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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Saturday, October 12, 2024

"Fr. George Has Been A Priest For 36 Years" ... HOWEVER

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On July 1, 2018
became the Pastor
at a Catholic church
in Long Beach
 
If his ego was beyond measure,
we could sell
"I love Father George"
t-shirts
and there would be 
at least
1000 sales
 
His sermons are essentially
the same as my uncle's
but "Fr. Frank Oliverio"
had a bedroom voice
and was the opposite of shy
 
That is a word that
Father George
has repeatedly used
to describe himself
 explaining why
his image doesn't appear
on this page
 
HOWEVER
this page exists primarily
because of a quote
 from the featured priest
who once 
[in private conversation]
described his fellow members
of the clergy as two types:
 
Those who love Baseball
and those in need
of enlightenment
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It would be ridiulous
to name a baseball team 
 "the Priests"
but we do have "the Padres"
who hail from San Diego
and were stunned 
into nothingness
by scoring zero runs 
 
The team proved
that it is Fool's Gold
to bet against
the Los Angeles Dodgers
on their inexorable march
to the  
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