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 
*******
*
 
© PAUL OLIVERIO ©
 
 
To
Be
Continued 
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Thursday, July 17, 2025

The 218th Bullet: Literature + Simple Arithmetic

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are equal to
multiplied by
Negative One
***

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Footnote
is 
the copyrighted property
of LCSoL
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Frank Needs Better Table Manners (Comic Relief #6438)

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GARY LARSON

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This
Far Side Cartoon
is approved by 
the 
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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

PhotoVerio #917: Marina Sunrise

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 Exactly three years hence,
the lucky residents
of this Long Beach Marina
will have easy access to
eleven 
 
© Oliverio

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Tilted + Truncated Legs ... And Then Some

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***
+
Dedication
To 
*** 
       ©PhotoVerio #916.5       =Image Only         
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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

PhotoVerio #916: Purple Maze

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Downtown Long Beach
At Midnight
© Oliverio ©
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What I Learned From This Crappy Photograph

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Put a baseball cap
on a senior citizen
+
he will look 
young enough
to play 
in the 
Junior League
A Review Of His Long Beach Concert
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Monday, July 14, 2025

In December, 2005 ... I Walked More Than Ten Miles In Italy

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But 
this is how
it appeared to me
in a dream
© PhotoVerio # 915.5
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Sunday, July 13, 2025

FOUR OF A KIND

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There is no debate:
 
+
present classic stories
about 
the Italian Mafia
 
Nor 
is their debate about
the brilliance of
Marlon Brando
+
James Gandolfini
as Mafia Dons
 
But
another film
and another
cable series
belong on this list
 
PRIZZI'S HONOR,
upstages 
Don Corleone
+
Tony Soprano
 
In 
Sylvester Stallone
is stellar
as a Mob boss
and is the only
one of the four
set in 
the 21st Century
 
Italians
+
Non-Italians 
eagerly await
season Three of
morphing 
with
Brando's 
Godfather 
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Saturday, July 12, 2025

I Wouldn't Pay A Penny For This Photograph

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It is nothing personal about 
 
She is a teacher
who was a personal friend 
of mine
 
My higher concern
here is the student
facing Ms. Sweet:
   
LAKEISHA GARBUTT
is a former student of mine
with a
much higher developed
sense of Logic
than her classmates
a snob attitude
that privately appealed
to this Math teacher

The year she was
my student,
Her mother appeared
at my classroom door
four hours before
Parent-Teacher Night
and 
was delighted 
with the praise
I had for Lakeisha

We spent most of our time
talking about 
the mother's
 beautiful beret
 
The Los Angeles Times article
is a worthy read
for numerous reasons
and 
I will leave it
to YOU
to figure out
which drug-addicted 
mother inspired
the Lakeisha Garbutt story
that is
soon-to-be-a-screenplay,
according to Bettye Sweet
 

HOWEVER,
if anyone who can get
Ms. Garbutt
to contact her former
Math teacher...
 
I will pay that person
the price
Getty-Images is asking
 for the photo
(maybe)
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Friday, July 11, 2025

High Quality PAUL SIMON Photographs ... Are Not Here

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Mrs. CarPeo
is responsible for
an HQ video
[to be posted on Yelp]
 
Many audience members
are certain to post
HQ photographs
of Paul Simon

The image posted below
is not one of them
but it does include
a qualifier



After hearing
Paul Simon perform
all I can say is:
 
If this is the closest
I ever get to
Heaven,
there will be 
no complaints
from me 
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Rest In Peace, 2025 ... W/No Hyperlinks Or Anyone Named Paul

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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Not Every Page Has To Do With Someone Named ... Paul

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is just 
a Communist Front
for people
who know 
how to spell
***
 
Laugh-In
Season1
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Paul Simon's Audience Began The Long Way Home ...

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Fifteen of us
 
 
boarded
a very secure
"balcony"
elevator

The first one to speak 
was Mrs. CarPeo
 
[With no memory of her words]

Ultimately 
everyone
spoke 
or chuckled
except for
the woman
with
double-silicon 
bazongas
 
The names mentioned 
in a conversation
shared by
five of us
were
 
The latter was 
"slide-fully delicious"
according to 
a very young man
with 
two other men
saying
 
Mr. CarPeo
commenced that discourse
when he suggested
Lighnin' Hopkins
would be
an excellent duet singer
with 
Paul Simon
who has
husky + dusty
coffee-stained
 83-year-old
vocal cords

Seemingly,
everyone agreed
with the suggestion
+
Mama Bazonga
winked at me
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How Good Was The Long Beach PAUL SIMON Concert?

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It ended 
with 
a 10-minute
standing ovation
[Mrs. CarPeo clocked it]
followed by 
a double encore:
 
3 songs w/full band
+
ONLY
Paul Simon with guitar
singing
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