Twaddle had a hovel,
Twiddle had a palace;
Twaddle said: "I'll grovel
Or he'll think I bear him malice" —
A sentiment as novel
As a castor on a chalice.
Down upon the middle
Of his legs fell Twaddle
And astonished Mr. Twiddle,
Who began to lift his noddle.
Feed upon the fiddle-
Faddle flummery, unswaddle
A new-born self-sufficiency and think himself a [mockery.]—G.J.
2008 Update: The childhood home of a captain of industry, the current home of his or her spouse and the future home of his or her children.
Rabbit, rabbit
Rabbit, Rabbit! FIRST!
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ReplyDeleteHovel: Have you seen pictures of my birthplace? It is now home to vagrants and racoons.
http://bp3.blogger.com/_aOZEGRAw2Q8/R126Fzm9chI/AAAAAAAAA-M/XKxQegdlEhA/s800-h/100_8700.JPG
and on these blog postings:
http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/search/label/Jim%27s%20old%20home%20place
Hovel: We came home to our present hovel from 'shore leave' (liberty) early because of Gustav.
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Rabbit Rabbit!
ReplyDeleteHovel: a place in which you live if you make less than 5 million a year.
Back from checking out Jim's links. Definitely worth seeing.
ReplyDeleteHOVEL, n. The beautiful, bountiful home of tomorrow, accessible only by hovelcraft.
ReplyDeleteSay what?
Oh well. Rabbit, rabbit, y'all. (I had to bring that post back. I just had to!
HOVEL n.
ReplyDeleteBeach houses on Oahu -- most made of cardboard, twine and plastic sheeting -- little grass shacks being too expensive for the average hourly wage earner. Rabbit, rabbit lest that be me.
well, fiddle faddle rabbit rabbit.
ReplyDeleterabbit rabbit, doggit.
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ReplyDeleteRabbit, Rabbit!!!!
ReplyDeleteGood luck in September is now assured.
Hovel: the humble abode of crones
Palace: the non-humble abode of spruced-up crones
:-)
Something the Eskimos build with the help of a shovel.
ReplyDeleterabbit ....hell, it's too late.
Bulldozable blot waiting for replacement by mcmansion. Harbinger of progress.
ReplyDeleteI looked up the etymology of hovel and it seems to come from 15th century Middle English.
ReplyDeleteIf you're going to live in a hovel, you might at least have a nobel etymology.
Rabbit, rabbit sisters. Actonbell, this blog is as close to random as the human mind will allow these days.
ReplyDeleteJim, those were terrific photos of a nice old farmhouse. Makes me wish I were a raccoon.
TLP, those poor people!
I like "hovelcraft," Amoeba. No one does global warming humor like you do.
RR, JJ
Rabbit, rabbit, Quilly. Here in Santa Clarita we piggies can still afford houses made of sticks.
Rabbitses, Ice.
Rbbít Räbbit, Ariel.
Excellent definitions, Jamie Dawn. Good luck, Madame.
Ha, Cooper. A shovel hovel.
A beaver mansion, Weirsdo?
Indy, that, if anything, is what this blog is about.
T, D.
ReplyDeleteLOL TLP.
ReplyDeleteA hovel - I've seen some - I lack the wit to make jokes about it but a whole lot of folks have to live in one. Some are cardboard, or even metal or wood; after coming back home from visiting Albania I was appalled at my own opulent housing as compared to theirs.
oh - and tibbar tibbar. I'm late.
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