Custard the Dragon is one of the All Time Greats

NY Times 'Freakonomics' Blogger Stephen Dubner says about this Ogden Nash work that anyone who rhymes “Belinda” with “window” and “gyrate” with “pirate” gets points in his book.

A Present For Your Smart A.. Friend

Chicago guide writer John Freeman thinks 'The Best of Ogden Nash' by Ivan Dee shows how no-one, even today's hipsters could dish it out like ON.

Platypus - Sans Platitudes

Jocelyn Rice is a Brooklyn based science writer who opens her story on the platypus with Ogden Nash's ode, The Duck billed Platypus.

Ogden's Legacy in North India

Kshitij has a name Ogden Nash would have a rhyming good time with. He is 21 and lives in Ajmer, India. The only poem he can recall from his schooling was The Muddlehead which he learned in 6th grade. He was very pleased to discover it's text on line and he still cherishes it.

ON Retirement

" If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work."
— Ogden Nash

Thanks to The Retirement Quotes Cafe

How O.N. Continues to Inspire a Home Schooled Son

The Adventures of Isabel is Jamie's favorite poem.
Isabel met an enormous bear,
Isabel, Isabel, didn't care;... Click-thru for the rest of this Ogden Nash gem.

"But where there's a monster, there's a miracle." - Ogden Nash, Dragons Are Too Seldom

Courtesy of Ryan