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@matt That post is worthy of an Ogden Nash poem.
A flea and a fly in a flue
Were imprisoned, so what could they do?
Said the fly, "let us flee!"
"Let us fly!" said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw in the flue. -
@matt That post is worthy of an Ogden Nash poem.
A flea and a fly in a flue
Were imprisoned, so what could they do?
Said the fly, "let us flee!"
"Let us fly!" said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw in the flue. -
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
-- Ogden Nash⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #OgdenNash #MiddleAge
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Panopainting #NewMexico
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
-- Ogden Nash⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #OgdenNash #MiddleAge
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Panopainting #NewMexico
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Children aren’t happy with nothing to ignore,
And that’s what parents were created for.Ogden Nash (1902-1971) American poet
“The Parent,” Happy Days (1933)More about this quote: wist.info/nash-ogden/2947/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ogdennash #children #disregard #ignoring #parenting #parents
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
-- Ogden Nash -
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
-- Ogden Nash -
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
-- Ogden Nash⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #OgdenNash #MiddleAge
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
-- Ogden Nash⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #OgdenNash #MiddleAge
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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@NickSchwanck @rootsandcalluses
I think that never shall I see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all. -
@NickSchwanck @rootsandcalluses
I think that never shall I see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all. -
If you don’t want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work.
Ogden Nash (1902-1971) American poet
Poem (1930-12-27), “More About People,” The New YorkerSourcing, notes: wist.info/nash-ogden/76284/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ogdennash #financialndependence #financialsecurity #job #money #paycheck #retirement #salary #selfsufficiency #work
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Tell me, O Octopus, I begs,
Is those things arms, or is they legs?
I marvel at thee, Octopus;
If I were thou, I'd call me Us.—Ogden Nash
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Tell me, O Octopus, I begs,
Is those things arms, or is they legs?
I marvel at thee, Octopus;
If I were thou, I'd call me Us.—Ogden Nash
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#Quotes #BigotedMinds #Facts #OgdenNash
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly. -Ogden Nash, poet (19 Aug 1902-1971) -
#Quotes #BigotedMinds #Facts #OgdenNash
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly. -Ogden Nash, poet (19 Aug 1902-1971) -
Photo of the Day
sticking it to the banks
The words came with a smile in light, unconventional rhyme.
Delicately phrased nonsense.
Witty, intelligent wordplay conveying serious thought.
Below, one of Ogden Nash’s five hundred poems, written in 1935 in the midst of a career that spanned the middle part of the twentieth century.
His topic: banks.
And the people understood what Nash was talking about.
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Photo of the Day
sticking it to the banks
The words came with a smile in light, unconventional rhyme.
Delicately phrased nonsense.
Witty, intelligent wordplay conveying serious thought.
Below, one of Ogden Nash’s five hundred poems, written in 1935 in the midst of a career that spanned the middle part of the twentieth century.
His topic: banks.
And the people understood what Nash was talking about.
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Brendan O'Kane @bokane doing the heavy lifting again - this time standing up for the 散曲. A solid example:
王和卿 - 長毛小狗
Wang Heqing (late 13th c.) - On a Small Long-Haired Dog醜如驢，小如豬，
山海經檢遍了無尋處。
遍體渾身都是毛，我道你有似個成精物，
咬人的笤帚。This misbegotten little thing
Is nowhere to be found in the Shan-hai jing.
Ball of fur? Malevolent sprite?
Or dust-mop with a nasty bite?https://www.burninghou.se/p/in-defense-of-the-relatively-low-quality
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Brendan O'Kane @bokane doing the heavy lifting again - this time standing up for the 散曲. A solid example:
王和卿 - 長毛小狗
Wang Heqing (late 13th c.) - On a Small Long-Haired Dog醜如驢，小如豬，
山海經檢遍了無尋處。
遍體渾身都是毛，我道你有似個成精物，
咬人的笤帚。This misbegotten little thing
Is nowhere to be found in the Shan-hai jing.
Ball of fur? Malevolent sprite?
Or dust-mop with a nasty bite?https://www.burninghou.se/p/in-defense-of-the-relatively-low-quality
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Photo of the Day
“A girl who's bespectacled
“May not get her nectacled.”To call Ogden Nash a poet, or a satirist, or a humorist is to do him an injustice.
For he was all of these.
Plus, a ‘laughing philosopher,’ according to admiring literary critics.
When people asked Nash what he did for a living, he would say he was a “worsifer.”
[His special talent was making up words.]
#history #photography #OgdenNash #money #bankers #MoneyLending #economy #rich
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Photo of the Day
“A girl who's bespectacled
“May not get her nectacled.”To call Ogden Nash a poet, or a satirist, or a humorist is to do him an injustice.
For he was all of these.
Plus, a ‘laughing philosopher,’ according to admiring literary critics.
When people asked Nash what he did for a living, he would say he was a “worsifer.”
[His special talent was making up words.]
#history #photography #OgdenNash #money #bankers #MoneyLending #economy #rich
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Tell me, O Octopus, I begs,
Is those things arms, or is they legs?
I marvel at thee, Octopus;
If I were thou, I'd call me Us.—Ogden Nash
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Tell me, O Octopus, I begs,
Is those things arms, or is they legs?
I marvel at thee, Octopus;
If I were thou, I'd call me Us.—Ogden Nash
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#Quotes #Bigots #Facts #OgdenNash
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly. -Ogden Nash, poet (19 Aug 1902-1971)
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#Quotes #Bigots #Facts #OgdenNash
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly. -Ogden Nash, poet (19 Aug 1902-1971)
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Je ĉi dato en 1902 naskiĝis Ogden Nash, poeto kaj spritulo, kiu ofte kreis nekutimajn rimojn por sia humuraj mallongaj poemoj. https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogden_Nash
Bildo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ogden_Nash_in_Los_Angeles,_1949.jpg -
Je ĉi dato en 1902 naskiĝis Ogden Nash, poeto kaj spritulo, kiu ofte kreis nekutimajn rimojn por sia humuraj mallongaj poemoj. https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogden_Nash
Bildo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ogden_Nash_in_Los_Angeles,_1949.jpg -
There was a young belle of Natchez
Whose garments were always in patchez.
...When comment arose
...On the state of her clothes,
She drawled, When Ah itchez, Ah scratchez! -
There was a young belle of Natchez
Whose garments were always in patchez.
...When comment arose
...On the state of her clothes,
She drawled, When Ah itchez, Ah scratchez! -
One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
Would be a more restricted employment by the authors of simile and
metaphor.#OgdenNash ,on the topic
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One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
Would be a more restricted employment by the authors of simile and
metaphor.#OgdenNash ,on the topic
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Musical Interlude: Doing more Kurt Weill today...here's another favorite rendition, by his wife, of one of my favorite Weill tunes, with lyrics by Ogden Nash!
"Speak Low," performed by Lotte Lenya.
#MusicalInterlude #KurtWeill #OgdenNash #SpeakLow #BestLoveSongs
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The Kangaroo, #OgdenNash (fm "Candy is Dandy")
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The Kangaroo, #OgdenNash (fm "Candy is Dandy")
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#TunesOnTuesday shares another original song from this year's FAWM, "Old Men," a musical interpretation of a beautiful and uncharacteristic poem by the great Ogden Nash. https://ohljazz.com/2023/02/28/tunes-on-tuesday-old-men/
#songblog #jazzblog #musicblog #jazz #jazzmusic #songwriter #songwriting #composer #lyrics #piano #jazzpiano #music #musician #jazztodon #performance #fawm #poetry #ogdennash -
