Miscellaneous & Et Cet

I have not had much here about the hurricane and its victims. And I won't. I've done what I can, as you know you did and are doing. But this here place is a port out of the storm. Relax, jangle gently as you move and don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige.

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This was sort of fun. The states in red are the ones I have touristed. You go to World 66 and you can make a map of all the states you visited, or all the countries, all the Canadian provinces, or just Europe. Note those three Deep South states I have not been in -- Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. I doubt if my visiting would have made a difference. But who knows?
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Yesterday when I teased my pal Bonnie about owning a University of Michigan shirt, my buddy Lois Lane said in the comments that she's in a shirt-giving mood. And Bonnie seemed to be offering a Michigan State University shirt. Look, I will take all the university/football shirts I can get and I'll show 'em off. I love to get packages. When you are done giving to Katrina victims, I am at Apt. 111, 695 Orchard Hts. Rd. NW, Salem, OR 97304.

After all, it is dang near my birthday. I was born on Oct. 1 and on Oct. 2, 1930. An explanation of this Miracle Birth is here.

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What has eight legs and one eye? Two chairs and half a pig's head.

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In Great Britain, the annual Foot in Mouth Award in 2004 went to a Member of Parliament, Boris Johnson, who said on television: "I could not fail to disagree with you less."

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My favorite phrase today is false alarm. N., when you gotta go. Def.: When the urgent need to defecate turns out to be only an urgent need to fart.