It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO
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Friday, January 17, 2025

LICHENSTEIN ... Not To Be Confused With A European Nation

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              © PhotoVerio #798.5     Long Beach Jetty 2010         
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PhotoVerio #798: Fiery + Cloudy Sunrise

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© Oliverio
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CHUCK BERRY + MILES DAVIS ... The Second Question

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nine viable candidates
were listed 
as the best "song"
by either
Chuck Berry
Miles Davis

HOWEVER
a second question 
is asked
about the listed titles:
 
Which is 
the most important "song"
by each artist?
 
AND
one and only one title
is correct:
 
Chuck Berry's 
most important song is 
because sales of 
Maybelline Cosmetics
 spiked
whenever Chuck Berry
performed the song
on a television show
[American Bandstand, eg]
 
AND
the conclusion was drawn
by the advertising industry
in the middle of the 
20th century:
 
Black artists
can effectively promote products
primarily used by
white people

In the year 2025,
proof of this is available
wherever video advertising
exists
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Miles Davis' 
most important song is
because it is
the perfect response
to the statement

"Our next-door neighbor
is a transvestite"
 
or
 
"The management of our
favorite grocery store
is all Black and Latino"
 
 
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© OLIVERIO ©
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Wednesday, January 15, 2025

CHUCK BERRY + MILES DAVIS = 9 + 9 ... With 1 Question

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1. Johnny Be Goode     
2. Sweet Little Sixteen
3. Reelin' and Rockin'
4. No Particular Place To Go
5. School Days
6. You Can't Catch Me
7. Maybelline
8. Rock and Roll Music
9. Roll Over Beethoven
                      


 
1. On Green Dolphin Street
2. Sketches of Spain
3. All Blues
4. My Funny Valentine
5. So What
6. Summertime
7. Freddie Freeloader
8. Flamenco Sketches
9. Bags Groove
 
One question is asked
of NINE people
articulately acquainted with 
Chuck Berry
 
Ditto
for NINE people 
articulately acquainted with 
Miles Davis
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WHAT IS THE BEST "SONG"
OF EACH ARTIST?
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In total,
the answers are all different
BUT 
each one is 
as convincingly true
as all the others
 
HOWEVER
a second question
is asked 
[given the same choices]
AND
there is 
one and only one 
correct answer
 
That question/answer
appears on 
this TBD page
 
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Quick RIDE On The Slangometric QuaTRAIN

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Whatever you think he is
he aint
He's three parts Sinner
to seven parts Saint

© PAUL OLIVERIO ©
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Tuesday, January 14, 2025

GARIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ ... And One For The Other Gender

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The man with no memory
makes one 
out of paper
***
 
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The woman with no memory
makes one
out of pepper
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© HOODA HELAMI ©
Alter Ego #142857
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Monday, January 13, 2025

PhotoVerio #797: Named For "Kirstie Alley"

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© Oliverio
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Saturday, January 11, 2025

Jogging Is Deadly ... According To HOODA HELAMI

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Take this advice
to your heart and soul:
Jogging deadens
mental cholesterol
***

© HOODA HELAMI ©
Alter Ego #142857
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There Is No Terrorist As Dangerous As ... NATURE

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Pacific Palisades       2025
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FIVE-STAR COMMENT From ... The 207th Bullet ... Page

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*****
It is not necessary 
to believe in what we think...
It is only necessary 
to make other people
think it is worth believing in
ANONYMOUS 
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Quoting The Author Of ... ANIMAL FARM + 1984

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I don't want ever
to be young again
I only want to be alive
...


Rare is the book
that reads like 
a personal letter
to the reader
BUT
Orwell does this 
masterfully
without sounding 
anything
like his two
novels
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The 207th Bullet ... Paper Clip Paradox

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 What we think 
we know
and what we
actually know
have as much 
in common
as a 
Sunday in July
and a
paper clip
 
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Footnote
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL
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PhotoVerio #796: Red Light Sunrise

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© Oliverio
 
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Friday, January 10, 2025

PhotoVerio #795: Netscape

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© Oliverio
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Thursday, January 9, 2025

PhotoVerio #794: Palm-Textured Architecture

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© Oliverio
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