Todays Diction Lesson. Speak with Clarity! Bobby Bippy bought a bat.
Bobby Bippy bought a ball.
With his bat Bob banged the ball
Banged it bump against the wall
But so boldly Bobby banged it
That he burst his rubber ball
"Boo!" cried Bobby
Bad luck ball
Bad luck Bobby, bad luck ball
Now to drown his many troubles
Bobby Bippy's blowing bubbles.

Todays Inspirational Quote. "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962

Todays Diction Lesson. Speak with Clarity! Something in a thirty-acre thermal thicket of thorns and thistles thumped and thundered threatening the three-D thoughts of Matthew the thug - although, theatrically, it was only the thirteen-thousand thistles and thorns through the underneath of his thigh that the thirty year old thug thought of that morning.

Todays Inspirational Quote. "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Todays Diction Lesson. Speak with Clarity! To sit in solemn silence in a dull dark dock
 in a pestilential prison with a life long lock 
awaiting the sensation of a short sharp shock 
from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block.

Todays Inspirational Quote. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die."
- Mel Brooks

Todays Diction Lesson. Speak with Clarity! There those thousand thinkers were thinking how did the other three thieves go through. 


Todays Inspirational Quote. "The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault."
- Henry Kissinger (1923-)

Todays Diction Lesson. Speak with Clarity! World Wide Web

Todays Inspirational Quote. "If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Todays Diction Lesson. Speak with Clarity! Can you can a can as a canner can can a can? 


Todays Inspirational Quote. "Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches."
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life

Todays Diction Lesson. Speak with Clarity! How can a clam cram in a clean cream can? 


Todays Inspirational Quote. "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Todays Diction Lessons. Speak with Clarity! Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut-Butter, 'tis the peanut-butter picky people pick.

Todays Inspirational Quote. "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

Todays Diction Lessons. Speak with Clarity! There was a fisherman named Fisher 
who fished for some fish in a fissure.
 Till a fish with a grin,
 pulled the fisherman in. 
Now they're fishing the fissure for Fisher. 


Todays Diction Lessons. Speak with Clarity! Denise sees the fleece,
 Denise sees the fleas.
 At least Denise could sneeze 
and feed and freeze the fleas. 


Todays Inspirational Quote. "An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered."
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)

Todays Inspirational Quote. "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell

Todays Diction Lessons. Speak with Clarity! Luke's duck likes lakes. Luke Luck licks lakes. Luke's duck licks lakes. Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes. Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.
from Dr. Seuss' Fox in Socks