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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Thursday, April 25, 2024

Four Women With Something To Say About DIVORCE

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There is so little difference between husbands,
you night as well keep the first
***


I never believed in divorce
until after I got married
***


The wages of sin is alimony
***


When I'm dating 
I look at a guy
and wonder
Is this the man I want my children
 to spend their weekends with?
***
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PhotoVerio #734: With Super-Imposed Text

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© Oliverio                      August 2016
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As Of 7/6/71 ... Gabriel No Longer Blows His Horn

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has determined that
—due to  gilded sexual ambiguity— 
Gabriel no longer blows his horn
on Judgement Day
or
any other day
 !!!
 
He also suffered from fatigue
and a rainbow of
retirement income

BUT
—upon retiring his horn—
Gabriel's last public words
were
"I've been Satchmo'ed"
 !!!
 __________
 __________
 
 
Transcending from his
earthly existence
on July 6, 1971,
appeared at the Afterlife Arena
to the greatest of fanfare
!!!
 
blew his trumpet
and sang
What A Wonderful World
This Could Be
 
Then he did some scat singing
with a Jubilee chorus
of two gazillion spirits
scatting along
BUT
ultimately
a translation to English
was provided: 
 
Now that I am to
Heaven sent
There will be
no more Judgement
 
No more slaughter 
or hatred on earth
 +
No more tyrannical 
razzmatazz
+
We will
give them nothing but
***
 
© OLIVERIO ©
 
[with deleteable advert]
***
To Be Continued 
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

The 200th Bullet: What Curiosity Is

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 Curiosity is a fence post
on the road to wisdom,
beyond the potholes 
of ignorance
and due north
of knowledge

***
 
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Footnote
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL
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Quoting The Quote-Worthy ... One More Time Again

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One desires what one lacks,
or rather,
one does not desire
what one does not lack
***

The Symposium
***
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Quoting The Quote-Worthy ... One More Time

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Her only weakness was  a lack
of that natural cunning 
and shrewdness
that does so much more 
for people than
virtue
***
 
The Fortunate Pilgrim
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Calendar Relations ... Today Is The Cousin Of

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Today is April 24, 2024

Let us drop the year
and repeat the above:

Today is April 24
BUT
we are prone to state
month and day
numerically
as a fraction:
 
Today  is 4/24
AND
(4/24) = (1/6) = (2/12) = (3/18) = (5/30)

NOW 
—reverting to month and day—
(April 24) is the "cousin" of (January 6)
+ (February 12) + (March 18)
+ (May 30)
***

You may justifiably believe
I am playing a stupid 
trivial number game
BUT 
there is more than
meets the eye
BECAUSE
 
I am having fun
with fractions
and their equivalence
WHILE
virtually nothing 
in this world
causes more Math Anxiety
than fractions
AND
 
Any statement
that the United States
is truly trying
to improve Math Skills
is a steaming pile
of fecal matter
 BECAUSE
 
Superior Math Skills
means
Superior Thinking Skills
[or Independent Thinking Skills]
and would create a generation
of people who would not 
feel it necessary to buy
the products they see
advertised everywhere
OR
believe the mealy-mouth fabrications
of every politician
 
***
***
© OLIVERIO ©
a/k/a
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

PhotoVerio #733: Clouds +Power Lines

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© Oliverio
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Monday, April 22, 2024

PhotoVerio #732: The Cloud Conductor Revisited

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© Oliverio
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The 60th Anniversary Of The 2nd NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR

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© Oliverio
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Saturday, April 20, 2024

Young People Say The Darnedest Things

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This is JFK?
I didn't know a President 
 was named after an airport
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Friday, April 19, 2024

I Had A Dream Last Night ...


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I dreamt about
waking up in this field
where I saw everything
in five colors
 
 
Just like the colors
in the Olympic Flag
 
I awoke just in time
to go back to
dreamland
 
But I was shaken
from that second slumber
by Olympic officials
who said
 
"Mr. Oliverio,
you will be 
in the next heat
of this event"
 
What event
could that possibly be?
They want me?
I am someone
with the athletic abilities
of a caterpillar  

But I dozed again
and dreamt again:
 
I am on the victory stand
winning a Silver Medal
because my body
has done
post-graduate work
in Sleep Segmentation
and NAPPING
had become an
Olympic Event

 
 
Did the crowd cheer for me?
Maybe .... Maybe not
 
Maybe I heard them
maybe I didn't
because
a victory stand is
as good as any
other place
for a 60-second
doze
because I can sleep
while standing
with or without
my eyes closed
***

© Oliverio ©
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PhotoVerio #731: Thumbnails Are Us ... With Deleteable Advert

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I'm younger
than that now
© Oliverio   +   Bob Dylan
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With Cute And Creepy Cropping (Comic Relief #5678)

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We're thinking about
getting out of the city
and moving to
a cute town
with creepy people
BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN

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Thursday, April 18, 2024

Five Bold Women + One Question + Zero Images + Zero Hyperlinks

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Tamron Hall
+
Sara Haines
+
Sunny Hostin
+
Alyssa Farrah Griffin
+
Kelly Ripa
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What extraordinary pharmacy
is responsible for their 
SINCERITY PILLS
?????????????????????????????????
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The Eternal Question (Comic Relief #5676) + Deleteable Advert

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GARY LARSON
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An Image From My Thumbs Up-ian Friend From Poland

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👍
WNIEBOWZIETA
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024

What Today's NYTimes Spelling Bee Will Not Accept

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According to the
Long Beach Urban Dictionary,
DOOMEDY
is defined as
"Comedy dealing with disaster"

However,
according to the
Doomedy
is not a word
 
But Damned is perfectly acceptable
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024

JOHN UPDIKE Poem About ... The Hour My Day Begins

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3 A.M.

By the brilliant ramp
of a ceaseless garage
 
the eye like a piece of newspaper
staring from a collage
 
records on a yellowing
gridwork of nerve
 
"policemen move on feet of glue,
sailors stick to the curb."
 ***
 
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My Country 'Tis Of Thee

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I pledge allegiance 
to the flag
of the United States
and 
+
In my dreams,
a young artist/protege
who worked with Jasper
named
Michael Brown
 
At the time
of their collaboration
[≈1987]
I was Michael's
step-father
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Monday, April 15, 2024

PhotoVerio #730: Nested Hummingbird + Mottled + Aging Foliage

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© Oliverio                   2017
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Sunday, April 14, 2024

Two Weeks After Easter ... Now It Can Be Told

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A shocking discovery
was made by
regarding the
most important living
Jesuit,
better known as
 
 
The Institute has granted me
permission to post
an image of
what the altar of
every Roman Catholic Church
—worldwide—
looked like on
 

 All church statues
are covered until
Easter Sunday
which represents
the most spiritually important
day of the Catholic calendar
 
According to the Church
that is when
Jesus Christ
rose from the dead
to live again
 
Other religions
refer to this process as 
RE-INCARNATION,
but Catholics call it
THE RESURRECTION
***
***
***
 
Be that as it may
 on Friday,
—March 30, 2024—
the Institute of Inane Research
shockingly discovered that
the Jesuit leader
of ALL Roman Catholics 
disappeared
for five hours
!!!
!!!
!!!
Pope Francis
 re-appeared at midnight
[Pacific Standard Time]
and proclaimed
"There is no Good Friday"
 !!!
 
The earth-shattering devastation
of this statement 
is best understood 
in the United States
by analogy:
 
Imagine the most influential
Catholic in our country
announcing on 
November 5, 2024
"There is no Presidential Election today"
!!!
 
Maybe that is too realistic
a possibility
but
the Jesuit Pontiff's
explanation
for his proclamation
labelled Pope Francis
as
The Mad Man of MARCH MADNESS
 
He had spent
most of his absentee-ism
 finding the best
Vatican underground hide-out
with a television set
tuned into the 
Sweet Sixteen round of the 
NCAA Basketball Tournament
where three Jesuit Universities
named
lost their basketball games
to three heathen schools


The university that ultimately
won the Championship
has a most dubious-sounding name
but it also has
 an other-worldly amount
of basketball talent
 AND
it is rumored that
Pope Francis
—denuded of shock + controversy—
has invited
the UConn basketball team
to the Vatican
with a personal tour
of Rome,
guided by none other
the first Jesuit Pope
ever to set foot
on this planet
***

© OLIVERIO ©
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Memories Of Katonah #285714

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© Oliverio
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The 199th Bullet: Directing Traffic

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 The Conscience is 
Morality's traffic cop
***
 
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Footnote
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL
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Friday, April 12, 2024

Those Were The Days (Comic Relief #5667)

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ALI SOLOMON
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Is This your Type?

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Communication Arts
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Gloomy Reflection Of A Waterfront Condo

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Photoverio #729.5
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PhotoVerio #729: Garden Phallic Symbol

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!!!
© Oliverio

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Wednesday, April 10, 2024

The Dearth Of The Damned ... Poem By HOODA HELAMI

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The dearth
of 
peace on earth
goes by many names
but
the simple truth is
the GODs above 
need
their war games
***

© HOODA HELAMI ©
Alter Ego 142857
***
 
 
GOD is an acronym
for
Group Of Deities 
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Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Regarding A Boy Who Played Harmonica On One Of Her Albums

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A poor little boy,
a tiny little thing,
you wanted to pull the sleeve 
on his sweater down
so it looked right,
or straighten his tie
but he didn't wear a tie
***
(1962)
 
The blues pianist/impresario
was referring to 
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N Is For Noose ... The Kingdom of Kinsey Milhone

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Get close to someone
and the next thing you know,
you've given them power
to wound, betray, 
irritate, abandon,
or bore you senseless
***

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Portrait Of An Artist As An Old Man ... Mr. Catch-22

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Like a character conceived
in one of his novels,
he would sooner starve
than cook another meal
***
He could weave
the most elaborate falsehoods
with the most trustworthy of faces
for as long as his listeners
remained credulous
 ***

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