WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:39:47 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg pedant – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Nash, Ogden -- “The Purist” https://wist.info/nash-ogden/34891/ https://wist.info/nash-ogden/34891/#respond Thu, 25 Aug 2016 04:59:35 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=34891 I give you now Professor Twist,
A conscientious scientist.
Trustees exclaimed, “He never bungles!”
And sent him off to distant jungles.
Camped on a tropic riverside,
One day he missed his loving bride.
She had, the guide informed him later,
Been eaten by an alligator.
Professor Twist could not but smile.
“You mean,” he said, “a crocodile.”


Ogden Nash (1902-1971) American poet
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