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Today — September 16, 2025

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Turn off your horns."  "They don't turn off."  From Kin-Dza-Dza! (1986). 
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ti-Me-Kun-Dan, Prince of Buddhist Benevolence, translated by Millicent H. Morrison, 1925.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Owl King and Other Fairy Stories by Herbert Escott Inman and illustrated by E. A. Mason, 1898.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1923.
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
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Old News (permalink)
"The wolf at the gate, creeping near the cities."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories of Pioneer Life, For Young Readers by Florence Bass, 1900.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Metropolitan Magazine, 1895.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ask the Cards a Question by Marcia Muller, 1982.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1971.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers (rotated) from Broome Community College's 1983 yearbook.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1981.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke University's 1922 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ten Steps to Self-Fulfillment, Step Seven by Robert Chaney amd illustrated by Teodors Liliensteins, 1967.
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Old News (permalink)
"And into the darkness there came light ... just today."  From College of the Holy Cross' 1972 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1881.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

From The Man Who Came to Dinner, by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart:

[The character is reading from a phone bill.]

STANLEY: Oklahoma City, Calcutta, Hollywood, Australia, Rome, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York--(His voice trails off in an endless succession of New Yorks)

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