The Dalai Lama sent me this:
What do I do with it?
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Pun Corner
The German automobile manufacturer Audi was founded by August Horch.
“Horch” is German for “Listen!”
“Audi” is Latin for “Listen!”
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“Turnabout” was the perfect choice for the name of a recording company—for, after all, “Turnabout is Fair Play.”
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In the latest issue of The New Yorker, Anthony Lane discusses a stack of books about the magazine’s founder, Harold Ross, and his successor, William Shawn:
The entire stack could be crowned with the heading “Fanfare for the Comma Man.”
(If you don't get it, Google Aaron Copland.)
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Yes/No/Maybe
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Are You a Cow?
$29.99
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That’s Just Too Bad
Billionaire Trump Official Says Missing Social Security Checks Are No Big Deal
Howard Lutnick, Donald Trump’s billionaire commerce secretary, suggested on a podcast this week that missing Social Security checks aren’t a big deal, and that only a “fraudster” would actually complain if their monthly benefit didn’t come in the mail.*
As an aside, here’s an obit from the NY Times:
Flo Fox, 79, Dies; Street Photographer Overcame Blindness and Paralysis**
(She eventually survived mostly on Social Security and Medicaid.)
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Franz Nicolay in The Threepenny Review:
[T]he mediocre writer . . . imagines himself a great one, in the gauche American nouveau-riche taste for ostentatious display that slaps gold leaf on every façade, that claims a place in elite taste without understanding elite subtlety.***
(Remind you of anybody?)
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If You’ve Got Enough Money . . .
. . . you could put it in your fanny pack.
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* https://www.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-trump-official-says-missing-195830199.html
** https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/arts/flo-fox-dead.html
*** https://www.threepennyreview.com/gene-fowler-prince-of-the-purple/
