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Friday, May 12, 2023

Typos, Series 1: Famed (Defamed...?) Fat Fellows (and a Few Femmes) from Fictions, Films & Further Afield

 


     Images in the works: 

Vanity Fair's Paunchinello
Native Son's Even Bigger Thomas
Mark Twain's Huskyberry Finn
Herge's Tinton
Clue's Professor Plump
Alex Raymond's Fleshy Gordon
Star Wars's Obesewan Kenobi
Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovinary
Death of a Salesman's Buff Loman
Philip Roth's Alex Portlynoy

Scott Fitzgerald's Jay Fatsby
Star Wars's Lardo Calrissian
Phil Silvers's Sgt. Bulko
Richard Outcault's Buster Brawn
Roanoke's Sir Walter Roly-Poly

 Folksong's Burly Ives
Twice-impeached Donald J. Dump
Carthage's Hannibulk & Hamilcarload
TV's Lucille Balloon
English Composer John Bloat

Cinema's Orson Whales
Casablanca's Humpty BoGut
The Hobbit's Bulbo Baggage
Jazz's Elephants Gerald
Mau Mau's Jumbo Kenyatta

Marx Brothers CouchPo, Hippo, Thicko & Zeppolin
Lolita's Bladdermir Nobokov
Illustrator Enormous Rockwell
Downton Abbey's Huge Beaumont
Playwright David Mammoth

Cambodia's Pol Pot
Playboy's Hugh Heftner
Comedian Bert Lahrd
Cinema's Orson Well-fed
First Lady of Jazz Elephants Gerald

 Trumpet Virtuoso Arturo Sand Oval

...and so it grows...


World's Oldest Poem...?

Research in linguistics has identified 23 words
which have remained in continual use within their
sundry world languages over the last 15 millennia.


I hear worms, Mother, spitting fire.
Who...? Thou, pulling hands flowing from ashes.
What...? We, not giving this old black man thy bark. 

Losts & Founds: An ABC

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