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 10, 2025

Who Said ... I NEVER MET A MAN I DIDN"T LIKE?

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The one person 
 younger than thirty
who responds
is correct
and is guaranteed 
to bed down
the hottest body
within thirty feet
of him/her
 
This person
also receives 
reverberating applause
from everyone 
in the room
 
When that applause is neutered,
the person who asked the question
[also known as Mr. WhozWho]
automatically says
"Next Question"
 
Virtually
everyone in this "room"
will go home
as a happy camper
with the exception being
the aforementioned
"hottest body"
who was horribly disappointed
by some lifeless
flesh and bones
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Politically speaking,
nothing is more satisfying to
this former math teacher than
President Trump's demolition of
 
I only wish someone 
of his acquaintance
had the intelligence to quote
on the subject known as 
 "Public Education"
 ***
 
 
What Mr. Rogers said 
was approximately this:
 
Look at what Prohibition
did to the
United States of America:

By outlawing the consumption
of alcohol, 
bootleggers  became
as common as 
next-door neighbors.

The national consumption
of illegal alcohol
 was light-years higher than
the consumption of
legal alcohol
for the fifty years 
prior to Prohibition
!!!
!
 
.
It is now time
paraphrase 
Mr. WhozWho
and move to the
"Next Topic"
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According to the Good People
who teach in our public schools,
virtually all third-graders
can spell the word
CAT 
correctly
but if you ask them to spell
SCAT,
their world turns
upside down
 
 
87% of the same students
spell SCAT
with a K
as in
SKAT
 
I would rather send
my 3rd grade-nephews to bed
than to a public school
 
So I think I have a solution:
 
Let's prohibit education
because of  the precedent set
 !!!
 
The previous prohibition
created an insatiable lust
for alcohol
Following the same logic,
we can create 
a lust for learning
in the classroom
—public or private—
 
Students will no longer
want teachers
who are "nice"
 
They will want teachers
who are smart
and open their brains
in front of the class
so there is 
enough room
for students
to reach in
and stuff the results 
into their own brains
until their bodies
shine with intelligence
while waving goodbye
to ignorance and 
embarrassing
test scores
 !!!
 
 ***  Now feast on HIS other wisdom
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2 comments:

  1. Approximately what percentage of the indirect quote did YOU contribute to the page?

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    1. To find my compact disc of WILL ROGERS would be
      a near-impossible task but I am most flattered by
      your asking this question because the completion
      of this page took longer than a year.

      Approximately thirty percent
      of the "indirect quote" is mine

      -Oliverio

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