[Miss Marple]

Are you talking about "Apocolypse Now?" My husband has that on while he is waiting for "The Longest Day" to come on. I was out in the family room looking for bedding in the catalogues and saw about 20 minutes of it. YUK!

I never saw it until this evening. How ANYONE paid money and sat through that is beyond me.

[Iowa Granny]

I understand your frustration with the bedding. Been there.

The Care Center prepared a special meal for our family and we all got to dine with Grandpa in a private dining room today to celebrate his 85th birthday.

[Iowa Granny]

Now they're saying Guttenburg didn't invent the printing press:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1279958/posts

Next it will be Silas McCorrmick didn't invent the reaper, John Deere didn't invent the plow, Eli Whitney didn't invent the cotton gin and Al Gore didn't invent the internet.

[Iowa Granny]

And that Nincompoop of a girl is painting the woodwork black on HGTV. I'm switching to the cowbody channel.

[Mr. Mulliner]

I just finished reading a 1939 printing of Thank You, Jeeves. A guy from the Wodehouse newsgroup sent it to me for free a couple of years ago and it's in pretty good shape.

Bertie and Sir Roderick Glossop both blacken their faces to look like the band of "n***** minstrels" who are touring in Chuffnell Regis. Jeeves, of course, uses the phrase "negro minstrels," but Bertie and others use the former.

I don't think there was a racist bone in Wodehouse's body, just as there wasn't a political bone in his body, but just think how much cannon fodder that n-word would give to the PC crowd today.