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, June 15, 2019

The Sad Saga Of Nooly Schakeldt

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Nooly Schakeldt was arrested for committing
a crime against the state but no one knew
which state it was.

The arresting officers were instructed to take
Nooly to Jails 'r Us,
the chain store penitentiary.

Nooly Schakeldt was to be detained indefinitely
or for thirty days, depending on which came first.

Nooly was guilty of "Random Selection,"
according to Wally Wimzly, the Chief of Police.

Whenever there was a vacancy in Jails 'r Us,
Chief Wimzly randomly selected a name
from the burgeoning ranks of
Socially Extraneaous People. 

Nooly qualified for the drawing
because he was gainfully unemployed.

He was assigned to the Linen Department
of Jails 'r Us and he got
clean sheets daily.

His cell was air-conditioned by
the foul breath of his cellmate,
Orville Stenchly, the garlic swindler.

Since thirty days precedes infinity,
Nooly Schakeldt was discharged
from jail  after serving one month.

Chief Wimzly gave him a quarter
to make his first phone call.

This caused Nooly to wonder:
if there is Free Speech
then why are there
pay telephones?
     
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Footnotes
THE SAD SAGA OF NOOLY SCHAKELDT
ia the copyrighted property of LCSoL

It was originally written
in 1981

If Franz Kafka had been
a stand-up comic,
I could have been arrested
for plagiarism
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