It is Moondai, and so it is time for our regularly scheduled mischiefery with a mashery of Ogden Nashery (illustrated)! We found that he wrote a pome about April 1, but good luck finding a legible copy! Srsly, New Yorker? Is this their idea of an April Fool’s joke? Anyway, this post is an Open Thread, so please feel free to discuss any topics of your choice in the Comments, and add more pomes if you like, also too!
Looks promising!
Or maybe not so much. Does anyone read blur?
This looks like a pretty foolish pootie!
So today is also my birthday. So instead of long poems, we’ll do quick quotes from good old Ogden on the subject of age!
Middle Age
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night
and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
Tell him I’m not home!
My Mind
Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
Life seems upside down lately!
My Life
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance,
Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
I’d rather lie around on the beach!
The News
I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era
when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
If only they’d all llead with llama stories!
(No, that has nothing to do with birthdays or age, but I figure it’s relevant to everyone here!)
For some really excellent April Fool’s ads, please see www.dailykos.com/… ! I LOL’d!
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and the evening Open Thread Pootie Diaries post at 10pm Eastern
Please to show ‘em both some lubs!
In Loving Memory of Swampyankee:
Twice the kitteh bellehs!
And almost finally, please note da roolz:
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Tricia, we’ll always miss ya!
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Finally, for those who might like to see our previous Illustrated Ogden Nash collections, they are here!:
The Serious Poetry of Ogden Nash, Illustrated!
More Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Still More Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Even More Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Still Even More Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Yet Still Even More Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
And Yet Still Even More Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Continuing Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Still Continuing Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Still More Continuing Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
The Resumption of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
More Resumption of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Another Resumption of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Still More Resumption of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
A Bit of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Another Bit of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
More Bits of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
The Return of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
More Returns of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Quick Returns of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Aminal Election Endorsements + Ogden Nash Poetry (Illustrated)! — Note this one has an update!
More Quick Returns of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Even More Quick Returns of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Still More Quick Returns of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Even Still More Quick Returns of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Serious Ogden Nash Poetry for the New Year, Illustrated!
Serious Ogden Nash Doggerel, Illustrated!
Ogden Nash and Martin Luther King! Srsly. Illustrated!
Guess What Day It Is? Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Post Superb Owl Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Guess What Day It Is? Chapter 2 - Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated, for Presidents' Day!
Seriously Grammatical Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Serious Ogden Nash Poetry Illustrated, for a Belated Saint Patrick's Day!
This is an open thread! Please chat away in the Comments. Enjoy!
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