Notes and queries: Worst-ever pop song rhymes; Why are footballers so unfit? Special relativity limerick; Why do Americans eat like that?

Worst-ever pop song rhymes; Why are footballers so unfit? Special relativity limerick; Why do Americans eat like that?Is Neil Sedaka's "Oh Carol/I am but a fool/Darling I love you/Though you treat me cruel" the worst-ever rhyme in a popular song?No. As a huge fan of the Eurovision song contest, tolerating awful English-as-a-second-language rhymes has become almost a hobby: "Stop don't say that it's impossible/'Cos I know it's possible" (Sweden 2011); "Your addiction/My conviction/You're my passi...

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