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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Saturday, November 19, 2016

I Think I Remember The Difference Between Them

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Despite sounding like homonyms,
being partially synonyms,
these two words
–for all intents and purposes–
are antonyms:

Mnemonic
is a device that enables you
to remember something.

Nomonic
 is a mnemonic device
that you have no memory
of what it represents.
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