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Darnright gave me permission to post this in a FReepmail. It was yesterday's word, but it is just too great not to post:

"Remember the old Cinderella movie, probably circa 1960 something? It starred Lesley Ann Warren and Stuart Damon. There was a song in the thing, and it's quoted below:

Impossible,
For a plain yellow pumpkin to become a golden carriage!
Impossible,
For a plain country bumpkin and a prince to join in marriage!
And four grey mice will never be four white horses.
Such folderol and fiddle-dee-dee, of course, is
Impossible!

But the world is full of zanies and fools
Who don't believe in sensible rules,
And won't believe what sensible people say.
And because these daft and dewy eyed dopes
Keep building up impossible hopes,
Impossible
Things are happening every day!

This poster is good! Thanks, darnright!

Oh, no. I really enjoyed some of his later books.

On another note, this story from Instapundit (it was in the New York Post too, according to Howard) is about a college dorm buddy of mine and Howard's, Dileep Nair. He was far too polite to have done this in the late 60's/early 70's, but who knows how people might change:

WASHINGTON — The United Nations was rocked by a new scandal yesterday when reports surfaced that the diplomat in charge of rooting out corruption in the world body is himself facing allegiations about unethical conduct. Fox News reported yesterday that Dileep Nair, the undersecretary general in charge of the U.N. Office of Internal Oversight, has been accused of demanding kickbacks and sexual favors in return for promotions inside his office. Nair, a native of Singapore, also has been accused of attempting to thwart the probe into the Iraq oil-for-food scandal, although his role in that probe remains unclear Sources told The Post the allegations against Nair stem from complaints from employees inside the United Nations that have reached the employees union as well embattled U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. . . . The allegations that the man in charge of ethics enforcement is himself facing charges come at a time when the United Nations is facing the gravest test of its credibility in the wake of the oil-for-food scandal. It also comes a day after the United Nations published a shocking survey in which a majority of the U.N. staff said they fear reprisals from their bosses if they step forward with information about wrongdoing.