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Croakers

When I was a boy, Tom Swifties were quite a thing—bits of word play making fun of the writing style from the 1920’s & ’30’s Tom Swift series of science fiction adventure books for juveniles. The author of that series peppered the books with adverbs to the…

Memento mori

An anagram on my name, Curtis Noel Hurley: HELL CUTS YOUR REIN. Not a bad axiom to keep in mind when reflecting upon the brevity of life. More anagrams: CHLOE’S UNRULY TIRE. It's about to fall off. UNRULY CLOTHES IRE. That feeling you get when your socks bunch around your…

Admiration for vivid description

In one of his humorous pieces for The Pennsylvania Gazette , Benjamin Franklin quoted what was then a common saying: “as nimble as a bee in a tar barrel” — meaning not nimble at all. The saying has long since fallen into disuse. In my teens I…

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