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741203a Kind hearts are more than coronets
Kind hearts are more than coronets (Tennyson, poem) The most extraordinary coincidence which helps make this program so leaden is that only a few weeks ago I was recited this proverb in Creole in the
By Dan Eggleston · #144 ·
jarrett dad
When my dad graduated from medical school in 1947, he joined DC's Freedmen's Hospital for a one-year residency. During that year his mother, only thirty-eight years old, died in Freedmen's from
By Dan Eggleston · #143 ·
deer gun
Hunters in the Czech Republic were following a deer when something went wrong. One of their dogs startled it. The deer ran toward them and one of its antlers caught the strap of a hunter's rifle. It
By Dan Eggleston · #142 ·
johnston melania
Protecting American jobs by preventing foreigners from taking them was a major theme throughout the Trump campaign. Soon after Trump won the Republican nomination, questions began to emerge about
By Dan Eggleston · #141 ·
cleese saved time
Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind Now there's efficiency for you! Let me tell you a story. In the 1920s a professor at Oxford and a professor in Beijing communicated with each other by mail for many years.
By Dan Eggleston · #140 ·
wu oprah
In 1982 the then well-known film reviewer and television personality Roger Ebert was a guest on a local morning television show in Baltimore, hosted by a young and unknown host named Oprah Winfrey. As
By Dan Eggleston · #139 ·
greger Our Health in Our Hands
Our Health in Our Hands Coming Soon to a Theater Near You One authority was quoted as saying, "Short of obtaining [antiviral] drugs, there's not really much we can do to prepare." That's hardly true.
By Dan Eggleston · #138 ·
741126b A policeman's lot is not an happy one
A policeman's lot is not an happy one (Gilbert & Sullivan, Pirates of Penzance) When constabulary duty's to be done, to be done, a policeman's lot is not an happy one, happy . . . Anyway, I was going
By Dan Eggleston · #137 ·
rita mom
In 1965, Lenny and I were married in front of a justice of the peace at City Hall in New York. I wore a pretty, simple little dress. After the ceremony, we went out for Chinese food with his best man,
By Dan Eggleston · #136 ·
snake
Leanne Chapman of Brisbane, Australia, came home recently and noticed something on her balcony. Her Christmas tree was surrounded by birds who were - her words - going crazy. She went to see what the
By Dan Eggleston · #135 ·
johnston kashiwagi
Akio Kashiwagi was a crafty soul. He wheeled and dealed for rebates and credit on a scale available only to those willing to risk millions of dollars on each trek to the tables. He also seemed to have
By Dan Eggleston · #134 ·
cleese movie laughter
It has to do with physiology because, in a half-hour format, you can start fairly straight and for twenty-two minutes it can simply get funnier and funnier. But you try to do that in a movie and you
By Dan Eggleston · #133 ·
wu Amos and Andy
One evening in 1928, at a friend's home in Chicago, at 7 p.m. to be exact, Templin heard something quite different on the radio, something along the lines of: "Dell me 'dis one ding - is you a
By Dan Eggleston · #132 ·
greger nationalist flu names
This base human tendency, born of fear and distrust, can fester into a Lord of the Flies social pathology of hate. The bubonic plague led to violent attacks upon minorities such as Jews, especially
By Dan Eggleston · #131 ·
rita elvis
Ironically, Elvis worshiped Marlon Brando. Marlon was one of his favorite actors. In fact, Elvis had patterned his black leather and swaggering attitude on Marlon's "iconic" antisocial biker Johnny
By Dan Eggleston · #130 ·
PM
Anyone can get on the ballot in the U.K. if they pay 500 pounds. So while Boris Johnson led his party to a massive election victory in the U.K. against Labour's Jeremy Corbyn, he had other
By Dan Eggleston · #129 ·
rita JFK
Gorgeous! It was the very first time I'd ever seen a woman wearing white opera gloves. In other words, a lady. As this couple slowly walked in, sauntering as though to catch everyone's attention, the
By Dan Eggleston · #128 ·
cleese chinese race
Let me tell you a story. In the 1920s a professor at Oxford and a professor in Beijing communicated with each other by mail for many years. Eventually the Chinese professor wrote saying that he was
By Dan Eggleston · #127 ·
hochschild treaty
The very word TREATY is a euphemism, for many chiefs had no idea what they were signing. Few had seen the written word before, and they were being asked to mark their X's to documents in a foreign
By Dan Eggleston · #126 ·
greger live poultry markets throughout the northeastern
In 1998, 30% of the markets were infected with H7N2, particularly in the New York metropolitan area. New York has more live markets than all other states in the Northeast combined. By 2001, inspectors
By Dan Eggleston · #125 ·