The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #5340   Message #30604
Posted By: judy
12-Jun-98 - 12:53 PM
Thread Name: poem calling out for a tune
Subject: RE: poem calling out for a tune
Sorry, forgot to format it.

[Middle English, from Latin occiput, occipit- : ob-, against. + caput, head.] "The action calls to mind Ogden Nash's delicious tribute to a Senate smut-basher of yesteryear, the same Sen. Reed Smoot of Utah who gave us the Hawley-Smoot tariff: Senator Smoot (Republican Ut.) is planning a ban on smut. Oh root-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut.
and his reverent occiput.
Smite, Smoot, smite for Ut.
Grit your molars and do your dut..."
Edwin Yoder; The Urge to Purge High-Tech Smut, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 23 Jun 1995. This week's theme: words with offbeat pluralizations.