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She distinctly remembers sitting there and watching with a jar of Jiffy peanut butter and a spoon. Not only does McGruff date no further back than 1980, but Jiffy peanut butter has never existed! (Apologies if you knowingly inserted that detail as a joke.) You forgot to correct my spelling of the B...

talkingaway wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 02, 2020 1:24 am

SHAKESPEARE

The titles of these two Shakespearean plays refer to celebrations held approximately 171 days apart.

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What are Twelfth Night (or What You Will) (January 5 or 6) and A Midsummer's Night Dream (June 24)

You should do a proofread on that response...

mas3cf wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 02, 2020 12:13 am

...But mid-February would be a bit on the early side.

Not necessarily...
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MYSTERY WRITERS This author was born on January 11, 1905 and on October 20, 1905. Who is Ellery Queen? comments This interests me because I was a huge Ellery Queen fan growing up, and have recently been reading through the books again. Alas, EQ has been largely forgotten, but I can't say that's ent...

MYSTERY WRITERS This author was born on January 11, 1905 and on October 20, 1905. Who is Ellery Queen? comments This interests me because I was a huge Ellery Queen fan growing up, and have recently been reading through the books again. Alas, EQ has been largely forgotten, but I can't say that's ent...

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Oh, Alex...I have a feeling Oprah has praised other women authors in the 6 years since Maya Angelou passed - maybe even other ladies who've died besides Toni Morrison... :roll: Oprah has championed many writers in her career, but I think the stronger link that we were supposed to remember, and to w...

So now we are set for the next five weeks. This is really going to freak people out who aren’t fanatics like us. No announcement was given and now we will have three weeks of random episodes. I wonder what they have planned after the TOC. Freak people out? Freak out is what fanatics do. I imagine o...

Oh, Alex...I have a feeling Oprah has praised other women authors in the 6 years since Maya Angelou passed - maybe even other ladies who've died besides Toni Morrison...

MIGHT have gotten "sin till late" but "a prime time hour" isn't late. Pretty much by definition. "Late" starts AFTER prime time. So I felt that clue steered everyone in the wrong direction. I haven’t seen the episode, but solved it here as “sin till eight”. Maybe that was the writers’ intended answ...

MIGHT have gotten "sin till late" but "a prime time hour" isn't late. Pretty much by definition. "Late" starts AFTER prime time. So I felt that clue steered everyone in the wrong direction. I haven’t seen the episode, but solved it here as “sin till eight”. Maybe that was the writers’ intended answ...

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