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, January 31, 2021

Dirty Art

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Read all about it
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Photoverio #529: Palm Frond Horsehead Sculpture

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© Oliverio
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Lousy Photograph, Number Two: MERCER MAYER And Me

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***
 
If forgetting were an art,
I'd be Van Gogh,
then forget where
my ear was
and cut off
my toe
***
 

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Lousy Photograph, Number One: IF ...

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© Oliverio



 
 
IF
profiles of
merged with
an image
of a rose
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Saturday, January 30, 2021

"Simply Delicious"

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Thursday, January 28, 2021

Photoverio #528: Come And Get It

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© Oliverio

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The DNRBTL Alternative To Censorship

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Instead of being told
we cannot read this book
or that book,
we are told

Do Not Read
Between The Lines
 
In other words,
whatever you read
(or hear) on your
favorite political pages,
take it at face value
AND
never question
its truth
  

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Footnote
THE DNRBTL ALTERNATIVE
TO CENSORSHIP
is the copyrighted property of 
Lewis Carroll School of Logic
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Another BOROWITZ REPORT Exclusive

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Read All About It
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Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Vertically Speaking ... At The Risk Of Family Braggadocio

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 The

first

Church

is

the

Home

***

 FRANK OLIVERIO

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Photoverio #526: If You Have A Bucket List ...

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If You Have A Bucket List, 

We Have The Buckets

© Oliverio

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Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Photoverio #525: Easy Maintenance Barnyard Animals

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© Oliverio

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24/7 Picket Fence Library ... In Profile

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It may be Little but it sure is Enlarged
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Hazy Hundred-Year-Old Library + Covid-Closure Notice = 😱😱

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😱😱
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Sunday, January 24, 2021

1/22/21: Heaven Is Celebrating A Lot More Than We Are


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Because everyone there
can fully appreciate
the colossal beauty of 
the [very enlargeable] 
numbers below
 
Especially 1957:
Hammerin' Hank's MVP season

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I Forgot The Rule That I Would Never Ever Post A Shoutout

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 Shoutout to everyone who can remember

their childhood phone number

but can't remember the password

they created yesterday.

***

ANDRE ANONYMOUS

(Lifted from a pinterista)

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Neither Is It A Healthy Exercise ... 31/17ths Of A Haiku

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Whether you live
in country or city

It is never going
to be pretty

If you swim laps
in the pool of self-pity
***

PAUL OLIVERIO
 
 
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Footnote
For a not-so-obvious variation
of this theme,
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Saturday, January 23, 2021

The Difference Between Letters Of The Alphabet ... And Numbers

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There are useless letters
and letters which could be
dispensed with

What separate functions do 
d and t perform?
 They have almost the same sound
 The same goes for b and p
...
They are calligraphic folderol
 
Look at the digits:
there are no two which serve
the same function: 
 4 is 4 and 7 is 7
 
And consider the beauty
with which the 4 and the 7 form 
this thing which is represented by 11
Now double and you have 22
Multiply it by itself. It makes 484,
and so on
 
But where the perfection is greatest
is in the use of zero
The value of zero is, in itself, nothing
But what is the function 
of this negative symbol?
To augment
 
A 5 alone is a 5
Place 00 with it, it is 500
 
Thus, that which has no value 
makes great value  
 something which doubled letters don't do,
for I approve as much 
with one p as with two p's
 
***
 
Dom Casmurro 

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Friday, January 22, 2021

Regarding Inauguration Day, 2020

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We are in the afterglow
of a luxurious fatigue:
there was no violence
in response to
the Inauguration
Congratulations, President Biden
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Wednesday, January 20, 2021

The Vaguely Speckled Midnight Colors Of My Backyard

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© Photoverio #524.5
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Photoverio #524: Dog Head, Dog Whisperer + Black-Shirt Dude

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© Oliverio
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If Martin Luther King Were Alive In the Year 2020 ...

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Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Regarding An Appropriate Honor On Martin Luther King Day

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≈ Ribbon-Cutting Day for Black Music ≈
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Sunday, January 17, 2021

This Should Have Been Posted Sixteen Days Ago

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2020
A Year In Review
by

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Your Brain's Functions [Haiku #76]

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If you want
your brain's functions
to keep out of danger,
avoid anger


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Footnotes
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL


My haikus
are no longer linked together
because I did not
want to make life
too easy for our favorite thieves

But I'd risk a felony charge
if I could steal haikus from
these two guys
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Saturday, January 16, 2021

Photoverio #523: A Rose For Emily Carol

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© Oliverio
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Three Of A Kind ... The Gnarly Tree

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The Gnarl


The Erection


The Base


© Oliverio (3x)
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Friday, January 15, 2021

MACHADO dE ASSIS Knew Sam and Grace

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***

 

 

 

 

If conjugal felicity could be

compared to the grand prize

in a lottery, they had won it

with the ticket they

purchased together

 

 

 

 

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Wednesday, January 13, 2021

A Sample From A Phototgrapher EVERYONE Should Know

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Why isn't she better known?
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Four Years Before The Dream Came True

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2012
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Sunday, January 10, 2021

Double Dose Advice From A Doubled FAUCI

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Fauci Says Immunity from Trump 

Requires Two Doses of Impeachment

Read all about  it

 

(Borowitz Exclusive)
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Poeticizing Another MACHADO (This One Is About Fertilizer)

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Instead of a coffin,
you should often
know the difference
between the two.
  If you want her heart
instead of her shoe
 
⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇
 
VICE IS
OFTEN
THE MANURE
OF VIRTUE
 
(1839-1908)
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I Can Always Fall Back On THE FALL ... One Of The Multiples*

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An addiction
to silk underwear
does not
necessarily imply
that one's feet
are dirty
***
 
 
 
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* Footnotes *
This was my fifth and most satisfying read
of Camus' novel.
 
Other "Multiples" in the novel series include
Great Gatsby (6), Catcher in the Rye (9),
Huckleberry Finn (4), Portnoy's Complaint (5),
Wicked Pavillion (6), Cat's Cradle (7),
...
 
There are three "10-Reads"
in the short story series:
Perfect Day For Banana Fish,
Thank You, Ma'am,
and
Kafka's Metamorphosis.
 
Gentlemen and Gentlewomen,
start your search engines   
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AintGotNo IsNo Puzzle To Me ... Neither Is The Deleteable Advert

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NINA SIMONE
 
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Slicing, Dicing, And Cataloging The FIFTIES And SIXTIES

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BILLY JOEL
 
with apologies to
Harry Truman, Doris Day,
Red China, Johnny Ray
Marilyn Monroe
and Joe DiMaggio
...  
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Absenting My Better Half ... Whenever I Hear Music

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Whenever I hear music
—when time gives me the chance—
wherever I am,
I've got to dance
 
Sitting, walking, or talking
on a chair, sidewalk, or street
I am one big ball
of happy feet
 
Ethel or muddy waters
Beethoven or james brown
I get on up
or I get down
 
Dion with
or without the belmonts
my feet are
gushing fonts

But feet is just code
for my body's mother lode
(dem dancin' steps mostly
are not visibaly showed)
 
To mozart, I kowtow
with a swimming eye brow
 
For dylan, I am hip
with  silent gyrating lip
 
In the car,
all the singers
make me dance
with ten fingers
 
Be bop, doo wop, hip hop
or patsy cline
my internal dance floor
is real estate divine
 
Elvis, chuck berry, 
motown, the stones
always set me free
and I am truly 
 
***
 
PAUL- OLI- VERIO
 
 
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Footnotes
ABSENTING MY BETTER HALF
WHENEVER I HEAR MUSIC
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL

This page was orchestrated
by Linda Oliverio
b. 10/11/46
d. 6/25/75

This page was approved
by her parents
 
I can clearly see
this holy trinity
dancing to
 
Thus,
my next 
BEATLES page
is  here

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Saturday, January 9, 2021

The Fortieth Page In This Series ... Bird Song

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We can't go on
meeting like this 
© Oliverio





***
The next page 
in this series
is  here 

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Semi-Censored JONATHON RICHMAN On The Sappho Steps

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I was dancing in the _____ bar
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Thursday, January 7, 2021

It's Dark And Hazy Because I'm Lazy + Ego-Crazy BUT Humble

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1964
 
Larry, Carl, Barry
Perry, Paul, Terry 
There were about thirty boys
posing for the yearbook
class picture
 
was our 
Home Room teacher
 
Only six boys
are in this
fifty-six year-old image
 
With a Sal Mineo
scar on my face,
I cropped out
everyone else
out of humility
 
Even the best-looking
of the rest
was a mediocrity
in comparison
to the brown-eyed
handsome boy
with his Sal Mineo
scar
 
It's bad enough
I make
Larry, Carl, Barry
Perry and Terry
 
Look like
Pillsbury Dough Boys 
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The Legacy Of Donald Trump

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Wednesday, January 6, 2021

A Flower By Another Name ... Is Worth Listening To

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I am known as
a Bird of Paradise
BUT

you can call me
Gossip Gertie
and 
I want to tell 
you
about the palm trees
that populate
Long Beach
and elsewhere:
 
They are nothing but
oversized toothpicks
with frilly peaks
and a goiter problem
***
 
©©©
 
[image and text] 

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The Hot Stove

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The hot stove
and the cold floor
under the coffered ceiling
with snow-flaked windows
is
warm to the touch
with
it
tastes better with
a hot bowl of oatmeal
***
 
©©© 
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Photoverio #522: Don't Tuch It (Sic)

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Leaf It Alone
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Tuesday, January 5, 2021

The Ultimate Ambassador

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The sun
is the ambassador
of nature

About this quote,
I'll say nothing,
of course,
except to identify
the source

HINT:
we all know what gas is
the quote is from
© Oliverio

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Photoverio #521: Five Degrees Fahrenheit

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© Oliverio
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Monday, January 4, 2021

I'm Not Expecting You To Know Who Owns The Zebra

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Sixty-nine years ago,
what has become
a world-famous
logic puzzle
was published.

Life International
was housed
in Rockefeller Center
and the riddle
was a big topic
of discussion
in the
Sacred Cellar.

That is,
the watering hole
of the restaurant
adjacent to
the world-famous
skating rink

The watering administrator—
otherwise known as
the head bartender
GUARANTEED
the imbibers
he would have the solution
the next day.
 
His audience included
Time-Life journalists,
photographers and executives.
 
There were
NBC producers and TV personalities,
Shell Oil executives
and other A-list personages.
 
Collectively,
they were non-plussed
by this 
multi-ethnic,
multi-cryptic
multi-information
mystery

They bet the bartender
that it
COULD NOT
be done.
 
The bartender's name
was Sam
 and this story
 is continued
 
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