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Sunday, August 14, 2022

What's New in Poe's "Hat/Cattle" Catalog & Among Runcibl'd Spooners

     New "Hat/Cattle" Chatter

Sergeant Friday's a cop, an abrupt one full stop.
Hear him gripe: "Just the facts, ma'am; no tattle!"

Though her atria's chill'd, she's prepared to be thrill'd
to her cor: She's all heart (though no cockles).

With Rice Krispies I find I like only one kind.
Forget Pop: I'm all Snap and no Crackle.

He brings signs to each march and his slogans are arch,
never dull. He's all that, but no catalyst

She'll not wriggle one hair, much less fly through the air.
She's immobile: all halt and no cartwheel. 

Donald's evil's like cancer. For Don, love's no answer,
That's Drumpf: he's all hate and no cuddle.

A Bell Witch/Quay blend,* she's for sure no one's friend.
Fire burn: she's all haunt and no Casper.
     * The Bell Witch haunts an area in Tennessee; Minnie Quay 
is a legendary ghost spooking Michigan. "Fire burn..." is part 
of a couplet chanted by the Weird Sisters in Shakespeare's 
Macbeth

If Dad laughs at all, his laugh's big, never small.
That's our Dad: he's all "HA!" and no chortle.

She's, when tough love's requir'd, ne'er in pull'd punches mired.
Best to duck: she's all hit and no coddle.

His applause is sedate. Meet Monsieur Understate.
In the end, he's all hint and no catcall.


     More Runcibl'd Spooners

Ernest's famous six-word story. 
Must four small "cetes" cede hirsute glory...?* 
For sale: baby shoes, never worn / Four whale babies soon (Never!) shorn.
     * In the sense of 1 Corinthians 11:15 "If a woman have hair it is a glory to her." 

Attacking those "giants" keeps Don in fine fettle.
He fades before factories coated in metal. 
     Tilting at windmills / Wilting at tinn'd mills 

Where Drumpf dreams up his latest fraud.
The adult stage of household god.
     Mar-a-lago / Lar imago 

More "Hat/Cattle" materials (some per GFH)

helot 
hatchet 
half-wit
habit 
Hamlet
hamlet 
high-hat 

height
hot
haut
hut
hoot
hurt
hint
Hants
Holt
host
hunt
haste
Hearst
haft
heft
hart
'hast'
Hecht
heat
hilt
hint
hoist
Hoyt

catch-all 
Katzenjammer kids
catamaran
Katmandu
Catskills
catnip
catnap
curdle
cordial


All hat and no atelier
All hat and no cabal
All hat and no cackle
All hat and no catapult
All hat and no catcall
All hat and no cachalots
All hat and no cachet
All hat and no cadaver
All hat and no cakes and ale
All hat and no campanile
All hat and no can do
All hat and no canticle
All hat and no Cantinflas
All hat and no captives
All hat and no castle
All hat and no casuistry
All hat and no Cat at All
All hat and no catafalque
All hat and no cataleptic
All hat and no Catalhoyuk
All hat and no Catalonia
All hat and no catapult
“All Hat and No Kettle”
All hat and no catcall
All hat and no caterpillar
All hat and no Cathay
All hat and no Catland
All hat and no Cattle of the Sun
All hat and no cattle prod
All hat and no chasuble
All hat and no chattel
All hat and no cuttlefish
All hat and no gaggle
All hat and no kettle
All hat and no kleagle
All hat and no Quetzalcoatl
All hat and no tattle
All hats and no capitals
All hats and no caput

...or not!

Seven waltzes penn'd Bach -- plus one sprightly ceroc.
These works' keys...? All A-flat, none A nat'ral. 

Doodhpak, shrikhand, chaas, dal; roti, farsan et al...
Fare found where...? Gujarat. (Not Seattle.)

Christmas Day: A Mare Egg...

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