Happy Birthday, Groucho!

Yes! Today in 1890 Groucho, oldest of the Marx Brothers, was born. Not only are some of their movies among my favorites, but "I shot an elephant in my pajamas" is an example sentence in the Fundamentals of English Structure course I teach.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.