One of the idioms we discussed at English Conversation Time tonight was "rings a bell," as in "I don't think I've met him, but his name rings a bell." I passed up the opportunity to tell the Internationals the joke that phrase brought to mind, but you folks aren't so lucky.

After Quasimodo died, Notre Dame de Paris needed to hire a new bell-ringer ( Read more... )

UPDATE! As I've gotten deeper into Words of Wonder, I have indeed run across a handful of instances where the level was unsolvable, which you'll recall was a problem for which I had criticized certain bubble saga games. For example, I ran across a level in which I was required to clear two X tiles from the board, but only one X tiles appeared on ( Read more... )

I'm told it's National Tell a Joke Day, so here's a joke. If I recall correctly, I first heard this from my college pal Mike H. back in 1989 ( Read more... )