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This is the 80th installment<\/a> of Rhyme and Reason<\/a>, my weekly set of limericks for the <\/i>Sunday Times of India edit page<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

WAR<\/p>\n

Once I had a fight with my nanny.
\nShe said she could only hear ‘Yanny’.
\nI said, “No! I will fight!
\nOnly ‘Laurel’ is right!
\nYour insistence is so uncanny.”<\/p>\n

KARNATAKA<\/p>\n

My best friend happens to be a horse.
\nHe said, “I must say I find it coarse.
\nIt is so degrading
\nWhat you call horse-trading.
\nSuch slander should fill you with remorse.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the 80th installment<\/a> of Rhyme and Reason<\/a>, my weekly set of limericks for the <\/i>Sunday Times of India edit page<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

WAR<\/p>\n

Once I had a fight with my nanny.
\nShe said she could only hear ‘Yanny’.
\nI said, “No! I will fight!
\nOnly ‘Laurel’ is right!
\nYour insistence is so uncanny.”<\/p>\n

KARNATAKA<\/p>\n

My best friend happens to be a horse.
\nHe said, “I must say I find it coarse.
\nIt is so degrading
\nWhat you call horse-trading.
\nSuch slander should fill you with remorse.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,7,8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nYanny, Laurel and Karnataka - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/yanny-laurel-and-karnataka\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yanny, Laurel and Karnataka - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is the 80th installment of Rhyme and Reason, my weekly set of limericks for the Sunday Times of India edit page. WAR Once I had a fight with my nanny. She said she could only hear ‘Yanny’. I said, “No! I will fight! 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