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, July 6, 2019

The Difference Between Infancy And Adulthood Is Paper Thin

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A Baby Has To Poop
An infant learns to independently
relieve bodily excess without needing
Pampers to contain them.

Parents delight when their offspring
reach this stage of development.

It is called "Toilet-training"
when the infant can wipe clean
his/her own excrement.

They reward the infant with praise
and a bowl of his/her favorite pablum.

An Adult Has To Work
An adult learns to graciously accept
the disciplining excesses of those
who can boss him/her around.

Bosses are flattered when employees
follow their orders whether or not
those orders are reasonable.

Such obedience is called 
"toilet-paper-training"
when an employee figuratively
wipes clean anatomical parts
belonging to superiors.

An adult who is properly
toilet-paper-trained
will be duly rewarded
with the bosses' praise
and, figuratively,
a bowl of pablum
added to their paycheck.

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(1979)
 
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Footnotes
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INFANCY
AND ADULTHOOD IS PAPER THIN
is the copyrighted property of LCSol

The original draft of this page
traveled from New York to Hollywood
to Virginia and then to Long Beach
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