A question for my Gentle Readers: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? No, wait, that’s not the question. Your Humble Blogger knows the answer to that one: A woodchuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood.\n
No, the question is: what is the proper word for that exchange? It’s not a riddle, and it’s not, properly speaking a joke, either. My Perfect Non-Reader called it a joke, but there’s no real joke in it. And it sounds<\/I> like a pun, but there isn’t actually a pun in it after all, is there? Is it a tongue-twister? If so, it’s a spectacularly easy one to say, not at all like the story about Betty and her bit of butter or Peter and his pickled peppers. If not, well, what is it?\n
While you’re chewing on that, Gentle Readers, I will inform you that this Tohu Bohu no longer takes comments to entries more than 30 days old. YHB is weary of deleting spam, particularly the comment that “I think the man should be given a medal for having more balls than all the Democracts combined.” Since that comment (with a variety of links to a variety of sites) seems to be frequently attached to either (a) my Report on Jimmy Carter’s book (and I know he isn’t a Democract, but he certainly is a Democrat, and although ballsy enough in his own way (as is Roz, to be fair) not ballsier than, say, Charlie Rangel and Kathleen Sebelius combined, much less all the rest of us), or (2) my musings on Valmont’s possible fading prowess (and the Vicomte is not a Democract or a Democrat, nor yet a democrat nor even a republican, and although the man has, in some sense, huevos<\/I>, it seems a odd extrapolation from that particular aspect of his character, if you follow me, to emphasize).\n
At any rate, if you are moved to comment on something very old, send me an email, and I will ... well, I’ll read it, that’s what I’ll do. And then I’ll see. Probably I’ll make a new post incorporating your email, but perhaps I’ll find a way to incorporate it into the old thread. Email me, anyway.\n
chazak, chazak, v’nitchazek<\/I>,
-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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