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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Friday, June 20, 2025

Homegrown (Comic Relief #6397)

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He wanted to have
a sex change
but he didn't want
to lose his job.
 
You won't lose your job,
the boss said.
But if you change 
your sex,
I'll have to cut your pay
twenty percent.
 
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© PAUL OLIVERIO ©
1983
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2 comments:

  1. Cut it off and get a cut in pay.

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    1. But you'll have a job for more than another day

      -Oliverio

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