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Light verse makes more stringent demands on the writer's technique [than high
verse]. ... A concert pianist is allowed a wrong note here and there; a
juggler is not allowed to drop a plate.
     --Kingsley Amis, introduction

(A)n interpretation of any man's humor... is as futile as explaining a
spider's web in terms of geometry.
     --E.B. White, introduction to Don Marquis' the lives and times of archy
     	 and mehitabel

Richard Armour on ketchup:
	Shake and shake
	The catsup bottle
	None will come,
	And then a lot'll.