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For a scene where the Clanton gang rides into town, Ford got a wind machine to create a dust storm, and instructed the actors to fire off their guns and shotguns close to the horse's ears so they'd ride wild. He wouldn't allow stuntmen to do the scene, but insisted that Walter Brennan, John Ireland, and Grant Withers do their own riding.

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They managed to pull the scene off, but then Ford asked for a retake. Grant Withers was hanging behind, and Ford nudged him. "Come on, Grant, dammit, hurry up. Which is your horse?"

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"The one with the shit in the saddle," said Withers.

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It was requests like that, not to mention Ford's overall demeanor, that alienated Walter Brennan. "Can't you even mount a horse?" yelled Ford when Brennan was having trouble. "No, but I got three Oscars for acting," retorted Brennan.

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Despite their mutual dislike, Brennan was giving a memorably cold, homicidal performance as Pa Clanton, possibly because he was transferring his loathing of Ford into his character's loathing of Earp. Brennan went through the film in a professional manner, and refused to ever work with Ford again. (Ford's home movie footage of the production shows a few random but beautiful shots of the Valley at dusk, Jack Pennick and Tim Holt relaxing, Victor Mature and Ward Bond gagging it up, and a notably solemn Walter Brennan not gagging it up.)

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Scott Eyman "Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford" (1999)

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Charlie Chaplin Plays Straight Man To Groucho Marx

Beverly Hills Tennis Club,

Los Angeles

July 14th 1937

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Tennis has become the most fashionable sport in Hollywood: Clark Gable, Errol Flynn, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy, Carole Lombard, David Niven, Norma Shearer and Katharine Hepburn all play. This prompts Fred Perry - the world no. 1 player for the past five years' - to turn professional and move to Los Angeles with his film-star wife Helen Vinson.

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Perry buys the Beverly Hills Tennis Club with the American champion Ellsworth Vines. To mark its opening, the two of them play in one of the very first pro-celebrity tournaments: Perry partners Charlie Chaplin and Vines partners Groucho Marx.

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Charlie Chaplin (b.1889) is just a year older than Groucho Marx (b. 1890), but the gap seems infinitely wider: the two men are separated by sound. Chaplin is the king of silent comedy, Marx the king of the fast-talking wisecrack. Chaplin spends a lot of time fretting that he belongs to the past; at lunch before the game, he shares these fears with his opponent.

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'Charlie turned around to me and said, "Gee, I envy you;" recalls Groucho, a quarter of a century on,' and I said, "You envy me? Why?" He said, "I wish I could talk on the screen the way you do." I found this such an ironical statement. Here was the greatest comedian that there's ever been, there's never been anyone like him, and he's sitting there envying me because I can talk.'

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It is not hard to detect an undertow of triumph beneath this outward show of sympathy. Groucho has always been a very competitive man, and Chaplin is known as the world champion in their shared field of comedy. But by the time Groucho looks back on this conversation, silent comedy has come to seem as out-of-date and quaint as the penny-farthing.

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At the time, he notes ruefully that while City Lights is acclaimed an instant classic, Monkey Business is seen as 'the usual Marx Madhouse .. .'

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On this summer's day in 1937, it is as though the edgy competition between the two most famous comedians in the world has been formalized. Chaplin Chaplin prides himself on his tennis: as well as being a member of the Beverly Hills Club, he has his own court at his home, where he throws tennis parties for fellow stars like Greta Garbo and Clark Gable. When newsreel photographers turn up, he always plays that little bit harder. Groucho is much less proficient with a racket. Unable to compete in tennis, and incapable of being seen in public without playing his buffoonish on-screen character, he decides to compete for laughs. He turns up with a huge suitcase and a dozen tennis rackets, curls up in a sleeping bag, then brandishes a ping-pong bat.

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Chaplin and Perry win the first game with ease, and the second game too. At this point, Groucho tells the crowd that he is going to have a lunch break ('Vines can do all my playing for me!'). He dips into his suitcase and produces a tablecloth and a range of sandwiches, which he proceeds to spread on the ground. 'Will you join me for a spot of tea?' he shouts to Chaplin, playing to the crowd.

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Charlie Chaplin feigns laughter, but is quietly seething: he wants to get on with the match. 'I didn't come here to be your straight man,' he hisses into Groucho's ear.

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Groucho omits this comment from his memoirs. In newsreel footage, Chaplin can be seen smiling at Groucho's shenanigans, but this is only for the cameras. Years later, he has still not forgiven Groucho for casting himself in the role of funny guy. After all, given the choice, who wants to play stooge?

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Craig Brown "Hello Goodbye Hello" (2011)

I've got a little list

(Gilbert & Sullivan, The Mikado)

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Dear Mrs. Atkinson,

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First of all, let me thank you for your very sympathetic letter and in reply to your question, well, yes, I do still suffer from it.? In fact only last week I was strolling through the hosiery department of one of the big West End stores, when right in front of me, I saw a sign that said, "support stockings."? Now straightaway I went to offer my support, because when it comes to that long-standing stockings versus tights debate, it's no secret which side I favor, especially the shiny black ones.? And it wasn't 'till I noticed certain elasticized hosiery on that counter that I realized what had happened once again, Mrs. Atkinson, I had fallen prey to the strange mental disorder you are inquiring about, the one known in medical textbooks as literalism.

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Now they describe this distressing condition as a congenital inability to take words and phrases other than literally, so if, for example, a sufferer sees an advert for micro-thin toasters, they wonder how many people like to toast micro-chips; or if he comes across a tin of turtle wax, he'll find himself musing about the exact number of pet owners cursed with squeaky turtles.

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What it says, Mrs. Atkinson, for literalism victims, the mental images that language conjures up, the interior pictures, they're just not the same as for ordinary people. That's why, whenever a weatherman points at his little map and says, "Well, as I forecast, the rain kept up all day."? I become filled with an unreasoning fury, because, of course, the literal truth is the rain did not keep UP at all, it kept coming DOWN, all the time.

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Or to give another example from my own experience, I still come over all hot when I remember my first plane flight and what happened when I heard the stewardess say, "We are now coming in to land, so will you please extinguish all cigarettes and put your seat in the upright position."

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Because of my leanings towards literalism, it didn't occur to me that she was referring to the aircraft seat. So I positioned myself with my rump in the air and my head somewhere down by the sick bag. And I can now tell you that assuming that posture when the aircraft is also going into a nose down mode, not only leads to dizzy spells, but you wind up being escorted off the plane by two orderlies from Helmslow General.

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So Mrs. Atkinson that's a general picture of the unhappy disability known as literal thinking. But what your letter was particularly concerned about was whether you could ascertain if your twelve-year-old son has developed this dread affliction.

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Well, Mrs. A, it's one of those heartbreak questions.? All I can say is that you must look out for the telltale signs of literalism.? You could try a couple of simple tests.? For a start lead him into the kitchen and show him that knob on your washing machine that says "Pull on, push off." If he gives it a sharp tug, then straight away leaves the house that does not bode well.

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Your next step must be to take a walk down the road, then ask him what comes into his mind when he sees the house with a sign that saying "neighborhood watch." If he says he pictures a lot of local people popping in there to ask what time it is, Mrs. A, I fear you must give up hope.? All you can do, in that case, all you can do in that case is summon up as much resignation and borrowing a phrase from W.S. Gilbert, you must say to yourself, "I've got a literalist."

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Dennis Norden, 880826

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I get ingrown hairs every time I shave. Can I get rid of them?

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It's a common issue: Your freshly shaved, waxed or plucked skin appears smooth and hairless - until pimple-like bumps crop up days later.

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Ingrown hairs can occur anywhere on the skin, but they typically emerge in places you remove hair, like in the beard, pubic, leg and armpit areas, said Dr. Elizabeth Bahar Houshmand, a dermatologist in Dallas.

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They typically look like raised red or flesh-colored bumps, sometimes with hair or pus inside, said Dr. Amy K. Biebeir, a dermatologist at NYU Langone Health.

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Hair grows from a follicle deep within the skin, said Dr. Paradi Mirmirani, a dermatologist at Kaiser Permanente in Vallejo,? Calif. Shaving is more likely than waxing or plucking to cause ingrown hairs because it tends to break off the hair just under the skin, which could push the hair into the skin's layers and interfere

with its growing path, she said.

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But waxing and plucking can do this, too, and your hair type it also plays a role, said Dr. Della P. Foulad, a dermatologist at? U.C.L.A. Health.

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The closer the shave the more likely an ingrown hair is to form because the hair can get trapped under the skin, Dr. Foulad said.

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It can be tempting to squeeze the bumps or try to excavate the trapped hair, Dr. Foulad said, but that might increase the risk of inflammation, scarring or infection. "You shouldn't be yanking out the hair," she said.

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Most cases typically resolve on their own within about a week. But if the bumps are painful or itchy, you can try applying a warm compress (like a wet wash-cloth) or cortisone cream until inflammation subsides.

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To speed healing, Dr. Foulad recommended using a benzoyl peroxide wash, which has anti-bacterial properties. or chemical exfoiants

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The only way to prevent in-grown hairs is to stop shaving,, waxing or plucking, but that's not always realistic. If feasible, allow your hair to grow for as long as possible and wait for any existing ingrown hairs to heal before shaving or using another hair-removal method, Dr. Bieber said.

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Cleanse your skin before hair removal and always use clean tools, like razors or tweezers, to avoid introducing germs to the skin, Dr. Foulad said. Run your tools under warm water to remove excess hair. Replacing razor blades frequently helps too.

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Avoid multi-blade razors, which cut hair too close to the skin, or choose an electric razor that allows you to adjust the blades to avoid a close shave, Dr. Houshmand recommended.

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Use shaving cream to reduce friction, and shave with - rather than against - the grain. Rinse your razor after each pass, Dr. Foulad said.?

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After hair removal, apply a serum or moisturizer containing salicylic, glycolic or lactic acid. If your ingrown hair bumps become more red of painful, or if they are warm to the touch or develop extra pus, that might signal an infection, Dr. Bieber said. Consult a medical provider, who may treat the bumps with a topical steroid or antibiotic.

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Also see a dermatologist if your facial or body hair removal routine is regularly causing ingrown hairs that are bothersome

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Doctors may also recommend alternative hair removal methods, like depilatory creams, which dissolve the hair and are less likely to cause the bumps, Dr. Foulad said. Other options include laser hair removal or electrolysis.

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Occasional regrowth is possible with these last two methods, Dr. Mirmirani said, but the hair usually grows back thinner and rarely causes ingrown hairs.

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Erica Sweeney

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Bottom-Up Thinking and Learning Rules

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Individuals on the autism spectrum learn to form concepts by grouping many specific examples of a particular concept into a virtual "file folder" in their brain. There may be a file folder labeled "Dogs," full of many mental pictures of different kinds of dogs - together, all those mental pictures form a concept of "Dog." A person on the autism spectrum may have many of these virtual file folders in their brain - one for each different concept (rudeness, turn-raking, street safety, etc.). As a person grows older, they create new file folders and add new pictures to the ones in their old file folders.

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People on the autism spectrum think differently from non-autistic, or "typical" people. They are "bottom-up," or "specific-to-general" thinkers. For example, they may need to see many, many different kinds of dogs before the concept of dog is permanently fixed in their mind. Or they may need to be told many times, in many places, that they must stop, look, and listen before crossing the street before the concept of street safety is permanently fixed in their mind. People on the spectrum create the concepts of dog, street safety, and everything else by "building" them from many specific examples.

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Non-autistic, or "typical" people think in a completely different way. They are "top-down thinkers," or "general-to-specific" thinkers. They form a concept first, and then add in specific details. For example, they already have a general concept of what a dog looks like, and as they see more and more dogs, they add the details of what all kinds of different dogs (poodles, basset hounds, dachshunds, etc.) look like. Once someone tells them to stop, look, and listen before crossing the street, they know to do this at every street, in every neighborhood.

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Bottom-up learning can be used to teach both very concrete and more abstract concepts ranging from basic safety rules to reading comprehension. In this article I will give examples starting from the most concrete concepts and finishing with more abstract ones. All concepts, regardless of the level of abstraction, MUST be taught with many SPECIFIC EXAMPLES for each concept.

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To teach a basic safety rule, such as not running across the street, it must be taught in more than one place. This is required to make the safety rule "generalize" to new places. It must be taught at the street at home, at streets near the school, at the next-door neighbor's house, at streets around grandmother's house, or Aunt Georgia's house, and when the child visits a new, strange place. The number of different specific examples required will vary from child to child. When I was little, I was taught turn-taking with a board game called Parcheesi. If my turn-taking lessons had been limited to this game they would not have generalized to other situations, such as taking turns with my sister to use a sled or a toy. During all of these activities, I was told I had to take turns. Turn-taking in conversation was also taught at the dining room table. If I talked too long, Mother told me I had to give someone else a turn to talk.

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Using many specific examples should also be used for teaching number concepts. To achieve generalization, a child should be taught counting, adding, and subtracting, with many different kinds of objects. You can use cups, candies, toy dinosaurs, pens, Matchbook cars, and other things to teach the abstract idea that arithmetic applies to many things in the real world. For example 5 - 2 = 3 can be taught with five candies. If I eat 2 of them, I have 3 left. To learn concepts such as less and more, or fractions, try using cups of water filled to different levels, cutting up an apple, and cutting up cardboard circles. If you only used cardboard circles, the child might think that the concept of fractions applies only to cardboard circles. To teach bigger versus smaller, use different-sized objects such as bottles, candies, shirts, blocks, toy cars, and other things.

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More Abstract Concepts

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To move up a degree in the abstractness of concepts, I will give some examples for teaching concepts such as "up" and "down." Again, you must use many specific examples to teach these concepts.

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The squirrel is "up" in the tree.

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The stars are "up" in the sky.

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We throw the ball "up" in the air.

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We slide "down" the slide.

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We dig a hole "down" in the ground.

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We bend "down" to tie our shoes.

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To fully comprehend the concept, the child needs to participate in the activity while the parent or teacher says a short sentence containing the word "up" or "down." Be sure to vocally emphasize the concept word. If the child has difficulty with verbal language, combine the word with a picture card that says "up" or "down."

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Recently I was asked, "How did you comprehend the concept of rude behavior or good table manners?" Concepts that relate to judgments or social expectations are much more abstract for a child, yet they can still be taught in the same way. When I did something that was bad table manners, such as waving my fork in the air, Mother explained to me - very simply and without a lot of verbal chatter - that it was bad table manners. "Temple, waving your fork in the air is bad table manners." She used many naturally occurring teachable moments, helping me connect my action to the concept "bad table manners." She did this matter-of-factly and kept the message simple and consistent. Learning many specific examples also worked when she taught me the concept of rudeness. When I did something that was rude, such as belching or cutting in line, Mother told me I was being rude. Gradually a "rude" concept formed in my brain from the many specific examples.

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Reading Comprehension

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Many children on the spectrum can decode and read, but they have problems with comprehension. To start, focus on the very concrete facts, such as characters' names, cities they visited, or activities they did, such as playing golf. This is generally easier for the child to comprehend. Then move on to more abstract concepts in a passage of literature. For example, if they read, "Jim ate eggs and bacon" they may have difficulty answering the multiple-choice question: "Did Jim eat breakfast, lunch, or dinner?" Teach the child to break apart the question and scan his or her brain files for information that may help with comprehension. For instance, I would search through the files in my brain for pictures of meals. A picture of eggs with bacon is the best match for breakfast compared to lunch and dinner pictures.

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These more abstract concepts and associations don't develop quickly. The child will need to add more and more information into his brain computer before he can be successful with abstractions. This data comes from experiences, which is why parents and teachers need to give the child lots and lots of opportunities for repetitive practice on a concept or lesson. I would start to learn this sort of concept only after a teacher had explained many different stories to me.

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Temple Grandin "The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism & Asperger's" (2011)

Diagnostic exam: do you have math anxiety?

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By Paul Rudnick

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1. When your first grader asks for help solving a Common Core math problem involving subitizing and stable order, how do you respond?

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(a) I strangle my child while shrieking, "This is why ... we ... bought ... you that fancy computer, Liam.

(b) I tell my child, "Go ask your mother. Your birth mother. I think she lives in Canada."

(c) I ask to see the equation, then discuss it with my child using nonsense terms. Example: "Simply tri-dram the hexabop until the tetramint indoles." If my child appears confused, I say, "I wish you were smarter."

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2. If you need to divide a restaurant check by four and calculate the tip, do you:

(a) Leave your wife's earrings on the table instead?

(b) Hand the server a printed card reading, "I have math anxiety. Please add an appropriate gratuity to my portion of the check. I don't care if you overcharge me. I don't care."

(c) Calmly hand the check to your husband and say, "Here. Justify your existence."

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3. When you watch a movie in which the main character rapidly scribbles long, complex equations across a blackboard, what are you thinking?

(a) I read somewhere that Russell Crowe used a hand double for that scene.

(b) I bet that after they filmed this scene Eddie Redmayne fired his agent.

(c) In real life, Benedict Cumberbatch can't remember his PIN number.

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4. What is a hypotenuse?

(a) A very graceful hypot.

(b) An overweight chanteuse.

(c) The French word for profound boredom.

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5. How do you calculate your car's gas mileage?

(a) By driving off a bridge.

(b) I put my head on the hood and listen for the mileage fairy.

(c) I ask Siri to do it, and then wait patiently for her to stop laughing and calling me "a sad little man."

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6. True or false: E=mc squared

Answer: D-minus.

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7. When was the last time you needed to do math?

(a) Never, just like everyone else in the history of the entire world.

(b) When I was measuring a wall for a bookcase and then decided that I'd rather move.

(c) I don't remember, because the last time I heard the words "subprime interest rates," "the Dow," and "refinance," I blacked out, and when I woke up everyone in the bank was dead.

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8. Which would you rather do:

(a) Use a slide rule to solve a trigonometry problem.

(b) Use a slide rule as a rectal thermometer.

(c) Give a slide rule to a math geek as a gift and say, "Finally, you have a genital."

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9. Who is the greatest mathematical genius of all time?

(a) The person who invented the accountant.

(b) Whoever realized that an abacus is just a decorative accent piece on an East Hampton coffee table.

(c) The "Sesame Street" character who, when asked to add two plus two, replied, "Ask a Muppet who gives a damn."

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10. What do you do when you travel to a foreign country and need to figure out the currency?

(a) I ask, "How much is that in real money?"

(b) I remind every salesclerk who won the Second World War.

(c) I hold my American Express card in front of my face and say, in a Pepe Le Pew accent, "Oh, I the-e-enk ju understond vat I'm talking about, Senor Funny Money."

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The New Yorker, October 26, 2015

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles

(Thomas Hardy - Title of novel)

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A few weeks ago I told you of the problems I had with the chap who comes twice a week and arranges nature in our garden.? Fred.? And it was my inability to find him a swan-necked hoe.? Only I had to make do with a dutch hoe and lost faith

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It's terribly important that Fred doesn't treat me as a complete nincompoop as regards gardens or he'll go work for somebody ELSE.

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That is most slightly difficult. Because I don't know a lot about nature and gardens and flowers. I know the difference between a daisy and a banana.? In between there's rather a gray area.?

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I don't see it and I must APPEAR to Fred as though I'm familiar with these things.

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The most humiliating thing was when Fred suddenly said to me, "Taters."

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Was he referring to Taters Andronicus?

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"Taters. Where you dig some potatoes for your wife.? She wanted some potatoes.? And I'm busy.? Could you dig 'em?"

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"But of course, Fred.? Naturally.? Like a flash.? Of course I will."

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And I went and got a fork and realized that I couldn't find any potatoes. I looked all over the ground and looked up in the trees, but there were no potatoes at all.

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So, my daughter was in bed with flu at the time, so I threw some gravel and said (whispering), "What do potatoes look like?"

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And she pointed out where they were.

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So I dug a trench along the side of the potatoes.? About two feet wide and about three feet down.

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And the lead tunneled sideways. And I pulled the potatoes up downwards.? And actually got them up unspoiled.

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And then Fred came and looked at me and said, "What have you done? What you done?"

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"Somehow I've dug up potatoes in a new way.? And it was just waste ground just for these ferns."

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He said, "With the Asparagus bed.

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And ever since, he's been taciturn.? Not to say, terse.

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When things aren't going well between us, he goes down to monosyllables.

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I say, "Good morning, sir.? What a lovely lovely morning.? How nice to see you.? What a lovely day it is!

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And he says, "Nope."

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And I know there's trouble.

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And yesterday Fred said to me, "Dibber."

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And I thought it was a boy scout thing. So I said, "Dib dib dib to you."

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And he looked at me levelly for quite a while and then he said,? "I want a dibber.? By Friday."

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I said, "What PRECISELY.? I know what a dibber is of course. PRECISELY what did you want it for on Friday?"

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He said, "I'm putting seeds in. Bulbs."

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I said, "Ah.? Right.? Friday you shall have it."

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Rushed to the dictionary.? Do you know what a dibber is? A dibber is a fishing rod which is used when you lure the bait on the surface."

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What on earth does he want a fishing rod, which is clearly the simplest form of fishing rod there is.

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It's just a bamboo lumber. So I got a long bamboo thing.? and thought if he wants it for putting seeds in, presumably he'll stick it in the ground and then have all his potato and tomato

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So, I got a lot of little bags and nailed them round the bamboo pole.? Because everybody wanted to put bulbs in.? and I thought there was a hundred-watt bulb in the greenhouse.? There were two sixty-watt bulbs in the shed.? So there clearly was one to spare.

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So I nailed a slice of wood across the bottom of the bamboo things.? And screwed bayonet-fitting sockets there so that he could put his sockets there.

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It looked lovely when I finished.? I painted it all silver.? It looked like a comination between a maypole and a pogo stick.

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And I'm going to give it to Fred tomorrow and say, "You asked for a dibber, Fred.? There's your dibber.? I do hope.? You see, he'll be sort of happy and talkative if it's a success.

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If not, well he'll be, like that character in the Thomas Hardy novel, terse if the dibber fails.

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Ask Well

I live with someone who has really smelly feet. Why does this happen and what can they do about it?

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Stinky feet are normal, especially for people who sweat a lot as a result of exercise, hot weather or shoes that don't breathe. Stepping up foot care might be all someone needs to quell the smell. But that doesn't make it easy to bring up.

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"I see it all the time," said Dr. Nicholas Butler, a podiatrist in Beachwood, Ohio. "People will even be embarrassed to come see me about it."

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If someone has bromhidrosis, the technical term for smelly feet and general body odor, sweat and bacteria are probably to blame, he said. Sweat glands help regulate body temperature, and we have more of them in places like armpits, palms and the soles of the feet.

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But sweat alone doesn't have an odor, Dr. Butler said. Bacteria feed off perspiration, producing acids that can make feet smell like cheese, sulfur or vinegar.

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If someone's feet are moist all the time, even when they're not active, or if they're seeing condensation on the floor when they walk barefoot, there might be an underlying issue, Dr. Butler explained. For instance, plantar hyperhidrosis, a condition where hyperactive sweat glands cause excessive foot sweat, might be the culprit.

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"The more you sweat, the wetter it is," said Dr. Alicia Canzanese, a podiatrist in Glenside, Pa., and damp feet cause more than just bacteria buildup.

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Swampy feet create an ideal environment for fungal infections, like athlete's foot or toenail fungus. Some fungal infections cause odors, but many people who have them might be dealing with fungus and bacteria. In those cases, treating the fungal infection alone might not kill the smell, said Dr. Lori S. Weisenfeld, a podiatrist in New York City.

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If there aren't any symptoms of infection - like itching, red-ness, dryness or cracked skin small adjustments should help, Dr. Butler said.

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KEEP FEET AND TOENAILS CLEAN Many people, especially some children and teenagers, Dr. Canzanese said, don't take the time to clean their feet. Dr. Antonopoulos recommended scrubbing your feet at least daily, including between your toes. Use fragrance-free soap, he said, because while scented soaps might mask the odor, they're more likely to irritate the skin.

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Dirt, bacteria and debris trapped under your toenails can make feet stink, Dr. Canzanese said, so keep them trimmed. And dry your feet thoroughly before putting on your socks, she said.

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TRY AN ANTIPERSPIRANT OR DEODORANT Dr. Canzanese suggested swiping a combination antiperspirant-deodorant stick directly onto the soles of the feet. Use a clear solid that doesn't have any scents or dyes, she said, to reduce the risk of irritation.

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Just make sure to designate a stick that is only for feet. "You don't want to accidentally use the foot one for your armpit, especially if you're prone to athlete's foot," Dr. Canzanese said.

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CHANGE SOCKS AND SHOES Wearing closed-toe shoes without socks "is a recipe for getting very stinky feet," Dr. Canzanese said. And swapping out socks during the day, along with wearing those made mostly of cotton or wool can absorb moisture, she said.

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Rotating shoes every other day can go a long way, too. "When you have the same pair of shoes day in, day out, day after day - they don't really get time to dry in between," said Dr. Jessica Milliman, a podiatrist in Ashtabula, Ohio. But cycling through a few pairs, and opting for mesh-top or open-toe shoes that promote airflow, can keep feet drier.

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DISINFECT YOUR SHOES Dr. Milliman also recommended washing the shoes, spraying them with a disinfectant like Lysol, and letting them dry, so that bacteria doesn't have much opportunity to build up, she explained. In lieu of machine-washing, Dr. Antonopoulos suggested replacing insoles every few months and noted that there are odor-control options.

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If someone still has smelly feet after a few weeks of meticulous foot care, "I tell people, 'You need to go in to see your local podiatrist:" Dr. Butler said.

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Whether its excessive sweat accompanied by bacteria, fungus or something more, a doctor can help. In the meantime, clean, dry feet are a positive step forward: "We have a zone where we thrive best," Dr. Weisenfeld said. "Same with bacteria."

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Amy Jamieson

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