Duke of Earl
Jazz nicknames: Duke Ellington, Earl “Fatha” Hines, Lead Belly, Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong, Count Basie, Lady Day, King Oliver, Kid Ory, Cannonball Adderley, Bird Parker and Dizzy Gillespie
Bix Beiderbecke, Leap Frog Bennett, Yardbird, Sassy Sarah Vaughan, Fatha Earl Hines, “High Priest of Bop” Thelonious Monk, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Ken “Snakehips” Johnson
Muddy Waters, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Howlin’ Wolf, Big Bill Broonzy, Hound Dog Taylor, Memphis Minnie, Blind Lemon Jefferson
The Velvet Fog, Swing’s Senior Statesman, “Bu” Blakey, Louis “Satchel Mouth” Armstrong, Ol’ Blue Eyes, Porky Porcino, Ziggy Elman, Shorty Nadine, The First Lady of Song, The Great Dane with the Never-Ending Name
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Franz Liszt
Anatole France
Paris
Charlie
“What can you do with a man who looks like a female llama surprised when bathing?”
- Winston Churchill on Charles de Gaulle, 1944.
The one-l lama,
He’s a priest.
The two-l llama,
He’s a beast.
And I will bet
A silk pajama
There isn’t any
Three-l lllama.
–Ogden Nash, who apparently never witnessed a large fire
“¡Cuidado, hay llamas!”
Marco. Polo.
Swimmin’ in the ol’ swimmin’ hole.
swimming naked
JFK
airport
Female announcer: Don’t you tell me which zone is for loading, and which zone is for stopping!
Male announcer: Listen Betty, don’t start up with your white zone shit again.
Male announcer: There’s just no stopping in a white zone.
Female announcer: Oh really, Vernon? Why pretend, we both know perfectly well what this is about. You want me to have an abortion.
Mount Vernon