Showing posts with label Lammas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lammas. Show all posts

Sunday, August 1, 2021

Llamas for Lammas

Quoting Chariots of Fire from memory, and apologizing in advance for any inaccuracies, "I believe that God created me for a purpose -- but he also made me fast, and when I pun I feel his pleasure."

For Lammas, then, this classic from the poet Nash:

The one-l lama,
He’s a priest.
The two-l llama,
He’s a beast.
And I will bet
A silk pajama
There isn’t any
Three-l lllama.*

*The author's attention has been called to a type of conflagration known as a three-alarmer. Pooh.

Funny how he overlooked two-m Lammas. Well, even Ogden nods. For me, Lammas will forever be associated with Old Boggy, "Lady of Spain," and blackface minstrels.

Ace of Hearts

On the A page of Animalia , an Ace of Hearts is near a picture of a running man whom I interpreted as a reference to Arnold Schwarzenegger....