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A wonderful bird is a pelican,
His bill will hold more than his belican.
He can take in his beak
Food enough for a week;
But I'm damned if I see how the helican.

— Ogden Nash Misattributed The Pelican (1910)

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A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

Candy
Is Dandy
But liquor
Is quicker.

Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

We love the kindly wind and hail,
The jolly thunderbolt,
We watch in glee the fairy trail
Of ampere, watt, and volt.

Many Long Years Ago (1945)

Man is a victim of dope
In the incurable form of hope.

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