Howard
Howard Where there is a Howard, there is a Howard How is the ard of Howard. Now, take two Howards and blend them Into a large sugar bunny. What you will find is that you now have One sweet sweet...
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This Dover Thrift edition of Voltaire’s Candide complete with your banal marginalia reminds me of a joke I once heard: what happens when you cross a or was it a pheasant with a porcupine in any case...
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Let us begin with the and. The and conjoins disjunctive clauses in something less than matrimony, yes, but no more separable than. (Take you and me.) One famous place the and began was in “Begin the...
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I spent an entire year refusing to spell “rhododendron” correctly. About six months in, I met a woman who refused to spell “heinous” correctly. Together we refused to spell “The rhododendron is...
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If “alignment of jaws and teeth” is set by “use [of] cutlery during formative years,” orthodontics is sisyphean. I’m unhappy more than I’ll admit, but what’s to blame? What knife and fork cut up the...
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