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Friday, July 16, 2021

666 And All That

     Pioneered by Uncle Dan, the list slouches on
under the auspices of Uly Poe, who insists that
the be(a)st is yet to come.

Zero to 666 mph* in 6.66 seconds:
the UAR (Ungodliness Acceleration Rate)
of the Beast.
     * 1743 minus 666 km/h
 
"Six-sixty-six skidoo!":
the BeelzeBum's Rush
of the Beast.

666 miles per gallon:
the Fuel Economy Rating on the Road to Hell
of the Beast.
 
Skik-shik-shiksa:
the Goy Goyl 
of the Beast.
 
66.6% abv:
the Brewmeister Beerelzebub's Beer Boast
of the Beast.
 
N+666:
the Oulipoetical Transliteration Technique 
Whereby Each Noun in the Biblical Book 
of the Apocalypse Is Replaced with the 
666th Noun Following It in Webster's New 
International Dictionary (666th Edition)
of the Beast
 
"666 bottles of beer on the wall, 666 
bottles of beer...":
the "Binge-Till-Yer-BeelzeBlotto" 
Satanic Stein Song
of the Beast 
 
"Sykes Sics Sheiks":
the “Stix Nix Hix Pix”-Type Tabloid Headline 
Featuring Story Concerning a Rabid Wanda 
Sinking Bared Canines into Deserving 
Members of the Saudi Royal Family
of the Beast
 
The 0.666%*:
the Percentage of U.S. population 
claiming membership in “Billionaires 
For The Beast”
of the Beast 
     * They control 66.6% of US wealth.  
 
"Sixty-six days hath September":
the Calendrical Mnemonic
of the Beast.*
      * "Sixty-six days hath September. 
         Six times six: March through November.
         Jan and Feb…? One less than seven.
         Dec…? Six plus five. (Eleven)
         Leap year starts from scratch, by heaven: 
         then, Sept's days run sixty-seven!" 
 
Snick-snick-snickers:
the Brimstone-Coated BeelzeBar
of the Beast
 
"Six hundred sixty-six men on a sick man's chest..." 
the Prince of Darkness Pirate Sea Shanty
of the Beast
 
Fahrenheit 666:
the Combustion Temperature of Brimstone
of the Beast.
 
"Leaflets six-six-six: touch 'em not with 
ten-foot sticks!":
the Cautionary Mnemonic Identifying 
Devilishly Toxic Ivies
of the Beast.
 
"Sucks! Sucks! Sucks!":
every Sean Hannity Broadcast
of the Beast
 
666 Dalmatians:
the Diabolical Disney Derivative Devil-Dog Dramedy
of the Beast.
 
Spooks! Spooks! Spooks!:
the Ghostbusters Cinematic Homage
of the Beast. 
 
"Spicks! Spicks! Spicks!":
the Illegal Immigrant Insult Voiced by Drumpf
of the Beast.
 
"...ten...nine...eight...seven...six...six...six...":
the Aborted NASA Shuttle-Launch Liftoff 
Countdown Sequence
of the Beast.
 
"Shake! Shake! Shake!":
the Jerry Lee Lewcifer Look-Alike Contest Lyric
of the Beast.
 
"The 666 Horsemen of the Apocalypse":
the Military-Industrial Complex
of the Beast.

"Sing a song of 66 pence, pockets full of rye;
6 and 60 blackbirds baked (still breathing!) 
in a pie...":
the Rhyming Recitation Recipe for Satan's 
Souffle Surprise
of the Beast.

696:
the Menage a Trois Diabolical Deprav-o-glyph
of the Beast.

Thursday, July 15, 2021

AZ, BY, CX Etcetera

      AZ
 
"Absolute zero's one
get-go,* albeit a
bleak,"  
     specs A-
lexis,** who's married with
children and swears, "Yeah: I’m
Greek.”
   
     * Possibly the so-called 
Great Get-Go, often confused 
with the Big Bang.
     ** Zorba.
 
     BY
 
     "Be your-
self! (HO* whom else would you
be…?" asks (rhetoric'lly)
Boris.** 
     "To be
anyone else might cause
Mother*** some serious
tsoris."
 
     * Russian Cyrillics for 'but' and
pronounced (roughly) 'noh.'
     * Yeltsin    
     *** Mother Russia.
 
      CX
 
     "Con-
temn xenophobes! Contemn,"
Rhumba King Cugat* re-
peats.  
     (Just as
he would be treated, each
stranger this vir bonus**
treats.)
  
     * Xavier (a reverso: cf XC below.)
     ** What the good man does is 
always right – or so (someplace) 
suggest the Brothers Grimm.
 
     DW
 
     Dwith-
out! Pledge thy pounds to the
poor," warbles Dionne* (sweet
song bird),  
     tho’ 'tis
Bacharach (Burt) who will 
soon teach her right word from
wrong word.
 
     * Warwick
 
     EV  
 
     "’Every 
valley exalted shall
be; every rough place made
plain’:   
     I shall
dance thee that text," Edward*
vows, "in a Balanchine
vein."
 
     * Villella
 
     FU  
 
     "I’m fed
up! UFOs, UR-
Ls, UXBs..." fumes our
Felix.*
     "In the
end, all they yield is some
abecedarial 
helix."
 
     * Unger
 
     GT 
 
     "Gin and
tonic plus juice of one 
lime: pour the lot over 
ice..." 
      prescribes 
Gene.* "Good advice," echoes
Gene.** "One innocuous
vice!"
 
     * Tierney   
     ** Tunney 
 
     HS
 
     Hunting
snarks is a task for which
Harry is thoroughly
fit.
     “Harry
who…?” you may ask. “Harry
Shearer,” says I. (Holy
shit!)
 
     IR
 
     "I
Robot, rest my
case," in tones Rum-
polean...
     roars I-
rene.* "I'd rap it,
were I Rock 'n' 
Rollean."
 
     * Ryan
 
     JQ
 
     "John
Quincey ain't the 
seventh Chief Ex-
ec," corrects Jo-
se*...
     "He's
sixth, post James Mon-
roe…but what the
heck! (More: what the
hey!!)
 
     * Quintero 
 
     KP  
 
"Key personnel…? Kevin…?
Paul…? Rajon…? Ray…?" Kendrick*
wonders.
     Then Perk's
traded, which trade shall yet
prove one of Beantown’s worst 
blunders.
 
     * Perkins
 
     LO
 
     Leigh/O-
livier, Lunt/Fontaine.
Which duo's dropp’d from the
list... 
     of great 
thespian pairs…? Jolie/ 
Pitt…? LOL! (Won't be 
miss’d.)
 
     MN
 
     "Mach'a-
vellian, not to say
cynical: 'twas just her 
way..." 
     muses
Mike,* as he pegs one-time
partner, the late Elaine 
May.
 
     * Nichols
 
     NM 
 
     "Not
much!" mutters Norman,* when
asked if he liked married 
life. 
      "Good when
naked, but less good when 
dead: much depends on the
wife."
 
     * Mailer
 
     OL  
 
     Ozy-
mandias: "Look on my
burg, Mr. Big, and des-
pair!"…?
     Nope! Or-
lando*: "Give ear to my
music...or not: I don't
care."
 
     * Lasso
 
     PK
 
Pre-kindergarteners…?
Percy Kilbride…? Phyllis
Kirk…?
     Seems, at
best, and anachronist’s
nightmare. (At worst, it’s
berserk.)
 
     QJ
 
     “Quince
jam…? Nope: quince jam session:
five each of trumpets, trom-
bones,
     pairs of
altos and tenors, one
bari,” suggests Quincy
Jones.
 
     RI
 
     “I
did it for LOVE, in a
pop-arty, hard-edgy
style, and
    I would
do it again – if less
well were I Robert Rhode
Island.*”
 
     * I.e., not Robert Indiana
 
     SH
     “Sal He-
patica: that’s what I
need,” Stephen Hawking re-
marks.
     “Sarah
Huckabee boosts it for
hunting of quarks – those, or
snarks.”
 
     TG
 
     “Thank
God!” cries The Grinch. “I’m re-
lieved there’s to be no re-
prisal.”
     “’Thank’ a-
gain, creature mine. If you
play, you must pay,” warns Ted
Geisel.
 
     UF
 
    “Two
thirds of a UFO…?
Better than none,” observes
Ugo.*
    “If one
rides offers, I’ll take a
rain check. I know: why don’t
you go.”

    * Foscolo
 
     VE, WD
 
     William
Demarest, Victor Em-
Manuel (not in that
order),
     having
given their goods to the
poor, promptly head for the
border.
 
     XC
    
     De
Jesus Ximenes, born
Claudio, judge in East
Timor,
     is a-
shamed of his parents:
he’d hoped that his ol' dad could
be more.
 
     YB
 
     Yul
Brynner is not Yogi
Bear. Of that fact I am
sure.
     To in-
sist Yul is not Yogi
Berra…? A bit prema-
ture.
 
     ZA
 
     Deni
Avdija, NBA
forward and scion of
Zufer,
     allows
sports fans who follow such
stuff to observe, “Look: a
twofer!”

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