PURPLE
June 25, 2012
PATERFAMILIAS
June 24, 2012
trembling paterfamilias
endow my life with cheese
and if you can’t accomplish that
please cure my damnable wheeze
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A SENTENCE BY STEPHEN AMBROSE
June 23, 2012
The Great Plains of North America, on a cloudless day, stretch out forever under an infinity of bright blue sky.
Thus openeth CRAZY HORSE AND CUSTER, another gem by Ambrose, the non-boring historian.
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THE BILLIE BURKE KWIZ ANSWER
June 22, 2012
Well done, Sarah and others. You no doubt deduced from the fact that Billie’s father was a famous circus clown that Billie had become an expert stilt walker by the age of 3 and therefore it was no surprise to discover her subsequent 1935 climbing of the stairs to the top of the Empire State Building. As an added note, she came back down the stairs on stilts, too. What a trooper.
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THE BILLIE BURKE KWIZ
June 21, 2012
Of course, she was the daughter of a famous circus clown.
Of course, she was Mrs. Flo Ziegfeld.
Of course, she played Mrs. Jordan in the great film, ‘Dinner at 8’.
Naturally, she’ll live forever as Glinda in ‘The Wizard of Oz’.
But can you believe that Billie also:
a. once raced motorcycles with Orville Wright.
b. beat Zelda Fitzgerald in an archery contest.
c. climbed the stairs to the top of the Empire State Building on stilts.
d. could tear the New York City phone directory in half with her bare hands.
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INTERVIEW WITH A TRIFFID STRATEGIST
June 20, 2012
Loon: So what can you tell me about the upcoming takeover?
Triffid Strategist: Nothing.
Loon: Ah, come on. How about a few hints at least?
Triffid Strategist: No.
Loon: I’ll give you a present if you just tell me one single little thing about it.
Triffid Strategist: No.
Loon: Pleeease.
Triffid Strategist: No.
Loon: Pretty please with sugar on it.
Triffid Strategist: Go to your room.
Loon (stalking off, fuming, muttering): I never get to hear anything about world takeovers by sentient plants.
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FIRST SENTENCE OF A STRANGE ROMANCE
June 19, 2012
When he awoke he couldn’t help but notice that his head rested on the floor in a pool of blood not his own.
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HOW TO ENVELOP YOUR PREY
June 18, 2012
1. Work only at night.
2. After locating and approaching with 15 meters of prey, discard your accordion.
3. Become a gelatinous mass.
4. Ooze with all the stealth you can muster until you have your prey surrounded.
5. Envelop.
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A SENTENCE BY ELIZABETH GASKELL
June 17, 2012
And with a swimming curtsey Miss Betty Barker took her leave.
A delightful sentence from the delightful CRANFORD.
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BLOOMSDAY TOAST – 2012
June 16, 2012
BLOOMSDAY TOAST
Here’s to –
Nora the barnacle goose –
Skin-the-Goat –
the giggle fit of bronze by gold –
the blind stripling piano tuner tap tap tapping along –
Stephen deep in thought strolling on Sandymount Strand –
socks with skyblue clocks, jaunty –
Plumtree’s Potted Meats, which can make of each home an abode of bliss –
Rose of Castille and rows of cast steel –
met him pike hoses –
Come forth, Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job –
On his wise shoulders through the checkerwork of leaves the sun flung spangles, dancing coins –
Private Carr and his escalating oath –
lame Gerty limping, a dreamer –
those lovely seaside girls –
the heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit –
Could a swim duck? Says I –
yes
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