John Hicks...Trail Mix
This has been driving us all crazy here at Comment Central Command HQ.
It started when we were trying to find a rhyme for Stiglitz. (As in the Nobel Prize winner). We just were, ok.
Anyway, we eventually, triumphantly, came up with that quintessential English snack "Twiglets".
Then we began to look out for words that had no rhyme at all. We came up with orange, purple, chocolate, luggage, anxious and plinth.
Can you help?
Can you find any other Nobel prize winners who rhyme with a tasty snack?
Or maybe we are beyond help.
(Please note that while Wolfgang Ketterle, winner of the 2001 Nobel Physics Prize has a surname that sounds like a bag of crisps, he doesn't count because it is not a rhyme)
UPDATE: Marie Curie...Prawn Puri
My sister maintains that "syringe" rhymes with "orange". And surely "plinth" rhymes with "synth".
Out of interest, how are you pronouncing the "a" in "luggage"?
Posted by: Ali | 25 Feb 2008 15:25:50
I went to school with a guy named Kirpal. Needless to say, he came in pretty handy when you want to write limericks involving the word purple.
Posted by: David H | 25 Feb 2008 15:28:56
Piglets, of course. Or anything ending in "ettes". Unfortunately, this isn't a fast food snack, or is it?
Posted by: Tony Francis | 25 Feb 2008 15:47:01
Seamus Heaney - Ham Panini
(Nobel Laureate in Literature, 1995)
Herman Hesse - Eton Mess (is this a snack?)
(Nobel Laureate in Literature, 1946)
Posted by: Swaf | 25 Feb 2008 16:31:31
Frederic Passy - mango lassie
Theodore Roosevelt - cheese melt
I thought that was quite good.
Posted by: James Swaffield | 25 Feb 2008 16:45:35
The proper rhyme for Stiglitz is biscuits. Amartya Sen, gingerbread men; Craig Mello, Jello; Myron Scholes, bread rolls; Lawrence Klein, glass of wine.
And these are just the economists.
Posted by: Tim Hedges | 25 Feb 2008 17:13:16
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorringe
rhymes with orange (according to wikipedia anyway!)
Posted by: MM | 25 Feb 2008 22:46:20
curple is a strap under the girth
of a horses saddle
to stop the saddle kicking forward
hirple is a scottish word.
still used in scotland.
it means to hobble.
or walk with a limp.
Posted by: Rory Sloane | 25 Feb 2008 23:00:54
Only someone with a tin ear could think that "Stiglitz" rhymes with
"twiglets". By this standard, "panzer" rhymes with "pincer".
Posted by: David McGregor | 26 Feb 2008 05:33:09
'lozenge' rhymes with 'orange' and I think possibly 'turtle' rhymes with 'purple'
Here's one for you
Jelly???
Jelly????
Jelly?????
Can you find the missing letters that make up these english words that begin with jelly?
Posted by: Jak Marshall | 26 Feb 2008 09:59:22
Mother Theresa- bag of maltesers
Posted by: alice | 26 Feb 2008 10:57:03
Dario Fo = Sloppy Joe
(wiki help...In the United States a Sloppy Joe is a dish of ground beef, onions, sweetened tomato sauce or ketchup and other seasonings, and served on a hamburger bun)
Posted by: alice | 26 Feb 2008 11:09:46
Nelson Mandela = Toast and Nutella
Posted by: alice | 26 Feb 2008 11:10:45
Gary S. Becker = Double Decker
Posted by: alice | 26 Feb 2008 11:12:39
Jean Paul Sartre (who refused the prize)- Taramasalata
and
Dario Fo- Pizza to go
Posted by: Anne Moloney | 26 Feb 2008 15:18:14
How about:
Saul Bellow = Lime Jello
Posted by: Jonathan | 26 Feb 2008 16:04:25
Harold Pinter - After eights
Posted by: Mark | 26 Feb 2008 16:32:53
Coming soon to a supermarket near you: Doris Lessing Salad Dressing.
Posted by: stephen | 27 Feb 2008 08:39:07