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Re: What rhymes with "June bugs in my ears"?
Posted By: Howard, on host 205.184.139.50
Date: Monday, October 11, 1999, at 18:44:39
In Reply To: What rhymes with "June bugs in my ears"? posted by Liz Dockendorf on Monday, October 11, 1999, at 17:02:09:

> I'd better explain why I need it, or you'll think I'm just being silly.
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> My sister has to write an autobiography for a class paper. She was trying to remember the words to a song someone was singing to her on a certain day: "It went, 'I love you better than...', and then he would name some unpleasant thing that he loved me better than." But she couldn't remember, so decided to make something up. I suggested, "June bugs in my ears." But now I need something else that rhymes with it.
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> Any help would be appreciated.

Liz,
Do you know how lucky you are? I'd give anything for a name like Dockendorf. If you become a writer, you will never need a pen name. Think of "by Liz Dockendorf" on the dust jacket. How many people have a ten-letter name that is easy to spell? Anybody can pronounce it. May I have your permission to use it in my next (first) novel? I just dreamed up a private eye type named Nick Dockendorf. It has to be a Dutch name, or maybe Flemish. I'll consider a setting in Western Europe.

Just kidding, of course. I couldn't write my way out of a paper bag, but I really do like the name.
It has class.
Howard

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