Talk Like Betty Boop Day
Today, as every schoolboy knows, is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. First observed in 1995, the day is celebrated by adopting the speech patterns of the stereotypical corsairs of the Golden Age of Piracy […]
Today, as every schoolboy knows, is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. First observed in 1995, the day is celebrated by adopting the speech patterns of the stereotypical corsairs of the Golden Age of Piracy […]
The Walker Art Center, a well-regarded modern art museum in Minneapolis, held what is believed to be the first Internet Cat Video Film Festival recently. The Boston Globe “Truffaut? Please–he couldn’t change my litter […]
BOSTON. Like many young people who come to Boston, America’s biggest college town, Lindsay McPherson is hoping that her next few years here will be a life-changing experience. “I’ve been stuck in a rut,” she […]
Wondering how to end that sentence you’re working on? Don’t know what an “interrobang” is? Ask Mr. Punctuation, if he doesn’t know the answer he’ll look it up in his fourth-grade English book. Dear Mr. […]
HYANNIS PORT, Mass. The Rules Subcommittee of the National Touch Football League emerged from its summer session yesterday with a proposal to cap the number of practice hikes teams may take before a snap, and […]
WASHINGTON. Unemployed penmanship instructors marched on Congress yesterday, the last Sunday before most elementary school students return to school, demanding that the federal government commit $40 billion to improve America’s handwriting in order to avert a […]
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. The school year starts in less than two weeks, which means the Mall of New England here is crawling with boys and girls and their mothers, shopping for clothing and, in the case […]
AMARILLO, Texas. Joe Don Mergen has just one week of freedom left before he begins the school year as a sophomore at Darrell Royal High School here, but he says he’s looking forward to Labor Day […]
BOSTON. It’s 5:55 a.m., and Julie Berman’s alarm clock just went off. She’s not quite ready to get up, but she doesn’t hit the snooze button. “I’ve got to start speed-dialing at 5:59 if I […]