War at the start is like a beautiful girl,
any live man’s delight.
And by the end? A disaster, a hag,
regret, repulsion - and flight.
- Samuel ibn Naghrela
Friday, August 01, 2008
Rhyming Couplet Of The Day
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7:44 PM
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Head Wide Shut, Please
Those who are dead are not dead
They’re just living in my head
- 42, Coldplay
Given a choice between oblivion and living eternally in Chris Martin's head, I'll choose the void.
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6:35 PM
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Labels: music, rhyming couplets
Monday, June 23, 2008
Illustrated Rhyming Couplet Of The Day

RubberTrust
Defends in rain and sleet:
Without galoshes,
Europe sits and weeps!
- Vladimir Mayakovsky
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5:56 PM
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Labels: maps, rhyming couplets
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Rhyming Couplet Of The Day
I am a figure of fun:
Obsessive, deadpan and moribund.
- Figure Of Fun, The Birthday Party
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3:17 PM
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Labels: rhyming couplets
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Uplifting Rhyming Couplet Of The Day
I drink to the trick of a mouth that betrayed me,
To the eyes and the look that lied.
I drink to the terrible world we inhabit
And to God, who never replied.
- Anna Akhmatova
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1:29 AM
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Labels: intoxicology, pessimism, rhyming couplets
Monday, April 21, 2008
Rhyming Couplet Of The Day
’Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore,
And coming events cast their shadows before
- Thomas Campbell, Lochiel’s Warning
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8:47 PM
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Labels: rhyming couplets, transcendence
Friday, April 11, 2008
Illustrated Rhyming Couplet Of The Day

I fuck lakes
And I've screwed some fakes
And I've licked and sucked
The pink mountaintops
- I (Fuck) Mountains, The Pink Mountaintops
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1:34 AM
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Labels: rhyming couplets, sex
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Rhyming Couplet Of The Day
I must lie down where all the ladders start,
In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.
- William Butler Yeats, The Circus Animals' Desertion
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10:54 PM
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Rhyming Couplet Of The Day
I saw his body thrashing round,
I saw his pulse rate going down,
I saw him in convulsive throes,
I said, "I'll have one of those."
- (He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River, TISM
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12:58 PM
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Labels: rhyming couplets
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Rhyming Couplet Of The Day
I came home one night, she was in my bed
With my best friend giving him head.
What really pissed me off about this shit,
The bitch had never even sucked my dick!
- I Used To Love Her, Body Count
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4:02 PM
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Labels: rhyming couplets, sex
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Rhyming Couplet Of The Day
Are you the answer to a drunken sailor’s lonely wish?
Or are you an optical illusion caused by a woman sitting on a rock
Holding half a fish?
- Mermaids, Flight Of The Conchords
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12:46 AM
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Monday, September 03, 2007
Rhyming Couplet Of The Day
Of Grandfatherly gentleness I'm devoid,
there's not a single grey hair in my soul!
- Vladimir Mayakovsky
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5:25 PM
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Labels: rhyming couplets
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Inspirational Christian Verse Of The Day
Mommy she loved Jesus, but not like others did
For she had a special bottle in which our savior lived
Mommy she loved Jesus, but not like others did
For she could unleash His vengeance by unfastening the lid
- I Dream Of Jesus, Dead Milkmen
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3:47 PM
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Labels: rhyming couplets
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Dope Rhymes Of The Day
Each herb and each tree,
Mountain, hill, earth and sea,
Cloud, Meteor and Star,
Are Men Seen Afar.
- William Blake, letter to Thomas Butts (October 2, 1800)
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12:31 PM
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Labels: rhyming couplets, transcendence
Monday, July 23, 2007
Rhyming Couplet Of The Day
I love you for free and I'm not your mother,
But you don't even bother :(
- Objection! (A Tango), Shakira
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1:32 PM
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Labels: rhyming couplets
Monday, July 16, 2007
Inspirational If Slightly Obsolete Rhyming Couplet Of The Day

Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not.
- Hilaire Belloc
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12:43 PM
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Illustrated Rhyming Couplet Of The Day

It's a monumental big screen kiss,
It's so deep it's meaningless.
- So Hard Done By, The Tragically Hip
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10:39 PM
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Labels: rhyming couplets, sex
Thursday, June 21, 2007
The Greatest Rhyming Couplet, Of All Time
Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
- War Pigs, Black Sabbath
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10:49 PM
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Thursday, June 14, 2007
Rhyming Couplet Of The Day
Good love is what I'll be givin ya
I got a pussy 'bout the size of Bolivia
- I Need Some Pussy, Willie D (guest verse by Choice)
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10:17 PM
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Labels: internationalism, rhyming couplets, sex
Friday, June 08, 2007
Rhyming Couplet Of The Day
It's a small world and it smells funny
I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money
- Vision Thing, Sisters Of Mercy
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12:01 AM
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Labels: rhyming couplets