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I wish I had one of those155th anniversary MMs to add to my collection. On Father's Day, my firstborn son arrived from New York with his family in tow. Son has just taken up pipe smoking, so we sat together on the porch and had a communal smoke. Words cannot express how wonderful that was. I...

Heartiest congrats to you both! Next year, my beloved and I will celebrate our 50th. She's the only girl I ever wanted to marry.

I belonged to a Sherlockian society when I lived in Rhode Island, The Cornish Horrors. Meetings were joyful and well attended. I saw a portion of the New York version of Holmes. I don't remember any pipe smoking, and John H. Watson, MD was morphed into "Joan Watson," an Asian-American...

"When IT is in your mouth" refers to the stem, of course, not the bowl.

You might try turning the stem a bit to the right, which would bring the bowl to a more convenient position for your left hand when it is in your mouth.

My wife and I had an animal farm some years ago, which was situated right next to a woods owned by the Audobon Society. The woods were home to foxes, raccoons, hawks, and other chicken-loving creatures. We did lose several chickens to these freeloaders until I kept the birds in an enclosed...

Bear spearing? That sounds only a little less dangerous than Davy Crockett killing a bear with a hunting knife.

HELP!!! For reasons unknown, I am not allowed to click on to some of the subject entries. No reason for my exclusion is given, nor any remedy. Since so many of you reading this are old hands of the BoB, I'm hoping you can give me some help here. At least, tell me what my crime was and how to...

Even we Americans could see/hear that! Van **** said he had an accent coach for the part, and that poor coach can never live it down.

We coastal New Englanders (in my case, Rhode Island) have a speech that some "outlander" Americans think sounds on the British side. "Aunt" is pronounced like "aren't" without the R. Your rear end is your "bum." And ask a real R'd Islandah to say "I parked my car by the curb not far from a...

Your France-French ex was betraying her ignorance of the language. The brand of the language used in Quebec did not develop as did the one in France and is consequently the older, and dare I say purer, article.

I recall Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady assuring Colonel Pickering that he, Higgins, could identify London dialects, sometimes within a few streets.

Very artistic arrangements, Sid. The beads remind me of a time when I entered a Greek restaurant, where there was such a string hanging on the wall, except it was huge. I remarked jokingly to the lady in charge that they must be used for very important prayers. She told me that it was not a...

Well, you youngsters, I hit the big eight-oh last February. Been a pipe smoker since 1961.

Yes, I've read Twain's book---he said it was his best and was the only one that required extensive research. The tone of it is very different from Twain's other works. It is a great read, and my reaction to the quoted critic is the same as yours!

Joan of Arc has always been a heroine of mine (one of my daughters took the name Jeanne d'Arc as her Confirmation name). It is amazing how this uneducated, almost illiterate peasant girl made fools of this gang of scholars and bullies, who could not convict her fairly, so they just declared her...

My parents gifted me with two pocket watches that belonged to my grandfathers in September 1965 as I entered law school. I have never worn a wrist watch since then.