{"id":4958,"date":"2010-08-15T14:40:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T14:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/08\/15\/guess-the-lyrics-unusual-rhyme\/"},"modified":"2010-08-15T14:40:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-15T14:40:34","slug":"guess-the-lyrics-unusual-rhyme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/08\/15\/guess-the-lyrics-unusual-rhyme\/","title":{"rendered":"Guess-the-Lyrics: Unusual Rhyme Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A slightly different twist on the occasional guess-the-lyrics game. The following list gives pairs of rhyming words from a song that I think can be used to identify a specific song. So, for example, the pair:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>diplomat\/ Siamese cat<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>identifies &#8220;Like a Rolling Stone&#8221; by Bob Dylan, thanks to the lines:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>You used to ride on a chrome horse with your diplomat<br \/>\nWho carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to guess the songs from the rhymes below. Some are pretty easy, some are pretty obscure. If you don&#8217;t choose to accept this mission, well, come back later, and there&#8217;ll be something else to do.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1) in the rain\/ beef chow mein<\/li>\n<li>2) for the feast\/ kill the beast<\/li>\n<li>3) flip-flop\/ pop-top<\/li>\n<li>4) Company\/ economy<\/li>\n<li>5) cool crook\/ school book<\/li>\n<li>6) Catholic school\/ Roman rule<\/li>\n<li>7) issues, yeah\/ miss you, yeah<\/li>\n<li>8) my make-up\/ my break-up<\/li>\n<li>9) founded Rome\/ wolf comes home<\/li>\n<li>10) German car\/ Irish bar<\/li>\n<li>11) science book\/ French I took<\/li>\n<li>12) nobles and princes\/ curtains and chintzes<\/li>\n<li>13) pipes and planks\/ nitrous tanks<\/li>\n<li>14) he does brag\/ man in drag<\/li>\n<li>15) scented jasmine tea\/ pleasant company<\/li>\n<li>16) was employed\/ Bob&#8217;s Big Boy<\/li>\n<li>17) act surprised\/ paralyzed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Feel free to offer your own pairs for guessing in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A slightly different twist on the occasional guess-the-lyrics game. The following list gives pairs of rhyming words from a song that I think can be used to identify a specific song. So, for example, the pair: diplomat\/ Siamese cat identifies &#8220;Like a Rolling Stone&#8221; by Bob Dylan, thanks to the lines: You used to ride&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/08\/15\/guess-the-lyrics-unusual-rhyme\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guess-the-Lyrics: Unusual Rhyme Edition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-pop_culture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}