Basket

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A top-hatted gentleman, happy and risible
Sat in a hot-air balloon, not a dirigible,
Singing a-tisket, a-tasket,
He jumped from the basket,
And fell into Hurricane Isabel.

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Quote of the day: "In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it." Emile Zola
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Tool

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Have you noticed the Google searching tool?
For Bill Gates it's an unreachable jewel,
It's like a coagulant,
Or a scorched-earth contaminant,
It makes him feel so un-cool.

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Quote of the day: "Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old." Franz Kafka
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Obtuse

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There once was a goose who liked juice,
That silly caboose of a goose,
No one could train him
T'was no good to brain him,
For the goose was too bloody obtuse.

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Quote of the day: "Never discourage anyone who continually
 makes progress, no matter how slow."  Plato
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Mule

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A salty, cantakerous mule,
Who challenged a  horse to a duel,
Unholstered his Colt,
Pulled back the bolt,
And shot him where he stood, so cruel.

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Quote of the day: "Atheism is a non-prophet organization." George Carlin
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Dome

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A man tried to write a palindrome,
Scratched his chin  and then his dome,
He tried out ziggurat,
Just couldn't figger it,
So he quit and took up the saxophone.
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Quote of the day:
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't." Erica Jong
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Mercer

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A Savannah songwriter, Johnny Mercer,
Like Frank Loesser, was a blesser, not a curser,
He wrote Midnight Sun,
And Moon River was fun,
As he made every sentence terser.

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Quote of the day: "First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak." Epictetus
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Putter

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A golfer was heard to mutter,
Invective about his putter,
He'd reset his ball,
Not where it would fall,
And suffered a tut-tut-tutter.
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Quote of the day: "Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities." Frank Lloyd Wright
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Shock

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Said Louie, I'm shocked, shocked.
To see gambling. This place is locked.
Said Ilsa to Rick,
Go hit him with a stick,
Said Rick, let's wait till the plane has docked.

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Quote of the day: "If you pray for rain, be prepared to deal with some mud." Mary Englebreit
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Spumoni

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They drink plum wine in Bologna,
They make stradivarii in Cremona,
But it's hot in Southern Cal,
For musicians from Ital,
So they eat green spumoni in Pomona.
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Quote of the day: "A mind too active is no mind at all."  Theodore Roethke
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Fiction

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Hortense, a writer of fiction
Was known for impeccable diction,
Her secretary,
was artsy Mary,
Who helped with sublime interdiction.

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Quote of the day: "In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first." George Carlin
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Vacuum

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He used to hang out in the back room,
Where he often would sweep with a tack broom,
On one of his heydays,
He spilled all the Pay Days,
But sucked them right up with the vacuum.

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