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Helptwo real head-scratchers from the newspaper ...
An obituary for a woman named Mary Christmas. Christmas being her last name. A very bare-bones obituary, only giving the fact she graduated from a particular high school in 1972, and the time and date of her funeral. No mention of a possible maiden name or any survivors. Some obits are like that.
And the other day, a letter to the editor from a fairly prominent minister in our state. The poor man's name is Richard Speck. (For anybody who didn't know, in 1966, a man named Richard Speck made headlines around the world by killing eight student nurses in their house in Chicago, and later appeared in an infamous videotape taken in prison where he bragged how good he had it behind bars.)
I would really like to know when the good reverend was born, because if it's before 1966, just a really unfortunate coincidence.
You're entitled to your own opinions. You're not entitled to your own facts. -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
And the other day, a letter to the editor from a fairly prominent minister in our state. The poor man's name is Richard Speck. (For anybody who didn't know, in 1966, a man named Richard Speck made headlines around the world by killing eight student nurses in their house in Chicago, and later appeared in an infamous videotape taken in prison where he bragged how good he had it behind bars.)
I would really like to know when the good reverend was born, because if it's before 1966, just a really unfortunate coincidence.
You're entitled to your own opinions. You're not entitled to your own facts. -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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