‘Orange’ is a famously difficult word to rhyme. Here’s an effort I came up with some years ago (it needs to be read quite quickly!).
Down in Spain I was eating an orange
By myself when a certain foreign
Gentleman came up and said
‘I’ll give you money if you shoot me dead’.
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A rhyme for ‘orange’
Double negatives
The Oxford philosopher J. L. Austin was giving a lecture in New York to a group of fellow philosophers. In it he raised the question of double negatives. ‘In some languages,’ said he in his precise Oxford voice, ‘a double negative yields an affirmative. In others it yields a more emphatic negative. But I know of no language in which a double affirmative yields an negative.’ From the back of the hall came a drawling professorial Brooklyn accent: ‘yeah, yeah’.