May 2013
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Our guest today is the author of Paper: An Elegy. Paper is everywhere. I have a...
– Joy Cardin, on Wisconsin Public Radio this morning.
I do love public radio, but sometimes NPR is a little too much like NPR.
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See if there is any bacon, and if there is, ask the cook which pan to fry it in....
– Zelda Fitzgerald’s solicited submission for Favorite Recipes of Famous Women.
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Snikt!
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Ixonia, WI.
Union, WI only existed for 5 years before it was decided to split Union into two towns. The first half was easily dubbed Concord, but naming the second half brought excessive arguing. To settle the citizens, they decided to put all the letters of the alphabet on pieces of paper and have a little girl, Mary Piper, pull the letters from a hat until a name could be made. The result was Ixonia.
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April 2013
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How many tickles does it take to make an octopus...
Ten tickles.
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What do you call a sheep with no legs?
A cloud.
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The story of Schroedinger's cat (an epic poem)
May 7, 1982
Dear Cecil:
Cecil, you’re my final hope Of finding out the true Straight Dope For I have been reading of Schroedinger’s cat But none of my cats are at all like that. This unusual animal (so it is said) Is simultaneously live and dead! What I don’t understand is just why he Can’t be one or other, unquestionably. My future now hangs in between eigenstates. In...
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