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, July 18, 2025

GO MATH ... With Profound Words From Ultimate Johnson

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Every elementary school teacher
financed by
the State of California
was tuned in
to the image
 
But 
this was three years
before the image above
was taken
 
Though he had
the same name as
this Don Johnson
physically resembled
!!!
  
Our Don Johnson's
 nickname 
is given in the title
 
It is a play
on the acronym
UTLA
which is the teacher's union
for the city schools
 
Our Don Johnson
spent 49 years
of his life
"teaching"
in the public schools
of the second largest city
in the United States
and the words
 
On this day in 2023,
the words he spoke
to a vast video
audience
were soundtracked by
profundity


We are not 
smart enough
to teach math
but we can 
make our students smile
with a glow
dwarfing
Pacific Palisades 
sunsets
 !!!
 
 
Throughout
the state of California,
the
celebratory
cheering sounds
created by
these teachers
was equivalent to
the tsunami effect
of a 
*******
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© PAUL OLIVERIO ©
 
 
To
Be
Continued 
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2 comments:

  1. Ouch !!!

    I am one of those teachers and the truth hurts
    but my Long Beach students ultimately registered
    9.8 on the Smile Richter Scale,
    winning way too many tubs
    of Haagen Dasz ice cream.

    After gaining fifteen pounds,
    I finagled an early retirement plan
    and presently have a management position
    at Von's on Broadway.

    My name is Monisha Coltrane.

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    1. Not only do I know who you are but if VON's
      did not have staff members like you,
      our grocery purchases would all be at Ralph's.

      How much money?

      Just think of the Clint Eastwood classic
      Fistful of Dollars
      and double it

      -Oliverio

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