10 days ago by ourfriendben

Actually, our friend Ben must confess, maybe these aren’t as much scary as obscure. Unless, of course, you find turnips as terrifying as our friend Ben does! See how many of these you know: 1. Even the name is scary. The holiday was originally called ”All Hallows’ Even” [evening], then condensed to ...

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10 days ago by MiStEr QuIm

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11 days ago by MiStEr QuIm

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11 days ago by MiStEr QuIm

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12 days ago by ourfriendben

Our friend Ben was quite disturbed to return home last night to find a distraught Silence Dogood screaming and shrieking about the state of her computer. As Luddites, we’re not exactly adept at computer maintenance. We turn it on, we turn it off, the end. So I’d already been perturbed when Silence h ...

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13 days ago by ourfriendben

Our friend Ben was recently alarmed to see an article on, I suspect, MSN (I’d assumed it was on RealAge, but was unable to track it) about how you could tell how old your brain was. I was alarmed because the article said that the way to tell how old your brain is (or was it how young your brain is?! ...

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14 days ago by ourfriendben

Our friend Ben loved the recent post by Nell Jean of Secrets of a Seed Scatterer, “Ten Reasons I Like Your Blogs.” They were eminently sensible reasons, and our friend Ben even learned something I didn’t know (people have background music on their blogs?!!). Read them for yourselves at http://seedsc ...

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15 days ago by ourfriendben

Silence Dogood here (again). Our local paper likes to feature a short column of themed statistics on Saturdays, and this week’s topic was obscure superheroes. One of the superheroes that made me and our friend Ben laugh was Captain Kerosene. Ha!!! Of course, then I couldn’t get Captain Kerosene out ...

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17 days ago by MiStEr QuIm

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17 days ago by MiStEr QuIm

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