A Pre-21st Century Question And Answer

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Question:

WHAT IS IN THE EYE

OF THE BEHOLDER

Answer:

© Oliverio

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

So it had been said
for many years
BUT
we are living
in a post-9/11 Trump world:
the updated cliche is
UGLY is in the eye of the beholder

The next
GoFather/Trump
page is
here 

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The Reason I Didn't Post A Page Yesterday

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I was much too busy

trying to identify

the Anonymous commentistas

from

the previous page

I was hoping it was

some of the long lost

37 Anonymous Art Critics

But

all my efforts at IV

(Identification Verification)

were in vain

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Halloween JEOPARDY Category: Hollwood Degrees Of Separation

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Answer:

Question:

What is
The Boston Strangler


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As Alex Treebek
would say
at this point:
"Max Fleischer created Betty Boop.
Dick Fleischer, his son,
directed  The Boston Strangler."

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Footnotes
This is the fourth
GoFather/JEOPARDY page
but, for legal reasons,
we cannot link them together.

Neither are we permitted
to spell the host's name
correctly.

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Let Us Hope God Doesn't Do The Same Thing To Planet Earth

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Moments after
Banksy's Girl With Balloon
sold at auction for
$1.4 million dollars,
it self-destructed

The full story
can be easily read
by clicking
here
 

Seven people are visible
in this photograph

Did one of them
activate the shredder?

You be the judge 

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Footnote
The next
GoFather/Banksy
page is
here 

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The Reason This Rose Looks A Tad Sad ...

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The reason this rose 
looks a tad sad...

is because it is
remembering its
Hollywood days

when it was
an understudy
for Audrey in
The Little Shop of Horrors 

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Footnote
The image of the rose
is the copyrighted property
of LCSoL.
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Going Home ... Eighty Years After Hitler's Hoods Stole It ...

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This painting,

stolen by the Nazis

from 

Alfred Flechtheim's art gallery

in 1938

is

finally being returned

to Mr. Flechtheim's heirs

Ernst Ludwig Kirshner
Artillerymen
 (1915)

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Footnote
It is worth pointing out that
the painting may not have been stolen
from Flechtheim but was actually sold to
someone holding a gun to
the art dealer's head.

Acting on behalf
of the Fuhrer,
The buyer then
 extended gratitude
to the seller
for helping the cause
of the Third Reich 
by sacrificing
the painting
at a price
light years below
market value.

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United States President Influenced By Black Panther Quote

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You are either

part of the solution

or

part of the problem

ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

⬆︎⬆︎⬆︎
 (1968) 



 (2001) 
⬇︎⬇︎⬇︎

You are either

with us

or

with the terrorists

GEORGE W. BUSH 

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Best Friend ... If And Only If

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The dog

barks and growls

You meet him

with a bowl

It's all meat

And then it is empty

The dog

licks your face

crawls into your lap

Then falls asleep

You hold him

with pride

Your best friend

But your memory

is without bark

without growl

***

PAUL OLIVERIO

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Footnotes

BEST FRIEND ... IF AND ONLY IF

is the copyrighted property of LCSoL

Not my best friend

but maybe

my most important friend,

besides his sister

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Another DJ-Verio Playlist ... #285714 ... The Land Of Sleet + Snow

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Once upon a time ago
Way up in the land of sleet and snow
How this fairy would go
I could not know

I had searched around this world so mean
From Livingstone to Palestine
Trying to pursue my dream
Of love

It was then I met this girl so fine
She made me think so fast

I left my thoughts behind
And I tried to pass for a sophisticated
Northern man

I said yes my dear, I know

exactly what you mean
Because there's not so much

I haven't done or seen
And may I say your eyes

are the loveliest
Shade of Jade

I said well come on baby
Come on baby
Come on baby

It was then I knew

I had made my first mistake

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LYLE LOVETT 

Her First Mistake

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Live Action: Javy + Nolan Share Their Love On The Basepaths

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In last night's marathon baseball game,

a Bromance was brewing

but only the purple Arenado

will meet the Brewers

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The 108th Bullet: The Most Rewarding Job On Earth

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Falling in love is easy
for the independent contractor.
The hard part is dealing with
the organized labor
to complete the project.

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 Footnotes

THE 108th BULLET 
is the copyrighted property of  LCSoL.
 
Only the first 45 Bullets are linked together
because we do not want to make life easy
for our favorite thieves.
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You Don't Have To Be An Aviator But As The Saying Goes ...

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There are times

when you have to think

on your feet

or

(as the saying goes)

fly by the seat of your pants

BUT

I prefer the times

when you just 

get up and dance

or

(as the going says)

let your feet do the talking

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Footnote

YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AN AVIATOR

BUT AS THE SAYING GOES...

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

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The Longest Post-Season Game In The History Of Wrigley Field

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The end of the story

began in the thirteenth inning

of a game that featured

one hundred batters

with the Chicago baseball fans

standing and cheering

their beloved Cubs

and hating the purple Rockies

like the one shown here

He is a third string catcher
meaning that
he is  completely unknown

to 97% of all baseball fans

But right now,

Tony Wolters
 is the most popular person

in Colorado
and the cause
of many nightmares
in Chicago

The game lasted 4 hours 55 minutes
and the most intimate moment
of the game is
here 

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Escapism And Returnism

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Sometimes

I have to get

away from

⬆︎

⬅︎ here ➡︎

⬇︎

And bury myself

in the bosom of

box scores and

logic puzzles

with
a sporadic sting

from the tomfoolery

of the real world

But always

I return

⬆︎

⬅︎ here ➡︎

⬇︎

and this is

the second page

of October

I always return
when logic
dressess up
like a white rabbit
and takes me
through the looking glass 

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Footnote

ESCAPISM AND RETURNISM

is the copyrighted property of
the Lewis Carroll School of Logic

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The Only Species [Haiku #63]

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Humans are
the only species
capable of cashing
a paycheck

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Footnotes
THE ONLY SPECIES 

is the copyrighted property of LCSoL

The next
GoFather Haiku
 page is
here

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