A NUMBER OF THINGS

Words

WORDLE

Remember that sometimes the solution word uses duplicate letters.

Captions

Last night some song lyrics said: "I'll show you the old fishing hole."

Closed captioning showed: "I'll show you the old vision, Oh!"

New Word?

Have you heard this?  "eechutha"

It's supposed to be "each other."

Poetry

As I get older, I get more interested in poetry.

Here are some books about poetry that I may download to my Kindle:

"Immortal Poems in the English Language" edited by Oscar Williams.

"How to Read a Poem and fall in love with Poetry" also by Oscar Williams.

"The Heart of American Poetry" by Edward Hirsch.

"Rhymes Rooms" by Bret Leithauser

Books

A Tennessee State Representative was asked what he would do with those books that the state has deemed inappropriate for libraries:

I think he responded: "... I would burn them..."

Fructophobia

A former U.S. President has declared bananas to be  a "dangerous" fruit.  Also tomatoes and possibly blue berries.  Check it out!

(Fructophobia = "fear of fruits")

Longevity

A resident of Saint Helena Island in the South Atlantic is celebrating his 190th birthday.

Jonathon Tortoise arrived full-grown on the island in 1882.  Experts say that he was hatched in 1832.

Even at this old age and with no eyesight or sense of smell, he still enjoys robust meals. If you meet him, he might like you to rub his shell. Just don't rub him the wrong way and stay clear of his sharp  beak.

Some say that there may be sharks that are older than Jonathon.  What brave soul figured that out?

Remembrance

I like this Jewish proverb for people who have died: 

"As long as we live, they too will live, for they are a part of us, as we remember them."

Moby?

In 2019, a large white whale surfaced in Norway wearing a harness.  Experts speculated that the whale was part of a Russian program to use nautical mammals like dolphins to search for underwater explosives.

The Norwegians named the whale "HVALDIMIR."  Hval is Norwegian for whale and dimir relates to Vladimir Putin.

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