Professor Oddfellow's Forgotten Wisdom
Printed collections of Forgotten Wisdom diagrams are available: Volume I from Mindful Greetings and Volumes II, III and IV from Amazon. Selected posters are also available via Zazzle. |
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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
Planet X (a.k.a. Nibiru) is an anagram of "Next Alp."
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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
Viewed under a microscope, religions are composed of ions.
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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
Sherlock Holmes’ Ascertainment of the Chemical Elements of Purity
The text reads:
1. Hold up two empty test tubes to the light. Note that the first contains two parts of fiction to one of truth, the other merely impotence.
2. Shake, then pour the contents into a glass globe.
3. Empty the contents of the globe and stir the remaining vacuum reflectively.
4. Drain off the vacuum and throw it away, leaving only the hole in space where the vacuum had been.
5. Remove the hole, leaving only the space.
6. Seize the contents of the space where the hole had been which had been left by the vacuum; remove the contents; remove that, and hold the result up to the light. Purity!
[As revealed in Corey Ford’s Three Rousing Cheers for the Rollo Boys, 1925]
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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
"Christmas tree" is an anagram of "Hermetic stars."
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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
Death must be a ghost's second childhood. It wanders far like a kite, then the string breaks. It abandons the human form's cold bathtub. There is no string around a ghost's finger.
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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
The text reads, "Each pea in a pod is engirdled by an imaginary line corresponding to the great circles of our celestial sphere. This can be verified by anyone who wishes to take the trouble."
Our piece was inspired by an illustration in Illustrated British Ballads, Old and New, 1894. Its caption reads, "Now when they got as far as the equator, they'd nothing left but one split pea." That pea must have been split equatorially, eh? |
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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
The text reads, "Our soul is in the eye, and when we open it, it escapes and becomes the universe. You will see everything in the line diagram of a biology book." — Stanley Crawford, Travel Notes
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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
The world is figuratively one's oyster, and "the world may undoubtedly be an oyster, though to whom it would belong, to whom it would be answerable in that capacity, is a great deal less certain. It's something that will have to remain a matter for conjecture until science comes up with a definitive answer." — N.F. Simpson, If So, Then Yes
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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
In strict accordance with Newton's third law of mechanical toys, every jack-in-the-box triggers an equal but opposite reaction.
[For HBG2 and the Disneyland Haunted Mansion pop-up ghosts.]
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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
"Repairing a broken hour requires three score of the 'gold-dust of time' — Colfax Burgoyne Harman." [For Karl.]
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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
"To photograph unspoken words, employ a camera obscura. Note that only ambigrams will develop." [Inspired by and for Jim Girouard.]
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