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You will be able to read, and enjoy pictures, after you finish this. Unless you are very sensitive, in which case you have should not read blogs. There are possible exceptions. You might be at work, and have your boss kill you because you are not working. You might read something that amuses, and choke on a ham sandwich. You might read this on a mobile device while crossing the street, and not see the bus. The odds of those things happening are slight. In all probability, you will survive this post.
Rhyme Zone has a survive page. If your eyes still work, then you win. RZ lists 21 words that rhyme with survive. The original list had 53, but 32 of those were combinations using one of the surviving 21. These words that jive with survive are alive, arrive, chive, clive, clyve, connive, contrive, dive, drive, five, hive, i’ve, jive, live, revive, shive, shrive, skive, strive, thrive, and vive.
Jive may the most dangerous of the survivor rhymers. PG fondly remembers a Sunday School lesson. “Boys, I’m going to tell you about that jivvy music. First, you start listening to that jivvy music. Then, you go to places where they play that jivvy music. Then, you start staggering home drunk.”
RZ has a quote, from Oscar Wilde, about survival. “”One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.” Mr. Wilde proved the truth of this, in a Paris hotel. He is reputed to have said “Either that wallpaper goes, or I do”. The wallpaper won.
Willie the Shake is another well spoken Englishmen. He did not live to see Mel Gibson play Hamlet. In Sonnet LXXXI, it is noted “Or you survive when I in earth am rotten”. This was many years before the Sex Pistols, and Johnny Rotten, had a brief moment of glory. Sid Vicious did not survive, but his reading skills were limited.
Pictures are from ” The Special Collections and Archives,Georgia State University Library”