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Tuesday tames tangles with tongs.

May 01, 2007 By: Southpaw Jones Category: Interesting? No Comments →

1.Six Degrees of Wikipedia
Clear connections from the people’s encyclopedia:

From Southpaw to Billionaire!

1. Southpaw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-handed#Southpaw
“Despite the suppression, there have been many famous left-handed people…”

2. Famous Left-Handed People
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famous_left-handed_people
Nelson Rockefeller - Failed at childhood conversion to right-handedness. At the dinner table during Rockefeller’s boyhood, his father tied a string to Rockefeller’s left wrist and yanked it viciously every time the boy used his left hand.”

3. Nelson Rockefeller
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Rockefeller
“…American Vice President, governor of New York State, philanthropist and businessman.”

4. Philanthropist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanthropist
“Warren Buffett - pledged USD$30.7 billion worth of Berkshire Hathaway stock to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.”

5. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_and_Melinda_Gates_Foundation
“The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (B&MGF) is the largest transparently operated[2] charitable foundation in the world, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates in 2000 and doubled in size by Warren Buffett in 2006.”

6. Bill Gates
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
“Forbes magazine’s list of The World’s BILLIONAIRES has ranked him as the richest person in the world since 1995…”

Well, that was fun.

2.Quotopia
Freshly-picked quotes from the ol’ reference collection:

Seeing a murder on television can … help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
Alfred Hitchcock

3.Online Museum of the Week
MoFA: The Museum of Food Anomalies:

4.Rhyme Time!
One clue whose answer consists of two rhyming words:

Promote the growth of a list of members.
Highlight here for answer: [foster roster]

5.Plumb, Plumber, Plumbest
Signs o’ the times from Austin’s singing Jewish plumber, Herman Bennett:

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