Friday fun with Ogden Nash

Someone at Reuters is having too much fun:

China threatens drama
if Obama
meets the Dalai Lama

Followed by

Obama
meets the Dalai Lama
despite China drama

I am reminded of the immortal words of Ogden Nash:

The one-L lama, he’s a priest
The two-L llama, he’s a beast
And I would bet a silk pajama
There isn’t any three-L lllama

To which my Bostonian friend Marty responds “that big fire was a right three-alahmah”.

9 thoughts on “Friday fun with Ogden Nash”

A friends of mine with small children, in response to tantrums and other fits of pique, will give them a withering stare and ask with all the sarcasm she can muster (which is quite a bit, actually) “Are we being attacked by the drama llamas again?”

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It’s good of your head of state to show slightly more balls on this issue than our head of state.

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Eric Lippert on March 5, 2014 at 11:03 am said:

To be clear, my head of state is HRH Queen Elizabeth II. I just live in the USA.

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Well, when it comes to word plays, try to beat that title: http://dev.video.ntnews.com.au/article/2012/04/11/298481_ntnews.html
(I’m not going to spell it out myself 🙂 )

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Anarchymedes on February 23, 2014 at 11:00 pm said:

Actually, it may not work with some North American accents: obviously, the newspaper is Australian

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- Lee on February 24, 2014 at 6:41 pm said:
  
  Works just fine for me — but I’m an invertebrate punster. (So slug me.)
  
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  - Kyle Szklenski on February 25, 2014 at 11:10 am said:
    
    Mollusk you one more time: what’s with all the puns!?
    
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