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1. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   I think it was in the TV movie version of John Jakes’ The Rebels that Lafayette served Chat Roti to a Congressional delegation at Valley Forge.

2. 1 day ago on That is Priceless

   “Pockets that mark the difference between a gentleman and a bum / With a capital B that rhymes with P that stands for Pool.” – Meredith Wilson, The Music Man

3. 2 days ago on Zack Hill

   One year in college I was in charge of calculating which long distance calls belonged to which of 20 housemates (all Christian) and collecting from them. One month I listed our “Dear departed beats” on the blackboard in the dining room. “The dead shall rise again!” Doug proclaimed when he handed me his check and erased his name.

   My second year there whoever paid last did the job the next month.

4. 2 days ago on Geech

   Just finished some of my wife’s excellent meatloaf about half an hour ago.

5. 2 days ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   That sort of confusion is also the reason for zebras’ stripes – lions can’t tell where one zebra ends and the next begins. Hence a herd of zebras is also called a “dazzle.”

6. 2 days ago on That is Priceless

   Mardi Gras World in New Orleans IS a fascinating place.

7. 2 days ago on That is Priceless

   Cf the statue of Hermaphroditus at Versailles.

8. 2 days ago on That is Priceless

   Was just the other day looking at my photos of four sculptures in Florence which he apparently left to finish carving themselves.

9. 3 days ago on Luann

   About a month ago a CNA who is also a library student shadowed me in my workday as a medical librarian and from experience and training she’s had in no more than 10 years and I haven’t in 37 in my job (plus pharmacy training and biomedical lab research before that) made a very helpful suggestion for a literature search I was doing.

10. 3 days ago on The Born Loser

    “Or if I am in luck, it’s broiled hockey puck …” – Tom Lehrer, “She’s My Girl”