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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
Inspired by Jeff of Omegaword, who once woke up on the wrong side of zero.
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Jeff writes:
Ha! I've always suspected the decimal point, and now, at last, comes theproof.
Thank you!!
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"Is the real secret of power that when it seems greatest, it is dying?"
—D. Lamar Jacks, "Newgrange"
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 What is funnier than the innocent bystander who gets a cream pie in his face, slips on a banana peel, and lands in a garbage truck?
Clue: This is according to a legal expert
Answer: Nothing (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
Citation: Judith Nisse Shklar, The Faces of Injustice (1990), p. 36.
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Eburnean
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a.) Made of or like ivory.*
b.) Ivory-colored.
[Origin: From Latin eburneus meaning "ivory." ]
*The horn of the unicorn, though typically considered to be eburnean (probably due to its association in the Middle Ages with the tusk of the narwhal), was originally described as red, white, and black by Ctesias (the origin of which most likely lies in its significance as an ancient calender symbol).
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J quips:
Q. What's black and white and red all over?
U. My horn!
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Gary Barwin exclaims:
Thanks for eburnean!
"the single horn of the exclamation mark, the shadow of a unicorn surmounted by its long eburnean shadow, a distant comet and its swart trail."
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Will Rogers State Park, Pacific Palisades, California. See larger size here.
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Silesius of Rhodes writes:
i hear michael hutchence singing. i'm melting in the sun. this is pretty. sundogs are pretty.
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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
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Which age is funnier: 39 or 40?
Clue: This is according to comic Jack Benny
Answer: 39. “The age jokes ... didn’t start until he was 55, and a nurse in a sketch asked him his age; he paused and said 36. It got a big laugh, so he remained 36 for the rest of the season. The following year, he was 37; in the next, 38. He decided to freeze at 39, because it’s a funnier number than 40.” (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
Citation: Garry Giddins, Natural Selection (2006), p. 33
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An antidote for people who complain that Christmas has become so commercialized that it is devoid of meaning.
One of our lesser-known works (so carefully circulated that even we haven't mentioned it here on Abecedarian during the book's four years in publication!) is The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas. For those who know the meaning of Christmas but can't use it in a sentence, we collected 126 distinct definitions of the holiday, with literary quotations. Check the description over at Amazon.com for a surprising snippet. |
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"How do you carve yourself out of your self?"
—The North Dakota Quarterly
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