Poor William's Almanack, March 28, 2009, Predilection For Puns

franklin-bifocals-60 Saturday, March 28, 2009

Budweiser old beer wagon
[1899 - Brewing magnate August Anheuser Busch, Jr., born in St. Louis, Missouri]

Pianist Rudolf Serkin
[1903 - Rudolf Serkin, concert pianist, born in Bohemia]

[1909 - Nelson Algren, novelist, born in Detroit, Michigan]

[1914 - Edmund (Sixtus) Muskie, Maine Governor,
Senator, Secretary of State, born in Rumford, Maine]

[1921 - Dirk Bogarde (Sir Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde),
actor, born in West Hampstead, London]

[1924 - Freddie Bartholomew (Frederick Llewellyn March),
actor, born in Dublin, Ireland]

[1979 - Accidents at Three Mile Island bring nuclear power plant close to uranium core meltdown]
Three Mile Island - Night View

Three Mile Island - Radioactive Plumes

Three Mile Island Core - damaged and melted rods
[1979 - Accidents at Three Mile Island bring nuclear power plant close to uranium core meltdown]

Predilection For Puns

Punning from damaged chromosomes comes.
Defective human phenome is the villain.
Alliterative affliction has similar origins,
Neither responds to a pencil or penicillin.

William's Whimsical Words:

Inspired by the Ogden Nash School of Poetry.

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