Word-play  Frog street sculpture eating a human leg:  ”Tastes like chicken."  Happy frogs on t-shirts, posters and cartoons:  "Times fun when you're having flies."  Nouns switched from usual position:  "Your command is my wish."  

Types of Word Play  http://grammar.about.com/od/tz/g/Word-Play.htm

Movie star Dorothy Lamour (1914-1996)  was born Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton.  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0483787/bio

Author Louis L'Amour (1908-1988)  was born  Louis Dearborn LaMoore.  http://www.louislamour.com/aboutlouis/biography.htm

Dorothy L'Amour:  A Novel (1999) by Lynn Crosbie is an imagined journal on the excesses of the late 1970s.  ISBN 10: 0002254980 / ISBN 13: 9780002254984

http://www.abebooks.com/Dorothy-LAmour-Novel-Crosbie-Lynn-Toronto/11285025802/bd

A trochee (TROH-key) is a metrical foot in poetry—the unit of stressed and unstressed syllables that determines what we call the meter, or rhythmic measure, in the lines of a poem.  A trochaic foot consists of two syllables, the first one stressed and the second unstressed, to make a sound “DUM-da.”  The word “trochee” comes from the classical Greek word for wheel.  A trochee can also be called a “choree,” derived from the ancient Greek word for dance.  Both etymological derivations convey the rhythmic motion of a line composed of trochaic feet.  The chorus of the The Witches’ Spell in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth consists of two lines of trochees:  DOU-ble, / DOU-ble / TOIL and / TROU-ble; FI-re / BURN, and / CAL-dron / BUB-ble.

Bob Holman and Margery Snyder  http://poetry.about.com/od/glossary/g/Trochee.htm

Hobson-Jobson  noun  the alteration of a word or phrase borrowed from a foreign language to accord more closely with the phonological and lexical patterns of the borrowing language, as in English hoosegow from Spanish juzgado.  Origin: 1625–35  Indian English rendering of Arabic   yā Ḥasan, yā Husayn  lament uttered during taʿziyah; an example of such an alteration.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hobson-jobson  Another example of Hobson-Jobson is mox nix coming from the German macht nichts (doesn't matter).

Tongue Twister

My father he left me, just as he was able, One bowl, one bottle, one label, Two bowls, two bottles, two labels, Three bowls . . . keep going as long as you can on one breath

Trivium by Richard Nordquist  "The liberal arts denote the seven branches of knowledge that initiate the young into a life of learning.  The concept is classical, but the term liberal arts and the division of the arts into the trivium and the quadrivium date from the Middle Ages.  "The trivium includes those aspects of the liberal arts that pertain to mind, and the quadrivium, those aspects of the liberal arts that pertain to matter.  Logic, grammar, and rhetoric constitute the trivium; and arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy constitute the quadrivium.  Logic is the art of thinking; grammar, the art of inventing symbols and combining them to express thought; and rhetoric, the art of communicating thought from one mind to another, the adaptation of language to circumstance."

(Sister Miriam Joseph, The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric, ed. by Marguerite McGlinn. Paul Dry Books, 2002)  http://grammar.about.com/od/tz/g/triviumterm.htm

Trivium  Latin neuter noun trivium (plural trivia) is from tri- "triple" and via "way", meaning "a place where three ways meet".  The pertaining adjective is triviālis.  The adjective trivial was adopted in Early Modern English, while the noun trivium only appears in learned usage from the 19th century, in reference to the Artes Liberales and the plural trivia in the sense of "trivialities, trifles" only in the 20th century.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivia

Quadrivium a group of studies consisting of arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy and forming the upper division of the seven liberal arts in medieval universities  Late Latin, from Latin, crossroads, from quadri- + via way  first known use:  1804

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quadrivium

The Snickelways of York, in Yorkshire, often misspelt Snickleways, are a collection of small streets, footpaths, or lanes between buildings, not wide enough for a vehicle to pass down, and usually public rights of way.  York has many such paths, mostly mediaeval, though there are some modern paths as well.  They have names like any other city street, often quirky names such as Mad Alice Lane, Hornpot Lane Nether and even Finkle Street (formerly Mucky Peg Lane).  The word Snickelway was coined by local author Mark W. Jones in 1983 in his book A Walk Around the Snickelways of York, and is a portmanteau of the words snicket, meaning a passageway between walls or fences, ginnel, a narrow passageway between or through buildings, and alleyway, a narrow street or lane.  Although a neologism, the word quickly became part of the local vocabulary, and has even been used in official council documents.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alley

The Pacific Pinball Museum is a museum that showcases the history of pinball machines since 1879.  The museum is located in Alameda, California,  The museum was founded in 2004 by Michael Schiess, a former museum exhibition designer.  One of his first major acquisitions was thirty-six machines in one purchase.  Fourteen of them were installed in a rented room, which Schiess called Lucky Ju Ju, in Alameda and a jar was placed out for donations.  In 2004 the facility expanded and became a nonprofit, renaming itself the Pacific Pinball Museum.  The museum's exhibitions include approximately ninety pinball machines arranged in chronological order.  In total, Schiess' collection comprises 800 machines.  See pictures including the visible pinball machine at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Pinball_Museum

QUOTE from Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson April 4, 1928, died May 28, 2014), author and poet  "I have no modesty.  Modesty is a learned behavior.  But I do pray for humility, because humility comes from the inside out."   Link to 2007 interview at http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/national_world/2014/05/28/0528-maya-angelou-dead-at-86.html

In basketball, a flop is an intentional fall by a player after little or no physical contact by an opposing player in order to draw a personal foul call by an official against the opponent.  The move is sometimes called acting, as in "acting as if he was fouled".  Because it is inherently designed to deceive the official, flopping is generally considered to be unsportsmanlike. Nonetheless, it is widely practiced and even perfected by many professional players.  Flopping effectively is not easy to do, primarily because drawing contact can sometimes result in the opposite effect—a foul called on the defensive player—when too much contact is drawn or if the player has not positioned himself perfectly.  Additionally, even if no foul is called on either player, by falling to the floor, the flopping defensive player will have taken himself out of position to provide any further defensive opposition on the play, thus potentially allowing the offense to score easily.  To consistently draw offensive fouls on opponents takes good body control and a great deal of practice.  Players generally become better at flopping as their careers progress.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flop_(basketball)  San Antonio Spurs center Tiago Splitter was fined $5,000 for flopping by the NBA on May 28, 2014.  Lance Stephenson and Roy Hibbert of the Indiana Pacers have each been fined by the NBA in separate incidents for violating the league's anti-flopping rules during Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals.

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 1155  May 30, 2014  On this date in 1922, the Lincoln Memorial was dedicated.  On this date in 1958, the remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the Korean War respectively, were buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.