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, October 16, 2026

Original Alter Ego ... PAGE 2

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 The person 
who photographed
this 1959 image from
 simultaneously
shot 3 more images
of a very serious
swimmer
_____________
________
 
In one of them,
Lynda Oliverio
looks like
the angriest person
in the world
when anger
was the furthest thing
from her mind:

It was the intensity
of her love 
for
swimming
AND
it is
the image
that has influenced
my life
more than
any other
photograph
ever taken
_____________
________

I cannot say
another word
about this
because
it would put
my tear ducts
into overdrive
 
© Oliverio © 
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My Alter Ego Finds My ... Original Alter Ego

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***
 
© Hooda Helami ©
Alter Ego #142857 
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Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Being Humble + The Exact Opposite ... Simultaneously

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Humility
permits this page
to show 
[lower-right]
only half 
of

The exact opposite happens

when images of ME

dwarf an image

of a Pope

with my name

appearing

below

that

lower-left

image  

❗❗❗ 

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The Bush Man Of Texas

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President George W. Bush
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Sunday, October 11, 2026

Warning To Family, Friends, And Select Haters

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Today 
is 
my Sister's 80th
Birthday.
 
Under 
no circumstances
do I want to
talk 
to anyone
on the phone
today 
because
my tear ducts
would be
in overdrive
🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂
🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂 
🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂 
🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂 
🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂 
🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂 
🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂 
🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂
 
_________________
__________ 
 
Sorry,
but she would not allow
an image
to be posted here.
Telling me
that
—in the Great Beyond—
she is any age
she wants to be
at any time 
  
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Curvaceous + Apish ... In The Service Of Real Poetry

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Quoting Canadian Pizza

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Paul,
your pizza is ready
 
🍕🍕🍕  
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Saturday, October 10, 2026

Quoting Will Rogers

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******* 

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Quoting Mr. D ... And Me

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Weak brain
+
narrow mind
will always leave
you behind
 
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Hating is easy,
therapy is hard
 
© Oliverio © 
 
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______________
 
Willie Dixon's
video
may have
deleteable
advert 
 
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Friday, October 9, 2026

Don't Bet Against It ... Despite The Two Links

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❗❗ 
once recorded a song
written by
❗❗
 
 
But
a flucking
deleteable advert
may intrude 

AND 
for 
the 
lucky
few
who know
how to bet
__________
_____ 
all
I will say 
is  
 
She Said Yeah  
❗❗ 
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Thursday, October 8, 2026

Black + White Anxiety ... With Roller Coaster

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© PhotoVerio #1053.5
 
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Two-Sided New York Baseball Blues

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What 
can you say
about a team 
when your
best pitcher
has 
a name 
that rhymes
Hitler?

+
 
A team
that built a rotunda
named for someone
never set foot
in
your stadium
? 

❓❓❓ 
 
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________
 
 
© Oliverio ©  
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Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Inspired By Lynda Oliverio ... In 1972

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© 
________
 ________________
 
The only reason 
I  work is
so 
I can afford 
a psychiatrist
and tell him
how much
I hate 
my job
________________
________
 
©
 
© PAUL OLIVERIO © 
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PhotoVerio #1082: Living Up To His Promise

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"He said I'd get
an appearance fee
for walking through
this crappy photograph"
 
"All he did
was
pay me 
a compliment"
 
 
© Oliverio © 
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Ten + Five ... Ain't Nobody's Business But My Own

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If 
the gas tank
of  your 
imagination
borders on empty,
please skip this page
 
__________________
_________
  
10 days from today,
LOUIS ARMSTRONG
will sing
the title song
+
the featured dancers 
will include
my
Mom + Dad 

 
Those 3 members 
of the
 Class of '71
will toast
the 
post-humous crowd
with
Starbucks Champagne
in deference to 
what
was created
in that year
 
__________________
_________
 
But
5 days from today,
all of the above
[and a gazillion others]
will sing
♎HAPPY BIRTHDAY♎
as my sister
celebrates
#80
 
Ain't Nobody's Business
How I Honor
The Dead   
 

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