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Wednesday, September 11, 2024

The 12 'Chair-'s; Or, 'Sit' Happens: A Chairy Jubilee

      Anyone for chairades...? 

   Chairless, three Chairokees charily squat on their mounds.
each Aniyunwyan breathes deep as the pipe makes its rounds.
   Chairs at Chairnobyl stay runaway radioactive.
Thus taking one's seat there continues, at best, unattractive. 
   Morning-room chairs at chez Sonny & Chair are of wicker.
(Rattan, willow...reed...? Bamboo, raffia...? Please, must we bicker...?)
   "Chairberus...Sit! Sit, boy!" demi-god Heracles said.
Then the Greek hero, sniggering, smack'd that beast upside the head.
 
   The rock shoal Chairibdis sits churning the Strait of Messina  
while Scylla sits opposite, howling like Dante's hyena.
   The Chairiff of Nottingham sits in his queen chair, adoze,
as Robin sashays in behind him and strikes off his nose.
   A Davenport oozes chairisma. A Chesterfield, too.
A couch and the sofa, however, ooze none. (Sad but true.) 
   Tourists who sit in Chairassic Park risk being ate
by this megalosaurid Eustreptospondyle...or its mate.

   Upon chairs in this chaircuterie sit the posh carriage trade
sampling buffalo jerky while watching how sausage is made.
   One Chairubim skips today's Nonesflits thru' heaven's three zones.
Like her fellows the Thrones, she, for Him, sports a sizeable jones.
   In upstate New Chairsey it sits -- Chairsey City by name.
Not as blatant as Hoboken, true; yet deserving of fame.
   Meet young Chaired Cushioner ("Whoopee!" to both of his friends).
May he soon take his seat in Gehenna! (This curse my verse ends.) 

      (Images to come: work in progress) 

Tuesday, September 10, 2024

More "How Do You Who's Whos Hold Your Hooch...?"

     Much depends on the meaning of 'hold.' 

     I: We ask; he answers.

"Be your rotgut rums or Ripples,
how d'you pooh-bahs tote your tipples...?"
Here's a man in black. Let's ask 
the haut-hydrated Johnny Cask:

"Be your sauce, John, Schlitz or 'Scootch,' 
how do you Who's Whos hold your hootch...?
And might you moonshine render sterile...?"
Answers John: "Quiz Yogi Barrel."

     II: We ask; they answer.

"However judgments you deduce, 
how do you jurists lug your juice...?"
"You, Sam...?" "A liter." "'lena...?" "Kegs." 
"You, Amy...?" "Ponies -- brims to dregs." 

     (More to come; work in progress) 

Sunday, September 8, 2024

An Optimistic Outlook

BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD, GOOD; 
BAD, GOOD, BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD, GOOD;
BAD, BAD, GOOD, BAD, GOOD, BAD, GOOD;
BAD, GOOD, BAD, GOOD, GOOD, BAD, GOOD;
GOOD, GOOD, BAD, BAD, GOOD, GOOD, GOOD;
GOOD, BAD, GOOD, GOOD, GOOD, GOOD, GOOD;
GOOD, GOOD, GOOD, GOOD, GOOD, GOOD, GOOD:
SEE...? THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER ALL THE TIME.

Saturday, September 7, 2024

De Diebus Natale

     Today is day one of his 83rd year.
They cry, "Happy Birthday," but Gramps doesn't hear.
     They hand him a card all his relatives sign'd.
Its greetings fall flat, though; he's legally blind.
     No birthday cake's offer'd; he's watching his weight.
Some candle-topp'd broccoli's serv'd on a plate.
     When ask'd for his key to life, what does he say...?
"I'll somehow contrive to survive through today."

     Today is day two of his 83rd year...
 
     (to be continued; a work in progress)

How Those Who's Whos Hold Their Hooch

The Pol Pot 
The Manute Bowl 
The Carafe Vaughn Williams
The Canteenflas 
The Ed Decanter
 













The Johnny Cask
The Yogi Barrel 
The Gertrude Stein
The Maurice Jar
The Kurt Vial










The Samuel Liter
The Elena Keg
The Flask Gordon
The J. Fred Muggs
The Sydney Carton












...and, with apologies,
The Gary Couper and 
The Georgie Vessel

     (More images to come: 
a work in progress)

Tuesday, September 3, 2024

A Prehistory Of Standup Shtick: The Founding Fathers


I. Button Gwinnett & "Button's Fly"

II. Caesar Rodney & "Caesar's Salad"

III. Thomas Jefferson & "Tommy's Tuppence"

IV. Carter Braxton & "Carter's Spills"

V. Philip Livingston & "Philip's Screwdriver"

VI. Oliver Wolcott & "Oliver's Twist"

A Prehistory Of Standup Shtick: The Founding Fathers & "Caesar's Salad"

Continental Congressman from Delaware Caesar Rodney was once described by his brother Thomas as possessing "...a great fund of wit and humor...so that his conversation was always bright and strong."
     No surprise, then, when the popular bachelor drew on this gift of gab to entertain fellow revolutionaries by mocking their hated monarch back  in England, George III. 
     The king, already considered by many subjects to be more than several strawberry leaves short of a coronet, was further mocked by Rodney in a brutal monologue parodying the king's speeches to Parliament and his royal communications to the colonies regarding their grievances. The inane ramblings of the regent were only rendered more grotesque by Rodney's delivery of a tsunami of non sequiturs and verbal scraps -- a medley of minced nouns, diced verbs, chopped adjectives and julienned prepositional phrases.    
     Rodney's mimicry of George's ravings soon became known as "Caesar's Salad," and his recitation of this comic routine was often requested during recesses from talks of treason during the hot summer of '76. 
     Rumors that, in fact, the term "Caesar's Salad" was actually a reference to Rodney's disfigured countenance and to the green scarf he habitually wore to disguise this embarrassing feature suffered as a result of a severe facial cancer remain unverified.  

Monday, September 2, 2024

The Managram In The Moon: Mini-Meter #15 Georges Remi

GEORGESREMI
EGGRISEMORE

While Moonrise 
Tintin does explore,
Georges loves the lyric
'Eggrise' more.

"Destination Moon"
1950-1952

Georges Remi, cartooning 
as Herge, has alter "eggo" 
Tintin, in the comic strip 
"Destination Moon," visit 
earth's satellite via rocket 
ship in fiction years before 
folks did so in fact.

The 12 'Chair-'s; Or, 'Sit' Happens: A Chairy Jubilee

       Anyone for chairades...?      Chairless, three Chairokees charily  squat on their mounds. each Aniyunwyan breathes deep  as the pipe ...