While I haven't gone poet per se, I have been speaking in rhyme more lately. It's kind of driving FLOGette nuts, but I realized that with Johnny Cochran dead there's room out there for a rhyming attorney. Unfortunately, these days I'm dealing with arcane issues of administrative procedural law -- not necessarily rhyme-ready. What rhymes with "interrogatory?" Besides "derogatory."
The rhyming all started during a Saturday night "Cocaine" karaoke performance featuring some freestyling during the instrumental break:
When you're lacking in hairI'm tempted to start collecting these. "Cocaine" has a monster 28-measure rest; you risk losing the audience. (I don't know how Pete does it.) Submissions in comments will be added to this post.
You wanna be debonair
Rogaine!When you're looking to eat
Taste the meat not the heat
Propane!
UPDATE: I have these:
When you're singing a songI've also got some good tasteless ones based on Cobain and Tulane, but I want to try and keep this crowd friendly. (We'll see.) Posted by FLOG at September 27, 2005 8:40 PM
And the verse is all gone
Refrain!When you've got some particles
To separate from the real article
Membrane!
"interrogatory?" Besides "derogatory."
exculpatory
prepatory
exploratory
explanatory
allegory
hoary
palpatory
Robert Hory
exclamatory
inflamatory
category
All meet the definition. That's all I got for now.
Posted by: Timothy at September 28, 2005 9:56 AMYeah, well, you can roll with the answers.com definition all you want, but with a word like interrogatory, it just don't feel right unless the rhyme rolls all the way back to four syllables. For me, anyhoo.
Posted by: FLOG at September 28, 2005 1:26 PMThere is simply no pleasing you.
Posted by: Timothy at September 28, 2005 2:33 PMLook at it this way: pleasing me is not your calling in life. You have better things to do, I hope. But now you have me all feeling bad so I'll see what I can do with those words . . .
We needs the interrogatory
To prove nothing's exculpatory
Agency ain't been prepatory
So we gotta get exploratory
And demand they get explanatory
Reminds me of an allegory
This big old bear all wet and hoary
Down in the dirt getting palpatory
More hopeless even than Robert Horry
Cold makes you get exclamatory
Heart gets all inflammatory
They put him in the category
So we needs the interrogatory
I hope that stone-cold rhyme was vague enough to maintain confidentiality.
Posted by: FLOG at September 28, 2005 3:14 PM