The GoFather Of Math: March 2020

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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Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Rorschach Page #37: Dogless Bark

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Doctor, I see a cityscape

being towed

by a hogshead

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The Impossible Dream ... Today Is The Last Day Of March

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We all wake up

tomorrow morning

and around the globe,

the headlines read

There is not now
nor has there ever been
a Corona Virus

THIS IS THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM
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Sunday, March 29, 2020

Mark Twain Tells A Joke About A John

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"John, when you have drunk

all the whiskey you want,

you ought to ask for

a sarsaparilla."

John said

"Yes. But when I have drunk

all the whiskey I want,

I can't say sarsparilla."

MARK TWAIN

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This Is Not A Forkin' Antique Spoon

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This

utensil

from

better

half's

treasure

chest

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Footnote
IP Stands for Imperfectly Photographed.
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Friday, March 27, 2020

Photoverio #433: Two Photographs Dedicated To Diego Rivera

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Diego Rivera's Calla Lilies

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Mark Twain's Policy On Honesty

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Honesty is the best policy

when there is money in it

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MARK TWAIN

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Thursday, March 26, 2020

Profane But Perfect Quote For The Corona Virus Universe

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Footnotes

The quote originally described

Estonia in 1992

It is attributed to Estonian President
Lennart Mari

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Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Photoverio #432: The Ultimate Corona Virus Headgear

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Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Photoverio #431: For The Lonely Hearts

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© Oliverio

She is always there

on the corner of

Cinder and Block

Sitting on the pipes

getting ready to sing

her raggedy tune

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To Make A Quatrain ... Number Sixteen

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To make a quatrain,
I'll speak like a host

Better to share your bread
before you become toast

***

PAUL OLIVERIO

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Footnotes

TO MAKE A QUATRAIN

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

Some italic couplets
were originally written
in the 20th Century
and copyrighted
under the title
The Neither/Nor Journal

The next page in this series
is here

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Sunday, March 22, 2020

Moral-iverio #3: A Fable About One Of Those Acronym Dudes

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Aesop
***

About that acronym

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If We Survive The Corona Virus ... Then We Must

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Hoist this FLAG

back to its former glory


© Oliverio Old Glory

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Doubled Double Vision: With Paul Simon Accompaniment

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Rorschach Page #36: Somewhere In Missouri

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Doctor, there is

a snowman in the sky

and he is making

obscene phone calls

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Moral-iverio #2: The Writing Is On The Wall

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DAVID ZINN

The next page
in this series
is here

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Saturday, March 21, 2020

Poem For A Minnesota Girl From 17-Year Scott Fitzgerald

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The Poet
Under-age
But Over-talented

My mind is all a-tumble
And the letter seems a jumble
for the words they seem to mumble
And my pens about to stumble
and the papers made to jumble
So I sign myself your humble
Servant
Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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Footnotes
Both links lead to letters written by Scott
to Elizabeth "Litz" Clarkson

Both September letters are mostly prose
but neither makes reference to his 17th birthday
(September 24, 1913)

My next /Fitzgerald page is here
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Photoverio #430 ... Just Another Stairway To Heaven

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Four Of A Kind ... Bike Shadow With Floating Rectangle

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Photoverio #429: Catalina Island Revisited

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Rorschach Page #35: The Little Old Lady From Pasadena

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Doctor,
She is dancing the Vibrato
and all I want to do
is shake my booty

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Thursday, March 19, 2020

Most Depressing Sight I've Seen Since CoronaVirus Went Global

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Whenever we want to eat out

but do not know where:

we go to our default restaurant:

THE LONG BEACH CAFE

But this is how it looked

at noon today:

We have eaten there
at least thirty times
and never been disappointed.

It is a classic diner:
great food, resonable prices
excellent service,
wonderful atmosphere

There are very few classic diners
in Southern California
but many such diners
throughout the United States

However, the majority of them
are in the North-Eastern
corner of the country

Unfortunaltely,
all the other classic diners
probably look just like
the sad, empty, shuttered
LONG BEACH CAFE

Thanks to the Corona Virus

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Photoverio #428: I'm Not Sure I Like This Photograph But ...

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I feel obligated to post it
because it was shot
during a most intriguing
walk and talk

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Hitler's Dream Comes True ... Nazis Get 21st Century Makeover

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No more do we

hate a race of people

No more singling out Jews

for campsites

But campsites

will be there

and they will

exist for the common good

No more hating minorities

but what we sincerely hate

pandemic death and disease

No more

Sig Heil, Kill the Jews

It is

Act Now, Kill the Germs

All nations around the globe

are fighting the same war

on the same side

It is us

against the virus

And

us is everywhere

in every land

We must exterminate

the Corona Virus

Then

celebrate by drinking

Corona Beer

(and Heineken)

BUT

there may be a knock

on the door

at midnight

Your father

might be dragged away

to a camp

—Camp Quarantine—

because he is infected

with the virus

We are only

putting him away

for the public good

So he keeps the virus

to himself,

infecting no one

Everywhere on Earth

this midnight knock

is repeated

But it may be

Goodbye Grandma

Where did our neighbor go?

How else can

the planet survive

???

Only

the able-bodied,

wholesome and healthy

will survive

the Corona Virus

They will be members

of the Master Race

May they all wear

rainbow-colored

swastikas

***

PAUL OLIVERIO

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Footnote

HITLER'S DREAM COMES TRUE

NAZIS GET 21ST CENTURY MAKEOVER
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL

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Muddy Waters And Scott Fitzgerald

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It is no secret that
Professor McKinley Morganfeld
was a Department Chair
at the Lewis Carroll School of Logic

When his alter ego recorded
the song Nineteen Years Old,
it was dedicated to
Scott Fitzgerald
whose first collection
of short stories
—Flappers and Philosophers—
begins with three stories
about nineteen year-old girls

Each of whom believes

she is the center of the universe
then proceeds to prove it

The next
GoFather/Fitzgerald
page is here

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FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OVER A YEAR ... Two Generations

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I have posted an image

in the Southern Hemisphere

section of the GoFather of Math

where every image is

a photograph of mine

with a link to

an appropriate piece

of music

A hint about what music

accompanies this image:

it is a reunion

created by

Paul Simon

To access the image/song,

scroll up about thirty images

from the absolute bottom

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Four Of A Kind ... Spaghetti's Alter Ego

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Photoverio #427: Post-Pandemic View

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The ultimate cure

for Corona Virus

was to pour Bleach

over everything

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Rorschach Page #34: On The Run

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Doctor,

The man on the wall

is running down

the stairs again

Sometimes, he makes

too much noise

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Footnote
My next Rorschach page is here
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Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Rorschach Page #33: Knowledge

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© Oliverio

Doctor,

I know who that

masked man is:

He is a

professional

wrestler

called Honky

His real name is

Hiram Milkowitz

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Footnote
My next Rorschach page is here

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Three Of A Kind ... Circular Building With Palm Tree Eclipse

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Monday, March 16, 2020

Forty-Nine Years Ago Today

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My Mother had the decency
to space her birth month
and death month:

What had they
just been
doing
???

She was born in February
and died in October

One out of two ain't bad
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Forty-nine years and
four days ago
I called my Father
to belatedly wish him
HAPPY BIRTHDAY

He couldn't really talk
and sort of hung up on me.
He was in pain from
the triple coronary bypass
he had had three years earlier

I had called between classes
at Stonybrook and dialed
the only phone number
we ever had: IN1-1553
plus area code, of course

Exactly, forty-nine years ago today,
it was March 16, 1971

I dialed the same number
only to be told
by an automated voice
that it had been changed to
767-9793

When my sister answered the phone
after re-dialing, I assumed
a game-show host voice

Congratulations on
your new phone number:
YOU have just won a new car

All Linda said was

"Daddy died an hour ago"

My mother died before
the end of that year

Three years later,
Linda joined their ranks.

Therefore, it is impossible
in 2020 for me to regard Death,
as in the Corona Virus Pandemic,
the same way most people do

I apologize to anyone
who thinks my attitude
about the Virus
is too frivolous
or too dismissive

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Revisiting an Eric Sevareid Quote

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ERIC SEVAREID

Mr. Sevareid died in 1992
but this quote is truer today
than ever before

I first posted
this quote
in 2012

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The Anti-Davos Conference ... September 13, 2001

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The Davos Conference

gathers the leaders

of the industrial world

to discuss matters

that effect the globe

The Anti-Davis Conference

gathered the leaders

of the terrorist world

They met only once:

September 13, 2001

The first thing they all did

was high-five

Osama Bin Laden
on a job well-done

Their names were mostly

unpronounceable

(Arabic, Asian, African)

except for

Helix Jones*

They met in a cave
deep underground
un-traceable by
anyone above-ground

What they basically said was

Osama, our men are anxious,

where do we attack next?

Osama Bin Laden said

We don't

They were all perplexed

Osama Bin Laden said

The next thing we do

is go into a laboratory

and create a virus

If the virus only creates
an epidemic,

we continue creating

until we have

a pandemic

THEN WE SHALL
INHERIT THE EARTH
AND OUR CAVES
WILL GLOW
AT MIDNIGHT

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Footnotes

THE ANTI-DAVOS CONFERENCE

SEPTEMBER 13, 2001

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

*
Attendee Helix Jones
was the polyglot
who interpreted what
everyone else said
into ten different
languages

He is best known as
an American ultra-conservative
agitator

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To Make A Quatrain ... Number Fifteen

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To make a quatrain,
I invoke all pieties

GOD is an acronym for
Group Of Deities

***

PAUL OLIVERIO

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Footnotes

TO MAKE A QUATRAIN

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

Some italic couplets
were originally written
in the 20th Century
and copyrighted
under the title
The Neither/Nor Journal

The next page in this series
is here

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