacht and vomit, &lt;br /&gt;Next omit, which differs from it &lt;br /&gt;Bona fide, alibi &lt;br /&gt;Gyrate, dowry and awry.&lt;br /&gt;Sea, idea, guinea, area, &lt;br /&gt;Psalm, Maria, but malaria. &lt;br /&gt;Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean, &lt;br /&gt;Doctrine, turpentine, marine. &lt;br /&gt;Compare alien with Italian, &lt;br /&gt;Dandelion with battalion, &lt;br /&gt;Rally with ally; yea, ye, &lt;br /&gt;Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, key, quay! &lt;br /&gt;Say aver, but ever, fever, &lt;br /&gt;Neither, leisure, skein, receiver.&lt;br /&gt;Never guess-it is not safe, &lt;br /&gt;We say calves, valves, half, but Ralf. &lt;br /&gt;Starry, granary, canary, &lt;br /&gt;Crevice, but device, and eyrie, &lt;br /&gt;Face, but preface, then grimace, &lt;br /&gt;Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass. &lt;br /&gt;Bass, large, target, gin, give, verging, &lt;br /&gt;Ought, oust, joust, and scour, but scourging; &lt;br /&gt;Ear, but earn; and ere and tear &lt;br /&gt;Do not rhyme with here but heir. &lt;br /&gt;Mind the O of off and often &lt;br /&gt;Which may be pronounced as orphan, &lt;br /&gt;With the sound of saw and sauce; &lt;br /&gt;Also soft, lost, cloth and cross. &lt;br /&gt;Pudding, puddle, putting. Putting? &lt;br /&gt;Yes: at golf it rhymes with shutting. &lt;br /&gt;Respite, spite, consent, resent. &lt;br /&gt;Liable, but Parliament. &lt;br /&gt;Seven is right, but so is even, &lt;br /&gt;Hyphen, roughen, nephew, Stephen,&lt;br /&gt;Monkey, donkey, clerk and jerk, &lt;br /&gt;Asp, grasp, wasp, demesne, cork, work. &lt;br /&gt;A of valour, vapid vapour, &lt;br /&gt;S of news (compare newspaper), &lt;br /&gt;G of gibbet, gibbon, gist, &lt;br /&gt;I of antichrist and grist, &lt;br /&gt;Differ like diverse and divers, &lt;br /&gt;Rivers, strivers, shivers, fivers. &lt;br /&gt;Once, but nonce, toll, doll, but roll, &lt;br /&gt;Polish, Polish, poll and poll.&lt;br /&gt;Pronunciation-think of Psyche!- &lt;br /&gt;Is a paling, stout and spiky. &lt;br /&gt;Won't it make you lose your wits &lt;br /&gt;Writing groats and saying 'grits'? &lt;br /&gt;It's a dark abyss or tunnel &lt;br /&gt;Strewn with stones like rowlock, gunwale, &lt;br /&gt;Islington, and Isle of Wight, &lt;br /&gt;Housewife, verdict and indict. &lt;br /&gt;Don't you think so, reader, rather, &lt;br /&gt;Saying lather, bather, father?&lt;br /&gt;Finally, which rhymes with enough, &lt;br /&gt;Though, through, bough, cough, hough, &lt;br /&gt;sough, tough?? &lt;br /&gt;Hiccough has the sound of sup. &lt;br /&gt;My advice is:  GIVE IT UP!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5696089268892783730-1659264344168410146?l=randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/feeds/1659264344168410146/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5696089268892783730&amp;postID=1659264344168410146' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/1659264344168410146'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5696089268892783730/posts/default/1659264344168410146'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://randomosityexclamationpointx4.blogspot.com/1970/01/chaos.html' title='Chaos'/><author><name>B. 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