It's 8:00, do you have your bearnigs yet?

[thinkum]

Fred and I like to frequent the Book Swap Shed at our municipal recycling center -- you never know what odd items are going to turn up. A couple of weeks ago, I came across a 1944 edition of The Newspaper Institute of America Handbook for Writers; it's in rotten shape, but I thought it might have some bearing on the Letters Project given my grandad's background in newspapers, so I brought it home.

My favorite bit so far is in the Table of Contents:



Have you got your bearnigs yet this morning? I'm still looking for mine... ;-)