The Winners Of The ... SMARTEST 3-YEAR-OLDS ...

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The Winners Of 

THE SMARTEST 3-YEAR-OLDS

in

Long Beach

were

the twins 

Kim + Jim Kowalski

 

Their mother

told 

her favorite story

about 

her new-born

babies 

being driven home

from the hospital:

 

Kim (or Jim) 

looked out the window

of the ambulance

and spoke

her/his 

first sentence:

Why do so many cars

speed up

to stop

at a Red Light? 

 

Now,

my husband and I

ask both of them

for help

with our 

iPhones

 

We are the life 

of the party

in our neighborhood

because

we teach our friends

everything we learned

from 

Kim + Jim

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Quote De Jour ... Margaret Atwood ... #1 + #2

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I'd learned quite a lot,

over the years,

by avoiding

what I was

supposed to be

learning

 

MARGARET ATWOOD

Moral Disorder  

 

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The word 

meticulously

was a chilling touch:

meticulous

—we knew—

was 

just one step

from

full-blown 

lunacy 

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Last Sunday's 60 MINUTES Segment Of Miss Piggy

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I will guarantee 

the "Miss Piggy" pun

was created by

Margaret (Peggy) Atwood

 and 

I thank

Peter Galasso

for bringing it 

to my attention:

 

Years ago, 

Peter attended

a 

poetry reading

of hers

where the shortened form

of her first name

introduced 

the artist

 

BUT

—under no circumstances—

will he read

her recent

essay collection

which speaks unkindly

of 

President Trump

 

AND

I will proceed 

with

a series of 

pages

 entitled

"Atwood Quote De Jouer" 

  

 

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How The Hell Can Anyone NOT Believe ...

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How the Hell 

can anyone

 not believe

that this image 

proves the 

existence of

 GOD

 

However,

the word

"God"

has more synonyms

than anyone 

can count

and 

if we can't

respect that fact

and the choreography

of each "church"

they represent

then 

we might as well

prepare to say

Goodbye

to 

Planet Earth

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No Puzzle Has More Sex With ... LOGIC

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No

puzzle

has 

a 

greater intimacy

with numbers 

1 thru 9 

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No

puzzle

has 

a

greater touchstone 

 with

 the concept of 

LOGIC 

than 

the puzzle 

known as 

SUDOKU

 

 

Think of it 

 as a performance

of the 

non-zero 

digits 

wherein 

The Fourth Wall

is broken through

by respecting

the spaces

where numbers

do not go  

in order to 

grasp the facts about 

 where numbers

 do go

    

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But

we cannot teach 

logic 

to students

because 

it 

would

make them

smarter than 

their teachers

AND 

That would be 

suicide

for

Artificial Intelligence

which must 

never, ever

communicate

genuine

intelligence

to anyone

unassociated

with

Big Pharma

or

other 

mega-powers

in

USA

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Of course,

that includes

the 

*** Military-Industrial Complex *** 

"Sudoku"

is an Asian word

translating into

American children

sure can be stupid

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Quoting The TRAVELING WILBURYS

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If

you're

old and gray,

you

still have

something to say

***

 

TRAVELING WILBURYS

 

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An Alternative To ... BILL W.

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Alcohol

is fun

if

you stop

at 

one

 

But 

before it

gets a grip,

leave a handsome 

tip

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Baby Love

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Supremely 

I present 

 

The 3rd 

Love of my Life 

The 1st Love was ...   

Dale Evans

The 2nd Love was ...   

Cher

The 3rd Love was ...   

Diana Ross

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Obviously,

these were fantasy loves,

—askew of reality—

because I thought

LOVE

had no bearing

on 

my real life

 

"Love of Family"

was 

a 24/7

birthright 

until  

family love for me

—not undeservedly— 

went out the window

 

+

in 2026, 

my love

for 

an individual woman

still has me

scratching

my head 

❗❗❗ 

 

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advert

 

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"We Had Great Sex But ..."

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We had great sex

but it was 

of the 

"Honey, you got a minute"

variety

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© Oliverio © 

≈ 2002 ≈ 

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Memory Is That Place ... For A Vertical Poem

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MEMORY

is that place 

where things go

 

Things

that happened

yesterday

or

last week

last month

or

never at all

 

They 

get pruned,

ruined,

embellished,

or 

forgotten

until

the time

is best 

to 

remember 

them

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AMBROSE BIERCE ... Vertically Quote-Worthy

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BEAUTY

is 

the power 

by which 

a woman

charms

a lover

and

terrifies

a husband.

 

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AMBROSE BIERCE 

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PhotoVerio #1069: Suck On It

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Magreetings #142857

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PhotoVerio #1068: Shade + Wrought Iron

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There Is Always Room For Quoting OSCAR WILDE

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OSCAR WILDE

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Unfortunately,

INTELLIGENCE

is not out of the reach

for morals.

 

This explains why

the artificial kind

is prospering. 

 

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PhotoVerio #1067: 5000 Pounds

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© Oliverio ©

 

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