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Last Login: 05/05/09
*The unremarkable quotation in my headline is on loan from Harper Lee, a favorite author. I'm also a writer, though one of conspicuously more dubious talents...and no celebrity whatever.

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MY CHRISTMAS GIFT TO YOU

Dear Grandma, Since it's better to give than get,Like you always say,Please send me lots of presents this year,So I can really make your day.         &n bsp...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:23:00 GMT

NITPICKING

Listen, this is fun: Peter Piper picked Hang on. "Peter Piper"? Who ever heard of a person called "Peter Piper"? Ssh. Where was I? Peter Piper picked a peck What the heck is a "peck"? Will you stop ...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:52:00 GMT

STENTOR

I do not glory in my voice.I am not grateful. I can't rejoice.Kids recoil from my hellos.My hiccups draw police.My whispers all come out as bellows.I'm a menace to the peace.They stop me at the librar...
Posted by on Sun, 11 May 2008 03:35:00 GMT

OLD MATES

"Ahoy, old boy! It's been an age!And how've you been, old chum?""Just grand, old man. I can't complain.And how's your dear old mum?""Still keen, old bean, and twice as mean!How's business treating you...
Posted by on Sat, 03 May 2008 02:19:00 GMT

"Courting" a Poisoner: A Cautionary Tale

[This blog is a composite of writings and rewritings meant to unravel and lay bare a nasty episode I was party to three years ago that involved a womanalong with a girlfriend or two of herswho insin...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:47:00 GMT

PUTT-PUTT PETE

Watch his shot flash past the edgeOf the windmill's dipping sail,Or deftly dodge a thrashing blowFrom the monkey's flailing tail.Follow its convoluted courseOf lollops and loop-the-loops,And you'll ha...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:02:00 GMT

THE PUNKS OF PUNCTUATION

The COLON is rather cocky this way:It insists, "Hear what I say!"With the COMMA, there's a lot less drama.The comma's ever so much calma.The SEMI-COLON keeps things rollin';It's no show-off like the c...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:01:00 GMT

BREW-HA-HA (for Olga)

I met the old witch GardylooBoiling up a brackish brew.She asked me, "How's this taste to you?"Well! Ten times a thousand multipliedWas the number of things I'd much rather have tried. . .Like flea di...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:50:00 GMT

STICKY PROBLEM

Are tentacles legs, or are they arms?I can't help wonderin' which.Do squids wear galoshes come wintertime,Or warm, woolen mittens that itch?Are tentacles arms, or are they legs?It's awfully hard to kn...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:21:00 GMT

A little wordplay... [solved...or guessed right, anyway!]

RELUCTANTLY TOWARD EARTH DISCHARGED,AS THOUGH UNLEASHED BY BOMBARDIER,I KAMIKAZE PLUMMET TONEVER AGAIN RETURN BACK UP. What am I? (Hint: the answer has eight letters.) © 2008 T. A. G. [Riddling turn o...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:53:00 GMT