Inspired By The Trial Of The Porno Trump Pet ... Sic Sic Sic

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A text from

JACK McCARTHY

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New York Riot Police On High Alert ... Without Hyperlinks

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My level of joy

and happiness

will be beyond measure

if the New York Knicks

defeat the Philadelphia 76ers

tonight

at 

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN

but

that level of joy

will be equally beyond measure

for approximately

six million New York City

residents

 

LET US HOPE

any such celebration

is totally void

of incendiary behavior

or random gunfire

 

©©©

Paul Oliverio

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Bizarro Museum (Comic Relief #5695)

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Museum of Natural Hysteria

DAN PIRARO

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Memories Of Katonah #428571

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***

The Raspberry Garden

© Oliverio

Unfortunately, there are too many 

Katonah photographs on this blog 

to be linked together.

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Not Certain Of The Artist ... But I'll Go With My Hunch

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Correct Me

If I'm Wrong

© Mrs. CarPeo

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What ... X And Y ... Think About Z ... Says HOODA HELAMI

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The poor people

think I'm rich

and the rich people

think I'm poor

 

But I am 

none of the above:

just coated with

perverse love

and cheap verse

for order

in this universe

Give what you got

but don't need

to a million mouths

we must feed

Take what you want

as you feel

with great discretion

when you steal

 

Just don't get caught

and don't let yourself

be bought

 

That's not too bright:

do it if

the price is right

***

© HOODA HELAMI ©

Alter Ego #142 857

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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

***

ADELE ROGERS ST. JOHNS

I never believed in divorce

until after I got married

***

DIANE FORD

The wages of sin is alimony

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CAROLYN WELLS

When I'm dating 

I look at a guy

and wonder

Is this the man I want my children

 to spend their weekends with?

***

RITA RUDNER

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PhotoVerio #734: With National Pride + Awkward Rhyme

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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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The Institute of Inane Research

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,

LOUIS ARMSTRONG

appeared at the Afterlife Arena

to the greatest of fanfare

!!!

 

Mr. Armstrong 

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

New Orleans Jazz

***

 

© OLIVERIO ©

 

[with deleteable advert]

***

To Be Continued 

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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

THE 200th BULLET

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

***

PLATO

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

***

 

MARIO PUZO

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

 

What A Wonderful World

This Could Be 

***

***

© OLIVERIO ©

a/k/a

The Godfather of Math

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PhotoVerio #733: Clouds +Power Lines

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© Oliverio

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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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It began on April 22, 1964

© Oliverio

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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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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 was so much 

older then,

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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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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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

NYTimes Spelling Bee 

Doomedy

is not a word

 

But Damned is perfectly acceptable

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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."

 ***

 

JOHN UPDIKE

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My Country 'Tis Of Thee

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I pledge allegiance 

to the flag

of the United States

and 

Jasper Johns

+

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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PhotoVerio #730: Nested Hummingbird + Mottled + Aging Foliage

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© Oliverio                   2017

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

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A shocking discovery

was made by

The Institute of Inane Research

regarding the

most important living

Jesuit,

better known as

POPE FRANCIS

 

 

The Institute has granted me

permission to post

an image of

what the altar of

every Roman Catholic Church

—worldwide—

looked like on

GOOD FRIDAY

 

 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

—Joe Biden—

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

Gonzaga + Marquette + Creighton

lost their basketball games

to three heathen schools

The university that ultimately

won the Championship

—UConn—

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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