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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
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| Puzzles and Games :: Which is Funnier |
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 Which Henry James novel is funnier: The Bostonians or The Princess Casamassima?
Clue: This is according to the introduction to The Bostonians (Penguin Classics edition)
Answer: The Bostonians (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
Citation: Henry James, The Bostonians (2000), p. viii.
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"Somebody should write a book about all the different lovers who have walked along Sunnyside Beach at midnight." — David Donnell, Water Street Days, 1989, p. 32. |
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| * Ellipses don’t merely omit superfluous words or mark pauses. Far from
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| * A manual for typographers published in 1917 acknowledged that there are many beautiful forms of the ampersand, yet it forbade their use in "ordinary book work." Extraordinary books are another matter. Our lavishly illustrated Ampersand opus explores the history and pictography of the most common coordinating conjunction. |
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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
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"Some one ought to write a book entitled The Anonymous in Life, though it would assuredly take many volumes to tell the story of the wonders wrought by unknown, unnamed pilgrims of the past." — Joseph Fort Newton, Short Talks on Masonry, 1928, p. 142. |
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 Simon Nervosa writes: Generally, I find myself playing tennis on these visual poems of yours (against myself) and running back and forth (back and froth?) that I might bandy, lob and volley against the possibility that I truly belong on one or the other side.
However, with this one there is no doubt.
I stand on the bottom court, and there is NO court advantage whatsoever.
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Which are funnier: pickles or relish?
Clue: This is according to Jack C. Horn.
Answer: Pickles. (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
Citation: Julius Nicholas Hook, All Those Wonderful Names (1991), p. 317
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Gary Barwin illuminates the delightful concept of "ellipsis juggling": Ellipsis juggling, the most difficult trick in the repertoire. A juggling of what’s not there, what’s lost, left out, erased, or forgotten. And the juggler must keep each of the three elements perfectly in line with a ground that he cannot see, like black holes precisely aligned in empty space and yet parallel with the curved horizon of a distant earth.
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What city is funnier: Madrid or Barcelona?
Clue: This is according to literary humorist Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.
Answer: Barcelona. (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
Citation: Personal correspondence, July 31, 2007.
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From our Magic Words outpost at Blogger: "He began to think that even though magic, and science, and religion did not all mean the same thing, they all meant in the same way." —John Crowley, The Solitudes |
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True or False: There is “nothing more hilarious than a bunch of mental patients bowling.”
Clue: This is according to a poet
Answer: True (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
Citation: Gavin Dillard, Between the Cracks: The Daedalus Anthology of Kinky Verse (1997), p. 305
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| * A manual for typographers published in 1917 acknowledged that there are many beautiful forms of the ampersand, yet it forbade their use in "ordinary book work." Extraordinary books are another matter. Our lavishly illustrated Ampersand opus explores the history and pictography of the most common coordinating conjunction. |
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Which is funnier in Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life: the voluble Frenchman or the flying cow?
Clue: This is according to a study of Arthurian legends depicted in the cinema
Answer: the voluble Frenchman. (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
Citation: Kevin J. Jarty, Cinema Arthuriana (2002), p. 140.
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| * Ellipses don’t merely omit superfluous words or mark pauses. Far from
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Jonathan Caws-Elwitt quips:
That lowercase ampersand in the bottom right corner has the patting-itself-on-the-back thing down ... pat.
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