All You Need to Know about the Credit Crunch

Bob McTeer has found Ogden Nash to be prescient on matters of sub-prime lending, COSO and banking. He has interwoven several Nash quotes into his blog on economic matters.

Professor Twist

Here is a slice of dark humor from Ogden Nash as published in a 1969 children's book on spooky topics.

It only Takes a Couple Lines

To be inspired by Ogden Nash's work. Just ask Shourya in Bangalore.

Hope for the New Year

Ogden Nash's quote, remembered by this Arizona gardener, summarizes the circle of life at the dawn of a new year.

"When I remember by-gone days
I think how evening follows morn
so many I loved were not yet dead
so many I love were not yet born."

Makes you realize, that contrary to the popular adage, there are actually three, not two, sure things in this life: Death, Taxes...and Birth.

Nash Would have had Fun with 'Huckabee'

Cliff Schecter of Brave New Films, feels that the following excerpt of Ogden Nash's poem on duck hunting is apropos vis vi candidate Huckabee:

The hunter crouches in his blind
'Neath camouflage of every kind...
....This grownup man, with pluck and luck
Is hoping to outwit a duck.

Nash Quote On the New Year

Loren of Arlington Virginia, finds an affinity in this Ogden Nash quote on the emergence of next year:

"Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn’t it, of a long line of proven criminals?"

49 Years Later & Still Going Strong

It's New Years and the blogosphere is filled with references to Ogden Nash's 1949 poem "Good Riddance But Now What?" :

Author Tamora Pierce of Syracuse, NY

Opera Professional Kim Witman