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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Monday, November 9, 2020

55 Years Before Abdul Jabbar Created The Previous Page

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On January 31, 1965

there was 

a moment of silence

at St. Luke's Church

in Whitestone, New York.

 

The Priest was a graduate

of Power Memorial High School.

 

His Alma Mater's 71-game

winning streak ended

the night before.

 

The Power Memorial basketball team

featured the greatest prep school athlete

in America: LEW ALCINDOR.


I had already mourned

the loss by boycotting

the homemade waffles

my Mother had cooked

that morning but 

I surreptitiously ate 

an O Henry candy bar

in my Father's car

on the way to church.

 

However, I did NOT boycott

the free wafer served during

Holy Communion

despite having chocolate-stained teeth.      

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