May the 4th be with you.

I'd love to be a ventriloquist-I'd go to a lot of funerals.
-quote from ventriloquist's dummy on tonight's Late Show

Little girl about 3 or 4 years old, coming out of Gardens New World Supermarket yesterday afternoon with (presumably) her father, screws up up her nose and says, "What's that smell?"

Father looks into café and exclaims suddenly, "There's Grandma!"

"The baking soda is for on the house! The pig will sting you!"

From a 20/20 program on lost children:  If grandmothers were in charge, the world would be a better place.

Prior to Maori immigration, a dark-skinned race, the Moriori, of whose origin nothing is known, settled on the eastern coast of North Island; it is believed that they came to hunt the moa, a wingless bird about 3.7 m (about 12 ft) tall, which is now extinct. Some of these people were absorbed into the Maori population; the remainder were driven out ( Read more... )