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Today — December 20, 2025
	I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink) Adjusted for inflation, the silver spoon is $1,800,000, the faint heart is $1,880, the two-ended candles are $20, the pins to drop are $70, the broth for too many cooks is $380, and the three locksmiths are $220.  From Life, 1930. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Surprises, edited by McInnes, Belfry, Collins, Gerrard & Ryckman and illustrated by Smith & Bagshaw, 1960. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From A Book of Famous Myths and Legends, Vol. Vi, 1901. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1910. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Wee Wisdom, 1937. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) Via UpNorthMemories. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From The Story of the Earliest Times by Barker, Grimm & Hughes and illustrated by Mary Alice Stoddard, 1936. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Punch, 1923. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

The Right Word (permalink) From Modern English Writing by Douglas Bement, 1937. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from The Right Word . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Wake Forest College's 1923 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Witt's Notes, 1984. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From East Tennessee State University's 1977 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Old News (permalink) "The mouse on the moon."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1963. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Old News . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Ohio University's 1892 yearbook.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From The Cat in History, Legend and Art by Anne Marks, 1909. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Northwestern University's 1909 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Dickon Bend-the-Bow and Other Wonder Tales by Everett McNeil and illustrated by Rob Wagner, 1903. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Northeastern University's 1929 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Old News (permalink) From No Title No Cover, edited by Gene Fowler, 1980. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Old News . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Oklahoma State University's 1947 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .