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1. about 6 hours ago on Bozo

   Her presence.

2. about 6 hours ago on Zack Hill

   My wife’s family had a mockingbird that had it in for my mother-in-law. My wife would have to walk behind her with a broom whenever she mowed the lawn to ward it off.

3. about 6 hours ago on Fred Basset

   In the original Jeeves stories it was Bertie’s banjolele Jeeves objected to. I forget which it was tuned like and which it was played like.

4. about 6 hours ago on Fred Basset

   In the musical By Jeeves! Bertie is supposed to give a banjo concert, but his banjo has been stolen, so he tells a story instead which is the bulk of the musical. Some may say the butler did it, but while Jeeves can butle with the best of them at need, he is, properly speaking, a valet, not a butler.

5. about 6 hours ago on The Buckets

   Mom commented about how smart we were (which actually I didn’t think of it till she said so) to play board games under one tree or the other during the heat of the day and baseball when the sun was lower.

6. about 7 hours ago on That is Priceless

   Which he called the Sandwich Islands, after all the sand which is there.

7. about 7 hours ago on That is Priceless

   A TV history course I used to watch noted that Columbus thought the coast of China was at the longitude of Grand Rapids, MI and flashed a picture of favorite son Gerald Ford.

8. about 8 hours ago on Peanuts

   And a boxer whose name I forget, but one of whose samplers showed him knocking out Cassius Clay.

9. about 8 hours ago on Bozo

   I actually have a dentist named Fillmore.

10. about 8 hours ago on Pooch Cafe

    The original 1958 inspiration with David (billed as Al) Hedison cured leading lady Patricia Owen of a severe insect phobia. Ever after when she saw a scary-looking bug she’d say to herself, “Oh, that’s just that nice Al Hedison in a new role.” – paraphrased from Great Horror Movies (Scholastic ca 1971)