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1. 1 day ago on Francis

   He’ll still claim there were 40,000 people inside the Rotunda.

2. 1 day ago on PreTeena

   None of those came up in my education.

3. 1 day ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   My sister and I always made sure we had a dime each when we went to the nursing home in Dad’s home town because it had the coolest candy machine. Now I look at the machines in my hospitals and carry my own minis from Costco.

4. 1 day ago on Brevity

   Mother Goose and Grimm some decades back had Peter Pan asking his pigtailed, gap-toothed companion, “Hamburgers again?”

5. 2 days ago on One Big Happy

   What I recall is that she doesn’t have marijuana to smoke.

6. 2 days ago on JumpStart

   Have imagined myself punting on one I cross on my Colorado commute.

7. 2 days ago on Grand Avenue

   (As for me, my interest in football extends to being a reasonably competent lineman if somebody asks me to play, which hasn’t happened since sophomore gym class in high school 50 y.a.)

8. 2 days ago on Grand Avenue

   My wife has taken to just periodically checking the Ohio State score. It was worse when we had dogs – her shouts would scare them.

9. 2 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   Reminded of something I ran across and posted on Facebook a couple months ago: From a review of Skiing For Beginners (1951) by Conrad Brown: “Brown’s acknowledgements give thanks not only to Spike Mignault, the lad who posed for all the action shots, but also to Spike’s truant officer for permitting him to skip school.” (Chicago Sunday Tribune, Feb. 11 1951, Part 4 Page 5)

10. 2 days ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

    Wondered, looked – Tellurium and Selenium are in the same Periodic Table column as Sulfur, so chemical properties will be similar.