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Thursday, October 27, 2022

Requiescat in Spooner

He hands you a hand towel and whisks off your coat...
...Christopher's crypt sports a Latinate quote:* 
     men's room attendant / Wren's tomb amendment

     * “Here in its foundations lies the architect of this 
church and city, Christopher Wren, who lived beyond 
ninety years, not for his own profit but for the public 
good. Reader, if you seek his monument -- look around 
you. Died 25 Feb. 1723” -- in Latin, of course. 

Chary Choice; or, Cooties in the Lard

     Note  world-weary playwright Sir Noël Cow- ARD,       who  not only pen 'd 'em:  in sev'ral he  starr'd.       Then  ch...