The uninspired correspondent scratches his scalp, but dandruff and lice, not words, fall onto the blotter.

Thursday, December 3, 2009

In which I post a fact from "Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts"

Ladies in Europe took to wearing lightning rods on their hats and trailing a ground wire--a fad that began after Benjamin Franklin published instructions on how to make them, in his almanac, Poor Richard Improved, in 1753.

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