Originally posted on FRAN WILDE:
Hey you guys. I don’t know that it will ever be easy for me to publish a ‘for-your-consideration’ post. This year, hitting send feels like hitting an oyster shell through a fog, from a moving boat, with a peashooter. I’ve been writing this post for days and days. And yet.…
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I’ll Eat My Hat
WHEN MY OLD HAT WAS NEW. When my old hat was new (’twas back in sixty-one), Brave boys went out to battle and with them Harrison, They fought for union of the States, for abolition, too, And many boys were brought home dead, when my old hat was new. When my old hat wasContinue reading “I’ll Eat My Hat”
Tariff Tales
WHAT SHALL THE TARIFF BE? Cutting the tax from the sheep’s white wool, Cutting the tax from the silken spool, Cutting the tax from the cotton hose, Cutting the tax from the English clothes; What shall the tariff be? Oh, what shall the tariff be? Chorus. Cut here by Cleveland and cut there byContinue reading “Tariff Tales”
D. Day Dodger
THE PRESIDENTIAL FISHERMAN. Air — “The Fine Old English Gentleman.” Come listen, all ye soldiers who wore the royal blue, I’ve got a little story to tell you that is true, About a “mugwump” President named Cleveland, who they say A year ago a-fishing went on Decoration Day. So he got his tackle ready,Continue reading “D. Day Dodger”
A Linguistic Conundrum for the Season
Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
If you celebrate Thanksgiving with a traditional roast turkey, do you serve it with dressing, or with stuffing? Butterball (the turkey people, the same ones who run the feast-saving turkey hotline every year) have a page devoted to that very question.? Turns out, as I suspected, that dressing…
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