Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Whimsy: What rhymes with North Dakota?

I once heard Garrison Keillor on A Prairie Home Companion rhyme North Dakota (spoken in the best Fargo-style accent -- though his and Howard Mohr's humor in that vein precedes the movie Fargo by decades) with Chaucer's famous opening line Whan that Aprille with his showres soote (When April, with its sweet showers).

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