Of course, Mr. Broderick made a great many mistakes along the way. But, somehow, he came to regard each one as a thing of beauty.
Crosby Fields, A Reasonable Amount of Trouble.
Polly sigh
hissed Tory
math emetics
Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.
“The shadow cannot create,” whispered Carson Drew, once again annoying everyone at the breakfast table.
Crosby Fields, A Reasonable Amount of Trouble.
When asked if he could say something positive about rock music, Jeremy replied: “The lyrics are usually sparse.”
William Garrick, My Friend Bryson.
When you clean something, then something else must become soiled.
Titus Musgrave, The Enigma of the Box.
3, 6, 9, 12 [1+2=3], 15 [1+5=6], 18 [1+8=9], 21 [2+1=3], 24 [2+4=6], 27 [2+7=9], 30 [3+0=3], 33 [3+3=6],
36 [3+6=9], 39 [3+9=12, 1+2=3], 42 [4+2=6], 45 [4+5=9], 48 [4+8=12, 1+2=3], 51 [5+1=6], 54 [5+4=9],
57 [5+7=12, 1+2=3], 60 [6+0=6], 63 [6+3=9], 66 [6+6=12, 1+2=3], 69 [6+9=15, 1+5=6], 72 [7+2=9],
75 [7+5=12, 1+2=3], 78 [7+8=15, 1+5=6], 81 [8+1=9], 84 [8+4=12, 1+2=3], 87 [8+7=15, 1+5=6],
90 [9+0=9], 93 [9+3=12, 1+2=3], 96 [9+6=15, 1+5=6], 99 [9+9=18, 1+8=9], 102 [1+0+2=3], 105 [1+0+5=6], 108 [1+0+8=9], …
Myron Dowsie, Voice of Numbers.
“Just what I need,” cried Mr. Jackson. “Another object.”
Hollis Beddoes, Counting the Magpies.
I’ve got spangles.
And I’ve got bangles.
And a brand new shovel in me shed.
I have tangles, sir, and dangles, sir.
And thoughts—four and twenty—in me head.
E. E. Bynum, A Thump upon the Head (and Other Poems).
“I do like that style of high-heels, though. Very much.”
“We do not need to hear about your preferences, John. Not at this time.”
Crosby Fields, A Reasonable Amount of Trouble.
“She was strangely convinced that the cement brick—as an art material—was ‘owned’ by a close friend of hers. So, only he could use them. And no one else should even consider it. I accomplished exactly nothing by pointing out that cement bricks were ordinary construction products and had already been used by dozens of artists, and in a variety of ways.”
Nicholas Bruhns, Otto the Magpie.
