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Tales from The Cup and Chaucer: Punning Business Names
Skip the B.S. By Skip Eisiminger “In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot.”—Arthur Koestler “Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.”—Victor Hugo CLEMSON South Carolina—(Weekly Hubris)—12/26/11—It all…
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Bewhiskered and Bewarted No More: Witchcraft
Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.”—Exodus 22:18 Three hundred and nine years after five Salem women were hanged for witchcraft, they were exonerated by the…
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When Yo Mama Had a Sword: Dueling
Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “When dueling was legal, we were politer.”—Anonymous “When dueling was legal, we were meeker.”—The Wordspinner CLEMSON South Carolina—(Weekly Hubris)—12/12/11—I almost caused an accident recently listening to Dr.…
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Microcosms in the Classroom: Student Surnames
Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.”—William Shakespeare’s Juliet “He said true things but called them…
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The Write Stuff: Cursive vs Keyboard
Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “Writing by hand makes you more apt to hear the inner voice.”—John Updike “Writing words by hand is a technology that’s just too slow for our times…
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Original Kin: Adam and Eve
Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “Eve ate of the apple, enticed Adam to eat of it as well, and all of us, as a result, are rotten to the core.” —Arthur Krystal…
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Thinking Outside “The Bachs”: Musical Instruments
Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “Charles II slept through the sermon, but woke for Westminster’s great pipes.”—The Wordspinner “I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cow bells.”—Christopher Walken CLEMSON…
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Let’s See What Develops: Photography
Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “A new industry [photography] has arisen which contributes much to confirming stupidity in its faith and to ruining what might have remained of the divine in the…
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Game Changers: Change
Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “Fearsome chess masters fear the fearlessness of Deep Fritz.”—The Wordspinner “Roll over Beethoven, dig these rhythm and blues.”—Chuck Berry CLEMSON South Carolina—(Weekly Hubris)—10/31/11—Several bad calls in the…
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Talking Back to the Recorded Message: Authority
Skip the B.S. by Skip Eisiminger “The gods I worshipped demanded the dance of death. I had no other choice . . . .”—Adolf Eichmann “Galileo’s raised middle finger points at the Vatican.”—The…