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Friday, July 10, 2009

Humorist

HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.
Lo! the poor humorist, whose tortured mind
See jokes in crowds, though still to gloom inclined —
Whose simple appetite, untaught to stray,
His brains, renewed by night, consumes by day.
He thinks, admitted to an equal sty,
A graceful hog would bear his company.
—Alexander Poke
2009 Update: An entertainer who laughs on the platform and dances beneath the scaffold, hanging on his own every word.

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12 Comments:

Blogger Nessa said...

Humorist: A modern day court jester.

6:23 AM  
Blogger TLP said...

Humorist: More fun than a pessimist.

7:10 AM  
Blogger skywind said...

Humorist: Let the people joyful facing each day.
Health information & Humor & Fun World

8:26 AM  
Anonymous quilly said...

I see you wrote HIS and not HER, but this somehow still gives the impression you are talking about me. Why is that?

11:14 AM  
Anonymous karen said...

Horse thieves and cattle rustlers hanged for lesser crimes than those committed by graceful hogs.

11:20 AM  
Anonymous cooper said...

That was a good definition Doug. I'll take it.

2:27 PM  
Blogger Tom & Icy said...

The humorist married a comic and their child turned out to be a satirist.

3:26 PM  
Blogger Ariel the Thief said...

Humorist, joke salesman.

9:59 PM  
Blogger Doug said...

Lacking only a court, Nessa.

TLP, that's true, I'm afraid.

Skywind, and let them all have health information.

Quilly, "Narcissist" sounds as similar as it is.

Karen, hogs cure better.

For your act, Coop?

I can guess which side was horselike, Tom.

Ariel, for you, half-off.

6:12 AM  
Anonymous Alexander Pope said...

Your wit is true, Bierce.
Yr. humble servant.

5:29 PM  
Anonymous karen said...

I'm afraid it's now decided at Poke v. Pope, Weirsdo.

What say you?

7:24 PM  
Blogger Doug said...

Weirsdo, Amrbose Pierce will need a quoting, won't he?

Karen, you didn't ask me, but I'll go for Poke, who has the advantage of being fictional.

6:51 AM  

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