Songs
"We've known each other for so long
Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it
Inside we both know what's been going on
We know the game and we're gonna _____ _____"
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play it
"Never Gonna Give You Up", Rick Astley
"I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and _____—
I took the one less traveled _____,
And that has made all the _____."
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I, by, difference
"The Road Not Taken", Robert Frost
"Full" names of the two princesses from The Phantom Tollbooth.
Sweet Rhyme and Pure Reason
"Then the trav’ller in the dark,
Thanks you for your tiny _____,
He could not see which way to go,
If you did not twinkle _____…
Tho’ I know not what you are,
Twinkle, twinkle, little _____."
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spark, so, star
"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" (accept "The Star"), Jane Taylor
"Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And _____."
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Immortality
"Because I could not stop for Death", Emily Dickinson
"I have a sad story to tell you
It may hurt your feelings a bit
Last night when I walked into my bathroom
I stepped in a big pile of sh___"
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"Shaving cream,
be nice and clean;
Shave ev'ry day and you'll always look keen."
"Shaving Cream", Paul Wynn
"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, _____
Through caverns measureless to _____
Down to a sunless _____."
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ran, man, sea
"Kubla Khan", Samuel Taylor Coleridge
An English word, not including "orange", that has no perfect rhyme in the English language.
idk man check wiktionary
(Sir) Robert Bryson Hall II
"Vrei să pleci dar… nu mă iei…
Chipul tău și _____ _____ _____
Mi-amintesc de ochii tăi"
AND English translation of _____ _____ _____
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dragostea din tei (love from the linden trees)
"Dragostea din tei", O-Zone
"Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring _____.
I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses _____.
The art of losing isn’t hard to _____."
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disaster, went, master
"One Art", Elizabeth Bishop
The Knickerbocker was a NYC literary magazine responsible for first publishing the anti-joke about the chicken crossing the road. Its name derives from "Diedrich Knickerbocker", the pen name of this famous 19th-cent. short-story author.
Washington Irving
What has a mouth, but cannot speak;
eyes, but cannot see;
ears, but cannot hear;
and neither is there breath in its mouth?
an idol/statue (Psalms 135:16–17)
"You and me
From one world
We are _____
Travel _____
A thousand miles
Meeting in _____"
AND sing official equivalent Chinese lyrics
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family, dream, Beijing
"我和你，心连心，同住地球村。
为梦想，千里行，相会在北京。"
"You and Me", Liu Huan and Sarah Brightman
"We wear the mask that grins and _____,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.
Why should the world be over-_____,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, _____
We wear the mask."
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lies, wise, while
"We Wear the Mask", Paul Laurence Dunbar
10 is happy, but 11 is not.
13 is happy, but 14 is not.
19 is happy, but 18 is not.
23 is happy, but 22 is not.
28 is happy, but 27 is not.
Is 31 happy? Is 32 happy?
yes; yes
(a happy number is one where continuously summing the squares of the digits eventually yields 1.)
(ex. 7 is happy bc 72=49, 42+92=97, 92+72=130, 12+32+02=10, 12+02=1)
(ex. 4 is unhappy bc 42=16, 12+62=37, 32+72=58, 52+82=89, 82+92=145, 12+42+52=42, 42+22=20, 22+02=4…)
How to decode a skytale.
wrap it around the right-sized cylinder