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[todayiamadaisy]

I have been reading a book about Lizzie Borden. You know, her with the axe and giving her mother forty whacks. Only it turns out that it was (a) a hatchet, (b) her step-mother and (c) only eighteen whacks. I suppose that doesn't really scan, though, does it? Not nearly as catchy. Anyway, what really caught my eye was the family's breakfast. On the morning of the murder, they ate: mutton soup, sliced mutton, pancakes, bananas, pears, cookies, and coffee. And then they were sick, because the mutton was off/poisoned (cheers, Lizzie). But still, that's a breakfast.

In my quest to find the world's ugliest shoe, I came across these:



And yes, they were an April Fools' joke and not real. Still, the mental image of how silly that woman must look with her leg stuck in the air pleases me no end.