[John Whitworth]

Come on Jerome. More of that. What rhymes with buggery?

[Douglas G. Brown]

Originally Posted by John Whitworth

Come on Jerome. More of that. What rhymes with buggery?

.....Thuggery?

[Mary McLean]

Originally Posted by Douglas G. Brown

.....Thuggery?

And skulduggery. Should do nicely.

[Brian Allgar]

Originally Posted by John Whitworth

Come on Jerome. More of that. What rhymes with buggery?

From pre-pubescent thuggery
And adolescent buggery,
Political skulduggery
Duly awakes.

Though others may be brainier,
Those Old Etonian crania,
Filled with elitist mania,
Have what it takes

To govern all us lesser mortals.
Every young Etonian chortles
Entering those hallowed portals -
It’s just the ticket.

What matter if their brains are soggy,
Dumber than the dumbest doggy,
Thoughts confused, and ideas foggy?
Life’s not cricket.

[Jerome Betts]

Golly, give these spheroids an inch and they'll take an ell. Saved me a job, though.

Since you insist, John.

Come, longed for lightning-bolt, strike Eton!
Bared buttocks now may pass unbeaten
But still it puts a rich elite on
The path to power.

We wait, damned college by the Thames
That makes mere PR men PMs
In coalition with Lib Dems,
Your final hour.

You're loved by those who live in castles
Who stole our land in giant parcels
And cater for some total *rs*h*l*s
(No names supplied.)

So, drop your fees, they're quite offensive,
Sell off your fields ( far too extensive)
Rename yourself Slough Comprehensive
Or - FLASH! - you're fried!

[John Whitworth]

I like that very much, Jerome. Could be a winner.

And as for yours, Brian. Sheer mastery! Now you'll have to wait for a competition it would fit. Yes, those are the three rhymes I have used myself. There's also snuggery of course. Buggery in the snuggery. Sounds like Sir Jimmy Saville.

[FOsen]

Hah! Thanks, and good ones, all. Jerome's reminds me of last season's Downton Abbey, which was "hosted" here by Viking River Cruises. After each show, there'd be a commercial with a plummy voiceover inviting everyone to take a cruise and visit "magestic a**holes." - an unfortunate construction, since changed.

[Susan McLean]

Frank, you had me laughing out loud with your last quip. I confess that, knowing what it was supposed to say, I never heard the line the way you did.

Susan

[Jerome Betts]

Thanks, John and Frank. Those Viking River Cruises adverts are a bit stagey and hammy but I must have missed what Frank heard, or it was a special USA version.

I wonder if that AAAB CCCB arrangement is almost a form in its own right?

I wonder also if Uggery (the buying, selling or loving of Ug boots), chuggery(the art of chugging -street-collecting), druggery(love of drugs), gluggery (love of drinking), muggery (art of mugging - stage or street) and puggery (the world of pug-fancying) are possible rhymes for the B-word?

[John Whitworth]

If you were a Scot you could have shuggery, meaning full of sugar.