Sign on wall of Fort Lee, N.J. Middle School :
If you can’t be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
Hat tip to Dr Phillips.
There is much innocent (and intelligent) fun to be had at Dr Boli’s Celebrated Magazine. Worth working backwards, because he’s no one-trick pony.
Dr Phillips (whom God preserve, of New Jersey) liked this one.
Dr Boli’s other interests are eyebrow-raising, but for those you need to go to his site & follow the links.
Look at how relaxed a tomato is in its natural environment. A human does exactly what a tomato does but the tomato is in bliss because it does not need to make things up.
Help yourself. These are from the only shop I know whose name is a philosophical joke.
Every now and again the daily chore of deleting the stuff is enlivened.
This wins the Hook Prize for subject line:
Open it or get constipation.
And here’s a pseudonym Thurber could have used:
Elvera Fulp.
Perhaps we could strike back.
Now that I’m off life-support, I’m writing to thank you for the green pills.
OK it works, but now my cock gets caught in my shoelaces.
Dr Gillard, not content with his Belloc quotation, has come up with this quatrain (see his comments on our previous post).
Writing verse using words of two letters
Is a thing that?s not done by my betters.
But I must here have something to show -
So it is up to me to do so.
Nine two letter words! The Wordability judges deliberated long past their bedtimes: was this an actual English poem? Some said no, others didn’t hear the question. But the oldest judge pointed out that it was (a) unquestionably a poem (b) in English, even if (c) line 3 resembled something he once saw on a Serbo-Croatian desk calendar.
We do not expect to see a better entry or a wittier last line. If Dr Gillard would forward us a stamped addressed envelope his prize will be on the way.
