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 have Ogden’s words to cover it…we do! Amongst other things, today was the day I had a tube removed from my esophagus and I’ve spent most of the evening eating and recovering, so this will be short. But this post is an Open Thread, so please feel free to discuss and to post your favorite illustrated pomes in the Comments also too!
Today is National Play Monopoly Day
I used to love this game when I was a kid! I loved being the banker in charge of all that Monopoly money. How times change!
Before you read the below, you may have fun closing your eyes for a moment, trying to figure out what Nash could rhyme with “monopoly”.
polterguest, my polsterguest
I’ve put Miss Hopper upon the train,
And I hope to do so never again,
For must I do so, I shouldn’t wonder
If, instead of upon it, I put her under.
Never has a host encountered a visitor
Less desirable, less exquisiter,
Or experienced such a tangy zest
In beholding the back of a parting guest.
Hoitful-toitful Hecate Hopper
Haunted our house and haunted it proper,
Hecate Hopper left the property
Irredeemably Hecate Hopperty.
The morning paper was her monopoly
She read it first, and Hecate Hopperly,
Handing on to the old subscriber
A wad of Dorothy Dix and fiber.
Shall we coin a phrase for “to un-cooperate”?
How about trying “to Hecate Hopperate”?
On the maid’s day off she found it fun
To breakfast in bed at quarter to one.
Not only was Hecate on a diet,
She insisted that all the family try it,
And all one weekend we gobbled like pigs
On rutabagas and salted figs.
She clogged the pipes and she blew the fuses,
She broke the rocker that Grandma uses,
And she ran amok in the medicine chest,
Hecate Hopper, the Polterguest.
Hecate Hopper, the Polterguest
Left stuff to be posted or expressed,
And absconded, her suavity undiminished,
With a mystery story I hadn’t finished.
If I pushed Miss Hopper under the train
I’d probably have to do it again,
For the time that I pushed her off the boat
I regretfully found Miss Hopper could float.
[Please note, this is not a recommendation that you throw your annoying guests under the train or off the boat — I strongly suspect that your life would then become even more annoying!]
Today is also National Carbonated Beverage with Caffeine Day
You’re on your own for that one (I strongly believe that the only good caffeine is tea or coffee — nothing with carbonation!).
Please to remember that Pootie Diaries post twice a day!
The regular Pootie Diaries post daily at 1:45 pm Eastern (on Sundays at 3 pm Eastern)
and the evening Open Thread Pootie Diaries post at 10 pm Eastern
Please to show ‘em both some lubs!
In Loving Memory of Swampyankee:
And almost finally, please note da roolz:
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For those who missed our Earth Day special, Climate Change helpful hints from the aminals are here!
Finally, if you are missing previous Illustrated poetery, pleez feel free to visit! If you haven’t read them, they’re still amewsing!:
The Serious Poetry of Ogden Nash, Illustrated!
More Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Still More Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Even More Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Still Even More Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Yet Still Even More Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
And Yet Still Even More Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Continuing Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Still Continuing Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Still More Continuing Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
The Resumption of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
More Resumption of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Another Resumption of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Still More Resumption of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
A Bit of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Another Bit of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
More Bits of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
The Return of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
More Returns of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Quick Returns of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Aminal Election Endorsements + Ogden Nash Poetry (Illustrated)! — Note this one has an update!
More Quick Returns of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Even More Quick Returns of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Still More Quick Returns of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Even Still More Quick Returns of Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Serious Ogden Nash Poetry for the New Year, Illustrated!
Serious Ogden Nash Doggerel, Illustrated!
Ogden Nash and Martin Luther King! Srsly. Illustrated!
Guess What Day It Is? Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Post Superb Owl Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Guess What Day It Is? Chapter 2 - Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated, for Presidents' Day!
Seriously Grammatical Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Serious Ogden Nash Poetry Illustrated, for a Belated Saint Patrick's Day!
Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated, for April Fools!
Serious Ogden Nash Poetry on the WPA Anniversary, Illustrated!
Seriously Sleepy Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Double Party Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Illustrated!
Serious Ogden Nash Poetry for the B's, Illustrated!
Serious Ogden Nash Poetry, Semi-Political!
Serious Ogden Nash Poetry for Today's Holidays, Illustrated!
Serious Poetry for July 9, Illustrated!
Serious Ogden Nash Poetry for July 16, Illustrated!
Serious Ogden Nash Poetry for July 23, Illustrated!
Serious Ogden Nash Poetry for August 6, Illustrated!
Serious Ogden Nash (and other) Poetry for August 13, Illustrated!
Serious Ogden Nash Poetry for August 20, Illustrated!
Serious Ogden Nash (and other) Poetry for August 27, Illustrated!
Serious Almost Ogden Nash Poetry for September 3, Illustrated!
Serious Ogden Nash Poetry for September 10, Illustrated!
Srs Ogden Nash (and Other) Poetry for September 24, Illustrated!
Srs Ogden Nash (and Other) Poetry for October 1, Illustrated!
Srs Not-Ogden Nash Poetry for October 8, Illustrated!
Srs Faux Ogden Nash Poetry for October 15, Illustrated!
Srs Ogden Nash (and Other) Poetry for October 22, Illustrated!
Srs Ogden Nash (and Cat) Quotations for October 29, Illustrated!
Srs Ogden Nash (and Other) Poetry for November 5, Illustrated!
Srs Ogden Nash (and Other) Poetry for November 12, Illustrated!
This is an open thread! Please chat away in the Comments. Enjoy!
PLEASE NOTE: Your humble diarist is NR, so consider yourselves +1!