If all the trees in all the woods were men,And each and every blade of grass a pen;If every leaf on every shrub and treeTurned
“Advantages of Being in Debt”
Samuel Foote outlined several advantages of not paying our debts. However, for this to work, he said that one should be a man of fortune:
Gleanings from the Past #3
A Convoluted Testimony A witness being called to give evidence in a court of Connecticut, respecting the loss of a shirt, gave the following—”Mother said,
A Dollar a Word
After Rudyard Kipling won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907, a newspaper correspondent reported that Kipling was earning one dollar a word. When a
Msr. Kr. Mr.
Wordplay aficionado Willard R. Espy wondered why if Mr. is the abbreviation of “mister”, why shouldn’t “kissed her” be abbreviated to “kr.” and “blister” to
A Shaggy-Dog Story: Black and White
One day, a reporter went to a farm to conduct an interview with a farmer. Reporter: Do you have some time for a quick interview?
