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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Sunday, August 25, 2019

Some Words About Wisdom From Gulliver's Quill Daddy

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Wisdom is a fox
who after long hunting
will at last cost you
the pain of digging out

 Wisdom is a hen
whose cackling we must value
and consider because it is attended
with an egg
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JONATHON SWIFT
Tale of a Tub

Italics in quoted text
were used by Swifty
a/k/a
The Godfather of Satire
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