Everybody Gets A Charge Out Of Frankenstein Puns
October 25, 2014
This year we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the film classic “Young Frankenstein.” With Halloween shambling toward us, here’s a brief bio of that famous
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This year we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the film classic “Young Frankenstein.” With Halloween shambling toward us, here’s a brief bio of that famous
In a letter to a 12-year-old boy, Mark Twain wrote, “I notice you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the
After English, the most commonly spoken language in the continental United States is overwhelmingly Spanish. The only exceptions are French in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont
Responding to the challenge of my recent limericks contest, you, my verbivorous readers, winged me 193 sprightly examples of that light verse form. In gratitude,
Simone and I were transfixed throughout last week by the Public Television series “The Roosevelts: An Intimate History” In seven two-hour episodes, archival documentary filmmaker
Believe it or not, each year Sept. 24 is National Punctuation Day. Now you might think that celebrating those little and lowly dots, lines and
Two hundred years ago, the words to what has become our national anthem were first set to paper. On Sept. 14, 1814, a 35-year-old Washington
Earlier this week, Random House Children’s Books released a shiny new Dr. Seuss book titled “Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories.” The collection
Now could there be anything betterer, For an avid word-junkie competitor? No crossword or Jumble Is worth half the tumble As a limerick contest from