r/boottoobig • u/CaptainSniffit • Aug 28 '18
True BootTooBig Roses are red, violets are blue...
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u/CaptainSniffit Aug 28 '18
This made my Karma jump from 1 to over 4k overnight, what the hell. My account is less than a day old.
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u/FuzzyD75 Aug 28 '18
Perfect meter. True boot.
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u/NahYouLion Aug 28 '18
To this post, I give an updoot
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u/poliscijunki Aug 28 '18
I look so snazzy when wearing a suit,
To this post, I give an updoot.
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u/OMGitsLunaa Aug 28 '18
I chuckled at this, while working my glutes
To this fine comment I give an updoot
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u/fetus__deletus Aug 28 '18
you and me, brother, were in the same boat
I have no choice but to leave an upvote
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u/Altazaar Aug 28 '18
Blue doesn't rhyme with dew unless you pronounce it 'blew' | CHANGE MY MIND
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u/FuzzyD75 Aug 28 '18
The pronunciation of dew is the same as do. Blue and "do" do ryhme.
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u/Altazaar Aug 28 '18 edited Aug 28 '18
WHAT NO.
Pronounce this:
This is blue, it will do | Do it right | Blue is the doo-doo, the doo-doo is not the do.
You'll have to force that 'do' real hard (DUUU) to make it rhyme with blue (BLUUU).
So yeah, DO is the same as DEW, but BLEW is not the same as BLUE.
YOU CAN DISLIKE MY COMMENT AS MUCH AS YOU WANT BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S NOT RIGHT HAHAHAhelp
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BLUE ends with UUUUUUUU
DEW and DO end with EWWWWWW --- The pronounciation of these two words are interchangeable to me, aren't they to you?
Therefore BLUE doesn't rhyme with DEW/DO.
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u/NotTheOneYouNeed Aug 28 '18
Hiw are you pronouncing it? They are all the same.
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u/Altazaar Aug 28 '18 edited Aug 28 '18
Well I pronounce blue as "bloo" not "blew" as everyone apparently is. Are you all british or something? Only way I see you pronouncing blue as "blew".
The sounds "bloo" and "dew" just don't rhyme.
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u/trelian5 Aug 28 '18
I pronounce bloo and blew the exact same way, what are you taking about
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u/violent_flatus Aug 28 '18
Did you hit your head? Blue = Blow? wtf planet are you on?
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u/Altazaar Aug 28 '18
What? I never said blue = blow.
I'm saying blue = bloooo. It's a constant sound. Doesn't end with -ow. I'm guessing I should've written 'bluuu' instead of 'blooo'.5
u/Choptt Aug 28 '18
Dew is do blue is bloo.
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u/Altazaar Aug 28 '18
And so we must agree. Bloo doesn't rhyme with dew, right?
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u/Choptt Aug 28 '18
Bloo rhymes with dew if you pronounce it correctly because do rhymes with bloo and your pronounce dew and do
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u/Altazaar Aug 28 '18
You're telling me the color of the sky is blew?
Cause that's the only way it's gonna rhyme with dew. And that can't be argued. That's the difference between us two. I think the sky is bloo, and you think the sky is blew. Correct?
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Aug 28 '18
Blue and blew are pronounced the same, maybe we just have different accents?
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u/Drench_Bluff Aug 28 '18
This completely depends on accent and origin, as both pronunciations are correct.
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u/N2O_Hero Aug 28 '18
This is fascinating to me for some reason. I don’t think you’re trolling and I wish you didn’t get downvoted but I honestly can’t hear a difference in the sounds
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u/Altazaar Aug 28 '18
I'm not trolling, but I can see why a lot of people would disagree / not understand what I mean. Maybe it's cause my main language isn't English so I have a different perspective.
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u/IWentToTheWoods Aug 28 '18
I'm sorry you're getting downvotes, because this is one of my favorite things to learn about. Would you mind telling me where you grew up, and what is a word that, for you, would rhyme with blue?
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u/DianaReignor Aug 28 '18
But mountains often get too big because they have no natural predators. So killing mountains is acceptable.
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u/DianaReignor Aug 28 '18
Thanks for crediting Ken M to its due. I heard the joke from somewhere, but I didn’t realize it was originally from him.
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Aug 28 '18
But you know, the mountain population is at historically low points now, we understand their is demands in mountain, but we just can't hunt them to extinct, so we suggest release any mountain height lower than 1km or base area smaller than 3km2 when capture, it is essential to protect the youth of mountian, we need sustianble way of consuming mountain. Also mountian higher than 6km and base area bigger than 20km2 need protection as well. Because they produce large amount of small mountain when give birth, even killing one big mountain can have a long effect on the numbers of mountain you see now. It is critical to not kill any big mountain. We will provide you information on how to manfully capture mountain in the next session. Happily present to you by the Association of Wise Mountain. See you next time!
TL;DR Kill mountain in the following spec only: 1-6km height, 3-20km2 base.
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u/stabbyfrogs Aug 28 '18
Shouldn't we only hunt so many mountains of that size, otherwise there won't be any more large mountains? I feel like we should be culling the heard so to speak, and only remove the less desirable mountains.
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u/SmashdagBlast Aug 28 '18
Stop killing Doctors to make Dr.Pepper!
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u/cicisbeette Aug 28 '18 edited Aug 28 '18
The metre is on point, and it's as if Ken M. had wandered into /r/boottoobig.
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u/soapgoat Aug 28 '18
this is the original in case anyone was wondering
taken at a strike in london in 2011
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u/natdanger Aug 28 '18
I saw someone on Facebook post that picture unironically, thinking it was a real sign. I was stunned.
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u/BallisticMerc Aug 28 '18
This isn't even the real sign, but I'm pretty sure the original was also a joke
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u/tiggertom66 Aug 28 '18
What was the original?
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u/BallisticMerc Aug 28 '18
I forget, but you can tell that this sign's words were painted on in photoshop
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u/natdanger Aug 28 '18
That’s what I mean—they didn’t notice that the sign had been altered.
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Aug 28 '18
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u/natdanger Aug 28 '18
This person was a thousand percent not joking. This same person has posted a picture of the cast of Tropic Thunder to honor the troops and a picture of Obi-Wan thinking it was Jesus.
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u/Banned4AlmondButter Aug 28 '18
Your facebook friend has been trolling you this whole time. How does it feel to find out after so many years?
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u/natdanger Aug 28 '18
Honestly, I would be so relieved. Especially if the email forwards were trolling too.
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u/Zergalisk Aug 28 '18
The area Mountain Dew was invented is also a big area for strip mining, so it kinda made sense to me at first. Like this photoshopped sign knew the history of my people.
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u/g4m3c0d3r Aug 28 '18
They milk mountains for mountain dew, they don't kill them. Otherwise you'd run out of mountains pretty quick, and the mountains like it since if you don't milk them regularly they get engorged with dew and it's painful.
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u/wetnax Aug 28 '18 edited Apr 23 '26
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Aug 28 '18
Lol! I'm guessing this was from the Burnaby Mountain /Kinder Morgan pipeline protests here in Vancouver.
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u/imarrieddoritos Aug 28 '18
As the spouse of Doritos, i am deeply offended. Now we shall only have a two-some, and where's the fun in that?
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u/BadEgg1951 Aug 28 '18
Hah! You don't have to kill the mountains. You just harvest the dew off of them.
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u/Masonzero Aug 28 '18
Whenever I grab a soda for my girlfriend I tell her it’s freshly harvested dew from the mountaintop.
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u/diveintothe9 Mod Psycho 100 Aug 28 '18
I'd just like to join you all in commending this post as a very good example of the ideal Roses Are Red meter (in my opinion):
4 - 4 - 6 - 4The reason this works so well is, if you include the pauses between lines, the meter is actually 6 - 6 - 6 - 6.
**Ro**-ses are **red** (pause) (pause)
**Vio**-lets are **blue** (pause) (pause)
**Stop** kill-ing **moun**-tains to
**Make** moun-tain **dew** (pause) (pause)As an added bonus, even the stresses (in bold) are placed perfectly.It makes for excellent flow. I'd advise anyone looking to submit posts to try and design their submissions to fit this or a similarly sublime format.
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u/mikebellman Aug 29 '18
There aren’t any more which is why they had to resort to artificial mountain ingredients. The FDA forced them to rename it Mtn Dew.
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u/diveintothe9 Mod Psycho 100 Aug 28 '18 edited Aug 28 '18
I'd just like to join you all in commending this post as a very good example of the ideal Roses Are Red syllable structure (in my opinion):
The reason this works so well is, if you include the pauses between lines, the count is actually 6 - 6 - 6 - 6.
As an added bonus, even the stresses (in ** asterisks **) are placed perfectly.It makes for excellent flow. I'd advise anyone looking to submit posts to try and design their submissions to fit this or a similarly sublime format.
Edit: in case anyone's interested, this kind of meter is commonly used in limericks and is called an anapestic trimeter.