When Writing, Please Avoid These Failed Palindromes
(*) Slow speed: deep owls
(*) Drat That Tard
(*) Two Owls Hoot Who Owls Hoot Too (Owt)
(*) Sour Candy and Dan C. Roused
(*) Desire still lisps: Arise! D.
(*) A man, a plan, a kind of man-made river, planned
(*) Hobos! So!
(*) Eh, S'occurs to Me to Succor She
(*) Tow a What? Thaw!
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Were You Aware Of It?
This is the first of several examples from my newspaper column of the same name that ran every Sunday, right under Prince Valiant in the New York Times for twenty eight years. The original columns contained wonderful illustrations by Charles "Sparky" Schulz, who you may recall as the creator of Snoopy & Dilbert. But as I do not control the rights to Sparky's spot drawings (and most of the time they were just pictures of men with extremely long fingernails anyway and had nothing to do with the subject at hand, I do not include them here.
Tennyson wrote, "It is the height of luxury to sin in a hot bath and read about little birds."
I'm sure you are glad to know Tennyson's bathing habit, but were you aware that...
-- Robert Frost bathed by rolling around in the Vermont dust once a year?
-- Wallace Stevens showered in beer?
-- Homer allowed others to bathe him, but because he was blind, he could not tell that they were just pretending to bathe him?
-- Emily Dickinson collected small soaps?
-- Guillaume Apollinaire shaved himself with a photograph of a razor that had been fitted with a razor's edge?
Were You Aware Of It!?!
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Excerpts from:
The Areas Of My Expertise by John Hodgman
Published by E.P. Dutton (2005)
Pages 48 & 49
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Editor's Note: Alfred Lord Tennyson (& John Hodgman) actually wrote "sit" though "sin" seemed a humorous typo. -- Allan Smithee
(*) Slow speed: deep owls
(*) Drat That Tard
(*) Two Owls Hoot Who Owls Hoot Too (Owt)
(*) Sour Candy and Dan C. Roused
(*) Desire still lisps: Arise! D.
(*) A man, a plan, a kind of man-made river, planned
(*) Hobos! So!
(*) Eh, S'occurs to Me to Succor She
(*) Tow a What? Thaw!
.................................................................................................................................................
Were You Aware Of It?
This is the first of several examples from my newspaper column of the same name that ran every Sunday, right under Prince Valiant in the New York Times for twenty eight years. The original columns contained wonderful illustrations by Charles "Sparky" Schulz, who you may recall as the creator of Snoopy & Dilbert. But as I do not control the rights to Sparky's spot drawings (and most of the time they were just pictures of men with extremely long fingernails anyway and had nothing to do with the subject at hand, I do not include them here.
Tennyson wrote, "It is the height of luxury to sin in a hot bath and read about little birds."
I'm sure you are glad to know Tennyson's bathing habit, but were you aware that...
-- Robert Frost bathed by rolling around in the Vermont dust once a year?
-- Wallace Stevens showered in beer?
-- Homer allowed others to bathe him, but because he was blind, he could not tell that they were just pretending to bathe him?
-- Emily Dickinson collected small soaps?
-- Guillaume Apollinaire shaved himself with a photograph of a razor that had been fitted with a razor's edge?
Were You Aware Of It!?!
............................................................................
Excerpts from:
The Areas Of My Expertise by John Hodgman
Published by E.P. Dutton (2005)
Pages 48 & 49
............................................................................
Editor's Note: Alfred Lord Tennyson (& John Hodgman) actually wrote "sit" though "sin" seemed a humorous typo. -- Allan Smithee