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Face-ing Facts

Posted April 13, 2008

On the show last week, you asked what famous LA resident was suggested by the phrase: Facial crease caused by frowning, perhaps. I think Groucho Marx fits better than Shirley Temple (Surly dimple).

Ellen Spertus of San Francisco, CA

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OUR TYPING TEST

Posted August 11, 2008

IN RESPONSE TO OUR CHALLENGE FOR TYPISTS EVERYWHERE:

Kevin Bryan writes:  I’ve found “dismantlement” (or for a tie, but maybe not in some dictionaries “antiendowment”, “antisudorific”, “autotoxicosis”, and “neurotoxicity")- the longest words you can type with alternating hands on a QWERTY keyboard.

Kevin Bryan of Exter, RI

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MEASURE MISERY…

Posted August 08, 2008

I listen to “Says You!” on WFSU here in Tallahassee.  On last week’s show, Mr. Sher attributed “man is the measure of all things” to Pythagoras.  However, in Plato’s Cratylus and Theaetetus, Plato credits the statement to Protagorus.  It is said to have come from Protagoras’ “book” On Truth.  Also, for the greatest of all confirmations, when you Google the phrase, it is also attributed to Protagoras.

THANK YOU, N.B.  You were the first of many who corrected our error. 

N. B. Jones of Tallahassee, FL

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