# Nothing Rhymes with Orange. Other useless facts needed... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 20, 2003, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-rhymes-with-orange-other-useless-facts-needed/156338 "2003-02-20T15:49:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-rhymes-with-orange-other-useless-facts-needed/156338/61 "2003-02-21T19:39:37Z")
If you are always looking for ‘fun facts’, you may have already seen these, but a couple that I’ve always liked are: 1. Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald. (Don’t have a cite, but I’ve heard him talk about it on the Today show.) 2. The alpine salamander has a pregnancy that can last up to two years and always results in twins. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-rhymes-with-orange-other-useless-facts-needed/156338/62 "2003-02-21T20:04:45Z")
> [@](#): > > Accepted by whom? OED ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-rhymes-with-orange-other-useless-facts-needed/156338/63 "2003-02-21T20:23:50Z")
The full poem regarding the rhyme of “silver” goes: To find a match for “silver,” Or any rhymeless rhyme Requires only will, ver- bosity, and time. It’s Stephen Sondheim. Of course. - FCF ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-rhymes-with-orange-other-useless-facts-needed/156338/64 "2003-02-21T20:38:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mjollnir \* > \*\*OED \*\* Those bums?! What do they know? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-rhymes-with-orange-other-useless-facts-needed/156338/65 "2003-02-21T21:04:00Z")
The Capital of Nevada is further west than Los Angeles. and From an article on North Korea yesterday, their leader, Kim, has one of the world’s largest Daffy Duck memorabilia collections. and Many people noticed in the recent spate of Michael Jackson stories, one of the kids at Neverland Ranch in the background was Leonardo DiCaprio. Leo’s publicist says Leo has no comment about his vist there back then. ---
**Author:** ![SlowMindThinking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@SlowMindThinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlowMindThinking)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-rhymes-with-orange-other-useless-facts-needed/156338/66 "2003-02-21T21:40:30Z")
ooh, I remember another one from the Smithsonian - armidillos only have quads. ---
**Author:** ![knock\_knock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/22d042/32.png) [@knock\_knock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knock_knock)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-rhymes-with-orange-other-useless-facts-needed/156338/67 "2003-02-21T22:08:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bordelond \* > **Harry S Truman’s middle name was simply the letter “S”. His parents could not decide between two family names, Shippe and Solomon.** There are _two_ United States Presidents whose middle initial “S” did not stand for anything - Harry S Truman and Ulysses S. Grant. (At least that’s what Grant claimed. He was originally named Hiram Ulysses Grant. When he went to West Point he gave Ulysses as his first name and S as his middle initial, apparently based on his mother’s maiden name, Simpson. Later on, he insisted that the S stood for nothing. He probably just thought that U. S. Grant sounded cool.) ---
**Author:** ![EasyPhil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47c2d/32.png) [@EasyPhil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EasyPhil)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-rhymes-with-orange-other-useless-facts-needed/156338/68 "2003-02-21T23:23:45Z")
Look, said the estranged orange, how deranged an exchange is taking place here. 😃 Last month was the billionth time I had to do this. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-rhymes-with-orange-other-useless-facts-needed/156338/69 "2003-02-22T00:45:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kill Me Now \* > \*\*people who spend more than 2 hours a day on message boards have microscopic penises and gaping canyons of vaginas. its a fact. both of mine fit the stereotype. \*\* **Moderator’s note:** Well my, my, haven’t you been the busy little troll! This is the second pile of yours I’ve had to sweep up in IMHO just today. You got your wish. Consider yourself killed. TVeblen, IMHO mod ---
**Author:** ![Parallax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Parallax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Parallax)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2003, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-rhymes-with-orange-other-useless-facts-needed/156338/70 "2003-02-22T00:55:51Z")
This thread makes me thing of one thing: “We’ll all avoid scurvy if we just eat an orange…” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nothing-rhymes-with-orange-other-useless-facts-needed/156338.md?page=3)