March 1
1. Hopi Indians (Native Americans), Hope Arkansas, and Hopewell New Jersey, 2. a napping baby goat isn't kidnapping, 3. Acacian schism, okay, ak, cia, shin, açaí, vacation occasion, and -of course- schizo schism chasm orgasm jism spasm!, 4. Pope Felix the cat, 5. germy worms in Worms, Germany, 6. chaucer's cup and saucer, 7. caxton can't xo, 8. elbowed out of elba, 9. hauron and sauron, 10. ulysses and odysseus, grant and odyssey, 11. yellowstone was named by indians for yellow sandstone on beaches (on the yellowstone river) several hundred miles downstream from the park, 12. 14th amendment, amen! T14 rah!, 13. dead jack mccall at deadwood, SD, 14. flowing like wada at the battle of adwa, 15. bolsheviks, bolshoi, vicki, victory, 16. axis powers, axe murderers, 17. the venerable venera 3, 18. public larry cola, and publius valerius publicola, rr, roman republic, ronald reagan, railroad, rolls-royce, 19. Huguenots and nuts about Hugo, 20. getting a sense of us, the census, 21. the DEI company, (dutch east india), 22. Muhammad Ali ruled egypt in the 1800's, bad luck for the mamluks, 23. Nebraska (37) means "flat water" in an indian language (Otoe) for the platte river (river plate is in argentina), 24. feeling sick in Amwell NJ, 25. rotting in the republic of Texas, 26. roman curia, the roaming cure, walk n talk, 27. blood Ba'ath, 28. infinitely indefinite, 29. everything > infinity (everything includes infinity), 30. Anaconda in Afghanistan? they live in South America, 31. a part of everything, or apart from everything, 32. E.T. is everything, 33. ICC makes The Hague less vague, 34. much ado about tornadoes, 35. Armenians, armed and mean, 36. cunning kunming c-nts.
March 2
1. plural cases of pleurisy, multiple multiplicities, grim reaper, repeating, 2. DH Lawrence, and DHL ("day and half late"?), 3. brain tumor, and pain humor, 4. a donation to the church of St. Donat, (donuts after?), 5. battle of grandson (!?), it boggles the mind, 6. I can't compose (or identify) a cantata, 7. the task of conquering Tuscany, 8. CW, cold war, civil war, conventional wisdom, christopher walken, 9. ecstasy in missouri, 10. Rutherford Birchard Hayes, in the smoky haze of an R and B club, 11. compounds are sexy, (cum! pounding!), 12. comintern wanted world revolution (which happens every year around the sun, anyway), 13. what's eating babe ruth?, 14. taking a drive in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 15. the Air Force, forcing air into somebody's lungs, 16. Dr. Vivian Fuchs (how do you pronounce that, lol), 17. books by and for Penguins? lol, 18. 100 points in '62 by WC ("the stilt"), Wilt Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Fields, William Casey, 19. who knew? U Nu (!), 20. don't drink gin when operating a cotton gin, 21. dr. seuss' masseuse, 22. Gorby, Gore, Arby's, and aching v, 23. wolfing down Tom Wolfe, 24. John Irving, swerving like Dr. J, 25. Karen Carpenter and Charpentier, baroque composer, 26. Jon Bon Jovi, jingle bells, blowjob, 27. lesbian leisure, 28. writing a czech for a visit to bohemian grove, 29. writing a credo in Edo, a toe (theory of everything) in Tokyo, 30. Kingdom of Kandy (in Sri Lanka), 31. tectonic plate, platte river, and platt amendment, 32. mandala and the mantsala rebellion, 33. compact discs released in u.s. ('83), 34. my trans niece from Transnistria, 35. Oganesson, synthetic chemical element (Og), original gangster, dawg, 36. throwing in the Taliban, 37. a and w (root beer), accept and welcome suffering, (but don't seek it out), be christlike, take up the cross, the redemptive value of suffering, yada yada yada!, 38. all that nothing out there is really something!
March 3
1. new form of pneumonia, 2. mourning Arthur Murray in the morning (a.m.), 3. bdsm, and ballroom dance sex machine!, 4. s and m, spinal meningitis, 5. a cow's gall bladder, and the Mughal emperor, Akbar (and Jeff!), 6. Da' ud Khan, David con, 7. eating hominy in the Bahamas, 8. lewd wig, 9. Russian serfs freed (to go surfing!), 10. Freedmen's Bureau (and facebook, fb), 11. Comstock Law (and panic bonds?), communists (and panicked monists?), 12. Helen Keller and LL cool j, 13. suffragette suffering, 14. Caleb the caliph, 15. Muhammad, cows (moo!), pigs (ham), madness (anger, insanity), id (identification, freudian ego/id/superego), 16. SSB in 1931, (Star-Spangled Banner), 17. thinking of Alfieri Maserati in the a.m., 18. Bob Dylan and John Dillinger and dill pickles, 19. insurgent surgeons, 20. who was Rodney King's queen?, 21. Sabin and Salk, playing polo against polio, 22. ff, flash floods, french fries, fear factor, furious five, foo fighters, fast and furious, family feud, fan fiction, fast forward, false flag, bra size, 23. does the name Alexander Graham ring a bell?, 24. Strube, conductor, composer (strube light!), 25. oh mercy, it's jackie joyner-kersee , 26. BOBS, sailors at sea, battle of bismarck sea, massacre, mass and soccer, 27. emperor and electro magnetic pulse, 28. Florida (27), 29. 407 year islamic caliphate ends in 1924, 30. oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1938, 31. Nuri al-Said, Iraqi p.m., fury to be freed, 32. naughty on the USS Nautilus, not!
March 4
1. hiss in the house! rheumatism in the room!, cop on the property!, bitchin' kitchen!, 2. Wen-ti, what went wrong? we went together for so long..., 3. which side: On the Chou, or Sui, side?, 4.Edward, earl of March, 5. Notorious B.I.G., RBG, Richard III, 6. imprisonment for "preaching without a license", lol, 7. pp, pilgrim's progress, polish power in eastern europe, 8. pen, penitentiary, pennsylvania, william penn, pentateuch, pentagon, penthouse, pentacle, penury, penis, 9. BOB, British-occupied Boston, 10. DH, designated hitter, dorchester heights, 11. friend or photography, daguerrotype or dagger, 12. GD, Gottlieb Daimler, Great Depression, 13. that was my fifth visit to the firth of forth, 14. triple A, what a trip, 15. cs, christian science, lewis, corsica n sardinia, and crime syndicate, 16. Ernest Hemingway, eh?, 17. zzz, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Zaire (zim-zam-zair!), 18. phun with prince henry the navigator, 19. Richard the third (dick III), in a roof-top tent, 20. Nero, not erotic, 21. Nicomedian media, 22. Croat, where's my crow at?, 23. have a seat on the bank of the Sit, 24. I am, ram your body, Ramathibodi, king of siam, 25. rose v. rose, war of the roses, charlie rose and rose marie, rows, 26. sad war (second anglo-dutch), 27. France's 83 departments and Hernan Cortes, and Havana Cuba and Halley's Comet and church, 28. VT (14), 29. eek you men! ecumenical, come in, 30. stars and bars on cars, maybe even on mars, saltire satire, 31. Jeannette Rankin, related to Mike?, 32. S and P 500 replaced S and P 90 in '57, 33. up up and quit your books, in Bucharest, 34. Bashar al Assad and Omar Hassan al-Bashir (valium would have helped that bash), 35. Donetsk and done tasks, 36. novichok, lying in chalk.
March 5
1. bm, boston massacre, (started as a) sf, snowball fight, 2. Joseph Stalin (s.j.?) "responsible for more deaths than any other man in history," died ('53, age 73), "8-10 million of his own people", 3. geezus, John Belushi only lived 33 years, (as long as Jesus), 4. college of cardinals, electoral college, and real college (I got collij!), 5. friar in hell?, montgomery burns? I know a (michael) helbush and a (josie) fries; hh, his holiness - and the homo hellions, happy hooker, 6. Tycho Brahe and taiko drums/brassieres, 7. Copernicus "false and erroneous": everyone knows the world revolves around the pope!, 8. Townshend acts (and Pete), 9. Portugal, porch chew gull (say what?), 10. ghouls at Staples (Gould invented the stapler), 11. smyrna, and smegma, 12. lithography and lithium, 13. andy gibb, attorney general, 14. cavalry vs. calvary, 15. JC again: John Cabot, 16. Louisiana, Louis + Anna, LA, 17. Mefistofele, 1868 Boito opera, 18. bangsamoro? ha, 19. Roger, British raj, 20. fire-eaters and the spitfire aircraft, 21. intelligentsia and an A at SI (st. Ignatius), 22. Bahrain (humbug), can't stand the rain -tina turner (but I can make a snowman), and the Grateful Dead song (looks like rain), 23. cold rain and snow, box of rain, rain, weather report suite -gd songs, 23. clear air turbulence, cat, 24. Mogadishu, modus operandi, dish served cold, 25. p.c. patsy cline, pussycat.
March 6
1. battle of the Alamo, lame-o: (185 texans held off 4000 Mexicans for 12 days, killing 1500), 2. Aragon high school, and (Tesh-)ara-gone (Espana), 3. Kent from Ghent, 4. Poor Clares, so p.c., 5. Royal Roy, 6. John Stuart Mill, Julie - Sam - Miette; the word "jazz" appears in print (in an SF sports report), 7. buying time, purchasing thyme, reading time magazine, 8. atomic structure, struck? sure, 9. Cermak on the tarmac, 10. Rauter, rout, wifi router, 11. Cassius Clay becomes MA ('64), 12. dang, da nang, 13. Shaquille O' Neal: he has 5 children (sons?), 14. chairman, like jesus (sitting at my right hand?, lol), 15. aspirin, asca, acetylsalicylic acid, dangerous -if you ask me, bayer in bay area, 16. information about inflammation, 17. reading about RDN (Robert DeNiro, and radon, radioactive nobility), 18. p.m. pontifex Maximus ("greatest priest", in latin), 19. two-tonic nights, 20. chewing gum in Guam, 21. f.m. ferdinand magellan, and ellen, 22. free slaves (no cost? or liberty?), 23. my chair is periodically a table, 24. anarchist antichrist assassin, flunk fail and flop, or suck seed, 25. time and space, eras and areas, 26. FU, french union, fooled us, fu-manchu, 27. E and J brandy, Ethel and Julius, 28. Stalin's daughter defected to the U.S. in '67 (!), 29. zap-ruder, ray-gun, and shocking charges, 30. flavor flav and flavius, 31. 1 survivor (of 103!) of a 2003 flight in Algeria.
March 7
1. Aristotle taught tots a little, 2. Divine (female impersonator), to heaven (aka hell, place of the dead), 3. peace and prosperity, what a bunch of pap, 4. re-run and roman emperor, running for office, lol, 5. pope excommunicates and deposes the HRE (alpha-male pissing contest), 6. bossanova in Fossanova, ta, thomas aquinas, adios, god, 7. JC, James Cook, 8. celestial research (theologians studying the heavens?), earth is one of the heavens, IN one of the heavens, and also the place of the dead (hell), 9. Ra's al ghul and the Royal Astronomical Society, 10. peerage, and the battle of Pea Ridge, 11. the (forensic) battle against serial killers/killings, and the first cornflakes served in Battle Creek, Michigan (1897), 12. JK, dr. john kellogg, rowling, just kidding, jack kilmartin, jammu and kashmir, johannes kepler, joyner-kersee, jack kerouac, etc. , 13. CS Rolls, rolling, 14. BMW, aircraft engines (1916), motorcycles (1923), and cars (1929), 15. Vineland and the Rhineland, 16. Ra, republican army (in spain), teshara?, te/cher/ra, roald amundsen, 17. Emma and Jen, at Remagen, 18. bang, bang, (bangladesh lost a million people, fighting Pakistan), 19. in the maw of men at work, 20. A.M., again - alessandro manzoni, 21. Niepce (inventor of photography)'s niece, 22. maurice ravel, the pompatus of love (the joker, steve miller band, s and m), and unravelling, 23. nonce words and words of none of the nuns, 24. I'm a joker, I'm a smoker, sure don't want to hurt no one (vs. suicidal cigs/death sticks), 25. can't hold a candle to Ivan Lendl, 26. ff, feature films, (13) under the rubric of Stanley Kubrick, xx, 27. it would be rash to slash at sam gash, 28. Tammy Faye Bakker, with a true faith blessing?, 29. P.M. Piet Mondriaan, 30. Burbank CA is named after David, not Luther, 31. arm wrestling with Armstrong, 32. a link to carol, and willing to go see carel willink, 33. can't shake the sheikh!, 34. a landslide victory, god wins (loser buried in mud), 35. MIG, multiple miggs in the next cell, aircraft, "men in gear" football hooligans, 36. a "clockwork orange" is named from cockney rhyming slang, referring to a person who has the appearance of an organism lovely with color and juice, but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil, or the Almighty State; (a behaviorally robotic person), (a weird expression apt for a queerness or madness so extreme as to subvert nature), 37. martial arts, louis vuitton, and advanced placement: marcus aurelius, lucius verus, antoninus pius; verus versus virus (verses); commodus, commode, commodious, 38. chiffonier ("rag-picker"), 39. wussup, University of Paris?, 40. Cyprus, cypress, and cypress hill, 41. Jafar and Jaffa, 42. crayons, and the battle of craonne, 43. Prince wow, william of wied, pronounced why'd or weed?, we ed, 44. Helsinki and Hell's Kitchen, 45. U-47 (U-boat), and telefunken u-47, 46. sss, service as a soviet spy, 47. Selma and selling your mother (e.g. as a slave), 48. Salman eats salmon, 49. army of the (good, righteous, pure), 50. baseball and the Bata explosions (Equatorial Guinea, e.g.).
March 8
1. MF, Millard Fillmore, 2. Taft's heft, he weighed 352 pounds, 3. pick your pick: tooth or guitar or pickaxe?, 4. a molehill stumbles the horse of, and kills, king william third (!), small things can be big, devil in the details, 5. priestly Priestley? discovered oxygen, suffocated mice, 6. listening to an audiobook about Abukir, Egypt, 7. Emmet, am it, dammit, 8. oops, I slew sailors on a sloop, 9. "I doubt you can take the redoubt" said the readout, 10. anarchist assassin, my aa higher power, 11. Busby and George (Berkeley), 12. java surrendered by dutch to japanese, (coffee, dutch ovens, pots and pans), 13. researching roberto duran, (Panamanian), 14. boxing weight classes (17) (including fly, bantam, featherweight, lightweight, welterweight, jr. middleweight, middleweight, light heavy, cruiser, heavy), 15. meteorite and meatier write :-), 16. Erin and Kathy Ireland, 17. is fission or fusion in fashion?, neither! fishin' is the fashion, is my confession!, 18. cagey, kg, kenneth grahame, 19. pain at home, and oliver wendell holmes jr., 20. vile violinist!, 21. a green grave (2010) above lynn redgrave, 22. good grief, Grafe (plastic surgery, p.s.), 23. a row at heathrow, 24. Suez? is sue a woman of easy virtue?, 25. Otto Hahn, German (rhymes with autobahn), and Chinese Han, 26. the russian "february revolution" (julian) was in march (gregorian), in 1917, 27. czar v. duma, car doom, and tsar star do ma (milf?), elves and shelves, 28. Ferdowsi makes me drowsy, 29. Urraca, you rock, 30. the bishop of Strasbourg had his own army, 31. both knees, and the Gulf of Bothnia, 32. Safavid reader, 33. all things Althing, 34. Sakai, Osaka and sockeye salmon, 35. Kut (Iraq) it out!, 36. stock cars and bond cars, 37. Rangoon and calling up enforcers, 38. ee, evil empire, 39."Mera Jism Meri Marzi (my body, my choice)", say Pakistani feminists.
March 9
1. St. Thomas Aquinas, stopped, 2. geographers and cartographers, maps, spam, 3. america named after amerigo (vespucci, not a merry-go-round), 4. samuel barber, sara brown, somebody, supreme being, starbuck's, son of a bitch (female dogs do not give birth to human males, lol), 5. Albumazar and the eschaton, ("predicted the world's end when the 7 (then-known) planets come into conjunction in the last degree of pisces,") 6. all married priests (!) excommunicated in 1074 (by pope gregory seventh), 7. deranged lord darnley, range rover (anger over!), kitchen range top, home on the range, ranger rick, orange, 8. false teeth, for the truly toothless, 9. U.S. African slave trade abolished in 1807 (under Jefferson), says my book (today in history), but Alexa says not until 1865 (13th amendment) (under Lincoln), 10. reactions (like "encore"), and actors acting again, 11. Ariel (angel of god) aerial (in flight), 12. Bob Hope and hopeless (7/27/2003, pneumonia, age 100), 13. ee, east of eden, cummings, electrical engineering, expressed emotion, erik estrada, electric eels, 14. Essen is not my screen name, 15. the shriners and curt schreiner, 16. ancient (formed in 1872) arabic order of nobles of the mystic shrine (lol), 17. bf, bobby fischer, boyfriend, 18. shitamachi, tokyo neighborhood, in the shit, firebombed, ('45), 19. lucha libre and liu che, 20. Tbilisi, taken easily, 21. treaty of tordesillas, not treaty of tortillas, 22. ex-one, exonerated, 23. I won a copy of wealth of nations, 24. kingdoms, dumb bells, dumb waiters, and human dummies, deaf-dumb-blind, dumbarton.
March 10
1. Def Leppard, def jam, defenestration, and defeat, defcon defense, defamation of character, 2. cede, seed, sede, cession, session, see, si, sea, c, 3. the divine comedy, written by a poet (dante alighieri) condemned in absentia to death by burning for crimes he did not commit (doesn't seem all that funny, if you ask me), 4. a cafe in cathay (european word for china), which christopher columbus, called cuba, in hope of continued conquest, 5. voltaire, and a charged atmosphere, 6. jack slade, merely drunk and disorderly, slayed, by vigilantes, 7. mother's day (2nd sunday in may) is not mothering sunday, (4th sunday in lent), 8. great soul spent 2 years in prison for sedition, (mahatma mohandas), 9. bm, book of the month, 10. Jezebel, jess a belle, sade (singer, not the marquis), 11. Fidel, at bat (-ista), 12. the devil in a mustang (must get angry!), 13. the tibetans (buddhists) seem to have an aversion to being controlled by beijing (not really very funny), 14. bay zhing or bay jing?, 15. Chuck Norris (nunchucks or wrist?), hbd, 16. Sharon Stone is not a nazi (I think), 17. Is Shannon Miller into S and M?, 18. Wayne Dyer (died in 2015), 19. Herriot with a harlot at the Marriott, 20. "big spider's back" vs. bix Beiderbecke, 21. Betty, john paul Getty, and william Etty, 22. the punic wars weren't puny, imo, like a war between ants or something, (greater Antilles?), snake says "hiss-paniola," 23. duke of nevers (never-never land?), 24. ganja, Azerbaijan and weed, california, 25. Reginald in a regiment, 26. Segou and Segovia, 27. bamana empire (of mali), and bananas, (originated in se asia) 28. Ernest Medina, that's cold, funky cold, 29. Mecca-nization.
March 11
1. a lizard in a blizzard, 2. rizzo the rat (muppet), teshara (he's a rat), schizo, 3. Tsai Lun invented paper (105a.d.), (silence of cylons), 4. fitna and mount Etna, 5. daily courant, nightly koran, 6. bill Cosby at Sotheby's, 7. rude luddites, in a mood for food, 8. Frankenstein, Frank n' Stein (lol), 9. civil war in 1861 (r18f6a1), our father!, 10. sf, spanish flu, 1918, killed (xx) around 40 million (worldwide, ww), 11. Papua New Guinea pap in the paper, ping!, 12. kurdish self-rule, pow - right in the kisser, (kissinger was not secretary of state) 13. fall into the gap, G and P, glasnost and perestroika, openness and restructuring, 14. take a walk with larry welk, or a walk-uh, with neil sedaka, 15. RA, ralph abernathy, 16. Douglas Adams, born '52 (died age 49), da, 17. Soviet, so be it, 18. Q and A session with Queen Anne, 19. Jah is an arabic word, too, 20. litany of abuses near the Litani river, 21. pristine Pristina.
March 12
1. gorgeous borg, gorgons, org argh, 2. Josephine Hull goes to hell, 3. papal power described as "years in peter's chair" (sometimes he might need to get up and stretch, lol), 4. Gregory the grating, can't chant, 5. Tibetan king Gambo eats gumbo, 6. Chinese princess Wen Cheng, just a wench, 7. Why would a pope call himself urban? a dislike of the rural?, 8. Be nice to Venice, 9. Bermuda (triangle? it's 138 islands, not 3!), 10. Orlando Jones, the other oj, 11. the blood red river campaign of the union, u.s. civil war, 12. 1894, first bottles of coke (with cocaine!) go on sale, 13. Carnegie built 65 branch libraries in NYC (my hero!), (today it should be all books, movies, music for everyone, globally - and healthcare, clean water), 14. British "monopoly on salt" strikes me as humorous, 15. fireside chats, and dispatches from hell, 16. Austria is awesome!, as are Aussies, 17. Truman, and false women, 18. Eugene and Jenny McCarthy, 19. sheesh, arrested for possession of hashish?, 20. the pistol from bristol!, 21. (32) female priests ordained in coe in '94, 22. anne frank, A and F, always and forever, 23. jane delano founded the red cross (bloody jesus!, better red than dead, jd power and associates), 24. jt, jesse teshara, james taylor, john travolta, justin timberlake, jt snow, Juneteenth (6/19/1865, TX liberation), etc., 25. do combs (like forks) have tines?, 26. Giuliano de' Medici (jew with itchiness medication), 27. well Albee, 28. Young and Jung, 29. munching on munchies with edvard munch on a muni bus in munchen, 30. girl guides, and girly guys, 31. annexation and anne rice's neck (lol), 32. vicious, delicious, in mauritius, 33. hello and mumbai, 34. belgrade means "white city", 35. Bernie Madoff, bm.
March 13
1. 37 witnesses to a murder in Queens ('64), but none called the police!, 2. cattle in seattle, battle for an atoll, 3. tada! Tadayoshi :-), 4. Yucatan and me-katana, chris kattan, 5. hbd L Ron, evokes Enron, and nursery rhyme: old mother hubbard (omg), went to the cupboard, to fetch her poor dog a bone... 6. Huguenots and Hugo knots, 7. driven from power in a coupe (lol), 8. Ghent, again, 9. Henry Shrapnel lived to the age of eighty, 10. william casey, an interesting case, 11. a ton of sex with the sexton, brian saxton, using a sextant to get to texas, 12. losing, and reluctantly, the confederacy enlisted black slaves as soldiers (wow), 13. cats, and czar alexander the second, assassinated, hiss hiss sin -ated, 14. good god, what great galloping!, 15. syphilitic ghosts?, 16. kapp putsch, capiche?, 17. Seven "road" comedies, for the cinematic "road" scholars, 18. bing crosby and bill cosby, and billy crystal (with cry in his name), 19. dorothy lamour, mi amour, 20. solidify (power), liquidate (assets), and gas (undesirables); devil hates everyone (but has preferences? all shit, butt using preference brand tp), 21. alliance for progress, made progress, or a lie?, 22. kinder-gartners and a sick, cruel adult, 23. uranus discovered by herschel, named after "the most ancient of the greek gods, and the first ruler of the universe," have a hersheys (not a him-he's), 24. Donald Duck (shouldn't be a subliminal message to duck) :-( 25. volvo dl, and daniel lambert, english giant (e.g. 739 pounds, at death), 26. perceiving percival (lowell), 27. lowell is a high school, maybe with depressed students getting high?, 28. clear body, clear mind (and the invisible man), and being able to "see through" people, (indigo girls lyric), (I've read dianetics, and h.g. wells), 29. is dianetics useful for diabetics?, 30. 1781, my anus discovered, 31. Khartoum, car tomb, 32. free oranges, I'm in a state!, 33. Fulgencio Batista on fb, 34. modern lunacy on the lunar module, 35. Oh Seikan (tunnel) UC?, 36. devil's footprints (ciampate del diavolo) and a devil's haircut (beck), 37. the yahweh has a dead end (like every other way).
March 14
1. Karl Marx, only 3 of his 7 children lived to adulthood (and 2 of these killed themselves), 2. FAC, grades, future armed conflict, 3. june the boon, dennis the menace, hovey in love, hateful kate, angry hank, cruel huell, kind mind, mindy, a blessing from jess, love from above, blow from below, white from the right, heft from the left, a runt in the front, fined for getting behind, onward, nerds! 4. AE, al einstein, hbd (died 4/18/'55, age 65, abdominal aortic aneurism, aaa, straight a's), did he ever find the mind of god?, he had a dog (!), named chico marx, 5. livy lives!, 6. hillary reads sir thomas malory!, 7. royal charter and RC church, arsey, the ass in mass; also, "reward circuit" in the brain (e.g. dopamine), 8. bavarian aria, bavarian cream, ovarian cyst, 9. treaty of ulm, and tracy ulman, elm and ulna, 10. Eli Whitney and dour-knees, 11. bird sanctuary, what a bunch of b.s., says the birdman of alcatraz, at pelican bay supermax state prison, in california, 12. Rockefeller foundation, he found his wife... a fella met a fella in a field of beans...says a fella to a fella can a fella tell a fella what a fella really means? ha!, 13. p.s. the petrograd soviet, chaos theory, and the ww1 russian military, 14. shirley temple, surely temporary, died in 2014, (copd), 15. kharkov, car accident kills vampire!, 16. floods are actually not related to liquidation, 17. (3/'50 - 5/'98), the fbi "10 most-wanted list" resulted in the capture of 130 of the 454 (28.6 percent) fugitives on the list ("it must be nice to be wanted" lol), 18. Krakow, and the pain of kicking a cocaine addiction, 19. "murder with malice" is capital punishment, itself, I believe, 20. Assad's sad ass, sod, 21. Andorra says no more-uh (of their 750 year-old feudal system of government) in '93, 22. Michael Caine and cocaine, too, 23. Frank Borman likes it boring!, without the urgency of emergency, or the stress of guessing, or the panic of anicca, or the fear of tears!, 24. mm, ketcham with ketchup, 25. can you handle listening to Handel?, 26. Strauss and the stress of a mouse, 27. Telemann? tell Amman, (capitol of) Jordan, 28. Bing 'admiral sir John byng', google 'googol', 29. intelligent Patrick, and patent, 30. standards and sit-ards, 31. Alam Ara means 'ornament of the world' (I guess 'ara' means world? says tesh -ara), 32. bombs with names: little boy, fat man, trinity, grand slam, satan, moab, 33. Seoul food, 34. ANC, Arlington national cemetery, African national congress, 35. indexing, each letter of the alphabet has a corresponding number, like elements on the periodic table, or the order of statehood, or bible pages/chapter/verse, or words associated with different numbers, like 49ers, or Satan (ten), or number 1 or 2 (bathroom code), or "three on the tree" (shifting), or Four Nguyen/book of numbers, or the pentagon, or sex, or 7-11, or 7:04 a.m., or ate, or nein! (german), or listen (list ten!), tennessee, tennis, etc., dates, birthdays, events, times, lists like this :-)
March 15
1. jew (lee us) sees her, (et tu brute?), brutus the brutal brute, 2. Longinus with angina, on Long Island, 3. hungry bears, and barbarian hungarians, 4. pals from Palos, Spain, 5. russian settlers at the rushing river, and irish setters, 6. (slave) misery in MO, missouri compromise, mind control, emcee (master of ceremonies), 1100 (Roman numerals), multiple choice, missionaries of charity, motorcycle club, 7. seedy charles dickens, had 10 children (!), died age 94, 8. Royce produced cars, and Rolls sold them, 9. Finland, in the beginning, 10. autos can get a bad rap, and Otto merged with Rapp, to form BMW, 11. doo-wop, do a wap, wet ass pussy, woman against pornography, 12. Fats domino, Roscoe "fatty"Arbuckle, biggie, chunky (candy), huge Hugo, large and in charge, go giants, 13. RC, republic of congo, 14. ace, ambition to conquer europe, 15. AJ, apple juice, and andrew jackson, 16. hbd, phil lesh, less full, less filling/tastes great, 17. Judd Hirsch, hersheys, hashish, 18. Sly Stone, like St. Stephen, also not a nazi, 19. duel, and days of our lives, o'douls, doula, do ellen, 20. ideas of march, 21. king takes king! (493), 22. umami and imamate and inmate, 23. Tampico and Tampere, 24. Pangalos and pangolins, 25. Carpatho-Ukraine, for a day, lol, 26. the whole world as a "commonwealth"? why not, 27. Mikhail Gorbachev drives an MG, 28. a mosque in Christchurch (weird).
March 16
1. in extremis (i.e. id est), 2. praetorian guard's prey, rated pg, 3. hedonists like head, 4. throwing Cliff off the cliff, 5. Robert the Bruce? which is it, lol - or is bruce an adjective?, 6. can't spell parliament without amen, 7. wedding, weed, and sweden, 8. ms, military science, theory and practice, tap out, 9. colored people, william of orange, bluebeard, crimson king, eric the red, pink, green with envy, one eyed one horned flying purple people eater, indigo girls, green day, al green, it was all yellow, 10. Tubantia, named after an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish, down the tubes, 11. gee, ma - woe in Iwo Jima, 12. my lai, muy thai, lie, lye, and the vil in civilian/villagers, 500 massacred, catholic mass suckers.. 13. referees, refugees, refinancing, reform, refuse, refutation, and refectory, smoking a reefer, 14. milit-ants, army ants, 15. Ronald W. Reagan, ray gun, Wilson (castaway, lol), 16. 74 Hutu prisoners in a cell for 10 (killing at least 22), in '95, 17. Robert H. Goddard (what's in a name? what in god's name?), it's not rocket science, 18. working hard or hardly working, jail and jerry lewis, 19. sky vodka, and a movie, the sheltering sky, s.s., caribbean blue, 20. you do you, dan owens, dissolved oxygen, directorate of operations (cia), do (japanese philosophy), doh! (Simpsons), bread dough, doe a deer a female deer, 21. shoe and shue and shu, 22. tang on the tongue, 23. Cathy, catholic, cathar, cathay, cathexis, cathode, catholicity, 24. ACE is the place, army corps of engineers, 25. it took until 1995 for Mississippi to ratify the 13th amendment.
March 17
1. Saint ain't S, 2. Spat, st. pat, 3. f.m., St Patrick not Irish - actually a French missionary named Succat!, 4. in the shit in the battle of munda, (JC beats Pompey), 5. Oh Cherie!, Stephen Perry, patents the the rubber band, 6. 'geste'? says jess t (moi), former french commune; beau geste is a noble and generous act, a splendid gesture, (and a movie), 7. Pathological Society of london (!), 8. staaten eylandt means "states" island in dutch, named for the dutch parliament, then anglicized to staten, 9. FDR married his (distant) cousin, 10. u-boats are named after "unterseeboot" (under-sea-boat), the german for submarine, 11. VVG, Vincent Van Gogh, baring fangs because the van won't go?, 12. slave labor, the other s and l (savings and loan), snl (saturday night live), and snakes and ladders (game), 13. a harrowing pair, 14. bobby jones, only golfer to win all 4 majors (masters, pga, u.s. open, and open) in the same year (1930), 15. pompous Pompey, 16. Commodus on the commode, 17. Petronius sipping patron, 18. Edward the Black Prince had black armor, not skin, 19. Timorous Timur, 20. sacking Sacramento, 21. knock knock, Henry Knox, 22. king of italy, not reality, 23. zealot in New Zealand, 24. the end of Finland, 25. (SS) Utopia sank (!), 26. a strong constitution, constituted of checks and balances, 27. gassed, on the bus, in a death camp, or at the petrol station, 28. Belzec rings a bell, 29. death camp in d.c.?, 30. plane crash, so p.c., 31. bay of pigs (can pigs swim? yes), 32. mt. agung rings a gong, 33. skull valley UT and tibetans leaving bodies on mountain tops, "sky-burial," 34. eating a minister (prime?), 35. burst of bomb, or burst of joy, 36. tons of pressure on the tunnel, 37. Richard Ramirez was a dick, 38. battle of afabet, not alphabet, 39. car bomb, carb om, 40. apartheid and together-hide, 41. commandments: I command mints to be eaten, :-), 42. (shelf) a quiet elf in the british cabinet, 43. buddhist unrest, (awake!), 44. WASC and a mosque, 45. conflict and pro-flict.
March 18
1. I.T., information technology, Ivan the terrible, IT cortex (inferior temporal gyrus), Indian Territory, 2. JC, John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed), 3. heretics with ticks in their hair!, here a ticks, there a ticks, everywhere a tix tix, 4. LC, Lazaro Cardenas, presmex, 5. marching in the Charlie Pride parade, with John Updike, 6. Pope Zosimus (meaning 'viable' or 'likely to survive') forbade clerics from visiting taverns, lol, 7. French colonial rule over Algeria lasted 130 years, until the peace agreement with FLN, (ellen!), 8. breakfast, haste blvd (berkeley), speedy gonzalez, meth (speed), white water rapids, usain bolt, lightning hopkins, nestle kwik, quickening, lottery quick-pick, and hurry up, hurricane, accelerando, faster pussycat, 9. Caligula "little boots", boots the cat, das boot, boots on the ground, and booing it, 10. Salem and Jerusalem, 11. stripper from Poland, 12. nights at temple, knights templar, 13. hawking talking to an awkward king, 14. EE, everyone else, electrical engineer, emperor of Ethiopia, 15. a Powhatan shot in the head, 16. stamp act, and saint am, pact, 17. grim reaper at the pub, in the republic, 18. trade unions and trading wives, 19. operatic operatives, 20. why is it called Hawaii?, 21. dickering over Pickering, 22. tagging along with the Tagalog-speaker, 23. greek geek goes eek, 24. red arms and the red army, 25. seedy civil disobedience, 26. suing mount Vesuvius, 27. teats, toes, and Tito, 28. quaking turkey (knows it's about to be eaten), 29. space wok, lol, 30. Cairo and a row with Kai, 31. popcorn is Cornish, 32. Lon Nol on the grassy knoll, 33. kidnapping Arthur, art theft, 34. nightclub and a knight with a club.
March 19
1. nitty-gritty of Frank Nitti (al Capone's enforcer), 2. MSJC (mission san juan capistrano) swallows, on a spit, 3. pope greg 9 established papal inquisition, infamous for pursuit, torture, and murder of suspected heretics, (sometimes I wonder how this blog goes over), 4. absolutism and relativism, 5. relatives, generally, and specially specific, 6. convents, conventions, prevention, and pro-vention, 7. Mysore ruler, my sore throat, and Tipu Sultan, feeling sore, 8. Gounod, and god, uno (and Faust), 9. Pancho villa's ponch (gut), and villa (estate), named after poncho (rain wear), or his punch? (blow, or bug juice), 10. would you rather read the Treaty of Versailles, or watch TV?, 11. Nevada legalized gambling in 1931, to escape G-D, 12. Friedrich Fromm's failure, 13. Yan'an cannons, 14. David Livingstone, dead as a doornail, 15. Glenn Close, going far, 16. Taliban and Caliban, 17. Ursula Andress, undressed, 18. PR for Philip Roth, Pat Riley, 19. the English town of Tolpuddle (puddle!), poodle piddle, 20. A and R in Sing Sing prison?, 21. Ursula is a person, with a purse, am I making it worse, lol, 22. busy byzantines and needy Venetians, 23. amen, Yamen, and ramen, 24. wars of religion and wars of the secular, 25. the river speaks, from the river's mouth, 26. confederate cruiser's cargo: munition, medicine, and merchandise, 27. Louis Riel, are you for real?, 28. time zones and crime bones, 29. the guard watching tv, 30. c-span, and seeing spain, 31. please use your seatbelt, the election is experiencing turbulence, 32. bombings and shootings, a bunch of b.s., 33. Dawn on the Don (river).
March 20
1. Lynn's double, in Dublin, 2. trees are the reason for treason, son, 3. SAINT musk? Serbian-American inventor Niklola Tesla, NT, 4. b.s. about bugatti being swiss, 5. girls going fishing, boycott, 6. a free hump for humphrey bogart, 7. la femme nikita (Khrushchev?), 8. who needs ya, Tunisia? tu?, 9. aum shinrikyo means "supreme truth" (xx 12, injuring 5500, in '95), (which word is which?), 10. PAL, president Abraham Lincoln, Uncle Tom's cabin, (my dad's brother was Tom), by hbs, Harriet Beecher Stowe, "the little lady who made this big war," 11. Oh, God! (movie); George burns, despite smoking cigars, lived to 100, 12. "Spike" (Shelton Jackson) Lee called Spike by his mother during childhood (s.j.!), 13. Hi Henrik Ibsen, in Hawaii, 14. BF Skinner and galvanic skin response, 15. Fred Rogers, Mcfeely was his middle name, degree in music, rollins college (connection to Henry Rollins, real name Henry Lawrence Garfield, connection to a cartoon cat, etc.), 16. a)veritas est lux, truth is light (lawrence university); b)there is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there; c)"conscious light" - adi da (all garbage, imo: blind people can know truth, dreams and fantasy and fiction aren't real (which isn't worse than blindness), and light itself isn't conscious! (right? consciousness needs a brain), 17. hal linden, barney miller (hannibal lecter, piece of shit), 18. Oregon or (bobby) Orr or (iron) ore?, 19. kill bill, william hurt, a bird with an injured bill, 20. Oh! Ozzie, Harriet, open heart, 21. sh, sacred heart, st. helens, saddam hussein, 22. is everything aftermath?, 23. Ollie and Raleigh, 24. what's so interesting about (tom's) cabin?, 25. Nippon and Ripon, 26. chancellor, take a chants on me, 27. general theory of relativity, gtr done, reed it, 28. dacha and dachau, 29. Honshu and Chinese (Han) shoes, 30. Sara, Karen, and sarin, 31. Idriss Deby and addressing Debbie, 32. siege of kobani and chobani yogurt.
March 21
1. smallpox and large pockets, and deepak, 2. Heraclius and Heraclitus, 3. (church of the holy) sepulchre and sepultura (Portuguese for grave)(Brazilian band), 4. clairvoyant and st. bernard of clairveaux, 5. Henry Plantagenet and gannet (large seabird, or a greedy person), 6. Capetian king, capische?, 7. furtive in Erfurt, 8. Agincourt and UCD law school (go ags), 9. St. Nick of Flue! (flew, up like santa, then down the flue); Ranft? how do you pronounce that?, 10. wolf down a meal, ralph, and john and rebecca (pocahontas) rolfe, 11. archbishop burned at the stake (this religious shit gets nuts), 12. "popery" and "words of christ in red" and "god's blog", 13. Napoleon takes a nap, pole, lion, 14. McD (microorganisms cause disease)(mad cow disease)(mickey d's)(david mind control), 15. is there plutonium on pluto?, 16. United States and the "exclusion principle" : no 2 electrons can occupy the same quantum state simultaneously, 17. Gary Oldman (born in '58), 18. The Betsy, by HR, harold robbins, 19. Boris Godunov has god in him, 20. behold I am coming quickly (femtosecond, lol), 21. potpourri of popery (and a cat named poe, purry), 22. Eric, ellen, and relics, 23. 3-2-1, bahai beginning (1844), 24. HMS and Henry Morton Stanley, 25. mandalay and man, what a delay, 26. Irma from Burma, 27. psychosomatic fainting epidemic!
March 22
1. Paris pairs, 2. gangrene, and the green gang (party), 3. Marcel Marceau, Modest Mussorgsky, 4. Mimi the mime makes memes, 5. burned at the stake, bats, bay area traffic solutions, 6. pope clement and inclement weather, 7. 100 years war was 116-4-3-4 (116 yrs, 4 months, 3 weeks, 4 days), 8. D.C. duke of clarence, 9. Ja rule, joan of arc, ark?, arkansas, ark and saw, (old) orleans and new orleans, 10. Powhatan Indians, pow!, mad hatter, aten, 11. tj, sos (Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State), 12. John Paul Jones, Led Zeppelin bassist and keyboardist, and American revolutionary war naval commander, 13. National Gallery, and Nash's gal (John Forbes Nash jr. + Alicia larde Lopez-Harrison), 14. OJ, orange juice, orenthal james, orlando jones (of cornstarch fame), 15. abolish slavery, and play ball, 16. the cha-ching dynasty, lol, 17. "yuan shikai dissolves his nonexistent empire" (!) (and they call me crazy), 18. league of nations, lon nol, and leonov, 19. will rogers, making a will, with a will to power, will he or won't he?, roger that, 20. gandhi and gone d, 21. smoking hashish with semites in the hashemite kingdom of jordan, 22. semites at yosemite, yo, 23. Transjordan, a transexual basketball player?, 24. red scare, and hemophobia, or erythrophobia, 25. Cold War, in the winter, 26. loony moonies in the zuni mountains, 27. laser is patented in 1960 (light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation), 28. Thailand, island, my land, hi to the fly guys eating pie (sigh, lie) in the sky -land, 29. v-it-nom (nom de guerre), 30. uh mare ick'n (ah, horse pucky), 31. william shatner, winnie the pooh, shattuck avenue, beautiful music, and other shit, 32. Stephen Sondheim ('30) and Andrew Lloyd Webber ('48) both born on this date, calling to mind, American League West (1/6), and again, not a nazi, (schutzstaffel, translates to "protection squad"), 33. Jesus Christ Superstar (ss!), light of the world, sun of man, ra, heavenly body, the unbearable lightness of being, burning with passion, on fire, bright, enlightening, light-hearted, photons (tons of foes?)... 34. Gordian, al gore, Ian, not!, 35. the Stanley cup is not for drinking the blood of Stanley, 36. sushi in nagorno-karabakh (shushi), 37. the Arab league was not sports-related, 38. facts and figures, and figure skating, 39. Israeli hellfire missiles and Russia's 'satan' warhead, 40. a tack in my wrist, not a terrorist attack, 41. why are party candidates called 'tickets'? running for office, speeding, lol, 42. acrimony over the gone in Accra, Ghana.
March 23
1. sex on the floor in Florida, 2. herr herod, hairy heretic, 3. apoplectic pop, il papa, ill, 4. cleaning up the messiah's mess, 5. calcutta, the cutter at cal, 6. PhD in Patrick Henry, dude (liberty or death, lord), 7. why aren't I aware of any restaurants serving russian cuisine? is that not a thing?, 8. catsup at fort clatsop, 9. hornet beats penguin, 10. richard beard, bored (sitting still for 1 to 3 minutes for a daguerrotype portrait), 11. Otis, lotus, Old Testament, potus, scotus (scouts!), flotus, 12. Shenandoah, Shannon, and shenanigans, 13. mormons and the mountain meadows massacre, 14. nanking and nanqueen, nankeen, 15. dictatorial tutorial, 16. walter falters on the altar, on the island of malta, 17. arms, armor, army, armistice, armoire, armand, armani, armadillo, armageddon, 18. JC, joan crawford, 19. AK, akira kurosawa, 20. warning, warner brothers, wernher von braun, on and on, 21. liz lemon, jim lemon, jack lemmon, 22. Benito and Donald, same expression, 23. monks, monastics, contemplatives, 24. PhD, Patrick Henry death, 25. Stonewall Jackson, s.j., 26. fighting fred funston, 666, 27. intercepting missiles, interring remains, and sepsis, 28. the space junk is merely mir, 29. naz in your area, nasiriyah, 30. Astana renamed Nur-Sultan (both still slightly evocative of satan), nurse!
March 24
1. surrealism in Surrey, England, 2. tyson, a brand of chicken, and bach (bok bok!)'s brandenburg concertos, and iron mike, have fe, 3. horologists don't study whores, 4. Joseph Smith, s.j., tarred and feathered, true or false?, 5. Carnegie-asada burrito, 6. reparations, repairs, reputations, and repetition, 7. hm, hindu-muslim riots, 8. basil rathbone, ha, 9. auschwitz, ow-sh-wits, shits, mos def not funny, 10. is any crime against a human a crime against humanity? or does it have to offend everybody?, 11. Elvis Presley, evils r sleepy, 12. Shannon lucid eating word salad, and alphabet soup, 13. Ethnic "cleansing" (in the holocaust, the naked prisoners were told they were going to "showers" to prevent panic), 14. the quartering act was not about drawing and quartering, but rather providing housing, 15. teens and the guillotine, 16. Exxon Valdez, '89, spilled an estimated 11 million gallons of oil, polluting 700+ miles of coastline, 17. hhh, Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born American magician, 18. Testori's story, 19. Louie Anderson, and Los Angeles, 20. Beto and Nato, 21. Edo and writing a credo, 22. afrin nasal spray and Afrin district, syria.
March 25
1. putting the "re" in fire, (NYC, 1911/1990), 2. the menace in Venice, 3. human cannonball, canonized, a man of his caliber, 4. William Shakespeare shakily signs his will, 5. sets of sneezes (achoo!) at catholic mass (MA), 6. ants and plants, plantation pants, dance and romance, 7. Venice Italy and Nice France, 8. facts, factories, factorials, and factions, forming fractions, 9. gettin' jigy (japan, italy, germany, yugoslavia), 10. sammy sosa, nicaraguan somoza, and tasty samosa, 11. saudi assassin! intrigue, in league with.. , 12. AF, best and worst, Aretha, 13. talk at the bar, over the jukebox, playing (bela) bartok, 14. Tosca (Puccini, premiered 1900), and Toscanini (conductor, 1867-1957), 15. borg (star trek) and borglum (mount rushmore, SD, black hills, carved '27-'41), 16. drinking a stein of steinem, 17. david lean and skinny puppy and carlos slim, 18. pa, political activist, 19. how! says indian, word! says aa, wanna buy a company? says cosell, 20. Cheyenne and shy Anne, 21. little red riding hood, three little pigs, and Little Wolf, 22. Robert the Bruce (is there a Bruce the Robert?), 23. PBS "rusticated" for contumacy, 24. kulaks in kayaks, 25. Selma and selling your mother.
March 26
1. Beethoven may have said, "I shall hear in heaven", hehe, 2. Walt Whitman, WW hitman, 3. LN, ellen, Liam Neeson, Leonard Nimoy, 4. Jesse (Teshara) and Tennessee (Williams), 5. playwright, play right, 6. vengeance is a dish best served cold, Robert Frost, 7. The Blind Man's World, and En La Ardiente Oscuridad, 8. James Moody, elevator repairman (job has its ups and downs), moo - death (where's the beef), 9. SDOC, Senate Document, and Sandra Day O' Connor, 10. North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company forced to merge, (instead of fighting each other), (a weird counterpoint to antitrust law), 11. can't spell beethoven without oven, 12. the solar system is not nazi, 13. Is (Aussie) Elle McPherson related to the (American) general (James B.)?, 14. meticulous meti metier, 15. Charleroi, LeRoy chars his barbeque, 16. Belgium rings a bell, as does Belem, Belarus, Belfast, Belize, Belgrade, and Bellingshausen sea, 17. summer camps and concentration camps and places you go to think, 18. Hue are you? Hao are you?, 19. CDA, grading the camp david accords, 20. Sergei, sir - are you gay?, Bob Saget wasn't a faggot (I think), 21. heaven's gate cult, bill gates, paradise california, heavenly ski resort, gateway arch/gateway to the west, st. peter jokes, and earth is in (one of) the heavens, the most heavenly, if you ask me!, 22. exoplanets and terraforming, E.T.!, 23. faggot maggots and fly guys, 24. pants are a singular plural, like the heavens, 25. guys in the guise of flies? lies!, 26. bug buggery, 27. is Mauritius named after Maurice? yes, by the dutch, 28. enjoying a salad with Saladin, 29. seeking a Sikh guru, 30. Netherlands in the netherworld, 31. a safe avid reader (Safavid), 32. vuvuzela in Venezuela, 33. BM, Book of Mormon, 34. yo Adrianople, 35. gaga about Gaza, 36. painful shit at Auschwitz, 37. Romeo at Bikini (11 megatons), 38. the cost of purchasing a tie in Taipei.
March 27
1. typhoid in Thailand, thai freud, 2. Yuri Gagarin, "gag me with a spoon!," died of an air-error (air traffic controller's), 3. Amiens, amens, Amon Sur, 4. Russia, Prussia and Niger, Nigeria, 5. Goliad? goooooool!, 6. the first u.s. steam powered fire engine (1841) was a fire hazard, lol ("clouds of sparks"), 7. kerosene comes from coal, if you care, 8. BM, Boston Massachusetts, (not a peep about papal poop), 9. extortion and (an eaten) ex-torte, 10. I want thai food, not typhoid, 11. "primitive" V-2 missiles (I think nukes are even more, actually), 12. go-rilla! bodybuilders, assassins, and other alphas, 13. Argh! Jen + Tina, 14. Suharto's heart, a head with heart, 15. bloodthirsty and needing a transfusion, 16. communist forces, cease-fire, and covington-french, californium, cystic fibrosis, cf. (consult/compare), army chaplain (chaplain to the forces), 17. bishops, on both sides of the chessboard, and satanic priests, black masses (bm!), liberal and conservative catholics, a kind of civil war, or culture war, or maybe integrated in an open mind, wings of a single bird, or angel, or something, 18. moment magnitude 9.2 in '64, alaska (2nd largest ever recorded); biggest ever (recorded) was mm 9.5 valdivia, chile, '60, 19. eq, earthquake, emotion quotient, 20. Quentin Tarantino's cutie, q/t rhythm, 21. Sarah Vaughan in a caravan, 22. x-rays, x-men, malcolm x, and x-acto knives, 23. eek, the Creek, 24. manslaughter and man's laughter, 25. a patchy warrior, 26. quorum and teen, quarantine, 27. coup coup achoo, I am the wall, russ, 28. how old is this anchor?, (anchorage), 29. 583 xx in '77 (Tenerife), smoke ten reefers, 30. Solidarity and liquidity, 31. Is Melbourne where Mel was born?, 32. Castro street SF (and Fidel), 33. Ed, Edd, and Eddie (and erectile dysfunction), 34. seder, cedar, seether, and seeder, 35. a corn maze in Cornwall, 36. Indonesia and outdonesia, 37. Moro Islamic Liberation Front (phillipine muslims) and moms I'd like to f, 38. al-shabab and Bob, 39. Easter, Wester, Norther, Souther, 40. Mass in Macedonia and Massachussetts.
March 28
1. VW, virginia woolf, 2. Eisenhower was the son of pacifist parents, 3. Jethro Tull, Tullius, Tullen, phantom tollbooth, 4. sex on the USS Essex, 5. Guillotin was a French physician (hippocratic oath?), 6. stags running amok through the reichstag, 7. stag or drag!, 8. Markus, Marco, and Marconi, 9. radio fax was patented as "a system for transmitting intelligence" (1905), 10. types of naval vessels? cruisers, destroyers, battleships, pt boats, minesweepers, aircraft carrier..., 11. Virginia Woolf was afraid of Virginia Woolf, 12. River Ouse, ooze?, 13. Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama, doll eye and paunch (happy buddha!), 14. TAR pit, tibetan autonomous region, 15. LaBrea and Br'er Rabbit and the Tar Baby :-), 16. Three mile island was a faulty pressure valve problem, pressure (song by billy Joel), 17. lost troops and last troops, 18. Inkatha Freedom Party ink (publication? tattoo?), 19. mystique of a mystic, 20. Zbigniew Brzezinski is pronounced, "zi-big-knee-uhv bruh-zhin-ski," 21. tired of Reba McEntire?, 22. Shannon Mitchell, SM, 23. I miss Mutual of Omaha's wild kingdom, and the National Geographic nature videos, 24. Maxim Gorky and Maxim magazine, 25. mob, mark of beast, 26. beast, beats, best a, 27. beets and beats, 28. sugar beets and beetroot/beet greens, 29. etymology of beetle is from "biter" (some beetles eat beets), 30. e.g. black beetle and flea beetle, eat leaves and stems (of beet), 31. Theresa of Avila said "ta" in 1582, 32. world war, war of the worlds, psych wards, wardens, warlocks, warriors, word, man-of-war, 33. David Copperfield, by Dickens, and David Seth Kotkin (illusionist, known professionally as dc), 34. punch and judy, pontius pilot / pilates, punch us, ponch (chips), pontiff, pawn, prawn, paunch, launch, lunch.. 35. Bennett in the senate, 36. presidio and postsidio, 37. nipples and naps in Naples, 38. Olbers discovers an asteroid, Darth Vader hoo-brrr, 39. The battle of Medellin was not in Colombia, 40. tornado outbreak and breaking out of prison, in hives, ripped and torn, 41. turpitude on the Tirpitz, 42. government of Tibet "dissolved", 43. heads or tailings, 44. hoontuh and junta, 45. friendly fire and enemy water.
March 29
1. John Jacob Astor, ...jingleheimer-schmidt, asterisk, 2. JC, jennifer capriati, 3. sanatoria, santorio, santorini, 4. cy young (sigh, jung), 5. sam walton, uncle sam, samsara, and sam I am, 6. dalton, roger daltry, doll, dalai, dahlia, dal, 7. meters, meet her, meatier, 8. john major and william chester minor, 9. minors and miners, manure and mainur (bangladeshi jurist) 10. lucy lawless, nee ryan, married to garth, 11. kindermann, meaner woman, 12. pb and j sandwich (pearl bailey and jay), 13. emp, elle macpherson, embarcadero montgomery powell, 14. JT #10 (John Tyler, potus), 15. potus on pot, potsdam, pots and pans, pan-american expo, 16. a brief history of time, history of the world, how I lost my legs, the snake's hiss-story, 17. Cheriton and Sheraton, 18. William Godwin, does god ever lose?, father of Mary, mother of Frankenstein, 19. vesta, asteroid; vespa, scooter, ('wasp' in italian), 20. how can one outlaw discrimination, when everyone is different?, just asking, 21. Vera Cruz (mexican fortress), what has become of you?, 22. court house, and church, 23. Canada: basmoq, 24. 20k Zulus vs. 2k brits, at kambula, brits victorious, though outnumbered 10:1, 25. coke! "brain tonic and intellectual beverage" says the doc (pemberton), lol, in 1885, 26. patton, paten, patents, and Patrick and Patricia, patriots, 27. Hamburg and Frankfurt and the earl of sandwich, 28. a cute ex, executed, 29. Michael Mercury and Pluto the dog, 30. gravity bends light? the path of light, that is, 31. wars of roses, having rows, 32. is saint germain germane?, 33. taking the pike to the park, 34. Sheridan and Teshara and Cher, 35. side arms and front and back arms, 36. hypnosis murders!, hip hip hop hurray, 37. gnosis, no sis, 38. a lousy louse in Laos, 39. premier Callbeck, can you call me back?, 40. holy chamoli, 41. you're a peein' European!
March 30
1. pp, Peter Pan, pissed, 2. get out, gout!, 3. pizza means 'pie' (weird), 4. Henry 8th married 6x, (cajacc) 5. a meter, says the FNA, is 1/10 millionth of the distance from the equator to a pole (either), 6. dodge! parry! thrust! Punjab, 7. bloodshed, and a red painted shed, 8. Peshawar warriors, 9. HL Lipman, what a concept!, 10. Alaska cost $7M, (2cents/acre), 11. aches and pains, acres and plains, 12. 15th amendment, (1870) amen: "the right of citizens of the u.s. to vote shall not. be denied or abridged.." 13. Morocco and less rock music, 14. nam myoho range kyo! (nichiren's bday), 15. LaToya and Goya, 16. Eric Clapton and the EC, European community, 17. War and bait e, 18. Astin, Aston, asked in, 19. borough of Queens, probably in reference to Catherine of Braganza, 20. Khalsa and callsign, 31. crimini mushroom and Rimini proclamation, 32. math in Athens, 33. anne under anesthesia, 34. fired from a job and in the dumps, canned in Kansas, misery in Missouri, 35. crime in Crimea, virtue in Virgin Islands, 36. I am not a (sir William) Crookes, 37. sos, secretary of state, 38. atomic weights, tom waits, 39. Tenzin, drunk on ten bottles of zinfandel, 40. POW, Palace of Westminster, prisoner of war, pow-wow.
March 31
1. Sir Isaac Newton, S.I.N., 2. John Donne, Don Juan, wontons, on and on, 3. Rene Descartes r and d, 4. Joseph Haydn, hidden, 5. OP, ocean pacific, order of preachers, octavio paz, 6. Day-cart and night-cart, 7. Leo Buscaglia, lion, law enforcement officer, buskers on the bus, agh, go ags/aggies, agronomists, glia, glee, 8. living, loving, and learning, 9. Cesar Chavez, Hugo Chavez, a veces, 10. Shirley Jones, s.j., 11. Gordie Howe ('28), how will Al Gore die? ('48), (both have this day as birthday), 12. the bell tolls for thee, j.d., 13. Abigail Adams (died 1818), in AA (started in 1935), 14. Goethe, pronounced gr - tuh?, go easy, 15. Commodore Matthew Perry, and Chandler Bing, 16. Wabash Indiana and sorrow about bashing, 17. dst, daylight saving time, dissed, disrespected, dust to dust, 18. Alma and bishop Cummings, 19. Nicaragua, and the knights who say "nee!", 20. ccc, civilian conservation corps, marine corps, peace corps, apple corps, and apple incorporated, 21. devon, devouring, deva, development, devan, devil, 22. Tenzin Gyatso (b. 1935) the 14th Dalai Lama (1940), Tenzin (holder of buddhadharma), ten sins, tension, Chinese suppression: practice of religion was banned! invaded Tibet (1950), "thousands of monasteries destroyed" (sad, imo, they are sources of relief from suffering), 23. llave (key, in spanish, rhymes with:) Yahweh, YHWH, yeah way (via), yah! (horseback riding), 24. fasting with Faust, 25. Bernard in a barnyard, 26. F.M. radio and ferdinand magellan, 27. bang her in Bangor, 28. shogunate, show your guns, 29. bechuanaland? you betcha!, 30. Eiffel Tower is an eyeful, I fell? awful., 31. progress in Prague, 32. modernist music causes a riot in Vienna in 1913!, 33. agua (water) in Managua, Nicaragua, 34. bizarre bazaar, 35. Christmas on Christmas Island! (Australian), 36. 14th Dalai Lama, (troop 14, pah!), granted political asylum in India, 37. pole tacks, 38. don't have a cow over Macao.
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