Here's the new place for our game. Send me a PM with your offering.

I'll try to get one to you this weekend. It doesn't seem that easy to me, but then I complain too much, don't I?

Assuming the correct stress is on "Cod" then it seems easy enough to me - although, when I looked it up in Rhymezone, it initally gave me over a thousand rhymes, starting with "be" and ending with "American Angelica Tree"!

I realised after a few moments of puzzlement that they were rhyming C.O.D. not cod!

Another such word is "nice."

My husband told me about this one:

There once was a man from Cape Cod
Who said it's exceedingly odd
To think that the tree
Will continue to be
When there's no one about in the quad.

Dear Sir, your confusion is odd
For there's always someone in the quad.
And that's why the tree
Will continue to be.
I will be there, sincerely yours, God!

One from Richard. Come on, this isn't difficult (I almost said "hard" but that's a hint for a rhyme).

When Jeb Raltar spent time on the Cape
He partook far too much of the grape.
When he bedded a hussy
(who wasn't too fussy)
His dick folded like waterlogged crepe.

Oh, heck. I didn't get to it, but I will. It's perfect for the train.

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Originally posted by Proofreader:
One from Richard. Come on, this isn't difficult (I almost said "hard" but that's a hint for a rhyme).

Remember that British English and US English rhymes WILL BE DIFFERENT for this one.

No British dialect would, for example, rhyme Cod and hard.

...or petard, facade and esplanade - which Rhymezone suggests are perfect rhymes. And it does rhyme with hod, mod. and plod - none of which rhymezone recognises!

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...or petard, facade and esplanade - which Rhymezone suggests are perfect rhymes. And it does rhyme with hod, mod. and plod - none of which rhymezone recognises!

All of which rhyme for me, so don't worry about that aspect.

Petard, facade and esplanade all rhyme nicely for me with guard and card - but not with cod.

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All of which rhyme for me, so don't worry about that aspect.

Well not for me! I'll probably select mine this time!

Mine's finally in. Probably the rhymes won't work for you British posters or you Australians or you Easterners...maybe just for me!

I'm taking this opportunity to ask a question that's been bugging me for several years. In this photo there are a number of squiggly lines on the pavement. What do they stand for? I've seen other pictures of English roads with even more squiggly lines like this but I've never seen any on American roads.

Well, I'll let our English colleagues answer, but I bet it has something to do with their "roundabouts."

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Originally posted by Proofreader:
I'm taking this opportunity to ask a question that's been bugging me for several years. In this photo there are a number of squiggly lines on the pavement. What do they stand for? I've seen other pictures of English roads with even more squiggly lines like this but I've never seen any on American roads.

So far as I know (and they are a relatively new phenomenon so far as I'm aware) the squiggly lines on the road (not the pavement - that's what we call the "sidewalk") are simply there to warn drivers that they are approaching a junction or similar hazard. They are far from universal.

I don't believe it is confined to roundabout-controlled junctions - but I'll try to find out. Probably tomorrow as I'm off to London shortly.

Three so far

I'm working on one, with of course the correct "English" pronunciation, to rhyme with bod and not bard.

Four so far. When we get to thirty, i'll post them.

Zig zag lines can mean both "no stopping" and/or "no overtaking" according to the UK Government website here - http://www.legislation.gov.uk/...2/3113/contents/made - scroll down to section 4.

They are usually found near a pedestrian crossing and have nothing to do with roundabouts. The regulation goes back to 2002.

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Originally posted by Richard English:

So far as I know (and they are a relatively new phenomenon so far as I'm aware) the squiggly lines on the road (not the pavement - that's what we call the "sidewalk") are simply there to warn drivers that they are approaching a junction or similar hazard. They are far from universal.

I don't think that's right. The zig-zag lines are there to indicate the approach to a pedestrian crossing. There's a light-controlled crossing in the foreground of the photo, so I assume they're there to warn motorists of that crossing - the roundabout is irrelevant.

They're not a new phenomenon, either. I remember zig-zags being introduced at the approach to zebra crossings when I was a child, at least 35 years ago. I think their introduction at light-controlled crossings is rather more recent, though.

Incidentally, the junction in the photo is the so-called "Magic Roundabout" in Swindon - an example of a very rare type of junction which isn't technically a roundabout, but a so-called "ring junction" consisting of five mini-roundabouts connected together. Unlike conventional roundabouts, it's possible to travel in either direction round the junction, which can make it quite daunting to those who aren't familiar with the idea.

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Unlike conventional roundabouts, it's possible to travel in either direction round the junction, which can make it quite daunting to those who aren't familiar with the idea.

I would imagine so.

Roundabouts (or rotaries here) were once fairly common locally but offhand I can only think of three or four out of those dozens that are still in use.

I recall one late night returning from the beach. None of us had been drinking but apparently our driver was more tired than we knew. We got to a rotary and he continued as if the road was straight. We bounced across the uneven surface and landed on the proper road on the other side. He stayed awake for the rest of the journey.

Thanks for the info, RE.

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Originally posted by BobHale:

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Originally posted by Proofreader:
One from Richard. Come on, this isn't difficult (I almost said "hard" but that's a hint for a rhyme).

Remember that British English and US English rhymes WILL BE DIFFERENT for this one.

No British dialect would, for example, rhyme Cod and hard.

Only a New Englander would do that!

WM

Hey, WM, send Proof 26 limericks so he'll post them!

Even one, WM!

I've sent two now

So have I...

I'm sending a winner tonight...and one from Shu

How are we doing? In the meantime we've played a whole Bluffing Game!

Can we vote, pretty please, with sugar?

I'd still like some more entries. But I will post them this weekend.

So...plod, you odd-bod clods, and we'll nod.