Maid in Heaven - Be-Bop Deluxe
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Heaven is a Place on Earth - Belinda Carlisle
Quote: Rob H @ April 24 2010, 9:40 PM BSTMade in England - Elton John
Hang on !
Isn't that a yellow card ?
Quote: Oldrocker @ April 24 2010, 10:58 PM BSTHang on !
Isn't that a yellow card ?
Nope. Just an ingeniously clever play on words. Honest.
Quote: Rob H @ April 24 2010, 11:00 PM BSTNope. Just an ingeniously clever play on words. Honest.
No it's a rhyme.
Quote: Oldrocker @ April 24 2010, 11:01 PM BSTNo it's a rhyme.
More of a pun, surely?
A pun, or paronomasia, is a form of word play that deliberately exploits an ambiguity between similar-sounding words for humourous or rhetorical effect.
What you did was rhyme.
And there is absolutely nothing humourous or rhetorical about Elton John.
Quote: Oldrocker @ April 24 2010, 11:12 PM BSTA pun, or paronomasia, is a form of word play that deliberately exploits an ambiguity between similar-sounding words for humourous or rhetorical effect.
What you did was rhyme.
And there is absolutely nothing humourous or rhetorical about Elton John.
I beg to differ: surely 'maiden' and 'made in' is an example of me deliberately exploiting an ambiguity between similar-sounding words for humourous or rhetorical effect.
Differ away, can't be f*cked.
No, fair enough.
I got it back anyway.
Quote: Rob H @ April 24 2010, 9:44 PM BSTHeaven is a Place on Earth - Belinda Carlisle
Carlisle Wheeling - The Monkees
Quote: Chappers @ April 24 2010, 11:52 PM BSTI got it back anyway.
Goodbye Wheeling - Mel Tillis
(Did I do bad before then?)
Yes, sorry.
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