Concrete poetry or shape poetry is poetry in which the typographical arrangement of words is as important in conveying the intended effect as the conventional elements of the poem, such as meaning of words, rhythm, rhyme and so on.  It is sometimes referred to as visual poetry, a term that has evolved to have distinct meaning of its own, but which shares the distinction of being poetry in which the visual elements are as important as the text.  The term was coined in the 1950s.  In 1956 an international exhibition of concrete poetry was shown in São Paulo, Brazil, by the group Noigandres (Augusto and Haroldo de Campos, Décio Pignatari and Ronaldo Azeredo) with the poets Ferreira Gullar and Wlademir Dias Pino.  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll contains a similar effect in the form of the mouse's "Tale", which is in the shape of a tail.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_poetry 

See The Mouse's Tale at:  http://bootless.net/mouse.html  See also:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse's_Tale

Rummy games  In this large group of draw and discard games, the object is generally to improve one's hand by forming it into sets of matching cards (usually groups of the same rank or sequences in a suit).  The basic move is to draw one (or more) cards from an undealt stock or from the (face up) discard pile, possibly meld a set or sets, putting them face up on the table, and then discard a card. 

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Feb. 9, 2013  From Matt Kahn  For this blog I plan, among other things, to read and review every novel to reach the number one spot on Publishers Weekly annual bestsellers list, starting in 1913.  Beyond just a book review, I'm going to provide some information on the authors and the time at which these books were written in an attempt to figure out just what made these particular books popular at that particular time.   I decided to undertake this endeavor as a mission to read books I never would have otherwise read, discover authors who have been lost to obscurity, and to see how what's popular has changed over the last one hundred years.  I plan to post a new review every Monday, with links, short essays, and the like between review posts.  See list of books to be reviewed at Kahn's Corner  http://kahnscorner.blogspot.com/2013/02/100-years-94-books.html

Paraprosdokians are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected; frequently humorous.  Winston Churchill loved them. 
1.  Where there's a will, I want to be in it.
2.  The last thing I want to do is hurt you.  But it's still on my list.
3.  Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
4.  If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.
5.  We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
6.  War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
7.  Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit.  Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
8.  To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.
9.  I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
10.  In filling out an application, where it says, 'In case of emergency, Notify:' I put 'DOCTOR'.
11.  Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.
12.  You do not need a parachute to skydive.  You only need a parachute to skydive twice.
13.  I used to be indecisive.  Now I'm not so sure..
14.  To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.
15.  Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
16.  You're never too old to learn something stupid.
17.  I'm supposed to respect my elders, but it’s getting harder and harder for me to find one now.  Thanks, David

EASY SOUP
Mix and heat leftover vegetables and sauces.  Add  fresh vegetables, water, broth, canned tomatoes, small pasta (such as ditalini), shredded lettuce or cabbage if desired. 

Neuroscientists have discovered that women are better at distinguishing among subtle distinctions in color, while men appear more sensitive to objects moving across their field of vision.  Scientists have long main- tained that the sexes see colors differently.  But much of the evidence has been indirect, such as the linguistic research showing that women possess a larger vocabulary than men for describing colors.  Experimental evidence for the vision thing has been rare.  That’s why Israel Abramov, a psychologist and behavioral neuroscientist at CUNY’s Brooklyn College, gave a group of men and women a battery of visual tests.  Abramov has spent 50 years studying human vision—how our eyes and brain translate light into a representation of the world.  He’s curious about the neural mechanisms that determine how we perceive colors.   In one study, Abramov and his research team showed subjects light and dark bars of different widths and degrees of contrast flickering on a computer screen.  The effect was akin to how we might view a car moving in the distance.  Men were better than women at seeing the bars, and their advantage increased as the bars became narrower and less distinct.  But when the researchers tested color vision in one of two ways—by projecting colors onto frosted glass or beaming them into their subjects’ eyes— women proved slightly better at discriminating among subtle gradations in the middle of the color spectrum, where yellow and green reside.   http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Where-Men-See-White-Women-See-Ecru-192104511.html