Search This Blog

Monday, April 23, 2018

"Ali rebuffs, then snuffs, thick thieves, then stuffs their thievings up his sleeves..." Gazillionaires and How They Stay that Way: A Nonsense Alphabet in Rhyme

Ali rebuffs then snuffs thick thieves, then stuffs their thievings up his sleeves.
Born-to-wealth Montgomery Burns “forgets” to file his tax returns.
Cry Cross and Clampett (Noah, Jed), “Don’t broadcast ‘bout our ‘bundant bread.”
Dantes, Dives, Drumpf, De Vil: but four who love the Treas’ry Bill.
Everyone knows J. R. Ewing. Name the stock swaps J. R.’s doing!
Foolish Osgood Fielding’s loot impels him towards forbidden fruit.
Gatsby, Grand, Goldfinger, Gekko: not a one picks up the checko.
Henderson and Thurston How’ll: each man’s thrown in the temp’rance tow’l.
It’s Iron Man (read ‘Tony Stark’). What funds his fights? The German mark.
“Jingling of the guinea” bolsters Janoth’s job. (Then guns leave holsters.)
Keeping Rosebud’s not enough for Kane: “Can’t I keep all my stuff?”
Lex Luthor, Linus Larrabee: to live de luxe, their lucre's key.
Montpelliers, Miduses, McDucks: their gelt’s on Google (search ).
Nickels, dimes and quarters be the life’s blood of Ralph Nickleby.
Only Chatsworth Osborn fils some fils* keeps in his fund de Suisse.
     * A denomination of the UAE.
Potter, Pontifex and Pike (like Pennybags) all lucre like.
Quatermain and Q both know: it’s always all about the dough.
Richie’s one beaucoup baksheesher. (Nouveau riche grow nouveau “reesher.”)
Sternwood (general), Sinbad (tar): how unlike us the tres riche are!
Trimalchio and Beresford Tipton: Lads! Such scads of scrip you drip in!
Undershaft casts ingots -- tons! His modus o.? “I first cast guns.”
Van Gleasons I and II were tight. And Reggie III? He’s tight alright.
Wonka, Wayne and Warbucks draw, for gobs of groats, on Gresham’s Law.
Xerxes and Professor X make tons of funds by forging checks.
Yue’s counterfeiting shuck: a brand new take on “make a buck.”
Zaleski hoards his princely stash, yet won’t stake me from petty cash.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Christmas Day: A Mare Egg...

     "A Mare Egg, Her Wrist, "Miss Two 'U'"