The night was growing old
As she trudged through snow and sleet;
And her nose was long and cold,
And her shoes were full of feet.
— Anonymous
The night was growing old
As she trudged through snow and sleet;
And her nose was long and cold,
And her shoes were full of feet.
— Anonymous
U.S. state dinosaurs:
omphaloskepsis
n. navel-gazing
Dangerous tongue twisters:
I am not the pheasant plucker,
I’m the pheasant plucker’s mate.
I am only plucking pheasants
Because the pheasant plucker’s late.
I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit;
and on the slitted sheet I sit.
I’m not the fig plucker,
Nor the fig pluckers’ son,
But I’ll pluck figs
Till the fig plucker comes.
Anagrams:
And SNOOZE ALARMS = ALAS! NO MORE Z’S.
“College isn’t the place to go for ideas.” — Helen Keller
From Edward Lear’s “Nonsense Botany” (1871):
Bottlephorkia Spoonifolia.
Manypeeplia Upsidownia.
Phattfacia Stupenda.
Piggiwiggia Pyramidalis.
Evangelista also said, “I can do anything you want me to do so long as I don’t have to speak.”
growlery
n. a retreat for times of ill humor
First Decadent: “After all, Smythe, what would life be without coffee?”
Second Decadent: “True, Jeohnes, true! And yet, after all, what is life with coffee?”
— Punch, Oct. 15, 1892