During my recent stint on the grand jury, I showed up one day wearing one brown shoe and one black shoe. And although I sat in the front row with both feet visible, no one said anything and I saw no eyes examining my mismatched shoes. That proved to me what I have long suspected: No one looks at men's shoes. I think women look at other women's shoes only, and men, unless they are foot fetishists, look at no one's shoes. I would like to say that I purposely wore two different shoes as a sociological experiment, but that would be a lie. Chalk it up to a sleepy guy getting dressed in a dark room.
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Pete Seeger, who turned 90 yesterday, may once have been a naive communist, but we could sure use some Seeger-type songs today.
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It probably doesn't do much good to take a brisk 30-minute walk then top it off with a slab of strawberry-rhubarb pie.
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Speaking of gluttony, the illustration for May on my Coke calendar probably first appeared in the 1920s or '30s and proclaims, “The six-ounce glass is the right size for a perfect Coca-Cola.” Today, of course, the standard is 20 ounces in a plastic bottle. No wonder so many Americans are supersized.
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Here's the puzzlement answer you've been waiting for. Two babies born on the same day in the same year with the same mother and father are not twins ... because they are two of a set of triplets. (Heh.)
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