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, May 30, 2022

The Wonderful + Weird World Of Words ... Boggles The Mind

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To be in love,
to be wed,
et al
you need a betrothal
 
Throughout your family
this bold word
will be heard:
 
BETROTHAL
 
And if
—to you—
it's all the same,
let's reduce it to
a word game

To quote Dr. C.I. Scrabble"
You don't need a goggle
to play Boggle
and you don't need a wig
to think big
 
And 
what is really cool:
I assume you know
the Boggle rule:
—forming subsets of the original word—
the longer and bigger
newly formed words are
the better the chances of victory
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B-E-T-R-O-T-H-A-L
and you get
throb
broth
bloat
...
...
breath
bother
BROTHEL
 
To poeticize
forming a "subset"
—let me say—
one thing to another
does segue
 
That
BETROTHAL
segues into
BROTHEL
makes the mind
Wiggle and Woggle
which might name
two employees of
such an establishment
😋😋😋
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© PAUL OLIVERIO © 
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6 comments:

  1. You write pages about nuns, followed by pages about brothels.
    !!!
    I seriously think you need to see a therapist.

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    1. I am seeing a therapist who is providing me
      with a lifeboat to survive the turbulent seas
      of existence and his name is
      Dr. Raft

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  2. I am Dr. Raft and, at this time, all I will say
    to Patient Oliverio is the following:
    This page is wonderfully typical of you bizarre humor
    but it comes to a troubling sudden end.


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    1. Can we discuss this at our next session?

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    2. YES we can—and must—but my hourly rate
      will be doubled.

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    3. I may have to get real sponsors for this blog
      but your psychoanalysis—at any cost—
      will be worth every penny

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