Re: We kept an enormous paper clip (suitably bent) in our toolkit.....
A one-L lama is a priest,
A two-L llama is a beast,
But a three-alarmer is a fire.
(Ogden Nash)
Actual poem:
A one-L lama, is a priest
A two-l llama, is a beast
But I will bet a silk pyjama
that there is not a three-l lllama.*
*I have been subsequently informed there is a conflagration known colloquially as a "three-alarmer". Pooh.
Why, yes, that's from memory.