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Cursive
My German newspaper reports that German handwriting is disappearing. I've mentioned this before... even though I am an American.. I am able to read and write German script... handwriting. It's a bit hard to learn for an American, but little German kids have learned it for ages... but not for long. I feel that is a shame.
Breakthrough Operation
Dave Barry swears this is true. He writes in the Funny Times for February 2017: "Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital ... have performed the first successful penis transplant in the United States. The patient's name: ... Manning."
No Way!
Harper's says that the Oxford University Press co-credits three of Shakespeare's plays to Christopher Marlowe.
Grandma's Old Fashioned Lye Soup
Scientists have now decided that the old bar soap is much better for you to use than current anti-bacterial soaps and washes which contain "endocrine disrupting" chemicals. When I was a boy, my great grandmother would make this strong-smelling lye soap that she gave to us to use. I hated it. It smelled bad and was tough enough to scrub your skin off, so as soon as I had a few cents, I would buy nice-smelling soap for me to use. When we moved into her house upon her demise, we found cases of this strong soap, ready for dispensing to family members.
Wine Snob?
Poor Joe Lentini tried to impress his girl friend by ordering a nice bottle of wine. He asked the waitress for her suggestion. She recommended a 2011 bottle of Screaming Eagle" for just "thirty seven fifty." At the end of the meal, Joe almost fainted when he saw the bill: the wine cost $3,750 instead of $37.50! The restaurant reluctantly lowered the bill to $2,200. (Joe didn't even like the wine.)
Magic Numbers
I'm probably wrong about this, but I believe that I heard NPR say there are 165 golf courses in the greater Houston, Texas area. That was in 2011. In 2017, I heard another person on NPR say there are 170 languages spoken in the Houston area. These figures boggle my mind.
Speaking of Houston, Kate Murphy is a journalist in Houston that writes often in the New York Times. She recently wrote about New York baker, Jim Lahey, and one of his favorite books is "Assholes: A Theory" by Aaron James. Sounds intriguing; I'll have to check for it on Kindle.
Amazing (to me) Information
The Funny Times for July 2016 printed some items from Harper's Index. I found all of the items interesting, but these two more than others:
At least 150,000 Beijing residents live in underground bomb shelters.
In a class action suit alleging that Subway's Footlong sandwiches were not really a foot long, each member received an award of $500.
Pills
Elaine and I take lots and lots of pills. The Public Citizens's Health Research Groups, in the Worst Pills, Best Pills News, says that we should NEVER take the following pills, that we take:
CELEBREX
GLUCOSAMINE AND CHONDROITIN
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SYNEPHRINE
TRICOR
I'm not sure we still take the last two pills, but we did (either Elaine or I)
Donnie and Bebe
Check out this picture from the New York Post. What is Bebe trying to say by his smirk?
Hutzpah!
Chuck Shepherd reports about Peter Jensen of Athol, Idaho, who filed a lawsuit against the State transportation department when his license to drive was canceled because he did not have a license plate on his car. He is suing for almost 6 million dollars in damages because "there is nothing about 'license plates' in the Ten Commandments."
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