Monthly Archives: May 2018

Didactic Doggerel

Posted on May 17, 2018 by JMN

A Truly Jumbo Shrimp It’s said a jumbo shrimp’s an oxymoron. A shrimp’s a little thing you put red sauce on And gobble by the dozen boiled or fried. Some of us could eat more if we tried. Enter the … Continue reading →

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Written in the 70s

Posted on May 17, 2018 by JMN

had declared himself in pursuit of substantives. His gastrointestinal tract had lately begun to feel large and accommodating. (commodious, capacious). Thank the stars and the Creator of the stars. The spasms of sweet cream she had manfully swallowed; all the … Continue reading →

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Angry Words

Posted on May 17, 2018 by JMN

Quasi-Scatological Invective Chrestomathy Index Headwords — Skullduggery — Tomfoolery — Shutterbuggery — Heilraising — Pettifogging — Bunkerhunkering — Duckrupturing (Copyright 2018 James Mansfield Nichols. All rights reserved.)

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Happy Words

Posted on May 17, 2018 by JMN

Saucy insouciance, sufficient nonchalance… “I’m kind of sorry that I cause so much grief.” (John Ashbery) To sup with the Devil you need a long spoon. (Traditional?) Why not just paint a mustache on everything? (Response to Mount Rushmore) (Copyright … Continue reading →

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This Is Stag Country

Posted on May 17, 2018 by JMN

Bee Kay Gooch had Kassidee, Krissee and Kooger quick and early. Kooger’s the baby. Bee Kay and Jason married Labor Day and Kooger came Christmas. Spyder Blunt, her stepdad, had a restraining order on Jason that year, but kid’s find … Continue reading →

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Social Math — UK

Posted on May 16, 2018 by JMN

Every June, The Thane of Thoth, a tavern, helps celebrate Chichesterton’s famous Regatta-on-the-Hogg by dropping the price of its brews by 12.5% for the third of a fortnight that couches the merriment. Question: Speculate as shrewdly as your humble station … Continue reading →

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Becky Hammon

Posted on May 16, 2018 by JMN

“My job is to be the best that I can be, and if that changes your mind, then great. But I can’t be consumed with how you feel about me.” (Becky Hammon, 5′-6″-tall basketball champion and contender for top coach … Continue reading →

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Humility

Posted on May 16, 2018 by JMN

Even a cursory look at following blogs uncovers so much good image-making and wordsmithing it humbles one. I ply in contrast what seems but a plodding literal depictiveness, a pyrrhic victory of method over invention, craft over creativity, sarcasm over … Continue reading →

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“Horseman”

Posted on May 16, 2018 by JMN

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Supplication

Posted on May 16, 2018 by JMN

O Master, Boss, Unique and only Sir, We beg that Thine Almightiness (or His) Flex His (or Thine) unending mercy to the uttermost In righteous overlooking of our pitiable insufficiency, Created though we be by Thee, O peerless Engineer. Moreover … Continue reading →

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