Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Jan. 30, 2010)
So that’s the Clue Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them. …Suzanne Necker From the Word Lab Walnut: The foreign nut; called in M.E. walnote, from O.E. wealh, foreign. It came from Persia, […]
So that’s the Clue Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them. …Suzanne Necker From the Word Lab Walnut: The foreign nut; called in M.E. walnote, from O.E. wealh, foreign. It came from Persia, […]
Clever Analysis The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t. …Henry Ward Beecher Daffy-nition Obstinacy: The strength of the weak. […]
A Spanish Proverb A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. Elegy for a Departed Nobleman The noble Earl of Sandwich is departed, His lordship is decidedly deceased. No man was […]
How About Infamy? Fame is the beginning of the fall of greatness. … V.V. Rozinov A Clean Limerick There was a young lady named Ruth, Who had a great passion for truth. She said she […]
From the Internet Many years ago in a small Indian village, a farmer had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money to a village moneylender. The moneylender, who was old and ugly, fancied […]
Pretty Strong Words Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. I may grow rich by an art that I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I […]
From The Devil’s Dictionary Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. —Ambrose Bierce A Different Man When a woman who asked Philip of Macedon to do her justice was snubbed […]
Abdul Abulbul Amir Lesley Nelson-Burns This song was written in 1877 by Percy French at Trinity College for a college concert. His original title was “Abdulla Bulbul Ameer.” He sold it to a publisher […]
From the Trivia File “Moron” was coined in 1910 by psychologist Henry H. Goddard from the Greek word moros, which meant “dull” (as opposed to “sharp”), and used to describe a person with a mental […]
From the Trivia File The finger on which the wedding ring is to be worn is the fourth finger of the left hand, next unto the little finger; because of the received opinion of the […]
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