Welp, it is Toosdai and so it is the day for some srs mischiefery with a mashery of Ogden Nashery (illustrated)! Let’s see what today is and if we otherwise have Ogden’s words to cover it… it is a heavy food day, so of course we do! There’s even an entire Ogden Nash book on the topic. But there are specifics he doesn’t cover, so we’ll also introduce other whimsical poets! This post is an Open Thread, so please feel free to discuss and to post your favorite illustrated pomes in the Comments!
I think I used part of this pome before, so I will use another part tonight:
The Clean plater
by Ogden Nash
Some singers sing of ladies' eyes,
And some of ladies lips,
Refined ones praise their ladylike ways,
And course ones hymn their hips.
The Oxford Book of English Verse
Is lush with lyrics tender;
A poet, I guess, is more or less
Preoccupied with gender.
Yet I, though custom call me crude,
Prefer to sing in praise of food.
Food,
Yes, food,
Just any old kind of food.
Pheasant is pleasant, of course,
And terrapin, too, is tasty,
Lobster I freely endorse,
In pate or patty or pasty.
But there's nothing the matter with butter,
And nothing the matter with jam,
And the warmest greetings I utter
To the ham and the yam and the clam.
For they're food,
All food,
And I think very fondly of food.
Through I'm broody at times
When bothered by rhymes,
I brood
On food.
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More specifically, today’s holidays include:
Today is National Chicken Soup for the Soul Day
“National Chicken Soup for the Soul Day celebrates who you are and how you got there.”
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It’s almost worth signing up for their email — “Get chickens in your in-bawks!”
How about a fun video song (it rhymes!) for this one? (It’s Jewish chicken soup, but we can all relate!)