"That military guy is rather bizarre. There's no R in his rank -- or so I'd have sworn. / Yet I hear an R when I hear him announced. Makes him sound like a single morsel of corn."
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"That military guy is rather bizarre. There's no R in his rank -- or so I'd have sworn. / Yet I hear an R when I hear him announced. Makes him sound like a single morsel of corn."
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It's money you've saved for retirement years that'll help you live happy and free, / And it's also a 3D ovoid of sorts that lies safe in its place in a tree.
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If you write these to your friends, you need these for the writing. (There's more than two dozen from which you can choose.) / You also use these when constructing a text -- unless emojis are all that you happen to use.
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Watson said, "Holmes! This waterway word can be found in the body. Like the birth one, say, through which babies descend. / And there's one in the ear. Can you guess another?" Holmes said, "Of course! It's alimentary, old friend!"
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Say this composer after "Chopin" for an old, old pun (still sublime): / It's what you carry around with you at grocery-buying time.
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This relative of mine reminds me, whenever she gets the chance / That she sounds just like a city at the southern edge of France.
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This city? On some lists, the largest on its continent. But changing the A to an E, / Gives you children's blocks, with which you can build a spaceship, Batman, or tree.