J is for Just So.

May 30, 2009 22:56

Couldn't remember this earlier, but I needed to, what with the large plush stuffed Pelican watching me eat my dinner....

A wonderful bird is the pelican,
His bill can hold more than his bellican,
He can take in his beak,
Enough food for a week,
But I’m damned if I see how the helican

-- Dixon Lanier Merritt, 1910.

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chilefudge June 2 2009, 14:12:47 UTC
The other night, I was trying to remember who wrote "No, Not Much". Turns out, I hadn't known in the first place, which was somehow comforting.

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