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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Monday, June 1, 2026

Scamella ... Slightly Tilted

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© Oliverio ©
 
 
No other poem
ever got as many
loud guffaws
from the
Jefferson High School
teachers' cafeteria
where 
AT LEAST
twenty people
told me
they had 
never before
heard the word
"Scamella"
BUT
no one 
   laughed louder
     than my late great
       brother-in-law,
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  1. AnonymousJune 1, 2026 at 9:37 AM

    The "Christopher Vincent King" link is for my nephew
    who—supposedly—shared the poem
    with his friends/family
    in Westport, Connecticut

    -Oliverio

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