Likewise
It is a great happiness to be praised by them who are most praiseworthy.
… Philip Sidney
A Double Entendre Toast
A wee little dog passed a wee little tree
Said the wee little tree, “Won’t you have one on me?”
“No,” said the little dog, no bigger than a mouse.
“I just had one on the house.”
From the Trivia File
Why can’t a mule (offspring of a donkey and a horse) reproduce?
The sterility is attributed to the differing number of chromosomes of the two species: Donkeys have 62 chromosomes, whereas horses have 64. Their offspring thus have 63 chromosomes, which cannot evenly divide.
From the Word Lab
Antserots (literally, without hands) is the Armenian word for napkin, which came into use when Armenians stopped using their hands to wipe their mouths while eating.
Entry in an Autograph Album
I often pause and wonder
At fate’s peculiar ways,
For nearly all our famous men
Were born on holidays.
What’s in a Name?
Turkomans: Here is what Brewer has to say about it: A corruption of Turk-imams (“Turks of the true faith”). The first chief of the Turks who embraced Islam called his people so to distinguish them from the Turks who had not embraced the faith.
Zohrabian: Persian in derivation, identified as a descriptive term, zohrab is defined as shining red.
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