Glad, Mad, Sad, Moss-clad

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http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_259b.html

Re: Rhyming words representing the character of the 4 bodily humors:

Sanguine = glad
Melancholy = sad
Bilious = mad
Phlegmatic = staid

I know it’s not a perfect rhyme (like moss-clad) but a lot of poetry readers will let you get away with a near-rhyme once in a while. So, for those of you working out your own humorous sonnets, I offer this alternative.

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Check out:
http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000239.html

for other possibilities.

Peace.

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OK, I’m interested in checking out moriah’s link. Is there a conversion from old style?

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Moriah, your link just goes to the main forums page.

Is the thread in question The Four Humors ?

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Yeah, that’s gotta be it. She posted her link last year, before the great conversion, probably. Thanks!

I guess I’ll bop over to About This Place or whatever it’s called, and ask my question about converting old thread IDs.

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RM Mentock, there is no conversion for uBB links. To find a thread, you would have to use the vBulletin Search feature.

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Thanks Arnold. If I’d had a search feature on my own dim memory banks, I probably would have found that there, too.